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Niklas Altermark is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. His research focuses on welfare state transformation, disability policy, and social insurance systems. He holds affiliations with the LU Profile Area: Human Rights. Key areas include analyzing austerity's impact on identity, civil society leadership dynamics, and biopolitical frameworks in disability studies.
Publications span International Political Sociology, Sociology of Health & Illness, and Disability & Society. Recent work examines elitism in civil society through boundary work (2023), welfare cutbacks' effect on sickness narratives (2022), and bureaucratic exclusion in healthcare (2020).
- Education: PhD in Political Science (Lund University, 2016)
Research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, blending political theory, sociology, and disability studies. Current projects explore welfare state legitimacy in austerity contexts and institutional legacies in intellectual disability policy.
