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Professor of Political Science, @uu-polisci.bsky.social, Uppsala University 🇸🇪 • Climate Change • Crisis • Disasters • Global Environmental Politics • International Relations • Public Policy.

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Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Apr 15

1/ Today marks the 15-year anniversary of one of the largest mobility crises in modern history.

On April 14, 2010, Eyjafjallajökull erupted. By April 15, its ash cloud had shut down airspace across Europe.

How a local event became a global cascading crisis👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Complex negative events and the diffusion of crisis: lessons from the 2010 and 2011 icelandic volcanic ash cloud events: Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography: Vol 97 , No 1 - Get Access

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Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Katrina taught us that failing to act on known risks has devastating consequences. Let’s not forget. Let’s not repeat it. 🌀
📘 Full article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Preventable Catastrophe? The Hurricane Katrina Disaster Revisited

This article probes the warning-response failures that left the city of New Orleans vulnerable to catastrophic hurricanes and the inability of local, state, and federal authorities to mount an adequa...

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Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Aug 29

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That’s why the current effort by President Trump to gut FEMA and dump disaster costs on the states is alarming. It reflects a willful ignorance for the hard-won lessons of Katrina. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

FEMA Employees Warn That Trump Is Gutting Disaster Response

www.nytimes.com

Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Aug 29

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The core lesson: resilience is not built in the storm. It’s built before! Sustained investment, strong federal coordination, and a commitment to learning from past failures are all needed.

Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Aug 29

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And politically? Natural hazard preparedness was deprioritized. Homeland Security focused almost exclusively on terrorism. Warnings about hurricanes were drowned out in a crowded, reactive policy space.

Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Organizationally, emergency planning was fragmented. Key agencies weren’t aligned, and FEMA’s role had been weakened by its integration into a terrorism-focused DHS after 9/11.

Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Psychologically, overconfidence and wishful thinking led officials to believe the levees would hold. Many discounted repeated warnings as alarmist. Those assumptions proved fatal.

Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Aug 29

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This wasn’t just a FEMA failure. The failures stretched across federal, state, and local governments. Katrina was a long-predicted event. It became a disaster because many responsible authorities didn’t act on those warnings.

Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Aug 29

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In our article, my colleagues and I examined the Katrina disaster through three perspectives—psychological, organizational, and agenda-political—to better understand how and why things went so wrong.

Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Aug 29

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🌀Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina laid bare how denial, fragmented institutions, and crowded political agendas can turn a long-predicted storm into a full-blown catastrophe.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Preventable Catastrophe? The Hurricane Katrina Disaster Revisited

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Camilla Reuterswärd @camreu.bsky.social · Aug 7

Happy to see this paper out in the July issue of CP! Using the case of abortion policy, I argue that clientelistic parties engage in strategic, mutually beneficial interactions with influential interest groups when material exchanges no longer guarantee office.

Comparative Politics @comppol.bsky.social · Jan 16

New article on Fast Track by Camilla Reuterswärd, “Policy Commitment as Voter Mobilization Strategy: Clientelist Parties, Interest Groups, and Abortion Policy in Subnational Mexico,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

Policy Commitment as Voter Mobili...ion Policy in Subnational Mexico: Ingenta Connect Fast Track Article

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Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Jun 19

Amid global conflict & crisis, it’s easy to lose sight of the climate emergency. But we have just 2 yrs to stay within the 1.5C carbon budget. Breaching it will bring more extreme weather & misery. The window is closing, but action now can still avert the worst.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn

Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering

www.theguardian.com

Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Jun 17

Off to a great start!

Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science @cndsofficial.bsky.social · Jun 13

CNDS summer workshop at Försvarshögskolan - Swedish Defence University.
With new director Steffi Burchardt at the helm, CNDS is staking out new paths forward.

CNDS researchers at Försvarshögskolan -Swedish Defence University.

CNDS workshop setting, researchers sitting in a U-shaped table constellation.

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Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science @cndsofficial.bsky.social · May 21

Check out our latest Webinar " Coping with disasters - short and long term psychological impacts of Natural Hazards"

youtu.be/HKgq5Byq9pk

CNDS webinar 7th may 2025 Coping with disasters

YouTube video by CNDS Sweden

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Johanna Pettersson Fürst @ejpfurst.bsky.social · Jun 9

So happy to see this article written with @fursthenrik.bsky.social published!

Henrik Fürst @fursthenrik.bsky.social · Jun 9

New article written by @ejpfurst.bsky.social and me!

"The Nordic vision: Broadcasting Nordicness in the televised Nordic Council prize ceremonies"

Link to article: doi.org/10.1111/oli....

