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Sverker Carlsson Jagers
Professor
Department of Political ScienceDirector
Department of Political ScienceAbout Sverker Carlsson Jagers
Presentation
Professor at University of Gothenburg and guest-professor at Luleå University of Technology, director of CeCAR (Centre for Collective Action Research).
Areas of interest
My research is mainly focused on various aspects of environmental politics.
• Public Opinion: Explanations to people’s environmental behaviour, attitudes and acceptance of policy measures.
• Political Theory: The relationship between democracy and sustainable development, issues related to environmental and climate justice.
• International Politics: Mainly climate politics, but also ocean acidification and fishery.
• Institutional Theory: e.g., natural resource management and corruption.
Current research
• Corruption and Wildlife Management: The Logics of Collective Action in Transnationally Protected Reserves, Funded by the Swedish Research Council.
• Citizens’ support for environmental policy measures in a comparative perspective. Funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Examples of previous research projects
• Good governing of rural electrification processes in Eastern Africa. Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
• Institutions and Actors in the EQS-process: A Comparative Analysis. Funded by The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
• Governing for a healthy environment in the Baltic Sea. Funded by the Swedish Research Council.
• Fair and feasible climate change adaptation. Funded by the Swedish Research Council.
• The ecological citizen, Funded by the Swedish Research Council.
• Sustainable Fishery in Sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative study of institutions for property rights sustainable development. Funded by the Swedish Research Council.
• Toward an effective fishery management. How regime legitimacy affect rule compliance. Funded by FORMAS.
Teaching and tutoring
Currently supervising 5 PhD students in Gothenburg and Luleå, teaching environmental politics, collective action-theory, institutional theory and research design.
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Political consequences of natural disasters: accidental
democratization?
Marina Povitkina, Sverker C. Jagers, Oskar Rydén, Martin Sjöstedt
DEMOCRATIZATION - 2025 -
The Role of Perceived Fairness in Public Opinion on Sustainable Transportation Policy: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation
Model
Summer Isaacson, Sverker C. Jagers, Marvin Helferich, Magnus Bergquist
International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses - 2025 -
"The Poor Are Hit the Hardest"-Norwegians' Perceptions of Climate
(In)Justice
Thea Gregersen, Mari S. Helliesen, Sverker C. Jagers
SCANDINAVIAN POLITICAL STUDIES - 2025 -
Conservation for nature and wildlife’s sake: the effects of (non-)anthropocentric ethical justifications on policy
acceptability
Lauren Yehle, Patrik Michaelsen, Niklas Harring, Sverker C. Jagers
Journal of Public Policy - 2024 -
It would feel weird to not drive my car! Exploring the role of habits in public policy acceptance of carbon
taxations
Noah Linder, Patrik Sörqvist, Daniel Lindvall, Stephan Barthel, Sverker C. Jagers
Ambio - 2024 -
Political Consequences of Natural Disasters: Accidental
Democratization?
Oskar Rydén, Marina Povitkina, Sverker C. Jagers, Martin Sjöstedt
2024 -
The Role of Fairness for Accepting Stricter Carbon Taxes in
Sweden
Daniel Lindvall, Patrik Sorqvist, Sverker C. Jagers, Mikael Karlsson, Stefan Sjoberg, Stephan Barthel
CLIMATE - 2024 -
Public Resources and Accountability: Experimental
Evidence
Mariana Alvarado, Taiwo Ahmed, Aksel Sundström, Sverker C. Jagers
2024 -
Mass support for conserving 30% of the Earth by 2030: Experimental evidence from five
continents
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Public acceptability of climate-motivated
rationing
Oskar Lindgren, Erik Elwing, Mikael Karlsson, Sverker C. Jagers
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS - 2024 -
The Impact of Corruption on Climate Change
Mitigation
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Impact of ideology on individuals' attitudes to a climate-motivated tax on
food
Sverker C. Jagers, Niklas Harring, Simon Matti
CLIMATE POLICY - 2024 -
Exploring the measurement of political trust A multilevel observational analysis of six Swedish public
agencies
Oskar Rydén, Karl de Fine Licht, Björn Rönnerstrand, Niklas Harring, Bengt Brülde, Sverker C. Jagers
