Dissertations
The latest dissertations back to the very first!
Below you will find a list of dissertations from the latest back to 1996.
View older dissertations back to the year 1960
Follow the links to view a summary and in many cases read the thesis in its entirety.
Most of the Political Science Department's doctoral dissertations are published in the series Lund Political Studies.
The latest dissertations
Below you will find a list of our latest dissertations with links to the Research Portal and the publications.
Patrick Nitzschner
Defending what is yet to come: Towards a critical theory of democratic defense
Lund, 2024
Barbara Magalhães Teixeira
The Nature of Peace and the Continuum of Violence in Environmental Conflicts
Lund, 2024
Anna Wieslander
Transatlantic Transitions: Responses to the Russian Threat in the Baltic Sea Region, 2014-2020
Lund, 2024
Caroline Karlsson
The Prohibitive Condition: The Performativity of the Incest Taboo and its Incestuous Remainders
Lund, 2024
Christie Nicoson
Peace in a Changing Climate: Caring and Knowing the Climate-Gender-Peace Nexus
Lund, 2024
Georgia de Leeuw
The comfort of alignment: Mining, green steel, and killjoy desires in Sweden/Sápmi
Lund, 2024
Elias Isaksson
Sindre Gade Viksand
A World of Persons
Lund, 2023
Daniel Gustafsson
The Present People
Lund, 2023
Thorsteinn Kristinsson
Webs of World Order: A Relational Theory of Rising Powers and the Evolution of International Order
Lund, 2022
Katren Rogers
After Asylums and Orphanages
Lund, 2022
Simon Davidsson
The Development of Parliamentarism in Western Europe
Lund, 2022
Daniel Møller Ølgaard
Fabio Cristiano
The Blurring Politics of Cyber Conflict: A Critical Study of the Digital in Palestine and Beyond
Lund, 2022
Sarai-Anne Ikenze
Policy Choices in African Structural Adjustment: An Exploration of Sectoral Continuity
Lund, 2022
Maiken Røed
Interest Group Influence on Political Parties in Western Democracies
Lund, 2021
Rickard Andersson
Bridges, Walls, Doors: On Democracy and Nature
Lund, 2021
Jakob Strandgaard
Lisa Justesen
The Emerging Outer Space Order: Professional Orders, Heterarchy, Hypermodernity and Political Reason
Lund, 2021
Jenny Lorentzen
Helena Gonzales Lindberg
The constitutive power of maps in the Arctic
Lund, 2019
Mårten Lindberg
Why Sweden suspended military service: The policy process, 1990 to 2009
Lund, 2019
Ina Möller
The Emergent Politics of Geoengineering
Lund, 2019
Mia Orange
Björn Östbring
Migrationspolitiska dilemman: Om idealism och realism i liberal politisk teori
Lund, 2019
Elsa Hedling
Blending Politics and New Media: Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy
Lund, 2018
Kurtis Boyer
An Autocracy of Empathy: Human-Animal Relations and the Emotional Architecture of Speciesism
Lund, 2018
Josef Chaib
Evidence, Expertise and 'Other' Knowledge: Governing Welfare Collaboration
Lund, 2018
Sandra Engstrand
State Learning and Role Playing: International environmental cooperation in the Arctic Council
Lund, 2018
Ulrika Waaranperä
Histories of land: Politicization, property and belonging in Molo, Kenya
Lund, 2018
Mats Fred
Projectification. The Trojan horse of local government
Lund, 2018
Ivan Gustic
Linda Alamaa (Nyberg)
Market Bureaucracy : Neoliberalism, Competition, and EU State Aid Policy
Lund, 2017
Klas Nilsson
The Money of Monarchs : The Importance of Non-Tax Revenue for Autocratic Rule in Early Modern Sweden
Lund, 2017
Carlo Michael Knotz
Sofie Gustafsson
Medborgarskapande på olika villkor: Självbilder, skolkoder och syn på kunskap i den svenska gymnasieskolan
Lund Political Studies, 2016
Cecilia von Schéele
The void. Urban Wasteland as political space
Lund Political Studies, 2016
Niklas Altermark
After Inclusion. Intellectual Disability as Biopolitics
Lund Political Studies, 2016
Tony Ingesson
The Politics of Combat: The Political and Strategic Impact of Tactical-Level Subcultures, 1939-1995
Lund Political Studies, 2016
Tobias Nielsen
Words Matter in the Woods. Discourses on Deforestation in Global Climate Politics
Lund Political Studies, 2016
Emli Edenborg
Nothing more to see: Contestations of belonging and visibility in Russian media
Lund Political Studies, 2016
Annika Fredén
Strategic Voting under Coalition Governments
Lund Political Studies, 2016
Sarah Anne Rennick
The Practice of Politics and Revolution: Egypt's Revolutionary Youth Social Movement
Lund Political Studies, 2015.
