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 affiliation models in European representative democracies, with a particular emphasis on member-party dynamics in newly established parties. Her master’s thesis, titled "Populist Linkage: Revitalising Membership-Based Politics in an Age of Disengagement," was an ethnographic study of members of the Swedish radical-right party, the Sweden Democrats. For her doctoral research, she is conducting a comparative analysis of the Sweden Democrats and the German party Bündnis Sarah Wagenknecht, focusing on the conditions necessary for party-based linkages and the development of long-term partisan collective identities.
Conferences
Political Studies Association's 2022 Undergraduate Conference
Awards
Faculty of Media and Communications Dean’s Prize 2022 (University of Bournemouth)
Contact
Research Topics
party organisation, party-based linkage, political participation, populism, partisan collective identities
