Björn Boman

About me

My research focuses on political representation, political conflicts, as well as academic achievement, personality, cognitive ability, Korean culture, and multidisciplinary theories. In 2025 and 2026, I have a new book being published as well as several refereed articles on, for instance, political participation, democratization, and de-facto states.

 

Publications

2025: Strategic Silence and Ambiguity: Popular Rappers in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine After 2022, Europe-Asia Studies, 77(8), 1300-1312.

2025: Micro-states and de-facto states in the context of borders and political–economic development East European Politics, 41(3), 464–484.

2025: Democratic inclusiveness, knowledge focus or something else? Critical analysis of the curriculum for Swedish pupils with intellectual disabilities. Frontiers in Education, 10. (Co-authored with Jonas Hultin Rosenberg)

2024:  Left, right or something else? José Ortega Y Gasset's Intellectual Influence in the Ideological Realm.  SN Social Sciences, 4. 

2024: Democratically included? A systematic literature review on voter turnout of people with intellectual disabilities. Frontiers in Political Science, 6.  (Co-authored with Jonas Hultin Rosenberg)

2024: Cognitive ability, gender, and well-being in school contexts: longitudinal evidence from Sweden.  Frontiers in Psychology, 15. (Co-authored with Marie Wiberg)

2024: Human capital indicators as influenced by SES, cognitive and non-cognitive skills: Evidence from Taiwan’s PISA performance. SN Social Sciences, 4.  

2024: Nils von Dardel: Dandy persona and multifaceted painter. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 10.  (Co-authored with Leif Öjesjö.)

2024: Cognitive skills and economic growth in the twenty-first century: Null evidence from PISA and cognitive ability studies. International Journal of Educational Research Open, 7. 

2024: Going in three directions: parallel trajectories of Kazakhstanization, Westernization, and Post-Soviet multiculturalism in Kazakhstan’s elementary and secondary education Globalisation, Societies and Education. (Co-authored with Anel Mussakhanova)

2024: The Gray nine and parallel personality patterns: Big Five, Dark Tetrad, and a “well-rounded personality”. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 58. 1300-1316. 

2024: Förstå och förklara skolresultat. Att använda forskning. Studentlitteratur. 

2024: The influence of SES, migration background, and non-cognitive abilities on PISA reading and mathematics achievement: Evidence from Sweden. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 39, 2935-2951.  (Co-authored with Marie Wiberg)

2024: Book review: South Korean education and learning as excellence as a Hallyu: ethnographic understandings of a nation’s academic success. Globalisation, Societies and Education. 

2024: Parallelization: A Theory of Cultural, Economic and Political Complexity. Springer. 

2023: Skolprestationer: Faktorer som är relaterade till studieresultat i grundskolans senare år. Doktorsavhandling, Stockholms universitet. 

2023: The coexistence of nationalism, Westernization, Russification, and Russophobia: facets of parallelization in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. International Politics, 60, 1315–1331. 

2025: Japanese and Korean collaborations in K-pop: Iz One, TWICE and K-pop spaces in Tokyo. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 11(1), 115-130.

2023: Vulnerable Women: Negotiations Among Migrant Women in the Aftermath of the Ukraine War. Human Arenas. 

2023: The relationship between urban locality, socioeconomic status and school achievement in Stockholm county, Sweden: evidence from an intra-urban model. International Journal of Educational Research Open, 4. 

2023: The influence of SES, cognitive, and non-cognitive abilities on grades: cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from two Swedish cohorts. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 38, 588-603. 

2023: Is the SES and academic achievement relationship mediated by cognitive ability? Evidence from PISA 2018 using data from 77 countries. Frontiers in Psychology, 17. 

2023: Converging cultures? A comparative analysis of South Korea and Sweden’s national curricula, 1980–2018. Discover Education, 2. (Co-authored with Marcus Mosesson)

2022: Vietnam’s exceptional educational achievement: a thematic review of the emerging literature. Discover Education, 1. 

2022: Feminist themes in Hallyu 4.0 South Korean TV dramas as a reflection of a changing sociocultural landscape. Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 28(4), 419-37. 

2022: CAM: an achievement model of celebrity. SN Social Sciences, 2. 

2022: The Adaptive Proculturation Process of Being a Psychotherapist as a Kazakh Asylum Seeker in Sweden. Human Arenas.7, 641-656. 

2022:  Regional differences in educational achievement: A replication study with municipality data. Frontiers in Education, 7. 

2022: Educational achievement among East Asian schoolchildren 1967–2020: A thematic review of the literature. International Journal of Educational Research Open, 3. 

2022: PISA Achievement in Sweden From the Perspective of Both Individual Data and Aggregated Cross-Country Data. Frontiers in Education, 6. 

2022: Regional Differences in Educational Achievement among Swedish Grade 9 Students. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 66(4), 610–625. 

2021: Book reviews: Religion, Tradition and the Popular: Transcultural Views from Asia and Europe, Judith Schlehe and Evamarie Sandkühler (eds) (2014). East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 7(2), 313–318. 

2021: Money or melancholia? Dropout and retention rates in the K-pop Industry Culture and Empathy, 4(2), 156–180. 

2021: Why has Sweden in the IFPI league tables but been surpassed by South Korea? A comparative case study. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 4(1).  

2021: The multifold intertextuality in Lee Chang Dong’s burning. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 3(1). 

2021: Parallelization: the fourth leg of cultural globalization theory. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 55, 354–370. 

2021: The applicability of Big Five facets and Dark Tetrad traits on Yukio Mishima’s novel protagonists. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 7(1), 95–113. 

2020: From Oldboy to Burning: Han in South Korean films. Culture & Psychology, 26(4), 919–932.  

2020: Cultural Amnesia or Continuity? Han in K-pop. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 6(1), 111–123. 

2020: What makes Estonia and Singapore so good?. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 18(2), 181–193. 

2019: Achievement in the South Korea music industry. International Journal of Music Business Research, 8(2), 6–20. 

2019: Worth to narrow the gap? Educational achievement in South Korea and Sweden. International conference: 60th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between the Kingdom of Sweden and the ROK Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University May 23-24, 2019.

2019: ”Utbildning i det samtida Vietnam: förändringar och framgångsfaktorer” (Educational policies in Contemporary Vietnam: Development and Factors of Achievement). Orientaliska studier, number 157 (June).

2015: “Koreansk skönhet som en förlängning av den koreanska vågen” (Korean beauty as an extension of the Korean wave), Orientaliska studier, vol. 142. This study has been covered in Swedish press.

2015: Review (in Swedish) of John Lie’s book K-pop: Popular music, cultural amnesia, and economic innovation, (2014), Orientaliska studier, vol. 141.

2015: “Det nutida Koreas religiösa landskap” (The Religious landscape of Korea), Orientaliska studier, vol. 141.

2014: “K-popens globala begränsningar” (The Global Limitations of K-pop), Orientaliska studier, vol. 140.