Research group The profile brings together research on the key institutions and actors of representative democracy and the contemporary challenges of representative democracy. The central research question is how representative democracy at national and European levels responds to contemporary challenges.
A person votes in the municipal council elections
ImageMostphotosThe profile's members focus in their studies on the central institutions and actors of representative democracy in Sweden and Europe and beyond.
Of particular interest are political parties and the struggle for government power at the national level, as well as democracy in Sweden, the European Union (EU) and the world . The political parties are key actors in representative democracy, and the challenges they face are a topic that unites the members of the profile. At the national level, this concerns the parties as opinion leaders and government members, legislators, and policymakers. Within the EU, there are questions concerning how the political parties and representative democracy can function within the multilevel government that includes both national and EU levels.
See publications from the researchers within Representative Democracy.
The blog "On Power and Politics – Swedish politics in a comparative perspective".
A day at work of Elsa Karlsson Gustafsson
