Professor of Political Science, Dalarna University. Comparative Politics, Democratization, Constitutions, Presidential Politics, Eastern Europe.
Falun, Sverige
Joined September 2012
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"Raunio and Sedelius (2020) bit.ly/2SKQ0No contribute to significantly advancing our understanding of executive coordination and power-sharing mechanisms in semi-presidential regimes..." @PresidPolitics @palmacpolitics @prespow @pres_activism @Gia_Passarelli
Can parliamentarisation leave power concentrated? Jenny Åberg and I compare Armenia and Georgia in our new open-access article. Similar constitutional reforms, strikingly different outcomes. Full article: share.google/QAeFmBg10R0lXjc…
New article in @EEPolitics: How are domestic political conflicts reframed in geopolitical terms after Russia’s war against Ukraine? We analyse the “geopoliticisation of domestic issues” across Central & Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea region. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
The @PresidPolitics Robert Elgie Best Paper Prize 2025 goes to @Fromagehomme and @DesrosiersME for their excellent paper "Executive Aggrandizement and Term Limits Evasion in Africa: Critical Junctures and Democratic Divergence"! Big Congrats! @ECPR
Wanting a strong president is not necessarily about efficiency - often it’s a quiet nod to autocracy. Our new article in @EEPolitics tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… @mkujanen @PresidPolitics
Does cohabitation weaken presidents? Our global study (1850–2022), now out in International Political Science Review, finds it does – but only in semi-presidential systems and under a broader definition of cohabitation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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6. Conclusion
Ukraine’s robust democratic civil society has a history of fighting corruption, as evidenced by its success during the 2013-2014 Maidan uprising. However, Ukrainian civil society is currently focused on Ukraine's survival—supporting the fight against Russia through military service or aiding soldiers. The protests against Bill №12414, the first significant anti-government demonstrations since the full-scale invasion began, underscore public opposition to undermining anti-corruption efforts. While NABU may not have been perfect, its potential liquidation is undoubtedly a negative development. I hope President Zelenskyy and his government will heed the voices of Ukrainians before it’s too late.
Thanks for reading!
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Here's Harvard's response to the crisis facing our international students.
Can you imagine being a PhD student in the final years of completing their thesis, with research plans, future careers, hopes & dreams suddenly wrecked overnight by capricious actions? Heartbreaking.
Social trust and crises. Ali Abdelzadeh and I examine the dynamics of social trust and its interaction with different fears during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a three-wave longitudinal dataset from Sweden (2020-2022). OA article at doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.70…
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Another vote in 🇺🇳 General Assembly where 🇺🇸 demonstrates its new affinity with a bunch of rouge states. I’m sorry with all the competent 🇺🇸 diplomats having to execute and defend these new policies.
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If Ukraine did attack Twitter as Elon Musk said, this is very serious. I invite Ukraine to conduct negotiations with me so we can bring peace to Twitter. Unfortunately, Elon holds no cards and doesn’t own a suit, so we expect Elon will have to give up a lot.
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Look at the 16 other countries that joined 🇷🇺🇺🇸 and voted against the 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧 resolution condemning the 🇷🇺 aggression! What a list! Is that the way the world now looks?
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President Trump 🇺🇸 has gone wild. His vicious attack on @ZelenskyyUa and 🇺🇦 is full-Putin, and where 🇺🇸 policy heads after this is anyone’s guess. Anything can happen. Now 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇳🇴 🇹🇷 must step up support to 🇺🇦 - and probably start to discuss how to de-risk aspects of their relationship with the 🇺🇸.
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And SecDef @SecDef says they don’t want “a new Minsk”. That’s fine, but it looks more like they are heading for a new Munich. thehill.com/homenews/adminis…
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It’s certainly an innovative approach to a negotiation to make very major concessions even before they have started. Not even Chamberlain went that low in 1938. That Munich ended very bad anyhow.
Pleased to share our Special Issue in @PolStudiesRev
7 articles on causes, patterns and consequences of Presidential Activism: various contexts and w different methods.@mkujanen @PhilippKoeker @smoestrup @Gia_Passarelli @VesaKoskimaa @LPukelis @Jastramskis shorturl.at/GCt27
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If your goal was to help China dominate the world, good moves would be (1) trigger silly fights with allies, (2) bully & alienate weaker states (3) cut foreign aid, (4) pull out of multilateral orgs & (5) tear up the national security state from within.
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Imagine how gleeful Communist China, Communist Cuba, Putin, Kim Jong Un, Iran's ayatollahs, & other tyrants are at Trump's moves to shut down USAID, kill NED, trash the UN system, and withdraw from the world. A giant gift to our adversaries and a massive blow to global freedom.
📢Special issue in @PolStudiesRev on presidential activism in semi-presidential countries. Full collection in -25 but here is our intro, framework and summaries. @mkujanen @PhilippKoeker @Gia_Passarelli @LPukelis @AnnaFruhstorfer @smoestrup @VesaKoskimaa journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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📣 Call for #ecprgc25 🇬🇷 Panels and Papers
🛡️ Presidential Politics and Security Threats: Institutions, Powers, and Policy
✅ Endorsed by @PresidPolitics
🪑 Chaired by @TSedelius & Tapio Raunio
⌛ Submit by 6 Jan
#ComparativePolitics #Democratisation
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