Social Sciences and Humanities Open - 2024 -
Climate Shocks, Regional Favoritism and Trust in Leaders: Insights from Droughts in
Africa
Pelle Ahlerup, Aksel Sundström, Sverker C. Jagers, Martin Sjöstedt
World Development - 2024 -
Institutional Quality Causes Generalized Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting under the Shadow of
Doubt
A. F. M. Martinangeli, Marina Povitkina, Sverker C. Jagers, Bo Rothstein
American Journal of Political Science - 2023 -
Policy attributes shape climate policy
support
Eric A. Coleman, Niklas Harring, Sverker C. Jagers
Policy Studies Journal - 2023 -
Drought and Political
Trust
Pelle Ahlerup, Aksel Sundström, Sverker C. Jagers, Martin Sjöstedt
2023 -
Cross-national analysis of attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy
removal
Niklas Harring, Erik Jönsson, S. Matti, G. Mundaca, Sverker C. Jagers
Nature Climate Change - 2023 -
Consensus or Conflict? Niche Party Behaviors and Their Electoral
Success
Sverker C. Jagers, Johan Martinsson
International Social Science and Humanities Studies - 2023 -
The importance of perceived fairness to public opinion about climate change
policies
Magnus Bergquist, Sverker C. Jagers
Nature Climate Change - 2022 -
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and
laws
Magnus Bergquist, Andreas Nilsson, Niklas Harring, Sverker C. Jagers
Nature Climate Change - 2022 -
Push, Pull, or Inform - An Empirical Taxonomy of Environmental Policy Support in
Sweden
Emma Ejelöv, Niklas Harring, André Hansla, Sverker C. Jagers, Andreas Nilsson
Journal of Public Policy - 2022 -
Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state
officials?
Martin Sjöstedt, Aksel Sundström, Sverker C. Jagers, H. Ntuli
World Development - 2022 -
Att mota Olle på andra sidan grind – svenskarnas uppfattningar om
klimatanpassningsåtgärder
Göran Duus-Otterström, Sverker C. Jagers, Erik Jönsson, Simon Matti
Du sköra nya värld. SOM-undersökningen 2021. SOM-rapport nr 81, 243–261 - 2022 -
In Light of Democracy and Corruption: Institutional Determinants of Electricity
Provision
Frida Boräng, Sverker C. Jagers, Marina Povitkina
The Energy Journal - 2021 -
Understanding the drivers of subsistence poaching in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: What matters for community wildlife
conservation?
Herbert Ntuli, Aksel Sundström, Martin Sjöstedt, Edwin Muchapondwa, Sverker C. Jagers, Amanda Linell
Ecology and Society - 2021 -
A risk framework for optimising policies for deep decarbonisation
technologies
Markus Johansson, David Langlet, Olof Larsson, Åsa Löfgren, Niklas Harring, Sverker C. Jagers
Energy Research and Social Science - 2021 -
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of
fairness
Marina Povitkina, Sverker C. Jagers, Simon Matti, Johan Martinsson
Global Environmental Change - 2021 -
COVID-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of
trust
Niklas Harring, Sverker C. Jagers, Åsa Löfgren
World Development - 2021 -
Large-scale collective action to avoid an Amazon tipping point - key actors and
interventions
M G Bastos Lima, Niklas Harring, Sverker C. Jagers, Åsa Löfgren, M Persson, Martin Sjöstedt, Bengt Brülde, David Langlet, W Steffen, Francisco Alpizar
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability - 2021 -
Bio-Dem, a tool to explore the relationship between biodiversity data availability and socio-political conditions in time and
space
A. Zizka, Oskar Rydén, Daniel Edler, Johannes Klein, Allison L. Perrigo, Daniele Silvestro, Sverker C. Jagers, Staffan I. Lindberg, Alexandre Antonelli
Journal of Biogeography - 2021 -
Digging in the dark: reviewing international literature to address impending policy challenges for Swedish and Finnish
mining
G. Poelzer, S. Linde, Sverker C. Jagers, S. Matti
Mineral Economics - 2021 -
Politiken för miljö och hållbar
utveckling
Sverker C. Jagers, Simon Matti
2021 -
How to generate public acceptability for carbon
taxes
Sverker C. Jagers, Simon Matti, Niklas Harring
United Nations Handbook on Carbon Taxation for Developing Countries - 2021 -
Bridging the ideological gap? How fairness perceptions mediate the effect of revenue recycling on public support for carbon taxes in the United States, Canada and Germany(sic)(sic)(sic)Palabras
Clave
Sverker C. Jagers, E. Lachapelle, Johan Martinsson, S. Matti
Review of Policy Research - 2021 -
Trust, corruption, and compliance with regulations: Attitudes to rule violations in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier
Park
Sverker C. Jagers, Martin Sjöstedt, Aksel Sundström, Amanda Linell, H. Ntuli
Social Science Quarterly - 2021 -
Släcka ljuset – varför
då?
