iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

NEW - Silenced Voices: How Violence Marginalizes Women and Immigrant Politicians in Policy Debates - cup.org/4tHjlao - @sandrahkansson.bsky.social & @ceciliajosefsson.bsky.social #OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract exploring how political violence affects participation in policy debates, particularly among marginalized politicians. The study uses data from a Swedish politician survey, showing that women and immigrant‑background politicians are more likely to refrain from debates due to violence.

0146

Sandra Håkansson @sandrahkansson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Our project received funding from the Swedish Research Council! "How violent actors distort the path to political power: Evidence from Colombia" with Juan Diego Duque Salazar & @hannefjelde.bsky.social

0152

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Now that #NoKings 2.0 is behind us, here's a quick 🧵 into the data we collected in DC on Saturday to start thinking about what the day-of-action can tell us about this wave of Resistance to Trump2.0 and its policies. The day turned out millions across the US in over 2700 locations across the US:

25770266

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Dagens Arena @dagensarena.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

DEBATT | Det är vårt ansvar att yttra oss, skriver 122 experter inom fred, säkerhet, utveckling, folkrätt och mänskliga rättigheter. www.dagensarena.se/opinion/sver...

dagensarena.se

Sverige lever inte upp till internationella åtaganden att förhindra folkmord | Dagens Arena

Det är vårt ansvar att yttra oss, skriver 122 experter.

01817

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America. Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7

2225112

Sandra Håkansson @sandrahkansson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Det finns ingen plats för politiskt våld i en demokrati, varken för fysiskt våld eller trakasserier, hot och hat. Min forskning visar att kvinnliga ledare systematiskt drabbas värre och att det hotar den demokratiska representationen. Kommenterar Wutzlers avhopp i DN: www.dn.se/sverige/fick...

dn.se

Fick nog av hatet – moderattoppen hoppar av

Carina Wutzler har fått nog av hat och personangrepp. Nu lämnar hon rollen som kommunstyrelsens ordförande.

051

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

In over 99.5 percent of protest events in April and May, we recorded no injuries, arrests, or property damage — an unprecedentedly tiny fraction for a movement of this size and geographic dispersion.

111446356

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.

3924321011

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🧵1/ Are primaries bad for political diversity? Conventional wisdom says yes—but our article in @wepsocial.bsky.social shows that candidate selection modes are not necessarily a bottleneck for representation, at least when it comes to demand. 🗳️👥 @sandrahkansson.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

23119

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

7/ TL;DR: Whether inclusive or exclusive, how parties select candidates may matter less than we thought — when norms of political inclusion are already widely internalised. 📋🤝 #PoliSci #Representation #CandidateSelection #Primaries #Quotas #Sweden #WEP

051

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Online first: "Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation" by @grahn.bsky.social & @sandrahkansson.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... #AcademicSky #Polisky

Screenshot of a journal article abstract from West European Politics, titled “Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation” by Michal Grahn and Sandra Håkansson from the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. The article is marked as open access and published by Routledge.

The abstract text is highlighted in yellow and states that while exclusive candidate selection methods (e.g., selection committees) are often thought to produce more descriptively representative outcomes than inclusive methods (e.g., primaries), such claims are usually based on cross-sectional comparisons. The authors conducted a conjoint experiment in Sweden involving 6,400 party members and 1,300 selection committee members, assessing preferences for candidate profiles based on gender, age, and immigrant background. The findings show that both groups exhibited similar preferences for underrepresented candidates across both selection modes. The study concludes that both inclusive and exclusive procedures can equally promote descriptive representation within supportive institutional contexts.

Below the abstract, the listed keywords are: Political recruitment; descriptive representation; political parties; primaries; conjoint experiment.

A dot plot titled "Candidate preferences among rank-and-file party members and SCMs, in primary and ballot creation contexts." The y-axis lists candidate characteristics: Gender (Men, Women), Immigrant background (No, Yes), Age (18–35, 36–64, 65+), Education (No higher education, University degree), and Employment sector (Public, Private). The x-axis represents marginal means, ranging from 0.4 to 0.55, with a vertical dashed reference line at 0.5.

For each characteristic, three groups are shown with their respective point estimates and 95% confidence intervals:

Red squares for “Party members, primary context”

Blue circles for “Selectors, primary context”

Green diamonds for “Selectors, ballot creation context”

The graph shows how different groups of selectors and party members vary in their marginal means when evaluating candidate characteristics. Confidence intervals are horizontal bars, and all estimates are clustered around the 0.5 mark, with some group differences, especially notable in age and education.

Below the figure, a note explains that the values represent marginal means with 95% confidence intervals, calculated separately for each group, with standard errors clustered at the respondent level.

