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Sofia Axelsson
Survey Manager
Department of Political ScienceAbout Sofia Axelsson
Presentation
Sofia Axelsson is Chief Analyst at the Department of Political Science. Currently working with the research project EECC (Swedish Opinions on Environment, Energy and Climate Change), financed by the Swedish Energy Agency.
Also involved in the Riksdag MP Survey 2022 led by Henrik Oscarsson and Patrik Öhberg, as well as the international research project CIVPROF led by Victor Lapuente, and the interdisciplinary project Linguistic Explorations of Societets (LES) led by Stefan Dahlberg at the Mid Sweden University.
Affiliated with the Election Studies Programme and the Quality of Government Institute.
Research areas
Climate and energy studies, democracy, corruption and quality of government, comparative survey research with a focus on linguistic and translational effects, machine learning, language technology.
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Measuring Happiness and Life Satisfaction amongst Swedish Citizens: an Inquiry into Semantic Equivalence in Comparative Survey
Research
Sofia Axelsson, Stefan Dahlberg
JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES - 2024 -
Svensk ekologisk modernisering och omställningen till ett fossilfritt
samhälle
Sofia Axelsson, Erik Elwing, Simon Matti
Inferno. - 2024 -
A Distributional Semantic Online Lexicon for Linguistic Explorations of
Societies
S. Dahlberg, Sofia Axelsson, A. C. Gyllensten, M. Sahlgren, A. Ekgren, Sören Holmberg, J. A. Schwarz
Social Science Computer Review - 2023 -
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III):
Report
Marina Nistotskaya, Stefan Dahlberg, Carl Dahlström, Aksel Sundström, Sofia Axelsson, Cem Mert Dalli, Natalia Alvarado Pachon
2021 -
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 Dataset: Wave
III
Marina Nistotskaya, Stefan Dahlberg, Carl Dahlström, Aksel Sundström, Sofia Axelsson, Cem Mert Dalli, Natalia Alvarado Pachon
2021 -
Democracy in context: using a distributional semantic model to study differences in the usage of democracy across languages and
countries
S. Dahlberg, Sofia Axelsson, Sören Holmberg
Zeitschrift fur Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft - 2020 -
The QoG Standard Dataset 2020
Codebook
Jan Teorell, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon, Sofia Axelsson
2020 -
The QoG Basic Dataset 2020
Codebook
Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon, Sofia Axelsson
2020 -
The QoG OECD Dataset 2020
Codebook
Jan Teorell, Staffan Kumlin, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon, Sofia Axelsson
2020 -
Start Spreading the News: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Communication on Political Engagement in Sixteen European
Countries
M. Hameleers, L. Bos, N. Fawzi, C. Reinemann, I. Andreadis, N. Corbu, C. Schemer, A. Schulz, T. Shaefer, T. Aalberg, Sofia Axelsson, R. Berganza, C. Cremonesi, Stefan Dahlberg, C. H. de Vreese, A. Hess, E. Kartsounidou, D. Kasprowicz, J. Matthes, E. Negrea-Busuioc, S. Ringdal, S. Salgado, K. Sanders, D. Schmuck, Jesper Strömbäck, J. Suiter, H. Boomgaarden, K. Tenenboim-Weinblatt, N. Weiss-Yaniv
International Journal of Press-Politics - 2018 -
Lost in Translation - How Differences in Word Intensity Affect Citizens' Satisfaction with the Workings of Democracy across
Countries
Stefan Dahlberg, Sofia Axelsson, Magnus Sahlgren, Jonas Linde
Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Political Science Association (APSA), 30 augusti - 2 september 2018 - 2018 -
Corruption Talk: Mapping the Word Corruption in Online Text Data Across the
World
Sofia Axelsson, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg
General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). 22-25 August, Hamburg. - 2018 -
What People Talk About When They Talk About Corruption: Using A Distributional Semantic Lexicon to Collect Text from Online Data across the
World
Sofia Axelsson, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg
Internal Conference of the Quality of Government Institute - 2018 -
Measuring happiness and life satisfaction amongst Swedish citizens: An inquiry into semantic equivalence in comparative
research
Sofia Axelsson, Stefan Dahlberg
Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), 18-21 maj 2017 - 2017 -
The Meaning of Democracy. Using Distributional Semantics to Account for Meaning
Differences
Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Sofia Axelsson, Magnus Sahlgren, Amaru Cuba Gyllensten
Internal Conference of the Quality of Government Institute - 2017 -
Corruption Talk: Exploring the Use of the Word Corruption in Large Text Data Across Different Languages and Online
Media
Sofia Axelsson, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg
Internal Conference of the Quality of Government Institute - 2017 -
The Meaning of Democracy. Using Distributional Semantics to Account for Meaning
Differences
Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Sofia Axelsson, Magnus Sahlgren, Amaru Cuba Gyllensten
PolText International Conference on the Advances in Computational Analysis of Political Text. Dubrovnik, Croatia. - 2016 -
Expressing Happiness in Different
Languages
Sofia Axelsson, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Magnus Sahlgren, Amaru Cuba Gyllensten
EUENGAGE Political Text Analysis Workshop, 21 – 22 June 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands - 2016 -
Expressing Happiness in Different
Languages
Sofia Axelsson, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg
Internal Conference of the Quality of Government Institute - 2016 -
Measuring Happiness, Life Satisfaction and Satisfaction with Democracy Amongst Swedish Citizens. An Inquiry into Semantic Equivalence in Comparative Survey
Research
Sofia Axelsson, Stefan Dahlberg, Johan Martinsson
Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) - 2016 -
Gendered Struggle for Freedom: A Narrative Inquiry into the Lives of Female Ex-Combatants in South
Africa
Sofia Axelsson
Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace. Challenging Gender in Violence and Post-Conflict Reintegration - 2015