Jessika Wide is Associate Professor and appointed as Qualified Teacher. Her research interests mainly deal with politics and administration in Swedish municipalities and regions.
Research qualifications:Docent
Educational qualifications:
Recognised university teacher
My research interests deal with politics and administration in Swedish municipalities and regions, especially marketization, elderly care, local self-government, crimes against elected representatives, and female political representation.
Local democracy: I have a great interest in research on democracy in Swedish municipalities and regions, with a particular focus on political parties, politicians, social representativity, voter turnout, gender equality, and citizen participation. I was a member of the SNS Democracy Council 2022, which dealt with Swedish local democracy at a crossroads. I conduct research in a new project that investigates crimes against elected representatives - violence, threats, and harassment - in the Swedish democracy and how this is handled legally and institutionally (financed by the Crime Victim Fund).
Health care and local self-government: I am part of a research group investigating so-called national agreements concluded between the central government and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) and their consequences for the regions' self-government in health care (financed by Forte).
Women's political representation:My dissertation dealt with women’s political representation from a comparative perspective. Later, I have mainly been interested in female representation at the municipal level in Sweden and more specifically the parties' gender quotas and candidate selection in both general elections and indirectly elected political appointments.
Låt fler forma framtiden!: forskarantologi : Bilaga till betänkande av 2014 års demokratiutredning - delaktighet och jämlikt inflytande, Stockholm: Wolters Kluwer 2015 : 111-162
Since 2016, I have been placed as a Qualified Teacher at Umeå University.
I teach at courses in public administration at the Programme for International Crisis and Conflict Management, the Programme in Health Care Administration, the Programme in Healthcare Counselling, and the Programme for Social Work. In addition, I supervise and examine student theses and examination projects in political science at all levels.
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