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Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · Jun 6

🧵1/ Are primaries bad for political diversity? Conventional wisdom says yes—but our article in @wepsocial.bsky.social shows that candidate selection modes are not necessarily a bottleneck for representation, at least when it comes to demand. 🗳️👥 @sandrahkansson.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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Maria Thürk @mariathurk.bsky.social · Jun 7

Super happy to see this paper now in print! We show that parties which do not enter coalitions, but have formal (written) support agreements with minority cabinets- such as Tidö Agreement in Sweden - are likely to be punished at the next elections, similarly to junior coalition partners.

Comparative Political Studies @cpsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 6

New article from our latest issue (Issue 8, 2025): "Hitting the Sweet Spot? The Electoral Consequences of Supporting Minority Governments" by Maria Thürk @mariathurk.bsky.social and Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#polisky #socialscience #academicsky

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Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Jun 8

Amid the Trump-Musk media circus, President Trump just did something deeply troubling: he invoked Title 10 to send National Guard troops to LA without the California governor’s consent. Rare, alarming & a direct threat to state sovereignty & democratic norms. www.latimes.com/california/s...

The legal issues raised by Trump sending the National Guard to L.A.

President Trump is sending the National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom by invoking rarely used federal powers.

www.latimes.com

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Charles Parker @charlesparker.bsky.social · Jun 7

Pretty sure Elon musk just discovered the Premium edition of buyer’s remorse.

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Department of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social · Jun 4

Tomorrow at the Department of Government, Anna Jeglinska defends her thesis Co-nationals under construction: Poland’s diaspora policy 1989–2023, with @harrismylonas.bsky.social as external reviewer.

Location: Brusewitzsalen, Östra Ågatan 19, Uppsala
Time: 13:15

www.uu.se/en/events/de...

Anna Jeglinska: Co-nationals under construction: Poland’s diaspora policy 1989–2023 - Uppsala University

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WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · Jun 4

Online first: "Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation" by @grahn.bsky.social & @sandrahkansson.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

#AcademicSky #Polisky

Screenshot of a journal article abstract from West European Politics, titled “Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation” by Michal Grahn and Sandra Håkansson from the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. The article is marked as open access and published by Routledge.

The abstract text is highlighted in yellow and states that while exclusive candidate selection methods (e.g., selection committees) are often thought to produce more descriptively representative outcomes than inclusive methods (e.g., primaries), such claims are usually based on cross-sectional comparisons. The authors conducted a conjoint experiment in Sweden involving 6,400 party members and 1,300 selection committee members, assessing preferences for candidate profiles based on gender, age, and immigrant background. The findings show that both groups exhibited similar preferences for underrepresented candidates across both selection modes. The study concludes that both inclusive and exclusive procedures can equally promote descriptive representation within supportive institutional contexts.

Below the abstract, the listed keywords are: Political recruitment; descriptive representation; political parties; primaries; conjoint experiment.

A dot plot titled "Candidate preferences among rank-and-file party members and SCMs, in primary and ballot creation contexts." The y-axis lists candidate characteristics: Gender (Men, Women), Immigrant background (No, Yes), Age (18–35, 36–64, 65+), Education (No higher education, University degree), and Employment sector (Public, Private). The x-axis represents marginal means, ranging from 0.4 to 0.55, with a vertical dashed reference line at 0.5.

For each characteristic, three groups are shown with their respective point estimates and 95% confidence intervals:

Red squares for “Party members, primary context”

Blue circles for “Selectors, primary context”

Green diamonds for “Selectors, ballot creation context”

The graph shows how different groups of selectors and party members vary in their marginal means when evaluating candidate characteristics. Confidence intervals are horizontal bars, and all estimates are clustered around the 0.5 mark, with some group differences, especially notable in age and education.

Below the figure, a note explains that the values represent marginal means with 95% confidence intervals, calculated separately for each group, with standard errors clustered at the respondent level.

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blayneydeborah.bsky.social @blayneydeborah.bsky.social · May 24

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Nobel prize winning economists e.g.:
dacemoglumit.bsky.social,
and Skytte prize winners
@skytteprize.bsky.social speak out e.g.:
@frankfukuyama.bsky.social
@juergenhabermas.bsky.social
and many more:

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Department of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social · May 28

🎓 Qinya Feng’s PhD defense is underway!
A Genetically Informed Approach to Trust and Attitudes towards Immigration
Wishing you all the best, Qinya! 🌟👏 #PhDDefense #UppsalaUniversity

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Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science @skytteprize.bsky.social · May 23

Twenty-one Skytte Prize winner in a joint letter in today's @financialtimes.com : “President Donald Trump and his administration are on a spectacularly dangerous path”

Read more here : www.skytteprize.com/news/twenty-...

Twenty-one Skytte Prize winners speak out | Skytteprize

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Emma Elfversson @emmaelfversson.bsky.social · May 20

How does rapid urban growth affect the risk of electoral violence in African cities? In a new article (open access in World Development), I find that cities growing more rapidly were at higher risk of electoral violence. doi.org/10.1016/j.wo... (1/9)

Redirecting

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