Hanna Bäck

Professor

Statsvetenskap

Främsta forsknings- och undervisningsområden

1. Jämförande politik
2. Politiska partier och regeringar
3. Politiskt beteende och politisk psykologi

Pågående forskning och undervisning

Min forskning fokuserar framför allt på politiska partier och koalitionspolitik i parlamentariska demokratier, t ex på ämnen som regeringsbildning, fördelning och omfördelning av ministerposter, beslutsfattande i koalitionsregeringar och legislativt beteende. Jag forskar även om politiskt beteende/politisk psykologi, framför allt med fokus på att förklara affektiv polarisering, politiska attityder, väljarbeteende och radikalisering. 

Jag undervisar i jämförande politik, politisk psykologi och forskningsmetoder.

Urval av publikationer (sedan 2021)

Monografier och redigerade volymer

Hanna Bäck, Alejandro Quiroz Flores & Jan Teorell. 2024. The Selection and Tenure of Foreign Ministers Around the World. Cambridge University Press (Elements in International Relations).

Heike Klüver, Hanna Bäck & Svenja Krauss. 2023. Coalition Agreements as Control Devices. Oxford University Press.

Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus & Jorge Fernandes (eds.). 2021. The Politics of Legislative Debates. Oxford University Press. 

Torbjörn Bergman, Hanna Bäck & Johan Hellström (eds.). 2021. Coalition Governance in Western Europe. Oxford University Press. 

Peer-reviewade artiklar

Wolfgang C. Müller, Matthew Bergman & Hanna Bäck (Forthcoming). “Government Ideology and Labour Policy Reform in Good Times and Bad”. Journal of European Public Policy. 

Hanna Bäck, Royce Carroll, Emma Renström & Alexander Ryan. (Forthcoming). “Elite Communication and Affective Polarization Among Voters”. Electoral Studies 84.

Maiken Røed, Hanna Bäck & Royce Carroll. 2025. “Who Polarizes Parliament? Partisan Hostility in Norwegian Legislative Debates”. Party Politics 31(1), 137-147. 

Esther Calvo, Hanna Bäck & Royce Carroll. 2024. “Debating the populist pariah. Changing party dynamics and elite rhetoric in the Swedish Riksdag”. Political Research Quarterly 77(3), 950-961. 

Hanna Bäck, Matthew Bergman & Wolfgang C. Müller. 2024. “Coalition Bargaining Time and Governments’ Policy-Making Productivity”. European Journal of Political Research 63(4), 1263-1285. 

Wolfgang C. Müller, Hanna Bäck & Johan Hellström. 2024. “Coalition Dynamics: Advances in the Study of the Coalition Life Cycle”. West European Politics 47(1), 1-30.

Matthew Bergman, Mariyana Angelova, Hanna Bäck & Wolfgang C. Müller. 2024. “Coalition Agreements and Governments’ Policy-Making Productivity”. West European Politics 47(1), 31-60.

Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus & Michael Imre. 2024. “Populist Radical Parties, Pariahs, and Coalition Bargaining Delays”. Party Politics 30(1), 96-107.

Hanna Bäck, Johan Hellström, Johannes Lindvall & Jan Teorell. 2024. “Pre-Electoral Coalitions, Familiarity, and Delays in Government Formation”. West European Politics 47(1): 88-112.

Emma A. Renström, Hanna Bäck & Royce Carroll. 2023. “Threats, Emotions, and Affective Polarization”. Political Psychology 44(6), 1337-1366.

Adam Peresman, Royce Carroll & Hanna Bäck. 2023. “Authoritarianism and immigration attitudes in the UK”. Political Studies 71(3): 616-633. 

Hanna Bäck, Wolfgang C. Müller, Mariyana Angelova & Daniel Strobl. 2022. “Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies”. Comparative Political Studies 55(2): 254-286.

Kalle Ekholm, Hanna Bäck & Emma Renström. 2022. “Sympathizing with the Radical Right: Effects of mainstream party recognition and control of prejudice”. Journal of Social and Political Psychology 10(1): 141-157. 

Henning Bergmann, Thomas Saalfeld & Hanna Bäck. 2022. “Party-System Polarization, Legislative Institutions and Cabinet Survival in 28 Parliamentary Democracies, 1945–2019”. West European Politics 45(3): 612-637.

Emma Renström, Hanna Bäck & Royce Carroll. 2021. “Intergroup threat and affective polarization in a multiparty system”. Journal of Social and Political Psychology 9(2), 553-576.

Hanna Bäck, Emma Renström & David Sivén. 2021. “The Social Network: How Friends’ Online Behavior and Belongingness Needs Influence Political Activity”. Policy & Internet 13: 209-232.

Hanna Bäck, Jan Teorell, Alexander von Hagen-Jamar & Alejandro Quiroz Flores. 2021. “War, Performance and the Survival of Foreign Ministers”. Foreign Policy Analysis 17.

Ulrich Sieberer, Thomas M. Meyer, Hanna Bäck, Andrea Ceron, Albert Falcó-Gimeno, Isabell Guinaudeau, Martin Ejnar Hansen, Kristoffer Kolltveit, Tom Louwerse, Wolfgang C. Müller, Thomas Persson. 2021. “The Political Dynamics of Portfolio Design in European Democracies”. British Journal of Political Science 51: 772-787. 

Daniel Strobl, Hanna Bäck, Wolfgang C. Müller & Mariyana Angelova. 2021. “Electoral Cycles in Government Policy Making: Strategic Timing of Austerity Reform measures in Western Europe”. British Journal of Political Science 51: 331-352.