Lena Wängnerud
Professor
Department of PoliticalAbout Lena Wängnerud
Research interest
My main research areas are Representative democracy with a particular focus on issues of women's political influence and gender equality. Gender and corruption where I have a particular focus on conditions in Europe. Gender gaps in levels of Anxiety.
Selection of books:
Gender and Corruption. Historical Roots and New Avenues for Research (ed. with Helena Stensöta, Palgrave 2018.
The Principles of Gender-Sensitive Parliaments, Routledge 2015.
Elites, institutions and the Quality of Government (ed. with Carl Dahlström), Palgrave 2015.
Selection of journal publications:
Testing the politics of presence. Women's representation in the Swedish parliament, Scandinavian Political Studies, 2000, 23 (1): 67-91.
Women in Parliaments. Descriptive and substantive representation, Annual Review of Political Science, 2009, 12: 51-69.
Corruption as an obstacle to women's political representation: Evidence from local councils in 18 European Countries. With Aksel Sundström, Party Politics in 2016, 22(3):354-369.
Gender and corruption. The mediating Power of institutional logics. With Helena Stensöta and Richard Svensson, Governance 2015, 28(4):475-496.
Gender and socio-tropic anxiety: Explaining gender differences in anxiety to Social Risks and threats. With Monika Djerf-Pierre, The International Journal of Public Opinion Research in 2015, 28(2):217-240.
Exclusion or interests? Why females in elected office reduce petty and grand corruption. With Monika Bauhr and Nicholas Charron, European Journal of Political Research, 2018 (online ahead of print).
(see "publications" for full list)
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Gender gaps in political attitudes revisited: the conditional influence of non-binary gender on left–right ideology and GAL-TAN
opinions
Maria Solevid, Lena Wängnerud, Monika Djerf-Pierre, Elias Markstedt
European Journal of Politics and Gender - 2021-01-01 -
The subjective meaning of gender: how survey designs affect perceptions of femininity and
masculinity
Elias Markstedt, Lena Wängnerud, Maria Solevid, Monika Djerf-Pierre
European Journal of Politics and Gender - 2020-01-01 -
Why women in parliament reduce levels of corruption. The indirect
approach
Lena Wängnerud
Prepared for delivery at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 29-September 1, 2019, in Washington, DC - 2019-01-01 -
THE EFFECT OF GENDER ON CORRUPTION. Sorting out explanations for gender differences with new experimental
research
Ina Kubbe, Amy C Alexander, Lena Wängnerud
- 2019-01-01 -
The political recruitment of women: Why media
matters
Amanda Haraldsson, Lena Wängnerud
La participación ciudadana como pilar del estado democrático ed. Manuel Carrasco Durán & Blanca Rodríguez Ruiz - 2019-01-01 -
Moving beyond categorical gender in studies of risk-aversion and
anxiety
Lena Wängnerud, Maria Solevid, Monika Djerf-Pierre
Politics & Gender - 2019-01-01 -
”Det är den här rädslan att man ska få en stämpel på sig” - om stigmatisering i sjukskrivnings- och rehabiliteringsprocessen med fokus på vanliga psykiska
sjukdomar.
Monica Bertilsson, Gunnel Hensing, Lena Wängnerud
Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift - 2019-01-01 -
The effect of media sexism on women's political ambition: evidence from a worldwide
study.
Amanda Haraldsson, Lena Wängnerud
Feminist Media Studies - 2019-01-01 -
Hur gamla är de som bestämmer? Om åldersrepresentation i politiska församlingar. Rapport
6.
Maria Solevid, Lena Wängnerud
- 2019-01-01 -
Exclusion or interests? Why females in elected office reduce petty and grand
corruption
Monika Bauhr, Nicholas Charron, Lena Wängnerud
European Journal of Political Research - 2019-01-01 -
Political Ideology and Stigmatizing Attitudes Toward Depression: The Swedish
Case
Jesper Löve, Monica Bertilsson, Johan Martinsson, Lena Wängnerud, Gunnel Hensing
International Journal of Health Policy and Management - 2019-01-01 -
The Moderating Effect of Categorical and Non-Categorical Gender on Political Attitudes”: Evidence from
Sweden
Maria Solevid, Lena Wängnerud, Monika Djerf-Pierre, Elias Markstedt
Annual Conference of Midwest Political Science Association. 5-8 April, Chicago. - 2018-01-01 -
Gender and Corruption: institutions and mechanisms of
accountability
Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud
Handbook on the Geographies of Corruption. Barney Warf (red.) - 2018-01-01 -
Gender aspects of government
auditing.
