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Torbjörn Bergman

Research qualifications: Docent

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Samhällsvetarhuset, plan 5, Umeå universitet, B5 62 01 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Senior Professor Torbjörn Bergman's research is focused on the struggle for government power and the question of democracy at two interconnected levels, Sweden and the EU. Together with leading researchers, Bergman has also created a data archive which, among other things, contains information on all democratic governments in European parliamentary democracies since the Second World War. There is unique data in this archive that cannot be found anywhere else. Until 2025, based on this research, he runs the infrastructure project REPDEM, which in turn is part of DEMSCORE, a national initiative for data collection data on democracy, politics and conflict. Together with Docent Abrak Saati, he is also running a research project on the special conditions for representative democracy in really small states Senior Professor Torbjörn Bergman's research is particularly focused on the struggle for government power and the question of democracy on two interconnected levels, Sweden and the EU. Together with leading researchers, Bergman has also created a larger data archive which, among other things, contains information on all democratic governments in parliamentary democracies since the Second World War. There is unique data in this archive that cannot be found anywhere else. Until 2024, based on this research, he runs the infrastructure project REPDEM, which in turn is part of DEMSCORE, a national initiative for data collection data on democracy, politics and conflict. Together with Docent Abrak Saati, Senior Professor Torbjörn Bergman's research is particularly focused on the struggle for government power and the question of democracy on two interconnected levels, Sweden and the EU. Together with leading researchers, Bergman has also created a larger data archive which, among other things, contains information on all democratic governments in parliamentary democracies since the Second World War. There is unique data in this archive that cannot be found anywhere else. Until 2024, based on this research, he runs the infrastructure project REPDEM, which in turn is part of DEMSCORE, a national initiative for data collection data on democracy, politics and conflict. Together with Docent Abrak Saati, until the summer of 2025, he is also running a research project on the special conditions for representative democracy in really small states.

