Publications
Books: Monographs, Edited Books, Textbooks
(with Tapio Raunio) (2024) Transnational Parties and Advocacy in European Integration. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2022) The Prime Minister–Media Nexus: Centralization Logic and Application. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
(with Luciano Bardi, Wojciech Gagatek, Carine Germond, Wolfram Kaiser & Silvia Sassano) (2020) The European Ambition: The Group of the European
People’s Party and European Integration. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
(Edited, with Gunnar Nygren) (2019) Close and Distant: Political Executive– Media Relations in Four Countries. Gothenburg: Nordicom.
(with Jonas Johansson & Anders Mellbourn) (2017) [2006] Parlament i världen: Riksdagen i Interparlamentariska unionen. Stockholm: Sveriges Riksdag.
(with Gissur Erlingsson, Anders Håkansson & Ingvar Mattson) (2005) Politiska partier. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
(with Tapio Raunio) (2004) Politiska partier i den europeiska författningen. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.
(Edited, with Peter A. Zervakis) (2002) European Political Parties between Cooperation and Integration. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
(Edited) (2002) [1999] Sverige i EU. Stockholm: SNS Förlag. (with Kerstin Jacobsson & Magnus Ekengren) (2001) Mot en europeisk
välfärdspolitik? Ny politik och nya samarbetsformer i EU. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.
(1997) Transnational Party Alliances: Analysing the Hard-Won Alliance between Conservatives and Christian Democrats in the European Parliament. Lund: Lund University Press. (Ph.D. dissertation)
Refereed Articles
(2024) ‘“I am the gatekeeper”: why and how ministerial media advisers have been empowered’, Frontiers in Political Science Volume 6 – 2024.
(with Tapio Raunio) (2024) ‘Advocating for further integration: Europarties in the 2024 European Parliament elections’, UI Paper 1/2024. Stockholm: SwedishInstitute of International Affairs.
(2022) [2017] ‘Sweden and the European Union’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. New York: Oxford University Press. (Article update 2022)
(with Elena Johansson) (2022) ‘Along the government–media frontier: Press secretaries offline/online’, Journal of Public Affairs 22 (S1): e2759.
(2021) ‘Stärker mediemakten regeringsmakten?’ [Does media power strengthen governmental power?], Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift [The Swedish Journal of Political Science] 123 (1): 5–25
(with Tapio Raunio) (2020) ‘Centralizing Government Communication? Evidence from Finland and Sweden’, Politics & Policy 48 (6): 1138–1160.
(with Tapio Raunio) (2019) ‘Political Parties in the European Union’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.
(2017) ‘The role of Europarties in EU treaty reform: Theory and practice’, Acta Politica 52 (3).
(2016) ‘Europarty Influence and Its Limits: The Case of the European People’s Party and the Amsterdam Treaty’, Journal of European Integration 38 (1).
(2015) ‘The European People’s Party and the Amsterdam Treaty’, Journal of European Integration History 21 (2).
(with Li Bennich-Björkman) (2012) ‘Explaining moderation in nationalism: Divergent trajectories of national conservative parties in Estonia and Latvia’, Comparative European Politics 10 (5).
(with Fredrik Langdal & Göran von Sydow) (2012) ‘The Domestic Politics of European Union Presidencies: The Case of Sweden’, Government and Opposition 47 (2).
(with Jonas Tallberg) (2010) ‘Explaining Chief Executive Empowerment: European Union Summitry and Domestic Institutional Change’, West European Politics 33 (2).
(with Tapio Raunio) (2010) ‘Organizing the Core Executive for European Union Affairs: Comparing Finland and Sweden’, Public Administration 88 (3).
(2009) ‘Responses within the European Community to the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Prospect of German Reunification’, Baltic Worlds 2 (3–4).
(2008) ‘Chief Executive Organization and Advisory Arrangements for Foreign Affairs: The Case of Sweden’, Cooperation and Conflict 43 (3).
(2008) ‘External Legitimization and Standardization of National Political Parties: The Case of Estonian Social Democracy’, Journal of Baltic Studies 39 (2).
(with Jonas Tallberg) (2008) ‘Party Politics in the European Council’, Journal of European Public Policy 15 (8).
