Here's an overview of the department's larger research projects.

• Exemplar Democracy (EXDEM)
• A Sense of Belonging - The Cultural-Historical Roots to Group Rights
• How Democracies Cope with Covd19: A Data-Driven Approach (HOPE)
• Justifying Defeat
• Local Agendas
• Magtudredningen 2.0
• Moral limits of the market
• Perceptions of Social Stratification and Voting (PERSOS)
• Political Settlements and Revenue Bargains in Africa
• The Politics and Evolution Lab (PoNE Lab)
• Populism and Democratic Defence in Europe
• Understanding Resistance to Knowledge Authorities (REACTOR)
• Research on Online Political Hostility (ROPH)
• Slow-Motion Democracy (SLOMODEMO)
• Sectarianism in the Wake of the Arab Revolts (SWAR)
• Pro-social Bystander Reactions to Online Political Hostility (STANDBY)
• Bringing in the Other Islamists - comparing Arab Shia and Sunni Islamism(s) in a sectarianized Middle East (TOI)
• The Psychology of Administrative Burden