Markus Johansson

Markus Johansson is a senior researcher in political science at Sieps and at the Department of political science and Centre for European research at the University of Gothenburg. He got his PhD in 2015 in political science from the University of Gothenburg, with a double degree from the University of Antwerp.

Markus is doing research on the functioning of the EU institutions and is particularly interested in the relation between the member states and the institutions. This includes an interest in patterns of cooperation, negotiations and influence in the Council of Ministers, the role of leadership in the EU, EU member states’ compliance with EU law and interaction with the Commission in the infringement cases that end up in the Court of Justice of the EU.

Selection of publications

2021: A risk framework for optimising policies for deep decarbonisation technologies (with David Langlet, Olof Larsson, Åsa Löfgren, Niklas Harring and Sverker Jagers). Energy Research & Social Science, 82.

2021: Explaining Cooperation in the Council of the EU Before and After the Brexit Referendum. Politics and Governance, 9(1): 5–15.

2020: Leadership in the European Union (with Lisbeth Aggestam). In Laursen, Finn (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of European Union Politics (print). Oxford: Oxford University Press, och Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (online).

2019: Samarbete och inflytande i EU:s ministerråd (with Daniel Naurin and Rutger Lindahl). Sieps 2019:6epa.

2017: The Leadership Paradox in EU Foreign Policy (with Lisbeth Aggestam). JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 55(6): 1203–1220.

2015: Negotiations as Usual. Putting Domestic Constraints on the Table in the Council of the European Union. Doctoral thesis, Göteborg Studies in Politics 140. Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.