Mattias Agerberg, Maria Gustavson, Aksel Sundström, Lena Wängnerud
Gender and corruption. Historical roots and new avenues for research. - 2018-01-01 -
Att gå och rösta. Valdeltagande och social representation efter rösträttens
införande.
Lena Wängnerud
Rösträttens århundrade. Kampen, utvecklingen och framtiden för demokratin i Sverige - 2018-01-01 -
Moving beyond categorical measures of gender in corruption
research
Lena Wängnerud
- 2018-01-01 -
"Missvisande att fira kvinnlig rösträtt med manlig
byst"
Ulrika Holgersson, Lena Wängnerud
Dagens Nyheter 20180317 - 2018-01-01 -
"Metoo är långt mer än sexuella
trakasserier"
Ann Towns, Lena Wängnerud
Svenska Dagbladet 20180420 - 2018-01-01 -
Kvinnor, män och makt. Politikens innehåll och
positioner
Helena Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud
Rösträttens århundrade. Kampen, utvecklingen och framtiden för demokratin i Sverige - 2018-01-01 -
Rösträttens århundrade. Kampen, utvecklingen och framtiden för demokratin i
Sverige.
Ulrika Holgersson, Lena Wängnerud
- 2018-01-01 -
Gender and corruption in Mexico: Building a theory of conditioned
causality.
Marcia Grimes, Lena Wängnerud
Gender and corruption. Historical roots and new avenues for research. - 2018-01-01 -
Social representation i
riksdagen
David Karlsson, Lena Wängnerud
David Karlsson (red) Folkets främsta företrädare - 2018-01-01 -
Blockpolitikens effekt på jämställdhet i
riksdagens
Lena Wängnerud
Folkets främsta företrädare - 2018-01-01 -
Why expect a link between gender and
corruption?
Helena Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud
Gender and corruption. Historical roots and new avenues for research. - 2018-01-01 -
Gender and Corruption: Historical Roots and New Avenues for
Research
Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud
- 2018-01-01 -
Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: What it is and how to study
them
Lena Wängnerud
Iustel Revista General de Derecho Constitutional - 2018-01-01 -
Women's Empowerment at the Local
Level
Aksel Sundström, Lena Wängnerud
Alexander A. C., Bolzendahl C. & Jalalzai F. (eds) Measuring Women's Political Empowerment across the Globe : strategies, challenges and future research - 2018-01-01 -
Gender, Politics, and
Corruption
Helena Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics - 2017-01-01 -
Gender Differences in Mobilization Against Greed
Corruption
Lena Wängnerud, Monika Bauhr, Nicholas Charron
American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting. San Francisco: Aug 31-Sep 3 - 2017-01-01 -
Representation
Lena Wängnerud
Freidenvall L. & Jansson M. (red) Politik och kön: Feministiska perspektiv på statsvetenskap - 2017-01-01 -
Women's Presence in Politics and Male Politicians Commitment to Gender Equality in Politics: Evidence from 290 Swedish Local
Councils
Andrej Kokkonen, Lena Wängnerud
Journal of Women Politics & Policy - 2017-01-01 -
Does female representation reduce all forms of
corruption?
Monika Bauhr, Lena Wängnerud
European Consortium of Political Research - 2016-01-01 -
Corruption as an obstacle to women’s political representation: Evidence from local councils in 18 European
countries
Aksel Sundström, Lena Wängnerud
Party Politics - 2016-01-01 -
The association between attitudes about depression and recommendations of sickness absence. A web-based vignette study in an adult Swedish
sample
Monica Bertilsson, Jesper Löve, Johan Martinsson, Lena Wängnerud, Gunnel Hensing
18th EPA Section Meeting in Epidemiology & Social Psychiatry. Gothenburg, Sweden: 30 november - 3 december book - 2016-01-01 -
Political ideology and stigmatizing attitudes towards depression in
Sweden
Jesper Löve, Monica Bertilsson, Johan Martinsson, Lena Wängnerud, Gunnel Hensing
European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 26, Supplement 1 - 2016-01-01 -
Can gender identity explain gaps between women and men in levels of
anxiety?
