The 2024 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science goes to Jürgen Habermas for having “constantly reminded us that the very lifeblood of democracy depends on human capacity and willingness to respect others by means of communicative action and on that basis to engage in critical argumentation and discourse.”

📢New #PAG20 Critical Perspectives📢 In 'Window-Dressing or Window of Opportunity?' Elin Bjarnegård & Daniela Donno look to the role of implementation laws in understanding whether autocratic gender equality reforms are actually improving women's lives cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🥳 #IWD2024

🗳️ Sexual &/or #GenderMinority voters are prone to mobilising when LGBT+ issues are on the political agenda

✋ Michal Grahn asks if gaps in participation persist in contexts where core #LGBT + rights are protected

👉 bit.ly/3RwO0aE #OA #VoterTurnout

A brilliant, multidisciplinary book is out on 'Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond', edited by Josefina Erikson & Lenita Freidenvall Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Fantastic to see the first piece out from our new project on political leadership in gender balanced contexts w/ Cecilia Josefsson and Sandra Håkansson

Wohoo! Gendered institutions and where to find them is in Top 3 trending papers in Women’s Studies this month. 🙏 keep RTing and reading :) cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Join us for our first Film & Politics event! We will watch the movie Milk and hear from an eminent panel: Emma von Essen Michal Grahn
Sandra Håkansson and Ylva Moberg.
🗓️ 1 February 17.00
📍 Ostrom Hall
More info in the poster below or at fb.me/e/4ZpyevNX6

My recent article that offers a critical realist foundation for gendered institutions and relevant research design tips is currently the most read article in Politics & Gender ! So stoked: keep reading, it's #OpenAccess : cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Have you been thinking about ‘protection’ in #IR ? What it is? What it does? What it means? Who can name, promise and give it?

Louise Ridden and I welcome abstracts to our section ‘Protection in IR and Beyond’! Open to all! #EISAPEC24 #cfp

Thanks to Michal Grahn & UPPGAP - Uppsala Gender and Politics for a wonderful 2 days of work, catching up & very helpful comments on my GenParlDip paper ☺️👩🏼‍💻👍

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In 'Gendered Institutions and Where to Find Them' Michal Grahn offers a critical realist perspective of feminist institutionalism which necessitates an abductive RD when approaching gendered institutions
Available 🌟 #OpenAccess 🌟
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New publication by a whole bunch of UPPGAP:ers!

More cool new FI Research! 👏 Michal Grahn !

New paper! In this theoretical study Politics & Gender , I present a realist ontological basis for gendered institutions and argue for an abductive RD to produce valid knowledge about these complex entities. Ideal for FIIN Network research. Find out more: doi.org/10.1017/S17439…

My first single-authored paper has been published #OpenAccess in Policy & Politics. It offers an intersectional and FI analysis of contestations within the Scottish women's movement in framing domestic abuse policy @edinburghpir doi.org/10.1332/030557…

Had the pleasure of reviewing Gender and Violence against Political Actors for J of Peace Research. This is a rich compilation of perspectives on an important topic. Congratulations to editors Elin Bjarnegård and Pär Zetterberg !

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#OpenAccess from Politics & Gender -

Gendered Institutions and Where to Find Them: A Critical Realist Approach - cup.org/3TGj5d5

- Michal Grahn

#FirstView

Two extra project-funded PhD positions Department of Government, Uppsala University ! One in a project on food security with Johanna Pettersson Fürst suitable for polisci graduates interested in IR and public administration. The other one in political economy with Axel Cronert ! Spread the word! jobb.uu.se/details/?posit…

📣 The CfP deadline for NOPSA 24 is extended to 12 January 📣

We have gotten some great submissions to our gender, politics and democracy, but we can accept a few more. Join us! 📩 👇🏼

25-28 June, it’s ☀️all day, all night in Bergen. Christina Fiig

Robert E. Goodin's 2022 Johan Skytte Prize lecture, Cogs in Collective Action, is now available in article format in Perspectives on Politics! We at the Skytte Foundation thank APSA for a good cooperation.

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