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Six candidates for a political science professor position open at Lund University are evaluated. Among factors considered are their political science, education, and administrative expertise. Finally, each is given a brief, overall assessment. Adapted from the source document.

Applicants for the Lars Hiertas Professorship in Political Science at the U of Stockholm, Sweden, are evaluated by their curricula vitae & interviews. All seven candidates held graduate degrees from the universities of Stockholm & Goteborg. The three reviewers were unanimous in their first & second choices for the position. A. Siegel

This article criticizes the article by Ludvig Beckman (2006/3) about Herbert Tingsten, named "the father of the criticism of ideas." The author states that unclear and unfair quotations put Tingsten in an unfavorable light. Also, his different public roles were not considered separately. References. Adapted from the source document.

An appointment committee went through the process of reviewing candidates for the position of Johan Skytte Chair in Eloquence and Government at Uppsala University. In all, they received application materials and supporting documents from eight candidates. Candidates were evaluated based on their political science and education expertise as demonstrated through their independent research contributions, and their oratory and administrative skill, and finally on their activities in the area of community outreach -- i.e., the education of the broader public outside academic circles. Out of the original group of eight, the committee narrowed down their applicant pool to four candidates. Upon assigning individual rankings to each of the four candidates, all three committee members gave the top ranking to Li Bennich-Bjorkman. Adapted from the source document.

The article explains the process of selection of a Professor in Political Sciences with special emphasis in administration at the University of Lund in Sweden. The curriculum vitae & merits of each candidate, both in research & pedagogic, as well as their administrative experience, are presented, together with a general evaluation. Each of the three members of the hiring committee establishes a rank for the three final candidates, & Professor Axel Hadenius is appointed. Katarina Eckerberg, Axel Hadenius, Jonas Hinnfors, Mats Sjolin, Drude Dahlerup contributed. A. Barral

The Position "Lars Hierta's" Professor in Political Sciences was established in 1936, & although there are currently 6 more Professor positions at Stockholm University, this one is particularly involved in recruiting, for which reason extra importance is given to administrative merits. Scientific, pedagogical, administrative & leadership, as well as scientific representative merits were evaluated. Of the five applicants, only three were considered as the others had no research experience. After a detailed analysis, none of the three were considered acceptable for named position. A. Barral

Upon notice of a vacant chair in political science in Karlstad, Sweden, 6 applicants are made the subject of an evaluation: Docent Carsten Anckar, Docent Ingemar Elander, Docent Michele Micheletti, Professor Victor Pestoff, Docent Lars-Inge Strom, & Professor Marie-Louise von Bergman-Winberg. The academic merits of each candidate are summarized, after which the authors each present their own summary of these profiles followed by their personal ranking of the candidates. C. Brunski

Constitutional reform measures, currently in committee, are going to be brought before voters in an election scheduled to take place in the year 2010. Proposed measures meeting all requirements, including voter approval, will then go into effect at the beginning of 2011. Political science professor Torbjorn Bergman and Magnus Blomgren (Ph.D.) are currently engaged in a project that involves analyzing the constitutional reform process. This project is taking place over a three-year time span, from 2008-2010. While previous research has explored constitutional reform efforts retroactively, Bergman and Blomgren have adopted a unique approach in that they seek to analyze the constitutional reform process while it is in progress. Adapted from the source document.

Herbert Tingsten (1896-1973) was one of the leading political science scholars in Sweden during the 20th century. In 1935-1946 he was a professor at Stockholm University. In 1946-1959 he was the editor-in-chief of the leading liberal newspaper in Sweden, the Dagens Nyheter. Tingsten's extensive scholarly production can be summed up in four groups. The first group describes the political institutions and rules, e.g. his doctoral thesis about referendum in the United States (1923). The second group contains analyses of political ideas. The third group combines institutional descriptions and analyses of ideas, primarily democratic and totalitarian ones. The fourth group, lastly, consists primarily of Political Behavior (1937). This book, a classic in the study of electoral statistics, gave Tingsten a lasting international acknowledgement. Adapted from the source document.

In 1870, political science was established as an academic discipline, attached to history, at the Lund University. In 1877, a chair in history and political science was created. Twenty-five years later, it was transformed into a chair in political science and statistics. In 1926, that symbiosis was put to an end and political science was awarded a chair of its own. Pontus Fahlbeck, professor from 1889 to 1917, was a historian who developed into a social scientist with broad interests: political science, statistics, economics, and sociology. Several of his books were also published in foreign languages and he had many contacts with colleagues abroad, particularly in France and Germany. However, the critical period in the modernization of political science in Lund happened just after the middle of the 20th century, with Nils Stjernquist, holding the chair from 1951 to 1983, at helm. The dependence of history and legal science waned; the influence of social science, especially in its American version, increased. The result was a modern political science department with broad interests and worldwide contacts. References.

Beckman answers to the criticism of the article in p67. While he cannot comment on the lack of clarity of quotations as the precise issue was not described, he defends his approach on analyzing Tingsten's work using his different public roles (professor and redactor-in-chief of Dagens Nyheter). Adapted from the source document.

Swedish political science has been based on a science historian perspective that has been an exciting and dynamic field over the last decade. During that time, I have had an idea for a historical thesis project to study the internal quality assessment in the subject during the previous half century. The project has been empirically based on peer reviews from professor added solutions. Adapted from the source document.

The procedural aspects surrounding the currently suspended process of selection for the Position "Lars Hierta's" Professor in Political Sciences is reviewed. In a highly unusual manner according to the author, the Board of Educators proposed him over the Experts' Opinion to the position, which he declined. Then it was offered to Tommy Moller, who accepted & had a salary discussion with the Dean. However the Rector stopped the process. The author analyzes also seemingly subjective judgments by the "Experts" while evaluating the applicants' merits. A. Barral

Along with the technics that allows archaeology to adopt a precise knowledge about the composition of the materiality, also exists a critical thought that claims for take into account experience, perception and creativity. In the latter, we find Art-Archaeology approach. With this at background emerged the idea of the presence and the ontology of the 'dot' in archaeology, identified in the ongoing process of the attendance of a meeting at Kyoto, in the excavation of a simulated site, in the survey of an unidentified site and in a short research about Prehistoric tattoo. This idea, in its explicit simplicity, is part of a creative thought situated in the roots of the archaeological practice. In this paper I reflect about this through an artistic photo-essay that is at the same time an artistic and theoretical exercise, with the intention to identify the existence of the 'dot' in different dimensions of archaeology, and to make theory making art.

A professor in public law discusses her experience with interdisciplinary sciences, especially between public law and political science regarding peace and conflict research. Public law and political science are unified in many ways, especially after the increasing influence of the highly politicized EU-law, and have yielded good results within the study of soft law (i.e. informal rules), conflict, human trafficking, and the power of the EU jurors. However, maybe the most ambitious project of them all is the research of how states of war and dictatorships can be transferred into states of peace and democracy. Despite its many opportunities, interdisciplinary science has its problems, such as a lack of a mutual scientific language and different theoretical structures. Luckily, many of these problems can be countered with thorough planning. L. Pitkaniemi