Henrik Oscarsson

Henrik Oscarsson
  • PhD
  • Managing Director at University of Gothenburg

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University of Gothenburg
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  • Managing Director
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June 1993 - present
University of Gothenburg
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  • Professor in Political Science, Research Director

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Publications (62)
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Recent research suggests that to help their preferred coalition win an election, voters are willing to vote for a political party other than their preferred choice. In this field, voting for smaller parties under proportional representation is an under-studied feature. A crucial factor to estimate the chances for smaller parties is polls. In this s...
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Despite the influence of stigmatization on vote choices, little attention has been given to the impact of social stigma on voters’ selection of voting procedures. To bridge this gap, our study focuses on Sweden, where the open-display ballot system at polling stations potentially compromises vote secrecy. Using survey data from the Swedish National...
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Electoral Fraud in Sweden? Public perception of irregularities during Swedish elections A fundamental precondition for the legitimacy of democracy is a high level of trust in the electoral process. It is therefore concerning that the number of appeals regarding electoral fraud has increased, that allegations of frauds circulate on social media, and...
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Sammanfattning Forskningens hittills bästa svar på varför klimatet på jorden förändras är att det huvudsakligen beror på mänskliga aktiviteter, främst vår förbränning av fossila bränslen. Om detta råder i det närmaste fullständig konsensus i vetenskapssamhället. Med utgångspunkt i tidigare forskning om klimatskepticism analyserar vi den svenska bef...
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Contemporary research on electoral integrity has focused on the functioning, evaluation, and legitimacy of electoral processes in emerging democracies. By contrast, this study investigates whether a failed election in a well-established democracy can affect individuals' evaluations of the electoral management body, the Election Authority, and wheth...
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Internationell forskning har i stigande grad intresserat sig för polarisering mellan stad och land. I ena ringhörnan: växande storstadsregioner där ekonomisk, politisk och kulturell elit samlas. I den andra: krympande glesbygd där globaliseringens förlorare blivit kvar. Forskare har funnit att i glesbygden ökar missnöjet, vilket i sin tur har skapa...
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The Swedish regional elections of 2018 show a consistently high electoral turnout in all regions, and large vote-share variations for different parties across regions. There are not much second order election effects, but at the same time, the nationalization effects are less than could have been expected due to the vertical and horizontal simultan...
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Sammanfattning En het frågeställning inom forskningen om väljarbeteende handlar om under vilka omständigheter och varför väljare fattar olika röstningsbeslut i samtidiga val till olika politiska nivåer: I vilken utsträckning är röstdelning ett uttryck för förvirring eller osäker riskspridning utifrån nationella överväganden bland väljarna, och i va...
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In electoral research, decisions by voters are usually analysed as if they choose at once from the whole set of all competing parties or candidates. Consideration Set Models (CSM) posit that voters choose differently, namely in two stages. In the first stage, they exclude certain choice options and create a consideration set of viable options, whil...
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This article analyzes the relative effects of a classic set of long-term and short-term determinants of party choice by treating voters' decision processes as a two-stage heterogeneous process. Departing from a consideration set model of voting behavior (CSM), we use panel data collected in Sweden in 2014 to analyze which voters considered voting f...
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Democratic theories expect citizens to be able to accurately evaluate fulfilment of parties’ election pledges. We use specifically designed survey items from the Swedish National Election Study to compare citizens’ perceptions of the fulfilment of specific party pledges with actual fulfilment and assess circumstances that lead to correct evaluation...
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For a long time the question of to what extent party choice in the European Parliament (EP) elections is primarily dependent on voters' orientations towards the European Union (EU) or just a mere reflection of orientations towards issues and actors in national politics has been debated. By combining insights from individual-level models of party ch...
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Svenskarna har ett ambivalent förhållande till kommunnivån. Å ena sidan ansvarar kommunerna för välfärdsområden som är viktiga för väljarna (till exempel barnomsorg, grund-och gymnasieskola och äldrevård), och det är här vi upplever möjligheterna att påverka som störst (Bergström & Ohlsson 2014). Å andra sidan är medborgarnas kunskap om vad kommune...
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Super SOM contains data from the National SOM study, an annually repeated cross-sectional self-administered mail survey conducted in Sweden since 1986. The data contains a selection of questions frequently asked over the years, focusing on time series. A general rule is that questions should have been asked at least three times
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A Mediatized Swedish Parliament? Media Adaption among Swedish MPs The purpose with this article is to investigate if and how the members of the Swedish Parliament adapt to media. Do they adapt to media in line with cartel theory and its expectations on elite control and homogenization? Or, do they adapt in line with Kitschelts' expectations on indi...
