Work in progress

VR-funded project: What does it take to make leadership gender equal? with Josefina Erikson and Cecilia Josefsson

Publications

Articles

Håkansson, Sandra. 2023. The Gendered Representational Costs of Violence against Politicians. Perspectives on Politics.

Håkansson, Sandra. 2023. Explaining Citizen Hostility against Women Political Leaders: A Survey Experiment in the United States and Sweden. Politics & Gender.

Nylund, Mia-Lie, Sandra Håkansson, and Elin Bjarnegård. 2022. "The Transformative Potential of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Case of Sweden." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.

Erikson, Josefina, Sandra Håkansson, and Cecilia Josefsson. 2023. “Three Dimensions of Gendered Online Abuse: Analyzing Swedish MPs’ Experiences of Social Media.” Perspectives on Politics.

Håkansson, Sandra. 2021. “Do Women Pay a Higher Price for Power? Gender Bias in Political Violence in Sweden.” The Journal of Politics 83(2): 515–31.

Bjarnegård, Elin, Sandra Håkansson, and Pär Zetterberg. 2020. “Gender and Violence against Political Candidates: Lessons from Sri Lanka.” Politics & Gender: 1–29. 

Books and Book Chapters

Håkansson, Sandra. 2023. Politicians Under Threat : Gender Aspects of Violence against Political Representatives. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.

Håkansson, Sandra. 2023. “Violence against Swedish Local Level Politicians.” In Gender and Violence against Political Actors, eds. Elin Bjarnegård and Pär Zetterberg. Temple University Press.