Welcome. I am an International Relations scholar focusing on public opinion, legitimacy, and distribution in global governance.
I am Professor of International Relations at Stockholm University. I obtained my PhD in political science from the University of Mannheim, Germany, in 2011. Since then, I have been postdoctoral fellow in political science at Stockholm University and at the Stockholm Resilience Center, and I have been visiting fellow at Duke University, Hertie School, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, among other places. I serve as Co-Director of the Stockholm Center on Global Governance (SCGG), and as a member on the program committee of the annual conferences of "The Political Economy of International Organizations (PEIO)".
I write about public opinion toward political institutions and global governance. I'm particularly drawn to studying the interplay between the economy and the mobilization of public support and trust by political elites. In my research, I combine experimental and quantitative research methods. I'm also interested in developing theories of public opinion and international organization in the area of climate change, and in the distributional consequences of climate governance.
My recent book is Legitimacy Politics: Elite Communication and Public Opinion in Global Governance (Cambridge UP, 2023), with J. Tallberg - for reviews, see Foreign Affairs, Review of International Organizations or Political Science Quarterly.