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Changing Conditions for Party Groups of the Swedish Riksdag In this special issue of Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, the intention is to study the cartelization of the Swedish party system based on the party groups of the Swedish Riksdag. Especially if we investigate whether the parliamentary party groups have become increasingly similar from the late...
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Recent analyses have reported a generational pattern in electoral participation both in national and the European Parliament elections which suggests that a lower voting propensity among the younger cohorts remains relatively stable over time. Based on the Swedish national election studies 1960–2010, this article examines the magnitude of generatio...
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This article asks if, when, and why different groups of voters behave differently in the wake of economic downturns. We examine two Swedish elections (1994 and 2010) that were held just after two deep recessions (the financial crisis of 1991-1993 and the 2008-2009 Great Recession). We find that group differences were much larger in 2010 than they w...
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Nya svenska väljare är en introduktion till det vetenskapliga studiet av väljarbeteende. Den är en oundgänglig uppslagsbok för studenter, forskare, omvärldsanalytiker, samhällsdebattörer, opinionsbildare, journalister och medborgare som tänker följa dramatiken under supervalåret 2014 på nära håll. Bokens analyser vilar i huvudsak på ett omfattande...
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We propose a framework for analysing party elite perceptions of voting behaviour based on four party competition and voting behaviour models: the Downsian proximity, saliency, competence and directional models. We analyse whether and to what extent party elite perceptions support these theories of party competition and voting behaviour. Empirical a...
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Given the vast amounts of research on party competition, party strategy, political communication and electoral campaigning, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the study of national party elites' perceptions of voters and public opinion. This article argues that the mindset of leading party officials, and more specifically their perce...
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In the mid-1990s an extensive reform of the Swedish educational system was initiated in order to create a ‘school for everyone’ intended to function like a ‘social equaliser’. The new unified gymnasium initiated longer educational programmes with an extended curriculum of social science courses. This article examines whether the well documented gap...
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The left-right positions of the political parties in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland are compared from the late 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s. To locate the parties, survey data on the voters' self-placements along the left-right continuum are used. In order to study changes in the left-right polarity and the degree of consensus...
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What would have happened in general elections if all voters had more closely approximated the democratic ideal of a ‘fully informed’ voter? Earlier analyses have demonstrated politically consequential effects of political information on American voters’ political preferences. In an effort to expand the validity of these results, the author of this...
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As the use of local and national referendums is becoming a common trait of modern representative democracies (Kaufmann, 2004), it is important to develop theories of the dynamics of referendum campaigns. A more systematic knowledge of under what circumstances we can expect what kinds of campaign effects and of what magnitude is particularly welcome...
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Du finner dem långt under den stormiga ytan på folkopinionernas hav, väl skyd- dade från nyckfulla opinionskast, oberäknelig mediebevakning och dagspolitiska vardagshändelser. De klarar sig oförändrade genom kortsiktiga politiska och ekono- miska konjunkturer. De överbryggar generations- och nationsgränser. De utgör den hårda kärna kring vilka vi m...
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Extra t.p. with thesis statement and English abstract inserted. Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborgs universitet, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-348) and index.
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Det är de två huvudfrågeställningar som skall besvaras i det här kapitlet. Bak- grunden till intresset för att kartlägga medborgares och förtroendevaldas so- ciala nätverk är det allt vanligare antagandet att individers nätverk och nät- verksbyggande kommer att spela en allt mer betydelsefull roll i ett framtida informationssamhälle. Karaktär och o...
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et typiska grundantagandet i socialisationsforskningen är att våra grund läg- gande värde ring ar cementeras i tidiga år, främst genom socia li sa tion - det vill säga so cia la inlärningsprocesser - i familjen. Efter en viss tidpunkt, som infaller olika för olika värden, är san no lik heten li ten att djupare lig gan de vär de ring ar för ändras s...
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In previous work, we have explored the effects of insider-outsider differences on electoral politics, particularly on electoral participation, testing our claims with data from Sweden, which we argue is a critical case. In this paper, we argue that center-left parties in the industrialized democracies face a dilemma. If they propose policies that b...
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V åra grundlagar reglerar den offentliga makten och fastställer demokratins spelregler. i grundlagarna återfinns samhällskontraktet mellan staten och dess medborgare: vilka fri-och rättigheter medborgarna garanteras av staten och under vilka omständigheter staten har möjlighet att inskränka dem. i grundlagen fastställs den maktpolitiska infrastrukt...
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I det framväxande informations-och nätverkssamhället konkurrerar städer och regioner om människors hjärnkraft (Castells 2000; Florida 2002). Industrisamhäl-lets logik där människor tvingades att söka sig till platser där det fanns möjligheter att försörja sig är utbytt mot en informationssamhällets logik där hyperindividu-aliserade människor har ma...

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