Jonna Pettersson
Petter Narby
Time of Crisis: Order, Politics, Temporality
Narby, Petter LU (2014) In Lund Political Studies 173.
Roger Hildingsson
(051205) Hildingsson, Roger. Governing Decarbonisation: The State and the New Politics of Climate Change
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2014.
Stina Melander
(131206) Kassakultur i förändring. Samspelet mellan organisationskultur och administrativa reformer på Försäkringskassan.
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2013
Anders Persson
(130531) Defining, Securing and Building a Just Peace: The EU and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Lund: Department of Political Science, 2013
Nils Gustafsson
(130503) Gustafsson, Nils. Leetocracy. Political participation, social network sites and inequality
Lund: Department of Political Science, 2013
Emma Lund
(130315) Hybrid Governance in Practice - Public and Private Actors in the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism
Lund: Department of Political Science, 2013
Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren
(120604) Planering för framsteg och gemenskap. Om den kommunala utvecklingsplaneringens idémässiga förutsättningar.
Lund: Department of Political Science, 2012
John Hultén
(120525) Ny väg till nya vägar och järnvägar. Finansieringspragmatism och planeringsrationalism vid beslut om infrastrukturinvesteringar.
Lund: Department of Political Science, 2012
Michael Wahman
(120427) Uniting Against Autocrats. Opposition Coordination, Turnovers and Democratization by Elections.
Lund: Department of Political Science, 2012
Rasmus Karlsson
(101217) Three essays on our planetary future.
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2010
Björn Fägersten
(101204) Fägersten, Björn. Sharing Secrets. Explaining International Intelligence Cooperation.
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2010
Lisa Strömbom
(101112) Revisiting the Past. Israeli identity, thick recognition and conflict transformation.
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2010
Sarah Scuzzarello
(100521) Caring Multiculturalism. Local Immigrant Policies and Narratives of Integration in Malmö, Birmingham and Bologna.
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2010
Maximilian Conrad
(091212) Between Communication and Community. EU Constitution-Making, a European Public Sphere and the (Un-)likelihood of Transnational Political Debate.
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2009
Nesrin Ucarlar
(091030) Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance: Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2009
Åsa Knaggård
(091002) Vetenskaplig osäkerhet i policyprocessen. En studie av svensk klimatpolitik.
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2009
Tove Dannestam
(090604) Stadspolitik i Malmö. Politikens meningsskapande och materialitet.
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2009
Malena Rosén Sundström
(090123) Förankring av socialdemokratisk EU-politik. Med rum för demokratisk debatt?
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2009
Sara Kalm
(081128) Governing Global Migration
Matilda Broman
(080419) Taking Advantage of Institutional Possibilities and Network Opportunities. Analyzing Swedish Strategic Action in EU Negotiations
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2008
Anna Bolin
(080229) The military profession in change - the case of Sweden (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2008
Maria Hedlund
(071123) Demokratiska genvägar: Expertinflytande i den svenska lagstiftningsprocessen om medicinsk genteknik.