(with Åsa Vifell) (2006) ‘Transcending the Boundaries of Political Science’, European Political Science 5 (2).
(with Tapio Raunio) (2005) ‘Regulating Europarties: Cross-Party Coalitions Capitalizing on Incomplete Contracts’, Party Politics 11 (5).
(2002) ‘Another Road to Maastricht: The Christian Democrat Coalition and the Quest for European Union’, Journal of Common Market Studies 40 (5).
(2002) ‘Party Elites in Multilevel Europe: The Christian Democrats and the Single European Act’, Party Politics 8 (4).
(with Tapio Raunio) (2001) ‘Partisan responses to Europe: comparing Finnish and Swedish political parties’, European Journal of Political Research 39 (2).
(1999) ‘Europeanisation and its Limits: The Case of Sweden’, Journal of International Relations and Development 2 (3).
(1999) ‘Tracing the employment title in the Amsterdam treaty: uncovering transnational coalitions’, Journal of European Public Policy 6 (1).
Non-Refereed Articles
(with Tapio Raunio) (2024) ‘How to understand Europarties’, blog post, Der (europäische) Föderalist, foederalist.eu, 27 September 2024. Also available in German: ‘Wie man europäische Parteien verstehen kann’
(with Tapio Raunio) (2023) ‘Government Communication in Finland and Sweden’, Baltic Rim Economies 3/2023.
(2015) ‘Europarties – A Research Note’, ZEI Discussion Paper C 231/2015, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn.
(with Ann-Cathrine Jungar) (2003) ‘Konventet om Europeiska unionens framtid – en lösning på demokratiproblemen? Makt och deliberativ demokrati’, Politologen.
(with Jonas Tallberg) (2003) ‘Sverige i EU efter euro-omröstningen: Politisk marginalisering’, Internationella Studier (4).
(with Hans Hegeland) (2000) ‘Inrikespolitisk konflikt eller konsensus’, Internationella Studier (4).
(with Gry Larsen) (1998) ‘Nordiskt partisamarbete och dess inflytande på europeisk sysselsättningspolitik’, Nordisk Tidskrift (2).
(with Kristian Sjövik) (1995) ‘Federalism i teori och praktik’, Politologen 24 (1). (1990) ‘The Inherent Dialectic of International Politics’, Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 93 (3).
Dictionary or Encyclopedia Entries
Dizionario Storica dell’Integrazione
Europea
Carl Bildt
Allan Larsson
Svezia
Nationalencyclopedin
Europaparlamentet
Europaparlamentsval
Hans J. Morgenthau
Chapters in Books
(with Ann-Cathrine Jungar & Anders R Jupskås) (2024) ‘The transnational dimension of the Nordic populist radical right’, in Ann-Cathrine Jungar (ed.), The Nordic Populist Radical Right: Voters, Ideology, and Political Interactions. London: Routledge.
(2024) ‘Prime Ministerial Media Advisers: Demystifying the Spin Doctor’, in Jennifer Lees-Marshment (ed.), Political Management in Practice: Lessons from around the Globe. London: Routledge.
(with Tapio Raunio) (2022), ‘Shaping the EU’s Future? Europarties, European Parliament’s Political Groups and the Conference on the Future of Europe’, in Petra Ahrens, Anna Elomäki & Johanna Kantola (eds), European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2021) [2014] [2009] [2006] ‘Europeiska unionen’, in Jakob Gustavsson & Jonas Tallberg (eds) Internationella relationer. 4th ed. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
(2021) ‘Sweden and the European Union’, in Finn Laursen (ed.) Oxford Encyclopedia of European Union Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.
(with Tapio Raunio) (2021) ‘Political Parties in the European Union’, in Finn Laursen (ed.) Oxford Encyclopedia of European Union Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.
(2020) ‘Constitutionalising the Union: The Role of the EPP Group’, in Luciano Bardi, Wojciech Gagatek, Carine Germond, Karl Magnus Johansson, Wolfram Kaiser & Silvia Sassano, The European Ambition: The Group of the European People’s Party and European Integration. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
(2019) ‘The Group of the European People’s Party: Biggest Again’, in Niklas Bolin, Kajsa Falasca, Marie Grusell & Lars Nord (eds) Euroflections: Leading academics on the European elections 2019. Sundsvall: Mittuniversitetet, Demicom.
