Karl Loxbo Senior lecturer, Associate professor

Contact

Name and title: Karl LoxboSenior lecturer, Associate professor

Mail: karl.loxbo@statsvet.su.se

ORCID0000-0002-0664-5729 Länk till annan webbplats.

Workplace: Department of Political Science Länk till annan webbplats.

Visiting address Room F 530Universitetsvägen 10 F, plan 4 ,5, 7

Postal address Statsvetenskapliga institutionen106 91 Stockholm

About me

Karl Loxbo is Senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science. His research interests focus on the transformation of parties and party systems, the rise of populism, the decline of Social Democracy and European (dis)integration.

Research

Monographs

Hagevi, Magnus, Blombäck, Sofie, Demker, Marie, Hinnfors, Jonas och Loxbo, Karl (2022). Party Realignment in Western Europe. Electoral Drivers and Global Constraints. Edward Elgar, 288 pp. ISBN: 9781800884724

Peer-Reviewed articles

Loxbo, Karl (2025). ‘

European Integration and Transformed Parliamentary Opposition: Evidence from Five Decades of Legislative Politics

’ European Journal of Political Research. Accepted (forthcoming) (with Brigitte Pircher).

Loxbo, Karl (2025).

Review of Beyond social democracy. The transformation of the left in emerging knowledge societies. Party Politics, 31 (4), 806–807.

https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688251339627

oxbo, Karl (2025). ‘Complexity meets flexibility: unintended differentiation in EU public procurement’, Journal of European Public Policy, 32(11), 2714–2740,

https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2427196

(with Brigitte Pircher)

Loxbo, Karl (2025). ‘How the radical right reshapes public opinion: the Sweden Democrats’ local mobilisation, 2002–2020’, West European Politics 48, (7), 1653–1680. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2024.2396775

Loxbo, Karl (2024). ‘Electoral Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How Welfare Regimes Shape Electoral Outcomes’, Political Studies 72(3), 1050–1070.https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217231173399

Farjam, Mike and Karl Loxbo (2023).' Social Conformity or attitude persistence? The bandwagon effect and the spiral of silence in a polarized context', Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 34(3): 531-551.https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2023.2189730

Loxbo, Karl (2022). 'The varying logics for supporting populist right-wing welfare politics in West European welfare regimes', European Political Science Review 14: 171–187. https://doi.org/10.1017/S175577392200011X

Loxbo, Karl (2021). The decline of Western European social democracy: Exploring the transformed link between welfare state generosity and the electoral strength of social democratic parties, 1975–2014. Party Politics 27(3): 430–441. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068819861339 (with Hinnfors, J, Hagevi, M, Demker, M, and Blombäck, S).

Loxbo, Karl (2020). 'Compliance with EU law in times of disintegration: exploring changes in transposition and enforcement in the EU member states between 1997-2016', Journal of Common Market Studies, 58(5): 1270-1287 (with Brigitte Pircher).

https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13030

Loxbo, Karl (2018). 'Ethnic diversity, out-group contacts and social trust in a high-trust society', Acta Sociologica, 61(2): 182–201. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699317721615

Loxbo, Karl (2017). 'Parliamentary opposition on the wane? The Case of Sweden, 1970–2014', Government and Opposition, 52(4): 587–613 (with Mats Sjölin). https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2015.39

Loxbo, Karl (2016). ‘Party Organizational Development and the Electoral Performance of the Radical Right: Exploring the Role of Local Candidates in the Breakthrough Elections of the Sweden Democrats 2002-2014’, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties, 26 (2): 170–190 (with Niklas Bolin). https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2016.1145685

Loxbo, Karl (2015). ‘Sverigedemokraterna: Framgångsrikt enfrågefokus’, Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 117(2), 169–187. https://journals.lub.lu.se/st/article/view/12939

Loxbo, Karl (2014). 'Voters’ perceptions of policy convergence and the short-term opportunities of anti-immigrant parties: Examples from Sweden', Scandinavian Political Studies 37(3): 239–262. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.12025

Loxbo, Karl (2014). ‘Europeisering och kartellisering av nationella partisystem? Förändrade konfliktlinjer mellan partierna i riksdagens EU-nämnd mellan 1995 och 2012’, Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift 116(1): 123–148. https://journals.lub.lu.se/st/article/view/9828