13018

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 04/06/2025

In a DIY society, we all have an incentive to push the work of care downstream. Because that work is essential. But it's also too labor-intensive to be profitable. So, men push it onto women. And women with privilege either do that work themselves or push it onto others more vulnerable than them. 7/

2617

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

What happens to women when they are denied an abortion? Short run: their risk of death rises. A full 15 years later, they experience: more health issues, lower attainment, reduced labor-force participation, higher single motherhood, higher poverty, + greater government assistance

7331126

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Depressing findings, but "Publish or Procreate" is a title for the ages.

2209

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Daniel Ekman @dekman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Och detta är läskigast av allt. SD vill även inskränka universitetsanställdas yttrandefrihet. Oavsett vad man tycker i sakfrågan är det givetvis djupt oroväckande att politiker tycker det är ”helt oacceptabelt” att forskare har en åsikt som inte går i linje med deras.

3159

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Cecilia Josefsson @ceciliajosefsson.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Welcome to the launch of my book Defending the Status Quo (OUP 2024)! academic.oup.com/book/58626 🗓 May 8, 15:00–16:00 CEST 📍 Dept. of Government, Uppsala University (or Zoom!) Speakers: @jennpiscopo.bsky.social, Drude Dahlerup, @elinbja.bsky.social & me.

1157

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Jonas Sjöstedt @jonassjostedt.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Imorgon reser jag till Ankara för att närvara på rättegången mot Joakim Medin. Av åtalet framgår att det helt saknas bevisning mot Joakim, han har bara gjort sig skyldig till journalistik. Den turkiska domstolen bör lägga ned åtalet. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/8q...

aftonbladet.se

Svenska politiker till Medins rättegång i Turkiet

Jonas Sjöstedt (V) och Ulrika Westerlund (MP) reser till Ankara för att närvara vid den svenske journalisten Joakim Medins rättegång. – Det gäller att sätta lit

2850779

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Department of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We’re live! 🚀 Say hello to the official Bluesky account of Uppsala University's Department of Government 🏛️✨ Follow us for the latest on cutting-edge research, publications 📚, and upcoming events.

26928

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

🚨 Talking about harassment in politics hurts your political career. Yes, even in 🇸🇪. And, yes, for both women & men. Here’s what me and @sandrahkansson.bsky.social found in our Political Behavior paper using both experimental and descriptive approaches: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 👇

link.springer.com

The Cost of Debating Harassment Against Politicians: Are Women and Men Affected Equally? - Political Behavior

Harassment of politicians is a growing global phenomenon, which threatens to erode the quality of democracy and descriptive representation. Past research has examined gender patterns of this violence ...

36135

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Why is nobody talking about the fact that Elon's DOGE henchmen are MEN. There is no way women would be granted access in the way these young dudebros have been. None. Male entitlement opens doors and we are all going to suffer for it

39421

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Elsa Kugelberg @elsakugelberg.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

New paper💡! My work on online dating, power and social institutions is now published in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! I provide a normative framework for what goes on in this part of the ‘digital sexual sphere’ and explore the role dating apps play in our societies. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

cambridge.org

Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Dating Apps and the Digital Sexual Sphere

1715329

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

UPPGAP - Uppsala Gender and Politics @uppgap.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We've finally made it to this side! 👋 Check out our semester schedule—we’ve got a stellar lineup of international researchers:

0126

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 30/01/2025

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

6326154

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Paulina Sokolow @paulinasokolow.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Falsk balans SR. Ronie Berggren Bulletin anklagade just oemotsagd George Soros att lägga sig i europeisk politik. En klockren antisemitisk trop och ha samtidigt mage att ta upp Förintelsens minnesdag. ➡️➡️

716956

Sandra Håkansson @sandrahkansson.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Excited to share our new paper “Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians”, accepted at APSR! Co-authored with @nazita.bsky.social. Available at: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

33818

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

🏅In one of our most read articles this week @sandrahkansson.bsky.social employs survey experiments in 🇸🇪 & 🇺🇸 to ID underlying mechanisms in violence against women in politics in 'Explaining Citizen Hostility against Women Political Leaders' polisky gendersky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Research article entitled "Explaining Citizen Hostility against Women Political Leaders: A Survey Experiment in the United States and Sweden" by Sandra Håkansson.

091

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

📢New issue of #PAG20 is out!📢 @sandrahkansson.bsky.social employs survey experiments in 🇸🇪 & 🇺🇸 to understand underlying mechanisms in violence against women in politics in 'Explaining Citizen Hostility against Women Political Leaders' 🌟Open Access🌟 polisky gendersky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

022

Reposted by Sandra Håkansson

Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

New paper! In this theoretical study @politicsgenderj.bsky.social , 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 feminist research. Find out more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

3136

Sandra Håkansson @sandrahkansson.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Proud to have contributed to this volume. "Gender and Violence against Political Actors" is a very cool compilation of qualitative and quantitative research, theoretical approaches, and synthesized discussions on gender and violence in political arenas.

051

Sandra Håkansson @sandrahkansson.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Three fully funded PhD positions now open at Uppsala Uni. This truly is one of the best places for gender and politics PhD studies in the world. Please do reach out if you have any questions for a recent PhD graduate.

12117