(with Milda Malling & Gunnar Nygren) (2019) ‘Sweden: A professionally symbiotic relationship’, in Karl Magnus Johansson & Gunnar Nygren (eds) Close and Distant: Political Executive–Media Relations in Four Countries. Gothenburg: Nordicom.
(with Gunnar Nygren) (2019) ‘Locked in a mutual dependency: Media and the political executive in close interplay’, in Karl Magnus Johansson & Gunnar Nygren (eds) Close and Distant: Political Executive–Media Relations in Four Countries. Gothenburg: Nordicom.
(with Gunnar Nygren) (2019) ‘The interplay of media and the political executive:Introduction and framework’, in Karl Magnus Johansson & Gunnar Nygren (eds) Close and Distant: Political Executive–Media Relations in Four Countries. Gothenburg: Nordicom.
(with Tapio Raunio) (2019) ‘Government communication in a comparative perspective’, in Karl Magnus Johansson & Gunnar Nygren (eds) Close and Distant: Political Executive–Media Relations in Four Countries. Gothenburg: Nordicom.
(2018) ‘Statsministern och medierna’, in Lars Nord, Marie Grusell, Niklas Bolin & Kajsa Falasca (eds) Snabbtänkt: Reflektioner från valet 2018 av ledande forskare. Sundsvall: Mittuniversitetet, Demicom.
(2018) ‘Behovet av psykologi i statsvetenskaplig analys: Palme i centrum’, in Björn Badersten, Jakob Gustavsson & Maria Strömvik (eds) Det gränslösa samtalet. Lund: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift.
(2014) ‘The Emergence of Conservative Parties in the Baltic States: New Parties, Party Entrepreneurs and Transnational Influence’, in Nicholas Aylott (ed.) Models of Democracy in Nordic and Baltic Europe: Political Institutions and Discourse. Farnham: Ashgate.
(with Steven Van Hecke) (2013) ‘Gipfelpolitik politischer Parteien auf europäischer Ebene: eine vergleichende Analyse’, in Thomas Poguntke, Martin Morlok & Heike Merten (eds) Auf dem Weg zu einer europäischen Parteiendemokratie? Baden-Baden: Nomos.
(with Steven Van Hecke) (2013) ‘Summitry of Political Parties at European Level: The Case of the PES Leaders’ Conference’, in Ernst Stetter, Karl Duffek & Ania Skrzypek (eds) In the Name of Political Union – Europarties on the Rise. Brussels: FEPS.
(with Göran von Sydow) (2011) ‘Swedish Social Democracy and European Integration: Enduring Divisions’, in Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos (ed.) Social Democracy and European Integration: The politics of preference formation. London: Routledge.
(with Nicholas Aylott & Kadri Simm) (2011) ‘Är nordisk demokrati en exportvara?’, in Jenny Björkman, Björn Fjæstad & Jonas Harvard (eds) Ett nordiskt rum: Historiska och framtida gemenskaper från Baltikum till Barents hav. Göteborg & Stockholm: Makadam förlag.
(2010) ‘Varför är det nödvändigt att forska om Europeiska unionen?’, in Magnus Jerneck & Björn Badersten (eds) Kontraster och nyanser: Svensk statsvetenskap i brytningstid. Lund: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift.
(with Fredrik Langdal & Göran von Sydow) (2010) ‘Mellan Bryssel och Rosenbad: ordförandeskapets organisering och ledning’, in Rikard Bengtsson (ed.) I Europas tjänst: Sveriges ordförandeskap i EU 2009. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.
(with Fredrik Langdal & Göran von Sydow) (2010) ‘Mellan konflikt och samförstånd: ordförandeskapet i svensk inrikespolitik’, in Rikard Bengtsson (ed.) I Europas tjänst: Sveriges ordförandeskap i EU 2009. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.
(2010) ‘Scripted Parties: The Case of Estonian Social Democracy’, in Bengt Jacobsson (ed.) The European Union and the Baltic States: Changing Forms of Governance. London: Routledge.
(with Jonas Tallberg) (2010) ‘Party Politics in the European Council’, in Björn Lindberg, Anne Rasmussen & Andreas Warntjen (eds) The Role of Politica Parties in the European Union. London: Routledge.
