Saga Oskarson Kindstrand
PhD Candidate
Saga Oskarson Kindstrand earned a Master’s degree in Political Science from the School of Research at Sciences Po Paris. Before relocating to Paris, she completed her Bachelor’s degree at Bournemouth University, where she focused on civil society and state-citizen relations, and undertook a year-long internship at the Foundation for Environmental Education in Copenhagen.
Research
Currently, Saga is researching party-based linkage and citizen mobilization in European representative democracies, with a particular focus on how political parties engage those who feel underrepresented in policymaking. Her master’s thesis, Populist Linkage: Revitalizing Membership-Based Politics in an Age of Disengagement, was an ethnographic study of party members within the Sweden Democrats. For her doctoral research, she is conducting a comparative analysis of the Sweden Democrats and the Swedish Social Democratic Party to better understand the conditions that enable parties to build strong organizational structures, mobilize members, and foster long-term partisan identities.
Conferences
Political Studies Association's 2022 Undergraduate Conference
Awards
Faculty of Media and Communications Dean’s Prize 2022 (University of Bournemouth)
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Research Topics
party organisation, party-based linkage, political participation, populism, partisan collective identities