Sven Oskarsson
Professor at Department of Government; Faculty
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 63 24
- E-mail:
- Sven.Oskarsson@statsvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Sven Oskarsson is Professor at the Department of Government. He mainly teaches methods at different levels. His research interests include political representation and participation and social science genomics. His previous work has appeared in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Nature and Behavior Genetics. For more information see his personal website.
Publications
Recent publications
- Quantifying Bias from Measurable and Unmeasurable Confounders Across Three Domains of Individual Determinants of Political Preferences (2023)
- Effects of Settlement into Ethnic Enclaves on Immigrant Voter Turnout (2022)
- Birth Order and Voter Turnout (2022)
- Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects (2022)
- The Ex-Factor (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Quantifying Bias from Measurable and Unmeasurable Confounders Across Three Domains of Individual Determinants of Political Preferences (2023)
- Effects of Settlement into Ethnic Enclaves on Immigrant Voter Turnout (2022)
- Birth Order and Voter Turnout (2022)
- Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects (2022)
- The Ex-Factor (2022)
- Immigrant Political Representation and Local Ethnic Concentration (2022)
- The Perpetuity of the Past (2022)
- Persistent Inequalities (2022)
- Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository (2021)
- A polygenic score for educational attainment partially predicts voter turnout (2021)
- Selective abstention in simultaneous elections (2021)
- Big Brother Sees You, but Does He Rule You? (2021)
- Does Education Instill Civic Duty? (2021)
- The relationship between political attitudes and political participation (2021)
- Parents, Peers, and Politics (2020)
- Practice makes voters? (2020)
- Access to education and political candidacy (2019)
- Enhancing Electoral Equality (2019)
- Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences (2019)
- Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals (2018)
- It Runs in the Family (2018)
- Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG (2018)
- Can Political Inequalities Be Educated Away? Evidence from a Large-scale Reform (2017)
- Education and Social Trust (2017)
- Estimating the Impact of Education on Political Participation (2016)
- Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment (2016)
- Personality and Political Tolerance (2016)
- How does education affect adolescents' political development? (2016)
- Why Are Immigrants Underrepresented in Politics? (2015)
- Linking Genes and Political Orientations (2015)
- The Relationship Between Genes, Psychological Traits, and Political Participation (2014)
- Genetic Influences on Political Ideologies (2014)
- Pre-Birth Factors, Post-Birth Factors, and Voting (2014)
- Replicability and Robustness of Genome-Wide-Association Studies for Behavioral Traits (2014)
- Political Tolerance in India Descriptions and Explanations from the Heartland (2013)
- The Genetic Origins of the Relationship between Psychological Traits and Social Trust (2012)
- Similarity vs. homogeneity (2011)
- Generalized trust and political support (2010)
- Does Oil Still Hinder Democracy? (2010)
- Tolerance in challenging political environments in Uganda, Kenya, India, and Pakistan (2010)
- Power, trust, and institutional constraints (2009)
- Making Capitalism Work (2009)
- The Structure and Determinants of Trust: The Cases of Japan and Sweden (2005)
- Divergent Trends and Different Causal Logics (2005)
- Striking Differences (2003)
- Institutional Explanations of Union Strength (2003)
- Divergent Trends and Differing Causal Logics
Books
- Myt eller Verklighet? (2010)
- Prometokrati (2010)
- The Fate of Organized Labor (2003)
- Påverka och påverkas (1997)
Chapters
- Representationsgapet (2017)
- Spelar gener roll för politiska attityder och beteenden? (2013)
- Att studera regimtyper (2010)
- Vår tids Graal (2010)
- Ekonomisk utveckling och demokrati (2010)
- Är prometokratierna förlorade? (2010)
- Demokrati och ekonomisk tillväxt (2010)
- Makt, institutioner och tillit (2008)
- Valdeltagandets mekanismer (2006)
- Organized Labor and Varieties of Capitalism (2005)
- Förtroende, politiska institutioner och tillväxt (2005)
- Class Struggle in the Wake of Globalization (2002)
Reports