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2007
Reyadh Alasfoor
(071015) The Gulf Cooperation Council: Its Nature and Achievements. A Political Analysis of Regional Integration of the GCC States 1979-2004
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2007
Anette Ahrnens
(070602) A Quest for Legitimacy. Debating UN Security Council Rules on Terrorism and Non-proliferation.
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2007
Hans Hegeland
(061214) Nationell EU-parlamentatism. Riksdagens arbete med EU-frågorna. (ej fulltext i LUP)
Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press 2006
Fredrik Melander
(061002) Lokal Forskningspolitik Institutionell dynamik och organisatorisk omvandling vid Lunds Universitet 1980–2005
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2006
Anders Hellström
(060607) Bringing Europe Down to Earth
Lund: Department of Political Science 2006
Tomas Niklasson
(060524) Regime Stability and Foreign Policy Change – Interaction Between Domestic and Foreign Policy in Hungary 1956-94.
Lund: Department of Political Science 2006
Maria Strömvik
(050924) To act as a Union. Explaining the Development of the EU's Collective Foreign Policy
Lund: Department of Political Science 2005
Gissur Erlingsson
(050917) Varför bildas nya partier? Om kollektivt handlande och partientreprenörer (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2005
Johannes Stripple
(050916) Climate Change after the International: Rethinking Security, Territory and Authority.(ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Department of Political Science 2005
Tom Nilsson
(050609) Till vilken nytta? Om det lokala politiska deltagandets karaktär, kompatibilitet och konsekvenser
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2005
Christian Fernández
Medborgarskap efter nationalstaten? Ett kontruktivt förslag.
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2005
Teresia Rindefjäll
Democracy Beyond the Ballot Box. Citizen Participation and Social Rights in Post-Transition Chile.(ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2005
Ulrika Jerre
(050513) Conflicting Logics? Implementing Capacity and EU Adaption in a Postcommunist Context
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2005
Magdalena Bexell
(050504) Exploring Responsibility. Public and Private in Human Rights Protection
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2005
Staffan Lindberg
(041217) The Power of Elections - Democratic Participation, Competition and Legitimacy in Africa (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2004
Lennart Hellström
(041111) Willy Brandt och Berlinfrågan - en studie i kontinuiteten i Brandts politiska tänkande
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2004
Kristian Sjövik
(040608) Demokrati bortom nationalstaten (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2004
Björn Johnson
(030605) Policyspridning som översättning. Den politiska översättningen av metadonbehandling och husläkare i Sverige
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen och Arbetslivsinstitutet 2003
Peter Santesson-Wilson
(030526) Studier i symbolpolitik
Lund: statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2003
Per Janson
(030425) Den huvudlösa iden - Medborgarlön, välfärdspolitik och en blockerad debatt (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Arkiv förlag 2003
Caroline Boussard
(030328) Crafting Democracy. Civil Society in Post-Transition Honduras
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2003
Björn Badersten
(020607) Medborgardygd. Den europeiska staden och det offentliga rummets etos
Stockholm: Natur och Kultur 2002
Annika Björkdahl
(020524) From Idea to Norm - Promoting Conflict Prevention
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2002
Marie Bengtsson
(020508) Stat och kommun i makt(o)balans. en studie av flyktingmottagandet
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2002
Kristina Jönsson
(020503) Translating Foreign Ideas into Domestic Practices: Pharmaceutical Policies in Laos and Vietnam
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2002
Olivier Danjoux
(020425) L'etat, c'est pas moi. Reframing Citizenship(s) in the Baltic Republics
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2002
Rune Gustafsson
(020201) Syntes och design. Den intellektuelle politikern som konstnär
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2001
Mikael Sundström
(011214) Connecting Social Science and Information Technology. Democratic Privacy in the Information Age.
