Mats Öhlén
Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: mats.ohlen@oru.se
Phone: No number available
Room: F2201
About Mats Öhlén
Mats Öhlén is senior lecturer in political science. He got a masters degree in political science at Örebro university, where he also defended his PhD thesis in 2013 about party families in the EU and their role in democratisation processes in Central and Eastern Europe.
Research
Mats Öhlén's research centres on the EU departing from aspects such as instutional challenges of democracy, transnational party families and the role of the EU for democratisation processes in its neighbourhood, primarily Central- and Eastern Europe. He is an active participant in the Swedish network for Europan Studies in Political Science (SNES) and he has also published for the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS).
Teaching
Mats Öhlén has previously given courses at Mid Sweden University and Dalarna University with a focus on the EU, comparative politics, international relations and thesis supervision. Since 2023, he teaches at Örebro University at basic undergraduate level in for example political systems, political parties, public opinion and participation. He also teaches at second level courses in for example policy processes and methods. He also supervise theses on bachelor- and master level.
Collaborations and committments
Mats Öhlén is an active participant in the Swedish network for Europan Studies in Political Science (SNES) and he has also published for the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS).
Publications
Articles in journals
- Öhlén, M. & Karlsson, M. (2015). Ideologisk konvergens mellan öst och väst?: de europeiska partifamiljerna 1990-2013. Nordisk Østforum, 29 (2), 167-189.
Articles, book reviews
- Öhlén, M. (2022). Recension av: The Putin Predicament: Problems of Legitimacy and Succession in Russia. Nordisk Østforum, 36, 130-132.
- Öhlén, M. (2014). Recension av: Demokratiseringsprocesser: nya perspektiv och utmaningar. Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, 116 (4), 513-517.
- Öhlén, M. (2004). Recension av: The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe. Nordisk Østforum (3), 402-406.
Chapters in books
- Öhlén, M. (2024). EU:s framtida utvidgningar: möjligheter och dilemman. In: Björn Lundqvist; Anna Michalski; Lars Oxelheim, Europaperspektiv 2024: Europeiska unionens djup och storlek i en tid av ofred. Stockholm: Santérus förlag.
- Öhlén, M. (2019). The European Parliament and the Europe 2020 strategy: An arena for public debate or political entrepreneurship?. In: Charlie Karlsson; Daniel Silander; Brigitte Pircher, Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth: political entrepreneurship for a prosperous Europe (pp. 75-92). Cheltenhem: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Öhlén, M. (2010). The African Union as Promoter of Democracy and Human Rights: a comparison with the European Union. In: Jan-Magnus Enelo-Jansson; Katarzyna Jezierska; Bernt Gustavsson, Altering politics: democracy from the legal, educational and social perspectives. Örebro: Örebro universitet.
- Öhlén, M. (2006). Europeiska partier: deras roll i demokratins tredje omvandling. In: Mats Ekström et al., Om demoratins villkor: volym 1 (pp. 93-115). Örebro: Örebro universitet.
Collections (editor)
- Silander, D. (ed.) & Öhlén, M. (ed.) (2020). Sweden and the European Union: An Assessment of the Influence of EU-membership on Eleven Policy Areas in Sweden. Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press Sweden.
- Silander, D. (ed.) & Öhlén, M. (ed.) (2016). Svensk politik och EU: hur svensk politik har förändrats av medlemskapet i EU. Stockholm: Santérus Förlag.
Conference papers
- Öhlén, M. & Karlsson, M. (2018). East-West convergence or divergence? The (possible) influence of the European People’s Party on affiliated parties in Central and Eastern Europe 1990-2014. Paper presented at Swedish Network for European Studies in Political Science: Annual Spring Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 19-20, 2018.
- Öhlén, M. (2015). The influence of EU membership on Sweden’s political parties and party system: a preliminary research design. Paper presented at Statsvetenskapliga förbundets årsmöte (SWEPSA), Försvarshögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden, October 14-16, 2015.
- Öhlén, M. (2014). Towards Ideological East-West convergence? European party families 1990-2013. Paper presented at 23rd World Congress of Political Science, Montreal, Canada, July 19-24, 2014.
- Öhlén, M. (2008). Nationalization through Europeanization: The European People’s Party and its (potential) Sister Parties in Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic. Paper presented at ECPR joint sessions Institute d’Études Politiques de Rennes, Rennes, France, April 11-16, 2008.
- Öhlén, M. (2008). The Eastward Expansion of the European Liberal Party Family: The Relation between the European liberal Party Family and Liberal Parties in Central and Eastern Europe. Paper presented at 15th Conference of the Nordic Political Science Association, Tromsø, Norway, August 6-9, 2008.
- Öhlén, M. (2008). The New Institutionalisms and Europarties. Paper presented at 2nd Graduate Network Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, December 11-14, 2008.
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Öhlén, M. (2013). The Eastward Enlargement of European Parties: Party Adaptation in the Light of EU-enlargement. (Doctoral dissertation). Örebro: Örebto universitet.
Reports
- Öhlén, M. (2023). The role of Europarties in Ukraine: the invisible EU membership facilitator?.. Sieps (European Policy Analysis 2023:7).
- Öhlén, M. & Vesterholm, A. (2021). Regional samordning: Nyckeln till en bättre integrationspolitik? En utvärderande fallstudie av överenskommelsen Vägen in i Dalarna. Falun: Högskolan Dalarna (Interkulturellt utvecklingscentrum Dalarna (IKUD) 11).
- Öhlén, M. & Vesterholm, A. (2020). Vägen till arbete för invandrade akademiker? En utvärdering av kursen Korta vägen i Dalarna 2019. Falun: Högskolan Dalarna (Interkulturellt utvecklingscentrum Dalarna (IKUD) 10).