(2009) ‘The Emergence of Political Parties at European Level: Integration Unaccomplished’, in Sverker Gustavsson, Lars Oxelheim & Lars Pehrson (eds) How Unified Is the European Union? European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy. Heidelberg: Springer.
(2009) ‘Politiska partier på europeisk nivå – det ofullbordade samgåendet’, inSverker Gustavsson, Lars Oxelheim & Lars Pehrson (eds) Hur gemensam är den europeiska gemenskapen? Europaperspektiv 2009. Stockholm: Santérus Förlag.
(2005) ‘The alliance of European Christian Democracy and Conservatism: Convergence through networking’, in Wolfram Kaiser & Peter Starie (eds) Transnational European Union: Towards a common political space. London: Routledge.
(2005) ‘Är partier internt demokratiska?’, in Gissur Erlingsson, Anders Håkansson, Karl Magnus Johansson & Ingvar Mattson, Politiska partier. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
(with Gissur Erlingsson, Anders Håkansson & Ingvar Mattson) (2005) ‘Partistyre’, in Gissur Erlingsson, Anders Håkansson, Karl Magnus Johansson & Ingvar Mattson, Politiska partier. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
(with Ingvar Mattson, Anders Håkansson & Gissur Erlingsson) (2005) ‘Slutsatser – vad vi vet och inte vet om politiska partier’, in Gissur Erlingsson, Anders Håkansson, Karl Magnus Johansson & Ingvar Mattson, Politiska partier. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
(2004) ‘Toward a theory of federations of political parties in multilevel Europe: at the nexus of international relations and comparative politics’, in Pascal Delwit, Erol Külahci & Cédric Van de Walle (eds) The Europarties: Organisation and Influence. Centre d’étude de la vie politique of the Free University of Brussels (ULB)/Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles.
(2003) ‘Mot ett socialt Europa: Ideologi, politik och framtidsvisioner’, in Paula Blomqvist (ed.) Den gränslösa välfärdsstaten: Svensk socialpolitik i det nya Europa. Stockholm: Agora.
(2003) ‘Sweden’, in Wolfgang Wessels, Andreas Maurer & Jürgen Mittag (eds) Fifteen Into One? The European Union and its Member States. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
(2002) ‘Europafrågans återkomst och genomslag’, in Torbjörn Nilsson (ed.) Anfall eller försvar? Högern i svensk politik under 1900-talet. Stockholm: Santérus Förlag.
(2002) ‘European People’s Party’, in Karl Magnus Johansson & Peter A. Zervakis (eds) European Political Parties between Cooperation and Integration. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
(with Peter A. Zervakis) (2002) ‘Historical-Institutional Framework’, in Karl Magnus Johansson & Peter A. Zervakis (eds) European Political Parties between Cooperation and Integration. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
(with Anna-Carin Svensson) (2002) ‘Sweden: Constrained but Constructive?’, in Finn Laursen (ed.) The Amsterdam Treaty: National Preference Formation, Interstate Bargaining and Outcome. Odense: Odense University Press.
(2002) [1999] ‘Inledning: Sverige och det europeiska integrationsprojektet’, in Karl Magnus Johansson (ed.) Sverige i EU.
(2002) [1999] ‘Sverige i EU:s institutioner och beslutsprocesser’, in Karl Magnus Johansson (ed.) Sverige i EU.
(2002) [1999] ‘EU och partiväsendet’, in Karl Magnus Johansson (ed.) Sverige iEU.
(2002) [1999] ‘Avslutning: Sverige som EU-medlem’, in Karl Magnus Johansson (ed.) Sverige i EU. (with Björn Beckman) (2002) [1999] ‘EU och statsförvaltningen’, in Karl Magnus Johansson (ed.) Sverige i EU.
(with Hans Hegeland) (2001) ‘Ordförandeskapet och riksdagen – borgfreden som höll’, in Jonas Tallberg (ed.) När Europa kom till Sverige – Ordförandeskapet i EU 2001. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.
(2001) ‘Vers une théorie des fédérations européennes de partis’, in Pascal Delwit, Erol Külahci & Cédric Van de Walle (eds) Les fédérations européennes de partis: Organisation et influence. Bruxelles: Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles.