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2001
Astrid Hedin
(010427) The Politics of Social Networks - Interpersonal Trust and Institutional Change in Post-Communist East Germany (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2001
Karin Bäckstrand
(001218) What Can Nature Withstand? Science, Politics and Discourses in Transboundary Air Pollution Diplomacy (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2000
Rikard Bengtsson
(000516) Trust, Threat, and Stable Peace. Swedish Great Power Perceptions 1905-1939 (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2000
Magnus Ericson
(000321) A Realist Stable Peace: Power, Threat and the Development of a Shared Norwegian-Swedish Democratic Security Identity 1905-1940
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2000
Erika Svedberg
(000119) The "Other" Recreated. A Relational Approach to East-West Negotiations. (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2000
Mikael Spång
(991208) Justice and Society: Problems of Reformist Politics (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 1999
Martin Hall
(991123) Constructing Historical Realism: International Relations as Comparative History
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 1999
Jonas Tallberg
(991119) Making States Comply: The European Commission, the European Court of Justice, and the Enforcement of the Internal Market
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 1999
Karin Aggestam
(991015) Reframing and Resolving Conflict. Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations 1988-1998
Lund: Lund University Press 1999
Maria Sönne
(990428) Administrative Reforms and the Quest for Foreign Investment in China - The Case of Shenzhen(ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Lund University Press 1999
Patrik Hall
(980610) The Social Construction of Nationalism: Sweden as an Example (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Lund University Press 1998
Jakob Gustavsson
(980429) The Politics of Foreign Policy Change. Explaining the Swedish Reorientation on EC Membership
Lund: Lund University Press 1998
Peter Söderholm
(970526) Global Governance of AIDS: Partnerships with Civil Society
Lund: Lund University Press 1997
Ted Gogote Badom
(970415) Foreign Intervention in International Wars (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 1997
Karl Magnus Johansson
(970428) Transnational Party Alliances: Analysing the Hard-Won Alliance Between Conservatives and Christian Democrats in the European Parliament
Lund: Lund University Press 1997
Annika Thunborg
(970507) Public and Non-Profit Interaction U.S. Assistance to Eastern European Media 1989-1995 (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 1997
Annica Kronsell
(970228) Greening the EU: Power Practices, Resistances and Agenda Setting
Lund: Lund University Press, 1997
Doktorsavhandling
Ronny Andersson
(970219) The Citizens, the Politicians and the Health-care. A study of Attitudes and Democracy. / Medborgarna, politikerna och sjukvården. En studie av attityder och demokrati. (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1997
Utz Lars McKnight
(961104) Political Liberalism and the Politics of Race: Beyond Perfectionism and Culture. (ej fulltext i LUP)
(Avhandling som ej ingår i Lund Political Studies)
Lund: Lund University Press, 1996
Kristian Steiner
(961030) Strategies for International Legitimacy, A Comparative Study of Elite Behavior in Ethnic Conflicts (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Lund University Press, 1996
Per Larsson
(960828) International Environmental Regime Negotiations. A Study of the LRIAP- Convention Negotiations. / Regimförhandlingar på miljöområdet. En studie av förhandlingarna om LRTAP-konventionen. (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 1996
Ingvar Mattson
(960514) Bargaining Parliamentarianism: A Comparative Study of the Swedish Riksdag and the Danish Folketing / Förhandlingsparlamentarism. En jämförande studie av riksdagen och folketinget. (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Lund University Press, 1996
Teferi Sendabo
(960530) Foreign Aid and State Sovereignty: The Ethio-Swedish Aid Co-operation
Lund: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 1996
Ylva Stubbergard
(960513) Stat, kris och demokrati. Lapporörelsens inflytande i Finland 1929-32. / The State, Crisis and Democracy. The influence of the Lapua Movement in Finland 1929-1932.(ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Arkiv, 1996
Dennis Westlind
(960509) The Politics of Popular Identity: Understanding Recent Populist Movements in Sweden and the United States (ej fulltext i LUP)
Lund: Lund University Press, 1996