Biographie

Maria Oskarson is a professor at the University of Gothenburg. She is a member of the steering committee of the European Social Survey for Sweden, which she has led since 2014, as well as a member of the steering committee of the MEDem (Monitoring electoral democracy) project, an academic initiative aiming at building a pan-European network of electoral research projects while providing a common data collection infrastructure.

Her research focuses on the links between social position and political attitudes, electoral behavior, party systems and political institutions, with a comparative component.

After receiving her PhD in political science from the University of Gothenburg in 1994, she was appointed Associate Professor (2005) and later Professor of Political Science (2016) at the same institution.