Lena Wängnerud, Maria Solevid, Monika Djerf-Pierre
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1-4, Philadelphia & ECPR General Conference, September 7-10, Prague - 2016-01-01 -
Gender and Sociotropic Anxiety: Explaining Gender Differences in Anxiety to Social Risks and
Threats
Monika Djerf-Pierre, Lena Wängnerud
International journal of public opinion research - 2016-01-01 -
Political Parties and Political
Representation
Peter Esaiasson, Lena Wängnerud
The Oxford Handbook in Swedish Politics - 2015-01-01 -
How Institutions Constrain Elites from Destructive
Behavior
Carl Dahlström, Lena Wängnerud
Elites, Institutions, and the Quality of Government - 2015-01-01 -
Elites, Institutions, and the Quality of Government. How institutions constrain elites from destructive
behavior
Carl Dahlström, Lena Wängnerud
- 2015-01-01 -
Gender and Corruption. The mediating Power of Institutional
Logics
Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud, Richard Svensson
Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions - 2015-01-01 -
The Principles of Gender-Sensitive
Parliaments
Lena Wängnerud
- 2015-01-01 -
Mobilizing and numbing effects of
anxiety
Monika Djerf-Pierre, Maria Solevid, Lena Wängnerud
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5, 2015 - 2015-01-01 -
Den politiska betydelsen av
kön
Lena Wängnerud, Anna Högmark
Svenska politiker. Om de folkvalda i riksdag, landsting och kommun - 2014-01-01 -
Det politiska spelet. Medborgare, medier och politiker i den representativa
demokratin
Bengt Johansson, Staffan Kumlin, Elin Naurin, Lena Wängnerud
- 2014-01-01 -
Testing the Impact of Political Generations: The Class of 94 and Pro-feminist Ideas in the Swedish
Riksdag
Patrik Öhberg, Lena Wängnerud
Scandinavian Political Studies - 2014-01-01 -
Politiska konsekvenser av personlig
oro
Monika Djerf-Pierre, Lena Wängnerud
Annika Bergström & Henrik Oscarsson (red.) Mittfåra & Marginal - 2014-01-01 -
Gender and Corruption: The Mediating Power of Institutional
Logics
Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud, Richard Svensson
Konferensbidrag APSA American Political Science Association konferens - 2013-01-01 -
Beyond Presence. The Principles of Gender-Sensitive
Parliaments
Lena Wängnerud
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 29–September 1, 2013. - 2013-01-01 -
The Story of the Gender Gap in Swedish Politics. Only Partially Diminishing
Differences
Lena Wängnerud, Maria Oskarson
Stepping stones : research on political representation, voting behaviour, and quality of government / Stefan Dahlberg, Henrik Oscarsson, Lena Wägnerud (editors) - 2013-01-01 -
Women’s Representation in the European Regions: The impact from Corruption and Bad
Governance
Aksel Sundström, Lena Wängnerud
- 2013-01-01 -
Stepping Stones. Research on Political Representation, Voting Behavior, and Quality of
Government
Stefan Dahlberg, Henrik Oscarsson, Lena Wängnerud
- 2013-01-01 -
Gender, anxiety and risk society: explaining gender differences in anxiety to social risks and
threats
Monika Djerf-Pierre, Lena Wängnerud
Paper presented at the New York Area Political Psychology Meeting at Stony Brook Manahattan, New York, April 6 2013 - 2013-01-01 -
Do politics matter? Women in Swedish local elected assemblies 1970-2010 and gender equality in
outcomes
Lena Wängnerud, Anders Sundell
European Political Science Review - 2012-01-01 -
Viner partipiskan hårdare i partier med
vågmästarroll?
Lena Wängnerud
Tungan på vågen : vågmästare och balanspartier / red.: Jenny Björkman & Björn Fjæstad ; teckningar: Stina Eidem - 2012-01-01 -
From Women’s Representatives to Gender equality Advocates: A Theoretical Shift or Just Change in
Wording?
Lena Wängnerud
Comparisons, quotas and critical change : in honor of Drude Dahlerup / edited by Lenita Freidenvall and Michele Micheletti - 2012-01-01 -
How Women Gained Suffrage in Sweden. A Weave of
Alliances.