Coalition politics in Central Eastern Europe: governing in times of crisis, London: Routledge 2024 : 1-17
Bergman, Torbjörn; Ilonszki, Gabriella; Hellström, Johan
Coalition politics in central eastern Europe: governing in times of crisis, London: Routledge 2024 : 288-320
Bergman, Torbjörn; Ilonszki, Gabriella; Hellström, Johan
Coalition politics in central Eastern Europe: governing in times of crisis, Abingdon; New York: Routledge 2024 : xii-
Bergman, Torbjörn; Ilonszki, Gabriella; Hellström, Johan
Routledge research in comparative politics
Bergman, Torbjörn; Ilonszki, Gabriella; Hellström, Johan
New developments in the study of coalition governments, Cham: Springer 2024 : 73-88
Bergman, Torbjörn; Lindahl, Jonas
Studies in Public Choice, 9
Dumont, Patrick; Grofman, Bernard; Bergman, Torbjörn; et al.
New developments in the study of coalition governments, Cham: Springer 2024 : 1-16
Dumont, Patrick; Grofman, Bernard; Bergman, Torbjörn; et al.
Svensk författningspolitik, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2022 : 169-189
Bergman, Torbjörn
Small States & Territories, University of Malta 2022, Vol. 5, (1) : 141-158
Saati, Abrak; Bergman, Torbjörn
Comparative politics
Bergman, Torbjörn; Bäck, Hanna; Hellström, Johan
Coalition governance in Western Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021 : 680-726
Bergman, Torbjörn; Bäck, Hanna; Hellström, Johan
Coalition governance in Western Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021 : 15-40
Bergman, Torbjörn; Bäck, Hanna; Hellström, Johan
Coalition governance in Western Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021 : 1-14
Bergman, Torbjörn; Bäck, Hanna; Hellström, Johan
Coalition governance in Western Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021 : 727-748
Bergman, Torbjörn; Bäck, Hanna; Hellström, Johan; et al.
Dagens nyheter
Ekengren Oscarsson, Henrik; Bergman, Torbjörn; Bergström, Annika; et al.
Stockholm: SNS förlag 2021
Oscarsson, Henrik; Bergman, Torbjörn; Bergström, Annika; et al.
Svensk författningspolitik, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2020 : 139-154
Bergman, Torbjörn
The European Union and the return of the nation state, Palgrave Macmillan 2020 : 27-57
Bergman, Torbjörn; Blomgren, Magnus
EU och nationalstatens återkomst, Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press Sweden 2019 : 37-64
Bergman, Torbjörn; Blomgren, Magnus
Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe, Oxford University Press 2019 : 522-576
Bergman, Torbjörn; Ilonszki, Gabriella; Müller, Wolfgang C.
Comparative Politics
Bergman, Torbjörn; Ilonszki, Gabriella; Müller, Wolfgang C.
Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe, Oxford University Press 2019 : 1-59
Müller, Wolfgang C.; Bergman, Torbjörn; Ilonszki, Gabriella
Political Science Research and Methods, Cambridge University Press 2019, Vol. 7, (3) : 579-594
Walther, Daniel; Hellström, Johan; Bergman, Torbjörn
Västerbottens-Kuriren
Bergman, Torbjörn; Hellström, Johan; Sandström, Camilla
Snabbtänkt: reflektioner från valet 2018 av ledande forskare, Sundsvall: DEMICOM, Mittuniversitetet 2018 : 21-22
Bergman, Torbjörn; Hellström, Johan; Sandström, Camilla
Lindahl, Jonas; Bergman, Torbjörn; Hellström, Johan
Svensk författningspolitik, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2016 : 137-152
Bergman, Torbjörn
The Oxford handbook of Swedish politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016 : 206-223
Bäck, Hanna; Bergman, Torbjörn
Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, Lund University Open Access 2015, Vol. 117, (1) : 38-41
Agnafors, Marcus; Amnå, Erik; Bergman, Torbjörn; et al.
Comparative European Politics, Palgrave Macmillan 2015, Vol. 13, (3) : 345-375
Bergman, Torbjörn; Ersson, Svante; Hellström, Johan
Jungar, Ann-Cathrine; Bergman, Torbjörn; Hellström, Johan
WordPress.com 2014
Bergman, Torbjörn
WordPress.com 2014
Bergman, Torbjörn
WordPress.com 2014
Bergman, Torbjörn; Bäck, Hanna
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013
Aylott, Nicholas; Blomgren, Magnus; Bergman, Torbjörn
Statsvetenskapens frågor, Lund: Studentlitteratur 2013 : 166-174
Bergman, Torbjörn
Party Governance and Party Democracy: Festschrift to Kaare Strøm, New York: Springer 2013 : 33-50
Bergman, Torbjörn; Ecker, Alejandro; Müller, Wolfgang C.
New Comparative Politics
Bergman, Torbjörn; Ström, Kaare
THe Madisonian Turn: Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2013 : 3-34
Bergman, Torbjörn; Ström, Kaare
The Madisonian Turn: Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2013 : 356-387
Bergman, Torbjörn; Ström, Kaare
The Madisonian Turn: Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2013 : 35-64
Bergman, Torbjörn; Ström, Kaare
Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, Lund: 2012, Vol. 114, (4) : 585-587
Bergman, Torbjörn
Puzzles of Government Formation: Coalition Theory and Deviant Cases
Aylott, Nicholas; Bergman, Torbjörn
Svensk författningspolitik
Bergman, Torbjörn
Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, Vol. 113, (3) : 259-270
Bergman, Torbjörn
Lund: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift 2011
Bergman, Torbjörn
The Madisonian turn: political parties and parliamentary democracy in Nordic Europe, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2011 : 251-294
Bergman, Torbjörn; Bolin, Niklas
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2011
Bergman, Torbjörn; Strøm, Kaare

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1 January 2016 until 31 December 2019
1 June 2012 until 1 June 2019