Loxbo, Karl (2014). ’Hög generell tillit och låg tolerans mot främlingar?’, SurveyJournalen, 1(2): 68-85. https://doi.org/10.15626/sj.2014201

Loxbo, Karl (2013). 'The Fate of Intra-Party Democracy. Leadership Autonomy and Activist Influence in the Mass Party and the Cartel Party', Party Politics, 19(4): 537–554.

https://doi.org/10.1177/135406881140758

Loxbo, Karl (2012). ‘School and the Promotion of Generalised Trust: Experiences from Sicily’, Journal of Trust Research 2(2): 171–201 (with Carina Gunnarson). https://doi.org/10.1080/21515581.2012.708506

Loxbo, Karl (2012). 'Anti-immigrant parties, local presence and electoral success. Local Government Studies', 38 (6): 817-839 (with Gissur Erlingsson and Richard Öhrvall). https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2012.740411

Loxbo, Karl (2011). 'Vigilance against corruption and New Public Management', Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 14 (3-4): 37–58.

https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v14i3/4.16285

Loxbo, Karl (2010). ‘The Impact of the Radical Right. Lessons from the Local Level in Sweden 2002-2006’, Scandinavian Political Studies 33 (3): 295-315.

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2010.00252.x

Loxbo, Karl (2010). ‘Bakom lyckta dörrar. Beslutsprocessen bakom den svenska pensionsreformen 1991-1998’, Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift 111(3): 25–50. https://journals.lub.lu.se/st/article/view/8168/7273

Loxbo, Karl (2010). ’ Finlands sätt bör bli Sveriges’, Kommunalvetenskaplig Tidskrift 1: 90-96 (with Erik Wångmar). ISSN 0356-3669

Loxbo, Karl (2009). 'Har den interna demokratin i politiska partier försämrats över tid?’ Sociologisk forskning, 46 (4), 7–28.

https://doi.org/10.37062/sf.46.19218

Loxbo, Karl (2008). ’ Sverigedemokraterna i fullmäktige: Påverkas koalitioner och politik i kommunerna?’, Kommunal ekonomi och politik, 12(4): 7-32. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/20737

Books

Hagevi, Magnus, Blombäck, Sofie, Hinnfors, Jonas, Demker, Marie, Loxbo, Karl (fortcoming, July 2022). Party Realignment in Western Europe. Electoral drivers and Global Constraints. London: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN: 9781800884724.

Loxbo, Karl (2007). Bakom socialdemokraternas beslut. En studie av den politiska förändringens dilemman – från 1950-talets ATP-strid till 1990-talets pensionsuppgörelse (avhandling). Växjö: Växjö university press.

ISBN 9789176365359

Book chapters

Loxbo, Karl (2019). Radikala högerpopulistiska partier. In Hagevi, Magnus (ed) (2019). Partier och partisystem. Andra upplagan. Lund: Studentlitteratur, pp. 87-115.

Loxbo, Karl (2018). ‘Cartelisation and Europeanisation? In Enroth Henrik and Hagevi, Magnus (eds). Cartelisation, Convergence or Increasing Similarities?: Lessons from Parties in Parliament. ECPR/Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 97–118.

Loxbo, Karl (2018). ‘Are the Predictions of the Cartel Party Thesis Supported in the Swedish Case?, in Enroth Henrik and Hagevi, Magnus (eds). Cartelisation, Convergence or Increasing Similarities?: Lessons from Parties in Parliament. ECPR/Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 43–69 (with Margnus Hagevi).

Loxbo, Karl (2015). ‘Partierna och demokratin efter medlemsnedgången’, i SOU 2015: 96. Låt fler forma framtiden. Forskarantologi. Stockholm: Wolters Kluwe, pp. 13–64 (with Magnus Hagevi).

Loxbo, Karl (2015). ‘Utmaningen från radikala högerpopulistpartier’. in Hagevi, Magnus (ed). §§§§ Lund: Studentlitteratur, pp. 133-149.

Loxbo, Karl (2012). ‘Att rösta mot systemet’. i Hagevi, Magnus (red.). Den svenska väljaren. Surveyinstitutet Volym 2, s. 165-181. Umeå: Boréa.