
Magdalena Bexell
Deputy Head of Department | Assistant Head of Department PhD studies | Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

Political Science
Main research areas
- International cooperation and global governance
- Legitimacy, responsibility and accountability
- The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
Recent publications
Bexell, Magdalena and Jönsson, Kristina (online first) "Realising the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development–Engaging National Parliments?", Policy Studies. 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.
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.
Bexell, Magdalena (2019) "Power and Legitimacy", in Fuchs, Doris, Hayden, Anders and Kalfagianni, Agni (eds) Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance, Abingdon: Routledge.
Bexell, Magdalena and Jönsson, Kristina (2019) "Country Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals–The Politics of Performance Review at the Global-National Nexus", Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol. 20, Issue 4, link to fulltext.
Bexell, Magdalena and Jönsson, Kristina (2018) "Audiences of De(Legitimation) in Global Governance", in Tallberg, Jonas, Bäckstrand, Karin and Scholte, Jan Aart (eds) Legitimacy in Global Governance. Sources, Processes, and Consequences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bexell, Magdalena and Jönsson, Kristina (2017) "Responsibility and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals", Forum for Development Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 13-29.
Teaching
Member of the Teaching Academy of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Qualified Teaching Practitioner (QTP)
Teaches courses and provides thesis supervision and examination in political science and development studies.