Anders Backlund Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Stockholm County, Sweden

Postdoctoral researcher within the project Social exclusion, polarization and security in the Nordic welfare state (SEPOS, NordForsk, 2021-2023), researching state repression of right-wing extremism.

Stockholm County, Sweden

PhD candidate within the research project "From the margins to the mainstream: Populist radical right parties and government formation in Europe". Working with research on how political parties act in relation to the radical right, with a particular focus on policy adaptation and coalition formation at the Swedish national and local levels. Defended the doctoral thesis "Isolating the Radical Right: Coalition Formation and Policy Adaptation in Sweden" in December 2020.

Stockholm County, Sweden

Worked on the project "New Voices, Old Roots - Dilemmas of Populism in Enlarged Europe". Primarily working with collection of qualitative and quantitative data and analysis of populist radical right parties in Europe. Among other things, I worked on:- All stages of an expert survey dealing with the estimation of Nordic radical right party positions along several policy dimensions.- Analysing the representativeness of European radical right parties vis-à-vis their voters.- Studying how Nordic party systems have been affected by the electoral fortunes of the populist radical right.- Collecting and analysing qualitative and quantitative data for the Sweden Democrats, including coding election manifestos and social media flows.Earlier project: "Governments in Europe - Bringing in the Baltic and East Central European Democracies" on the making and breaking of government coalitions. Assisted in data collection and analysis, project/event coordination, and built a website/data archive accommodating research data for several research projects.

Stockholm County, Sweden

Assisted two courses on public administration in Sweden.

Stockholm, Sweden

Visiting fellow ("riksdagsstipendiat") at the Swedish Parliament during the 2016/17 session.

Research assistant and web developer.

Worked for the municipality's development division on a project concerning regional development. Assisted in data collection and analysis, event coordination and the the authoring of a programme for future regional development.

Contributed with Swedish data to a project studying European electoral system change since World War II. Gathered relevant legislation and translated to English.

Graphic designer, freelance work for architectural firms.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Political Science And Government

Defended the doctoral thesis "Isolating the Radical Right: Coalition Formation and Policy Adaptation in Sweden" in December 2020.

Msc, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Student representative on the board of Political Science; Assistant to political science research.

Bsc, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Student representative on the board of Political Science; Voluntary mentor for international exchange.

International Relations

French

Ky, Digital Graphics

Architecture