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Patrik Öhberg
Researcher
SOM InstituteVice Director
SOM InstituteAbout Patrik Öhberg
Background
Patrik Öhberg is an associate professor at the SOM Institute, University of Gothenburg.
He currently leads the project ""Citizen Influence on Individual Politicians in Party-centered Systems" (financed by Swedish Research Council).
Research interest
Öhberg has a wide research interest in theories and practices of representative democracy. Specific interests include the perceptions and behaviors of political and administrative elites. He is also interested in questions about democratic responsiveness as well as the role of gender in politics.
Öhberg's work is published in journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, West European Politics, Public Administration, Party Politics, Scandinavian Political Studies, and Politics and Gender. During Spring 2017 his book "Ambitious Politicians" comes out on University Press of Kansas.
Öhberg spent his International Postdoc stipend period (Swedish Research Council) placed at the National Election Chair at the Department of Political Science at Université de Montréal (2012-2014).
Öhberg is principal investigator of the project Panel of Politicians (Politikerpanelen), which is a webbased panel of politicians conducted at the Laboratory for Opinion Research, University of Gothenburg. Öhberg is also principal investigator of the Riksdag survey and of the Swedish part of the international elite survey, Comparative Candidates Study. Moreover, he has worked as data manager of the Riksdag survey within the Swedish National Election Study Programme.
In his dissertation Öhberg studied the role of personal career ambitions among Swedish parliamentarians. (For a English summary: englishsummary.pdf.)
Öhberg has also written books in Swedish on Israeli history and Zionism. He contributes regularily to the research blogg Politologerna.
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Visst gör det ont att välja. Varför skulle annars Centerpartiet
tveka?
Cornelia Andersson, Felix Cassel, Patrik Öhberg
I rörelse - 2025 -
Ärlighet varar längst? Viktiga egenskaper hos rikspolitiker enligt medborgare och
riksdagsledamöter
Felix Cassel, Patrik Öhberg
Riksdagens landskap - 2025 -
Finns det en svensk
TAN-vänster?
Karin Zwinkels, Felix Cassel, Patrik Öhberg
I rörelse - 2025 -
Augmented Analysis of Parliamentary Debates: The Word Embedding and Context-sensitive Approach of the SweTerror
Project
Leif-Jöran Olsson, Daniel Brodén, Magnus Pettersson Ängsal, Mats Fridlund, Patrik Öhberg
Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA 2024) Workshop - 2025 -
Terrorism som tolkningsram: en diskurssemantisk studie av svensk riksdagsdebatt
1993–2018
Magnus Pettersson Ängsal, Daniel Brodén, Mats Fridlund, Leif-Jöran Olsson, Patrik Öhberg
Svenskans beskrivning 38 Förhandlingar vid trettioåttonde sammankomsten. Örebro 4–6 maj 2022 Del III / Redigerad av Danny Jansson, Ida Melander, Gustav Westberg & Daroon Yassin Falk. - 2024 -
Ryktet om de radikala unga männen är starkt överdrivet: Tre decennier av frågor om jämställdhet och
abort
Lena Wängnerud, Patrik Öhberg
Inferno.SOM-rapport 83. Ulrika Andersson, Björn Rönnerstrand och Anders Carlander (red.), sid 317-330 - 2024 -
Samförfattande som datadriven tvärvetenskap: Pragmatiska lärdomar från
SweTerror-projektet
Daniel Brodén, Mats Fridlund, Leif-Jöran Olsson, Magnus Pettersson Ängsal, Patrik Öhberg
Proceedings of the Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), 10-11 January, 2024, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2024 -
Who’s Afraid of Terrorism and Extremism? Divisive Worries and Securitarian Concerns in Swedish Public Opinion and Parliamentary Action,
1986–2020
Daniel Brodén, Mats Fridlund, Patrik Öhberg, Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström, Magnus Pettersson Ängsal
Violent Extremism: A Nordic Outlook, eds. Amir Rostami & Christofer Edling - 2024 -
Are Personality Traits Related to Politicians’ Positions on
Immigration?
