Sandra Håkansson is Associate Senior Lecturer in political science at Uppsala University. Her research interests are in the fields of gender and politics, representation, and political violence. Sandra has published extensively on gender, politics and political violence. She is currently analysing the Swedish parliament’s policy response to violence against politicians, as well as race and gender patterns in how American politicians are affected by violence. Furthermore, Sandra examines politicians’ and party selectors’ attitudes to allowing hostile rhetoric and violence in politics, and leads a major research project which focuses on Colombia in order to better understand how violent actors distort the path to political power.

Read more from Sandra Hakansson:

Erikson, Josefina, Sandra Håkansson, and Cecilia Josefsson. 2021. “Three Dimensions of Gendered Online Abuse: Analyzing Swedish MPs’ Experiences of Social Media.” Perspectives on Politics: 1–17. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/three-dimensions-of-gendered-online-abuse-analyzing-swedish-mps-experiences-of-social-media/F52E7389E355C1C78335B44B9E66811E

Håkansson, Sandra. 2021. “Do Women Pay a Higher Price for Power? Gender Bias in Political Violence in Sweden.” The Journal of Politics 83(2): 515–31.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709838

Bjarnegård, Elin, Sandra Håkansson, and Pär Zetterberg. 2020. “Gender and Violence against Political Candidates: Lessons from Sri Lanka.” Politics & Gender: 1–29. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/gender-and-violence-against-political-candidates-lessons-from-sri-lanka/988B1E4E8D480C82C3D6D3CBDEF05289