Sverker C. Jagers, Erik Jönsson, Simon Matti
Ingen anledning till oro (?). SOM-undersökningen 2020. SOM-rapport nr 78 - 2021 -
Sexuella övergrepp och svält används som vapen i
Etiopien
Anna Nordén, Kristina Mohlin, Susanna Olai, Thomas Sterner, Sverker C. Jagers, Johan Boman, Rune Andersson, Christian Munthe
Dagens ETC - 2021 -
Environmental Commitments in Different Types of Democracies: The Role of Liberal, Social-liberal, and Deliberative
Politics
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Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state
officials?
Martin Sjöstedt, Aksel Sundström, Sverker C. Jagers, Herbert Ntuli
2021 -
Institutional Quality Causes Social Trust: Evidence from Survey and Experimental Data on Trusting Under the Shadow of
Doubt
Andrea Martinangeli, Marina Povitkina, Sverker C. Jagers, Bo Rothstein
2020 -
The evolution of public policy attitudes: Comparing the mechanisms of policy support across the stages of a policy
cycle
Sverker C. Jagers, Simon Matti, Katarina Nordblom
Journal of Public Policy - 2020 -
The contingent effects of environmental concern and ideology: institutional context and people’s willingness to pay environmental
taxes
Dragana Davidovic, Niklas Harring, Sverker C. Jagers
Environmental Politics - 2020 -
On the preconditions for large-scale collective
action
Sverker C. Jagers, Niklas Harring, Åsa Löfgren, Martin Sjöstedt, F. Alpizar, Bengt Brülde, David Langlet, Andreas Nilsson, Bethanie Carney Almroth, Samuel Dupont, W. Steffen
Ambio - 2020 -
Miljöpolitikens
villkor
Sverker C. Jagers, Simon Matti
2020 -
Why are carbon taxes unfair? Disentangling public perceptions of
fairness
Marina Povitkina, Sverker C. Jagers, Simon Matti, Johan Martinsson
2020 -
Bör utsläpparna
betala?
Thomas Sterner, Sverker C. Jagers, Elin Lokrantz , Sara Persson
SOM-Institutet - 2020 -
Exploring the Impact of Political Regimes on
Biodiversity
Alexander Zizka, Oskar Rydén, Daniel Edler, Johannes Klein, Heléne Aronsson, Allison Perrigo, Daniele Silvestro, Sverker C. Jagers, Staffan I. Lindberg, Alexandre Antonelli
2020 -
Funding Inclusive Green Transition through Greenhouse Gas
Pricing
Thomas Sterner, Richard T. Carson, Marc Hafstead , Peter Howard, Sverker C. Jagers, Gunnar Köhlin, Ian Parry, Ryan Rafaty, E. Somanatan, Jan Christoph Steckel, Dale Whittington, Francisco Alpizar, Stefan Ambec, Claudia Aravena, Jorge Bonilla, Reza Che Daniels, Jorge Garcia, Niklas Harring, Kanishka Kacker, Suzi Kerr, Haileselassie Medhin, German Romero, Pham Khanh Nam, Olof Johansson-Stenman, Mike Toman, Jintao Xu, Min Wang
ifo DICE Report - 2020 -
Linking democracy and biodiversity conservation: Empirical evidence and research
gaps
Oskar Rydén, Alexander Zizka, Sverker C. Jagers, Staffan I Lindberg, Alexandre Antonelli
Ambio - 2020
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