Niklas Altermark is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. His research focuses on the welfare state and its transformation during the last three decades. He has a special interest in disability policy and social insurance systems. Altermark’s research has for example been published in International Political Sociology, Sociology of Health & Illness and, Disability & Society.
Publications
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Elites in civil society. A comparative perspective
Malin Arvidson, Roberto Scaramuzzino, Niklas Altermark, Jayeon Lee
(2026)
BookInnan ’New Public Management’ : Välfärdsarbetares minnen av arbetets organisering under 1980-talet
Linda Alamaa, Niklas Altermark, Kristin Linderoth
(2025)
AbstractManaging moral distress : social policy cuts and the suppression of employee conscience
Niklas Altermark
(2025) Journal of Social Policy
ArticleHow Do Social Democrats Legitimize Cutbacks? Welfare Retrenchment to Save the Welfare State
Niklas Altermark, Åsa Plesner
(2025) Government and Opposition, 60 p.664-681
ArticlePersonalisation at the top of civil societies? Legitimation claims on civil society elites in Europe
Niklas Altermark, Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska, Håkan Johansson
(2023) British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 25 p.758-788
ArticleShaping Civil Society Leaders: Horizontal and Vertical Boundary Work in Swedish Leadership Training Programmes
Håkan Johansson, Niklas Altermark, Simon Stattin
(2023) Voluntas, 34 p.1025-1035
ArticleTraining leaders for the future? Leadership models for emerging and aspiring civil society leaders in Sweden and the UK
Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska, Håkan Johansson, Niklas Altermark
(2023) Voluntary Sector Review, 14 p.230-247
ArticleAusterity and identity formation: How welfare cutbacks condition narratives of sickness
Niklas Altermark, Åsa Plesner
(2022) Sociology of Health and Illness, 44 p.1270-1286
ArticleMen sen då...? : En forskningsöversikt om barncanceröverlevares livsvillkor i en fragmaterad välfärd
Mikael Mery Karlsson, Niklas Altermark
(2022)
ReportGovernmentality
Linda Alamaa, Niklas Altermark
(2022) Perspektiv på offentlig förvaltning: Teori i praktiken , p.169-188
Book chapterState measurements of benefit fraud : Why expert elicitations cannot be used to measure incorrect personal assistance payments
Niklas Altermark, Hampus Nilsson
(2020) Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 22 p.158-167
ArticleForskning om personlig assistans - en antologi
(2018)
Anthology (editor)Visualizing the included subject : photography, progress narratives and intellectual disability
Niklas Altermark, Emil Edenborg
(2018) Subjectivity, 11 p.287-302
ArticleThe Quest for Significance : Attitude Adaption to a Radical Group Following Social Exclusion
Emma A. Bäck, Hanna Bäck, Niklas Altermark, Holly Knapton
(2018) International Journal of Developmental Sciences, 12 p.25-36
ArticleNeuro-Problems : Knowing Politics Through the Brain
Niklas Altermark, Linda Nyberg
(2018) Culture Unbound, 10 p.31-48
ArticleCrafting the "Well-rounded citizen" : Empowerment and the government of counterradicalization
Niklas Altermark, Hampus Nilsson
(2018) International Political Sociology, 12 p.53-69
ArticleIn defence of theory
Niklas Altermark
(2018) Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 26 p.161-164
Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)Citizenship inclusion and intellectual disability : Biopolitics post-institutionalisation
Niklas Altermark
(2017)
BookThe post-institutional era : visions of history in research on intellectual disability
Niklas Altermark
(2017) Disability and Society, 32 p.1315-1332
ArticleAfter Inclusion : Intellectual Disability as Biopolitics
Niklas Altermark
(2016) Lund Political Studies
Doctoral Thesis (monograph)Powers of Classification: Politics and Biology in Understandings of Intellectual Disability
Niklas Altermark
(2015) Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 11
ArticleDet handlar om att lära av historien. Ansvaret ligger inte hos polisen
Niklas Altermark, Guy Baeten, Martin Eriksson, Mattias Gardell, Erik Hansson, et al.
(2015) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articleThe ideology of neuroscience and intellectual disability: reconstituting the 'disordered' brain
Niklas Altermark
(2014) Disability & Society, 29 p.1460-1472
ArticleThe Politics of Methodology : examining inclusive Research for People With Learning Difficulties
Niklas Altermark
(2012) Pondering on Methods: A Variety of Methodological Concerns , p.69-80
Book chapter