Karl LoxboSenior lecturer, Associate professor

Publications

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: 978 1 80088 472 4

Peer-Reviewed articles

Loxbo, Karl (forthcoming). Competition between Social Democracy and the Populist Radical Right: How welfare regimes shape electoral outcomes. Political Studies.https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217231173399

Farjam, Mike and Loxbo, Karl (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. 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).

Loxbo, Karl (2018). Ethnic diversity, out-group contacts and social trust in a high-trust society, Acta Sociologica, 61(2), 182–201.

Loxbo, Karl (2017). Parliamentary opposition on the wane? The Case of Sweden, 1970–2014., Government and Opposition, 52(4), 587–613 (with Mats Sjölin).

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).

Loxbo, Karl (2015). ‘Sverigedemokraterna: Framgångsrikt enfrågefokus’, Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 117(2), 169–187.

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.

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.

Loxbo, Karl (2014). ’Hög generell tillit och låg tolerans mot främlingar?’, SurveyJournalen, 1(2), 68-85.

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.

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

Loxbo, Karl (2012). Anti-immigrant parties, local presence and electoral success. Local Government Studies, 38 (6), 817-839 (with Gissur Erlingsson and Richard Öhrvall).

Loxbo, Karl (2011). ‘Corruption and New Public Management’, Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 14 (3-4), 37–58.

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.

Loxbo, Karl (2010). ‘Bakom lyckta dörrar. Beslutsprocessen bakom den svenska pensionsreformen 1991-1998’, Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift 111(3), 25–50.

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

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

Loxbo, Karl (2008). ’ Sverigedemokraterna i fullmäktige: Påverkas koalitioner och politik i kommunerna?’, Kommunal ekonomi och politik, 12(4), 7-32.

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: 978 1 80088 472 4

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. 

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.