Projects
I have several active large-scale projects focusing on political behavior and public opinion, sexuality politics, and political representation.
Selective liberalism: how tolerance becomes a tool for intolerance and what to do about it
PI, Swedish Research Council & Uppsala University
2024-2026
In this project, funded by the Swedish Research Council and Uppsala University, we examine the effects of femonationalist, homonationalist, and econationalist political communication strategies on public support for anti-immigration governments. Our primary focus is Germany, where the AfD is experiencing growing support. Project members are Katharina Lawall (Reading), Sophie Mainz (Uppsala), Maria Bergström Nordbrand (Uppsala), and Stuart J. Turnbull Dugarte.
Working papers:
Countering femonationalism. WP presented at EPSA 2025.
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Conclave: do people take their affective polarization to church?
PI
2025-2026
This project, a collaboration with Sophie Mainz (Uppsala), examines public preferences for various papal candidates and their individual traits. The study is situated in the United States, where we fielded an original conjoint experiment just days before the Conclave elected the first American Pope.
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Working papers:
Bluesky thread summarizing initial findings.
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More rights, more participation? The rights of gays, lesbians and bisexuals and their political engagement in Sweden
PI, Swedish Research Council
2023-2026
In this project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, I study political participation and representation patterns among non-straight people of Sweden. I make use of administrative data as well as experimental approaches. Project members are Pär Zetterberg, Stuart Turnbull Dugarte and Klara Hvarfner.
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Total funding: 4,024,000 SEK
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Image: Jan Budomo
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Still segregated? Temporal and intersectional analysis of the residential, occupational and political segregation of sexual minorities in Sweden
PI, Swedish Research Council
2023-2027
This project examines dynamics of spatial, economic and educational segregation among LGB people in Sweden. Project members are Sven Oskarsson, Klara Hvarfner, Rafael Ahlskog, and Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte.
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Total funding: 4,733,531 SEK
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Image: DJ Paine
Gendered institutions and how to study them
PI, Uppsala University
2022-ongoing
In this project, I revisit the realist foundations of feminist institutionalism and offer methodological reflections on how feminist scholars might go about generating knowledge about gendered institutions. My project collaborators are Cherry M. Miller and Josefina Erikson.
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Image: Tim Mossholder
Strategic inclusion? The promises and pitfalls of diversity initiatives in Swedish party politics
Project member, FORTE
2020-2023
In this project, we study the impact of candidate quotas and other diversity initiatives on the descriptive representation of women, youths and immigrants in Sweden. We make use of administrative data, experimental and qualitative approaches. Project members are Sandra Håkansson, Pär Zetterberg, Elin Bjarnegård and Theodor Thisell.
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Total funding: 4,800,000 SEK
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Image: Joel Muniz