Mike Medeiros, Patrik Öhberg, Colin Scott
Representation - 2024 -
A bridge over sustainable water: Politicians' perceptions about the preconditions for collective
action
Anna Bendz, Patrik Öhberg
AMBIO - 2024 -
All inclusive eller baspaket? Svenska folket tecknar ett
samhällskontrakt
Felix Cassel, Björn Rönnerstrand, Freja Wessman, Patrik Öhberg
Inferno - 2024 -
The Expertise Paradox: How Policy Expertise Can Hinder
Responsiveness
M. M. Pereira, Patrik Öhberg
British Journal of Political Science - 2024 -
The diachrony of the new political terrorism: Neologisms as discursive framing in Swedish parliamentary data
1971–2018
Daniel Brodén, Leif-Jöran Olsson, Mats Fridlund, Magnus Pettersson Ängsal, Patrik Öhberg
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications - 2023 -
Vem e’ de’ du vill ha? Svenska folkets uppfattningar om viktiga egenskaper hos
politiker
Felix Cassel, Patrik Öhberg
Ovisshetens tid - 2023 -
Skilda världar? Ideologisk polarisering kring våldets orsaker i samhället
1995–2022
Felix Cassel, Patrik Öhberg
Ovisshetens tid - 2023 -
Misrepresentation and
migration
A. Karna, Patrik Öhberg
Kyklos - 2023 -
Election campaigns and the cyclical nature of emotions - How politicians engage in affective
polarization
Patrik Öhberg, Felix Cassel
Scandinavian Political Studies - 2023 -
Ovisshetens tid –
inledningskapitel
Ulrika Andersson, Patrik Öhberg, Johan Martinsson, Nora Theorin
Ovisshetens tid - 2023 -
Ovisshetens tid. Den nationella SOM-undersökningen
2022
Ulrika Andersson, Patrik Öhberg, Johan Martinsson, Nora Theorin
2023 -
Nu när opinionen omfamnar EU – är det dags för ett Europas förenta
stater?
Marcus Weissenbilder, Ulrika Andersson, Patrik Öhberg
Ovisshetens tid - 2023 -
Unifying or Divisive Threats? Anxiety about Political Terrorism and Extremism among the Swedish Public and Parliamentarians,
1986–2020
Patrik Öhberg, Daniel Brodén, Mats Fridlund, Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström, Magnus Pettersson Ängsal
DHNB 2022: Proceedings of the 6th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2022), Uppsala, Sweden, March 15-18, 2022, CEUR-WS vol. 3232 - 2022 -
A Multimodal Digital Humanities Study of Terrorism in Swedish Politics: An Interdisciplinary Mixed Methods Project on the Configuration of Terrorism in Parliamentary Debates, Legislation, and Policy Networks
1968–2018
Jens Edlund, Daniel Brodén, Mats Fridlund, Cecilia Lindhé, Leif-Jöran Olsson, Magnus Pettersson Ängsal, Patrik Öhberg
Intelligent Systems and Applications. Proceedings of the 2021 Intelligent Systems Conference, September 2–3, 2021 / Arai K. (eds) - 2022 -
Linguistic Framing of Political Terror: Distant and Close Readings of the Discourse on Terrorism in the Swedish Parliament
1993–2018
Magnus Pettersson Ängsal, Daniel Brodén, Mats Fridlund, Leif-Jöran Olsson, Patrik Öhberg
CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings, 10–12 October 2022, Prague, Czechia. Eds. Tomaž Erjavec & Maria Eskevich - 2022 -
Brott, men inga straff? Svenska folkets inställning till våldsbrott och hur de ska
förhindras
Felix Andersson, Klara Bové, Patrik Öhberg
Du sköra nya värld - 2022 -
Det finns en sjö och sedan aldrig mer – medborgares och politikers inställning till att tillåta aktiv
dödshjälp
Felix Andersson, Patrik Öhberg
Du sköra nya värld - 2022 -
Folkviljans
förverkligare
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Kriminalpolitik - Lika hett som man kan
tro
Felix Andersson, Marie Demker, Caroline Mellgren, Patrik Öhberg
Ingen anledning till oro (?) - 2021 -
Ett svenskt vintermord får en upplösning? Medborgare och politiker om nedläggningen av Palmeutredningen och utpekandet av
