Newly awarded research grants

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ)

October 2026

• Positions and Priorities: Explaining Electoral Volatility in Sweden and Beyond
  Amount: SEK 5 026 289
  Principal investigator: Jacob Gunderson
• Grey zone practices in democracy: Unpacking moral ambiguity and implications for subjective and normative legitimacy
  Amount: SEK 4 716 017
  Principal investigator: Marcia Grimes

The Swedish Research Council

September 2026

• The Cost of Democracy. How political finance reforms affect democratic legitimacy
  Amount: SEK 6 702 984
  Principal investigator: Monika Bauhr
• Chaining the Leviathan: Child Monarchs, Regencies, Power-sharing, and their Consequences for Politics
  Amount: SEK 4 851 000
  Principal investigator: Andrej Kokkonen
• Does Machine Voting Strengthen Electoral Integrity?
  Amount: SEK 4 877 000
  Principal investigator: Valeriya Mechkova

European Research Council (ERC)

June 2026

ERC Advanced Grant: ERC project investigates the political consequences of disappearing occupations
Amount: €2.5 million (approximately SEK 28 million) over five years.
Researcher: Johannes Lindvall