Work in progress

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

Publications

Articles

The Cost of Debating Harassment Against Politicians: Are Women and Men Affected Equally? Political Behavior, 2025. With Michal Grahn.

Inclusive or Exclusive? Candidate Selection Methods Do Not Affect Descriptive Representation. West European Politics, 2025. With Michal Grahn.

Representation at risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians, in American Political Science Review, 2025. With Nazita Lajevardi.

The Gendered Representational Costs of Violence against Politicians. Perspectives on Politics, 2024.

Explaining Citizen Hostility against Women Political Leaders: A Survey Experiment in the United States and Sweden. Politics & Gender, 2024.

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

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

Do Women Pay a Higher Price for Power? Gender Bias in Political Violence in Sweden. The Journal of Politics, 2021.

Gender and Violence against Political Candidates: Lessons from Sri Lanka. Politics & Gender, 2020. With Elin Bjarnegård and Pär Zetterberg.

Books and Book Chapters

Håkansson, Sandra, and Josefina Erikson. 2025. “Åtnjuter Riksdagsledamöterna Jämlika  Förutsättningar För Uppdraget?  Köns- Ålders- Och Klassmönster.” In Riksdagens Landskap, eds. Patrik Öhberg and Jakob Ahlbom. Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet, 96–112.

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. 

Policy Reports

Eriksson, Josefina, Malin Holm, and Sandra Håkansson. 2025. ”Stävja hot och hat mot politiker - strategier, utmaningar och jämställdhetsaspekter.” [Mitigating threats against politicians – strategies, challenges and gender equality aspects.] Uppsala University/The Swedish Parliament. 

Håkansson, Sandra. 2022. Betalar kvinnor ett högre pris för makten? Hot och våld mot svenska politiker. [Do women pay a higher price for power? Threats and violence against Swedish politicians.] Stockholm: SNS Centre for Business and Policy Studies. SNS Analys.

Håkansson, Sandra. 2020. “Explanatory Memorandum” in Fighting Sexism against Women in Politics at Local and Regional Level. Strasbourg: Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Council of Europe.