Skandiamannen
Felix Andersson, Daniel Brodén, Patrik Öhberg
Ingen anledning till oro (?) - 2021 -
Ethics in Elite Experiments: A Perspective of Officials and
Voters
Elin Naurin, Patrik Öhberg
British Journal of Political Science - 2021 -
Gender, socio-political cleavages and the co-constitution of gender identities: A multidimensional analysis of self-assessed masculine and feminine
characteristics
Amy C Alexander, C. Bolzendahl, Patrik Öhberg
European Journal of Politics and Gender - 2021 -
Vem räds terrorismen? Kluven oro och säkerhetsivrare i
Sverige
Daniel Brodén, Mats Fridlund, Patrik Öhberg
Ingen anledning till oro (?) : SOM-undersökningen 2020 / Ulrika Andersson, Anders Carlander, Marie Grusell och Patrik Öhberg (red). - 2021 -
Ingen anledning till oro (?) : SOM-undersökningen
2020
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Ingen anledning till oro (?) -
inledningskapitel
Ulrika Andersson, Anders Carlander, Marie Grusell, Patrik Öhberg
Ingen anledning till oro (?) - 2021 -
”Utan sociala medier hade vi aldrig någonsin kunnat växa så som vi har gjort” – En studie om Sverigedemokrater på
nätet
Felix Andersson, Patrik Öhberg
Digitala är vi allihopa? - 2020 -
Speaking truth to power: Political advisers' and civil servants' responses to perceived harmful policy
proposals
Birgitta Niklasson, Peter Munk Christiansen, Patrik Öhberg
Journal of Public Policy - 2020 -
How do politicians respond to opinion polls? An experiment with Swedish
politicians
G. Schumacher, Patrik Öhberg
Research & Politics - 2020 -
Regntunga skyar –
inledningskapitel
Ulrika Andersson, Anders Carlander, Patrik Öhberg
978-91-89673-47-2 - 2020 -
Regntunga
skyar
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The moment you decide, you divide. How politicians assess procedural
fairness
Peter Esaiasson, Patrik Öhberg
European Journal of Political Research - 2020 -
The Case for Non-Binary Gender Questions in
Surveys
Mike Medeiros, Benjamin Forest, Patrik Öhberg
PS - Political Science and Politics - 2020 -
A sensitive question? The effect of an ethnic background question in
surveys
Patrik Öhberg, Mike Medeiros
ETHNICITIES - 2019 -
Storm och stiltje
(inledningskapitel)
Ulrika Andersson, Björn Rönnerstrand, Patrik Öhberg, Annika Bergström
Storm och stiltje - 2019 -
Storm och
stiltje
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Ingen kommer undan
kulturen
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Kvinnors och mäns politiska åsikter och intresse under 30
år
Elin Naurin, Patrik Öhberg
Storm och stiltje - 2019 -
Not all Crises are Detrimental for the Government. The Global Economic Crisis and the Swedish
Case
Patrik Öhberg
Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung - 2018 -
Candidate selection and party discipline in Europe: A comparative
perspective
G. Cordero, Patrik Öhberg, X. Coller, A. M. Jaime-Castillo
Democratizing Candidate Selection, New Methods, Old Receipts? Ed. Guillermo CorderoXavier Coller - 2018 -
Sweden: civil servants and political advisers as
adversaries
Birgitta Niklasson, Patrik Öhberg
Minister, Minders, and Mandarines: an international study of relationships at the executive summit of parliamentary democracies. Richard Shaw, Chris Eichbaum (red.) - 2018 -
The Party's View of Dyadic Responsiveness: A Survey Experiment in
Sweden
Elin Naurin, Patrik Öhberg
Scandinavian Political Studies - 2018 -
Administrative Politicization or Contestability? How Political Advisers Affect Neutral Competence in Policy
Processes
Patrik Öhberg, Peter Munk Christiansen, Birgitta Niklasson
Public Administration - 2017
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