Hanna Back

Hanna Bäck (born December 20, 1975 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish political scientist and university professor .

Life

Bäck studied political science at Stockholm University . After completing her BA in 1998, she moved to Uppsala University . After working in the USA , she was in Uppsala in October 2003 with the dissertation Explaining Coalitions. Evidence and Lessons From Studying Coalition Formation in Swedish Local Government. for Ph.D. PhD . In the postdoc phase, she initially stayed there, then moved to the European University Institute in Florence in 2005 and to the University of Twente in 2006 .

In 2007, Bäck accepted an appointment at the University of Mannheim as a junior professor at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research.In 2011, she first became a professor for political science at the University of Lund , and has been a full professor there since 2015 . She has also been an external fellow of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES) since 2011 , and in 2012 she was also a fellow at Nuffield College at Oxford University .

Bäck deals with Western European parliamentary democracies , with political parties and the formation of coalitions and governments.

Bäck received the following awards:

2002: Rudolf Wildenmann Prize for the best essay presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Grenoble 2001
2004: Gunnar Hazelius Prize from Uppsala University for the best dissertation in the social and historical sciences
2008: Vincent Wright Memorial Award for Best Article in West European Politics 2007

with Marc Debus : Political Parties, Parliaments and Legislative Speechmaking. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke 2016. ISBN 978-1-137-48454-3
with Mikael Gilljam (Ed.): Valets mekanismer , Liber, Stockholm 2006. ISBN 978-9-147-08626-9
Explaining Coalitions. Evidence and Lessons From Studying Coalition Formation in Swedish Local Government. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala 2003.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d CV (English) ( Memento from August 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the presence of the University of Lund (as of March 2016)
↑ Bäck in Collaborative Research Center 884 of the University of Mannheim (as of May 2016)
↑ Bäck website on the Lund University website (as of May 2016)

personal data
SURNAME	Back, Hanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bäck, Hanna E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	20th December 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stockholm