Researchers
Jan Teorell
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Jan Teorell, Professor of Political Science and project leader of STANCE, received his PhD in 1998 from the Department of Government, Uppsala University, on a dissertation on intra-party democracy. He has extensive experience from research-project management. Already as a PhD student in 1997 he was enrolled as co-principal for the Swedish Citizen Survey project, and in 2000–2004 he was the principal investigator responsible for organizing a panel survey in Russia and sat on the Task Committee responsible for developing the core survey instrument as part of an international research project funded by the European Science Foundation. In 2004-2006, he served as Project Coordinator at the Quality of Government Institute, Göteborg University, responsible for creating the Quality of Government Dataset (www.qog.pol.gu.se), which won the Lijphart, Przeworski, Verba Award for Best Dataset by the APSA Comparative Politics Section at the 2009 Annual Meetings (together with Bo Rothstein and Sören Holmberg). Since 2009, Teorell has worked on a comparative-historical project on electoral and administrative corruption in Sweden and the United States in the eighteenth and 19th centuries, funded by the Swedish Research Council. From 2013 he is the elected Chair of the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association. His research interests include political methodology and comparative politics, comparative democratization, corruption, and state-making.
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Jens Bartelson
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Jens Bartelson, Professor in Political Science, received his doctorate from the University of Stockholm in 1993. His fields of interest include international political theory, the history of political thought, political philosophy and social theory. Jens Bartelson has written mainly about the concept of the sovereign state and the philosophy of world community. He is the author of Visions of World Community (Cambridge University Press, 2009), The Critique of the State (Cambridge University Press, 2001), A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 1995), as well as of articles in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Political Theory, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of International Law,and International Political Sociology. Bartelson has extensive personal experience in managing teams of scholars cooperating on common research topics resulting in two co-edited volumes with Routledge.
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Hanna Bäck
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Professor Hanna Bäck was a junior professor at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) before joining the department in Lund. She received her Ph.D. from Uppsala University in October 2003, and has held post-doctoral fellowships at the European University Institute, and the University of Twente. Bäck's research focuses mainly on political parties and coalition politics in Western European parliamentary democracies, focusing on topics such as coalition formation, cabinet duration, portfolio allocation, ministerial selection, cabinet reshuffles, and policy-making in multi-party governments. She also does research on political participation and voting behavior and in her more recent research she focuses on political psychology, for example, when explaining collective action and protest behavior. She is currently leading three projects, one on the psychological determinants of protest behavior, one on the ideological cohesion of political parties, and one on the influence on cabinet ministers on social policy. Bäck won the Vincent Wright Memorial Prize for best article in West European Politics in 2007 and the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize for the best workshop paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions in 2001. She is one of the network coordinators of the Selection and Deselection of Political Elites (SEDEPE) network, which gathers data on ministerial appointments in a large sample of countries in the post-WWII period.
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Agnes Cornell
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Agnes Cornell is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. She received her Ph.D. from University of Gothenburg in 2013. Before joining STANCE and Lund she was Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, 2014–2018. Her main research interest is in the intersection between state bureaucracy and the functioning of democracy; political institutions and citizens’ interactions with the state. She has examined different aspects of this relationship in articles published in journals such as Journal of Politics, Governance and Democratization. As a STANCE member, she is currently studying the development of state bureaucracy in relation to the concurrent advent of democratic institutions and processes, such as for example, suffrage expansions, from the 19th Century and onwards. |
Agustín Goenaga
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Agustín Goenaga has a PhD from the University of British Columbia (UBC), which was funded by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. His main research interests are in comparative political economy, comparative political development, democratic theory, and mixed-method research designs. At STANCE, Agustín is currently working on two main projects: (1) a monograph on the evolution of state capacity and economic development among late industrializers in Western Europe and Latin America; and (2) a series of articles on the factors that shape different dimensions of state capacity (e.g., taxation, information gathering, public goods provision, coordination of collective action, and territorial reach).
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Martin Hall
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Martin Hall is Associate Professor in Political Science at Lund University. He is co-Editor of Cooperation and Conflict, and is specialized in the historical sociology of international relations, with several key contributions published in edited volumes and international journals. Hall's main research interests are civilizational analysis; international relations and historical sociology; and international political thought and conceptual history. In addition to STANCE, he conducts research on the politics of World Heritage and Barbarian Diplomacy. |
Sara Kalm
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Sara Kalm is a researcher and senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. She received her doctorate in 2008. In her dissertation, Governing Global Migration , she provides a reading of current evolvements in the global governance of migration from a “governmentality” perspective inspired by Michel Foucault. Her research interests include civil society actors in global governance, migration politics, citizenship and political theory. Her main recent publication is the monograph (co-written with Anders Uhlin) Civil Society and the Governance of Development: Opposing Global Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan 2015).
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Johannes Lindvall |
Professor Johannes Lindvall received his Ph.D. from the University of Gothenburg in 2004 and joined the Department of Political Science at Lund University in 2010. He was a Postdoc at the EUI in Florence in 2006 and at Lincoln College, Oxford between 2007 and 2010. His academic work is concerned with political institutions, public policy, and, more generally, the relationship between states and markets. Lindvall teaches comparative politics and research methods. He has published extensively, including two monographs with Oxford University Press. In 2012–2016, he was the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded research project The Reform Capacity of Governments. From 2017, in addition to being a member of the STANCE team, he has been the Principal Investigator of the Swedish Research Council-funded project Policing, Schooling, and Healthcare in Comparative and Historical Perspective, which, just like the STANCE program, is concerned with political developments in the nineteenth century, and their long-term consequences. To read more about Johannes’s work, please go to his personal website, www.johanneslindvall.org.
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Oriol Sabaté received his PhD in Economic History from the University of Barcelona in 2015. His research mainly focuses on the long-term evolution of military spending, fiscal capacity and political stability in Western countries (with a particular emphasis on the Spanish case) in the nineteenth and twentieth century. His work has been published in journals such as the European Review of Economic History, Revista de Historia Económica – Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, and Research in Economic History. He has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to work on the impact of warfare on the evolution of fiscal capacity in the long-nineteenth century in Europe and Latin America. He has been also a member of the European Research Council funded project “Democratic Responsiveness in Comparative Perspective: How Do Democratic Governments Respond to Different Expressions of Public Opinion?” at the School of History, Politics and International Relations of the University of Leicester. Prior to his PhD he worked outside the academy on projects related to youth participation and human rights.
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Ted Svensson |
Ted Svensson is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science in Lund. He obtained his PhD at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. His book Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan: Meanings of Partition (Routledge, 2013) constitutes an analysis of the partition of British India and the ensuing state formation and state consolidation in the region. As a member of STANCE, he is primarily exploring British indirect rule of South Asia’s princely states during the 19th century and the ’origins’ of Indian federalism. Svensson’s wider research interests include state formation, identity politics, post-structuralist IR, contemporary South Asia and issues broadly related to constitutive moments. He is, moreover, Editor of Cooperation and Conflict and has previously taught at the Master’s Program in Asian Studies at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University.
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Petrus Olander |
Petrus Olander joined the STANCE team in 2019 after receiving his PhD in Political Science from the University of Gothenburg in 2018. In his dissertation, Not Even for Merriment , he examines how economic diversification influences the institutional design, arguing that cohesiveness of interests allow elites to design institutions that more narrowly benefit themselves. His work has been published in journals such as Studies in Comparative International Development and Legislative Studies Quarterly. His main research interests are in comparative politics and American political development. At STANCE, Petrus is currently studying the development of state capacity in American states following statehood and during the 19th century, with a particular focus on the role of state legislatures.
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