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  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Jens Rydgren is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the social sciences, with a primary focus on sociology and political science. Their research encompasses multiple subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Social Psychology, Communication, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work broadly addresses topics such as populism and right-wing movements, electoral systems and political participation, social and intergroup psychology, media influence and politics, German legal, social, and political studies, social media and politics, and climate change communication and perception.

Rydgren's recent publications cover various relevant social and political themes. These include:

  • Climate Change Denial among Radical Right-Wing Supporters (2020), published in Sustainability
  • Discourses and practices of the 'New Normal' (2023), published in Journal of Language and Politics
  • Nationalism and the Politics of Nostalgia (2022), published in Sociological Forum
  • Contextual explanations of radical right-wing party support in Sweden: a multilevel analysis (2020), published in European Societies
  • Sweden, Now a Country Like All the Others? The Radical Right and the End of Swedish Exceptionalism (2021), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

The researcher has also contributed to book publications, notably with a work titled The Populist Challenge, published by Berghahn Books in 2022.

Rydgren frequently collaborates with other scholars in the field. Their notable coauthors include Tina Goldschmidt, Kirsti M. Jylhä, Pontus Strimling, Gabriella Elgenius, and Maria Tyrberg.

In terms of publication venues, the researcher has multiple contributions to OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), along with other journals such as Sustainability, the Journal of Language and Politics, Sociological Forum, and European Societies.

Best Publications

  • The Sociology of the Radical Right

    Jens Rydgren

  • Is extreme right-wing populism contagious? Explaining the emergence of a new party family

    Jens Rydgren

  • Immigration sceptics, xenophobes or racists? Radical right-wing voting in six West European countries

    Jens Rydgren

  • Explaining the Emergence of Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties: The Case of Denmark

    Jens Rydgren

  • Class politics and the radical right

    Jens Rydgren

  • Meso-level Reasons for Racism and Xenophobia: Some Converging and Diverging Effects of Radical Right Populism in France and Sweden

    Jens Rydgren

  • Radical Right Populism in Sweden: Still a Failure, But for How Long?

    Jens Rydgren

  • Mechanisms of exclusion: ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labour market

    Jens Rydgren

  • Radical right-wing parties in Europe: What’s populism got to do with it?

    Jens Rydgren

  • Contextual explanations of radical right-wing support in Sweden : socioeconomic marginalization, group threat, and the halo effect

    Jens Rydgren;Patrick Ruth

  • Movements of exclusion : radical right-wing populism in the Western world

    Jens Rydgren

  • From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism: Radical Right-wing Populism in Sweden

    Jens Rydgren

  • Voting for the Radical Right in Swedish Municipalities: Social Marginality and Ethnic Competition?

    Jens Rydgren;Patrick Ruth

  • The radical right and the end of Swedish exceptionalism

    Jens Rydgren;Sara van der Meiden

  • The Populist Challenge: Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization in France

    Jens Rydgren

  • Radical Right-wing Populism in Denmark and Sweden: Explaining Party System Change and Stability

    Jens Rydgren

  • The Logic of Xenophobia

    Jens Rydgren

  • Frames of nostalgia and belonging : the resurgence of ethno-nationalism in Sweden

    Gabriella Elgenius;Jens Rydgren

  • The Power of the Past: A Contribution to a Cognitive Sociology of Ethnic Conflict

    Jens Rydgren

  • Social capital, friendship networks, and youth unemployment

    Martin Hällsten;Christofer Edling;Jens Rydgren

  • Interethnic Friendship, Trust, and Tolerance : Findings from Two North Iraqi Cities

    Jens Rydgren;Dana Sofi;Martin Hällsten

  • Radical right‐wing voters from right and left: Comparing Sweden Democrat voters who previously voted for the Conservative Party or the Social Democratic Party

    Kirsti M. Jylhä;Jens Rydgren;Pontus Strimling

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikael Rostila
Mikael Rostila Stockholm University
Glen H. Elder
Glen H. Elder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nancy S. Landale
Nancy S. Landale Pennsylvania State University
Richard Swedberg
Richard Swedberg Cornell University
Christopher Winship
Christopher Winship Harvard University
Duncan Gallie
Duncan Gallie University of Oxford
Kathryn M. Neckerman
Kathryn M. Neckerman Columbia University
Elaine Howard Ecklund
Elaine Howard Ecklund Rice University
Barbara Schneider
Barbara Schneider Michigan State University
Pamela Paxton
Pamela Paxton The University of Texas at Austin

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