(2001) ‘Europeiska partier, politisk samordning och ideologiska konfliktlinjer i den europeiska välfärdspolitiken’, in Kerstin Jacobsson, Karl Magnus Johansson & Magnus Ekengren, Mot en europeisk välfärdspolitik? Ny politik och nya samarbetsformer i EU. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.
(with Kerstin Jacobsson) (2001) ‘Välfärdspolitik och nya samarbetsformer i EU’, in Kerstin Jacobsson, Karl Magnus Johansson & Magnus Ekengren, Mot en europeisk välfärdspolitik? Ny politik och nya samarbetsformer i EU. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.
(2001) ‘Sweden’, in Juliet Lodge (ed.) The 1999 Elections to the European Parliament. Basingstoke: Palgrave. (with Gry Larsen) (2000) ‘Nordiska partigrupper i spänningsfältet mellan nationella och europeiska arenor’, in Bengt Sundelius & Claes Wiklund (eds) Norden i sicksack: Tre spårbyten inom nordiskt samarbete. Stockholm: Santérus Förlag.
(1998) ‘The Transnationalization of Party Politics’, in David S. Bell & Christopher Lord (eds) Transnational Parties in the European Union. Aldershot: Ashgate.
(1997) ‘Nordischer Rat: Regionale Kooperation und informelle Integration’, in Uwe Jun & Ernst Kuper (eds) Nationales Interesse und integrative Politik in transnationalen parlamentarischen Versammlungen. Opladen: Leske & Budrich.
(1997) ‘Die veränderte Bedeutung der politischen Fraktionen’, in Uwe Jun & Ernst Kuper (eds) Nationales Interesse und integrative Politik in transnationalen parlamentarischen Versammlungen. Opladen: Leske & Budrich.
(1996) ‘The Nature of Political Parties in the European Union’, in George A. Kourvetaris & Andreas Moschonas (eds) The Impact of European Integration: Political, Sociological, and Economic Changes. Westport: Praeger.
Reports
(with Tapio Raunio) (2022) The partisan dimension of the Conference on the Future of Europe: Agenda-setting, objectives and influence. Stockholm: Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS 2022: 2). (Peer-reviewed)
(with Steven Van Hecke et al.) (2018) Reconnecting European Political Parties with European Union Citizens. International IDEA Discussion Paper 6/2018, Stockholm. (Peer-reviewed)
(2014) How Populist Parties Organize. PESO Research Report No 2, School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University. (Peer-reviewed)
(2003) Förberedelser inför regeringskonferenser – framtidskonventet i sitt sammanhang. Stockholm: Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS 2003:3). (Peer-reviewed)
(with Olof Petersson, Ulrika Mörth & Daniel Tarschys) (2001) Demokrati utan utland. Demokratirådets rapport 2001. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.
Book Reviews
‘Porträtt utan källkritik’/‘Karl Magnus Johansson ser brister i statsministerböckerna’. Axess nr 6, 2010.
‘En gemensam europeisk skogspolitik? En integrationsteoretisk studie av ett politikområde på tillväxt’, by Therese Andersson. Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 110 (3), 2008.
‘Historien i politiken: Historieanvändning i norsk och svensk EU-debatt 1990-1994’, by Erik Axelsson. Nordisk Tidskrift (2), 2007.
‘Den nationella drömträdgården: Den stora berättelsen om den egna nationen i svensk och brittisk Europadebatt’, by Jacob Westberg. Svensk Tidskrift 90 (5), 2003.
‘Sveriges statsminister och EU: Ett halvår i centrum’, by Olof Ruin. Internationella studier (3), 2002. ‘Sveriges statsminister och EU: Ett halvår i centrum’, by Olof Ruin. Nordisk
Tidskrift (3), 2002.
‘Mångfaldens Europa: Tio essäer’, by Philippe de Schoutheete. Internationella studier (3), 1999.
‘Sweden and European Integration’, by Lee Miles. Cooperation and Conflict 33 (3), 1998.
‘Den moraliska stormakten: En studie av socialdemokratins internationella aktivism’, by Ann-Sofie Nilsson. Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 94 (1), 1991.
(I have also published numerous popular science articles and articles in Swedish magazines and newspapers.)