Lena Wängnerud
The struggle for female suffrage in Europe : voting to become citizens / edited by Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz, Ruth Rubio-Marin. - 2012-01-01 -
Why women are less corrupt than
men.
Lena Wängnerud
Good government : the relevance of political science / edited by Sören Holmberg and Bo Rothstein - 2012-01-01 -
Människors oro och politikens
ansvar
Monika Djerf-Pierre, Lena Wängnerud
Lycksalighetens ö, Sören Holmberg, Lennart Weibull & Henrik Oscarsson (red) - 2011-01-01 -
Testing the Politics of Presence A Comparative Study on the Importance of Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in the Swedish
Parliament
Lena Wängnerud
Paper presented at NOPSA, the Nordic Political Science Association Meeting August 9-12, 2011, Vasa, Finland, Section “Mångfald och integration i Norden” - 2011-01-01 -
Politics of Presence or Feminist Awareness? Two Perspectives on Gender Dynamics in
Parliament
Lena Wängnerud
Bortom rösträtten. Kön, politik och medborgarskap i Norden red. Lenita Freidenvall & Josefin Rönnbäck - 2011-01-01 -
Korruption hör ihop med
män
Lena Wängnerud
Expressen 20110622 - 2011-01-01 -
Do politics matter? Women in Swedish local elected assemblies 1970-2010 and gender equality in
outcomes
Lena Wängnerud, Anders Sundell
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Swedish Political Science Association, Sept.30-Oct.2 - 2010-01-01 -
Women's
Representation
Lena Wängnerud
The Encyclopedia of Political Science CQ Press - 2010-01-01 -
Women
Legislators
Lena Wängnerud
The Encyclopedia of Political Science CQ Press - 2010-01-01 -
Dimished gender differences in the Swedish
Parliament
Lena Wängnerud
Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Swedish Political Science Association, Sept. 30-Oct.2, 2010 - 2010-01-01 -
Variation in corruption between Mexican states. Elaborating the gender
perspective
Lena Wängnerud
Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5, 2010 - 2010-01-01 -
Minskade könsskillnader i Sveriges
riksdag
Lena Wängnerud
Folkets representanter. En bok om riksdagsledamöter och politisk representation i Sverige. Martin Brothén & Sören Holmberg (red) - 2010-01-01 -
Curbing Corruption Through Social Welfare Reform? The Effects of Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Good
Government
Marcia Grimes, Lena Wängnerud
The American Review of Public Administration - 2010-01-01 -
Curbing Corruption Through Social Welfare Program? The effects of Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer programs on Good
Government.
Marcia Grimes, Lena Wängnerud
- 2009-01-01 -
Åsikter om jämn
könsfördelning
Lena Wängnerud
Holmberg S och Weibull L "Svensk höst" SOM-rapport nr. 46 - 2009-01-01 -
Risk för svekdebatt om
jämställdhet
Lena Wängnerud
- 2009-01-01 -
Driving Forces Behind Gender Equality. A Cross-Country
Comparison.
Lena Wängnerud, Marcus Samanni
- 2009-01-01 -
Deliberation or Jurisdiction? Testing the effectiveness of different routes towards gender
equality.
Lena Wängnerud
- 2009-01-01 -
Women in Parliaments. Descriptive and Substantive
Representation.
Lena Wängnerud
Annual Review of Political Science - 2009-01-01 -
Tracing Gender Equality Cultures. Elite Perceptions of Gender Equality in Norway and
Sweden
Lena Wängnerud, Mari Teigen
Politics & Gender - 2009-01-01 -
Frivilligorganisationer -- rum för politiska samtal i
vardagen?
Lena Wängnerud
Hermansson J, Karlsson C och Montgomery H red. "Samtalets mekanismer". Malmö:Liber - 2008-01-01 -
Politics of Presence or Feminist Awareness? Two Perspectives on Gender Dynamics in
Parliament.
Lena Wängnerud
Paper presenterat vid Bortom Rösträtten. Nordisk workshop om kön, politik och medborgaskap, Södertörn Högskola, 12 juni 2008. - 2008-01-01 -
Measuring Gender Equality. How to Compare Top-Equal
Countries.
Lena Wängnerud, Mette Anthonsen
Paper presented at The IV NOPSA Conference, Tromsö, 6-8 August 2008. - 2008-01-01 -
Politiska entreprenörer tar
plats.
