Lisa Dellmuth Professor
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Name and title: Lisa DellmuthProfessor
ORCID0000-0002-1298-8525 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Economic History and International Relations Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room A 964Universitetsvägen 10 A, plan 9
Postal address Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer106 91 Stockholm
Research group
About me
Lisa Dellmuth is a Professor of International Relations at Stockholm University and Co-director of the Stockholm Center on Global Governance (SCGG).
After obtaining her PhD in political science in 2011 from the University of Mannheim in Germany, Dellmuth has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (2015-2016) and the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University (2011-2014). She held assistant and associate professor positions at Stockholm University, and has been visiting the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, Hertie School in Berlin, the UNC Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the departments of Political Science at the University of Bergen and the University of Tampere. She has received several awards for her research, among them the 2021 Michael Endres Prize and the 2012 prize for best article published in European Union Politics ("Distributive politics and intergovernmental transfers”). Dellmuth has received numerous grants from funders such as Formas, Mistra, the European Union, Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds, and the Swedish Research Council.
Dellmuth’s research focuses on public opinion, legitimacy, and distribution in global governance. She combines experimental and quantitative research methods in her interdisciplinary research agenda. Her research has been published in five books and more than 30 scientific articles in journals such as American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Journal of European Public Policy, PNAS, and International Organization. For data and replication materials, please visit her homepage.
Dellmuth is member of the editorial board for European Journal of Political Research . She also serves on the program committee of the annual international conferences of "The Political Economy of International Organizations (PEIO)" network.
Publications (for full list, see Google Scholar)
Research monographs (selection)
Dellmuth, L., Tallberg, J. Legitimacy Politics: Elite Communication and Public Opinion in Global Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) (315p.)
Dellmuth, L., Scholte, J.A., Tallberg, J., Verhaegen, S. Citizens, Elites, and the Legitimacy of Global Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022) (301p.)
Dellmuth L., Is Europe Good for You? EU Spending and Well-Being (Bristol UP, 2021, 168 p.). Honorable mention for the UACES Book Award in 2022.
Peer-reviewed journal articles (selection)
Dellmuth, L., Tallberg, J., "Public opinion and international organizations", Review of International Organizations, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-025-09614-2.
Ecker-Erhardt, M., Dellmuth, L., Tallberg, J., “Peer Opinion and the Legitimacy of International Organizations", Review of International Organizations, online first (2025).
Olczak, N., Dellmuth, L., “ Elite Concerns and Attitudes about Problem Solving through International Organizations", Global Studies Quarterly, 5(1), ksaf020 (2025).
Ecker-Erhardt, M., Dellmuth, L., Tallberg, J., “Ideology and Legitimacy in Global Governance", International Organization, 78(4), 1292–1313 (2024).
Dellmuth, L., “Regional inequalities and political trust in a global context", Journal of European Public Policy, 31(6), 1516–1535 (2023).
Dellmuth, L., Scholte, J.A., Tallberg, J., Verhaegen, S., “The Elite–Citizen Gap in International Organization Legitimacy”, American Political Science Review, 116:1 (2022), pp. 283-300. Honorable mention from the APSA International Collaboration Section in 2023.
Dellmuth, L., Bender, F., Jönsson, A.R., Rosvold, E.L., von Uexkull, N., “Humanitarian need drives multilateral disaster aid”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (2021), e2018293118.
Dellmuth, L., Tallberg, J., “Why national and international legitimacy beliefs are linked: Social trust as an antecedent factor”, Review of International Organizations, 15 (2020), pp. 311–337.
Dellmuth, L. and Stoffel, M.F., “Distributive politics and intergovernmental transfers: The local allocation of European Union Structural Funds”, European Union Politics, 13:3 (2012), pp. 413–433. Sage Award for the best article published in European Union Politics in 2012 (vol. 13).
Data and replication materials are available at my personal homepage.
