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Johan Hellström serves as Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Department in the Department of Political Science at Umeå University, Sweden. His research centers on political parties and governments within European parliamentary democracies, with current focus on coalition dynamics during crisis periods.
His primary research interests include government formation, government stability, political institutions, and party behavior across European contexts. Notably, he examines how polarization impacts coalition politics and investigates minority government mechanisms, particularly through Sweden's case studies. Much of his work connects to the Representative Democracy Data Archive, which hosts his research projects on European governance.
Analysis of his 2021-2024 publications reveals three dominant trends: (1) increasing examination of Central/Eastern European coalition politics amid crises, (2) methodological focus on comparative analysis across parliamentary systems, and (3) growing attention to polarization's effects on government formation since 2022. His work consistently bridges theoretical frameworks with empirical analysis of coalition life cycles.
