Political Science

Main research areas

• International cooperation, global governance, human rights
• Legitimacy, responsibility and accountability 
• The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals

Recent publications

Bexell, Magdalena (2024) Indicator accountability or policy shrinking? Multistakeholder partnerships in reviews of the sustainable development goals. Global Policy Link to fulltext 

Hickmann, Thomas, Biermann, Frank, Sénit, Carole-Anne, Sun, Yixian, Bexell, Magdalena et al. (2024) Scoping article. Research frontiers on the governance of the Sustainable Development Goals. Global Sustainability   Link to fulltext.

Bexell, Magdalena, Hickmann, Thomas, and Schapper, Andrea (2023) Strengthening the Sustainable Development Goals through integration with human rights. International Environmental Agreements. Politics, Law and Economics, Vol. 23, No. 2. Link to fulltext. 

Bexell, Magdalena and Jönsson, Kristina (2022) Realising the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development–Engaging National Parliments?, Policy Studies, Vol. 43, No. 4, Link to fulltext. 

Bexell, Magdalena (2022) Ranking for human rights? The formative power of indicators for business responsibility. Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 21, Issue 5, Link to fulltext.

Bexell, Magdalena, Jönsson, Kristina, and Uhlin, Anders (eds) (2022) Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance. Practices, Justifications, and Audiences. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Llanos, Andrea O., Raven, Rob, Bexell, Magdalena et al. (2022) Implementation at Multiple Levels in Biermann, Frank, Hickmann, Thomas, and Sénit, Carole-Anne (eds) The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals. Transforming Governance through Global Goals? Cambridge University Press. 

Bexell, Magdalena (2022) Global governance and democracy. Aligning procedural and substantive accounts? in Bornemann, Basil, Knappe, Henrike and Nanz, Patrizia (eds) Routledge Handbook of Democracy and Sustainability, Abingdon: Routledge. 

Bexell, Magdalena och Jönsson, Kristina (2021) The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals. Legitimacy, Responsibility, and Accountability. Abingdon: Routledge. 

Bexell, Magdalena, Jönsson, Kristina and Stappert, Nora (2021) Whose legitimacy beliefs count? Targeted audiences in global governance legitimation processes, Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol 24, Issue 2. Link to fulltext.   

Jönsson, Kristina and Bexell, Magdalena (2021) Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals. The Case of Tanzania, Development Policy Review, Vol. 39, Issue 2. Link to fulltext. 

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