Lena Wängnerud
Forskning och Framsteg - 2008-01-01 -
Curbing Corruption through Social Welfare Reform? The effects of Mexico’s conditional cash transfer program on good
government
Lena Wängnerud, Marcia Grimes
Paper presented at the QoG-Institute Conference, Tallinn, 1-3 December 2008. - 2008-01-01 -
Metodpraktikan. Konsten att studera samhälle, individ och
marknad
Peter Esaiasson, Mikael Gilljam, Henrik Oscarsson, Lena Wängnerud
- 2007-01-01 -
Exit riksdagen. En bok om det ökade antalet avhopp och framväxten av en ny
politikertyp
Lena Wängnerud, Shirin Ö. Ahlbäck, Jörgen Hermansson
- 2007-01-01 -
Maktens
åsikter
Lena Wängnerud, Birgitta Niklasson
Maktens kön. Kvinnor och män i den svenska makteliten på 2000-talet - 2006-01-01 -
Winning Women's Vote. National Experience from
Sweden
Lena Wängnerud
Female Suffrage in Europe, Conference, Sevilla 2-6 October 2006 - 2006-01-01 -
Maktens
åsikter
Lena Wängnerud
Göransson, Anita (red.) (2007). Maktens kön: kvinnor och män i den svenska makteliten på 2000-talet - 2006-01-01 -
Risk att feministisk forskning
självdör
Lena Wängnerud
Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift - 2006-01-01 -
Den goda
representanten
Lena Wängnerud
Bäck, Hanna och Gilljam, Mikael (red.) Valets mekanismer - 2006-01-01 -
Demokratin och den jämställda familjen – två oförenliga
storheter?
Lena Wängnerud
Esaiasson, Peter & Westholm, Anders (red.) Deltagandets mekanismer. Det politiska engagemangets orsaker och konsekvenser. - 2006-01-01 -
Recension av Rönnbäck, Josefin "Politikens genusgränser. Den kvinnliga rösträttsrörelsen och kampen för kvinnors politiska
medborgarskap
Lena Wängnerud
Historisk tidskrift . - 2005-01-01 -
Recension av Rönnbäck, Josefin "Politikens genusgränser. Den kvinnliga rösträttsrörelsen och kampen för kvinnors politiska
medborgarskap"
Lena Wängnerud
Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift 2005 - 2005-01-01 -
Effekter av ökad
kvinnorepresentation
Lena Wängnerud
SOU 2005:66. Forskarrapporter till Jämställdhetspolitiska utredningen. - 2005-01-01 -
A Step-Wise Development: Women in Parliament in
Sweden
Lena Wängnerud
Ballington, Julie and Karam, Azza red. Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers. IDEA Handbook revised version. - 2005-01-01 -
Kvinnorepresentation: en förebild med
förhinder
Lena Wängnerud, Birgitta Niklasson
Göransson, A. (red). Makten och mångfalden : eliter och etnicitet i Sverige : rapport från Integrationspolitiska maktutredningens forskningsprogram - 2005-01-01 -
Testing the Politics of Presence Empirically. The Case of Women’s Representation in the Swedish Riksdag
1985-2002
Lena Wängnerud
Paper presented at the 3rd ECPR Conference Budapest 8-10 September - 2005-01-01 -
Tracing Gender Cultures. Elite Perceptions in Norway och
Sweden
Lena Wängnerud, Mari Teigen
Paper presenterat vid konferensen ”Changing Patterns of Elite Rule in the Western Democracies” i Balestrand, Norge, 10-12 juni - 2005-01-01 -
Djärvhet kan vara något
subtilt
Lena Wängnerud
GP-kultur. Göteborgs-Posten 2004-01-26 - 2004-01-01 -
Politiker är också människor. Talmannens roll i riksdagens inre
arbete
Lena Wängnerud
Stigmark, K red. Talmannens roll och förändring. Från Henry Allard till Birgitta Dahl. - 2004-01-01 -
Personfaktorns
betydelse
Lena Wängnerud
Oscarsson, H; Holmberg, S. Kampen om euron - 2004-01-01 -
Kvinnor som väljare och valda. Om betydelsen av kön i svenska
politik.
Maria Oskarson, Lena Wängnerud
- 1995-01-01