Articles & Chapters

Peer-Reviewed Articles

M Heizel, B Reisberg, and HJ Swedlund. 2024. “Transparency and citizen support for public agencies: The case of foreign aid.” Governance. OnlineFirst. DOI: 10.1111/gove.12863

B Reisberg and HJ Swedlund. 2023. “How transparent are aid agencies to their citizens? Introducing the citizen aid transparency dataset.” Journal of International Development. OnlineFirst. DOI: 10.1002/jid.3762

N Cheeseman, HJ Swedlund, and C O’Brien-Udry. 2024. “Aid withdrawals and suspensions: Why, when and are they effective?” World Development. OnlineFirst. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106571

S Dierich, H Hardt, and HJ Swedlund. 2021. “How to do elite experiments in IR.” European Journal of International Relations, 27 (2), 596-621. DOI: 10.1177/1354066120987891

L Alcorta, HJ Swedlund, and J Smits. 2020. “Discrimination and ethnic conflict: a dyadic analysis of politically-excluded groups in sub-Saharan Africa.” International Interactions, 46 (2), 251-273. DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2020.1716748 

L Alcorta, J Smits, HJ Swedlund, and E de Jong. 2020. “The ‘dark side’ of social capital: A cross-national examination of the relationship between social capital and violence in Africa.” Social Indicators Research, 149 (2), 445-465. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-019-02264-z

ME Desrosiers and HJ Swedlund. 2019. “Rwanda’s post-genocide foreign aid relations: Revisiting notions of exceptionalism.” African Affairs, 118 (472), 435-462. DOI: 10.1093/afraf/ady032

HJ Swedlund and M Lierl. 2019. “The rise and fall of budget support: Ownership, bargaining and donor commitment problems in foreign aid.” Development Policy Review 38, O50-O69. DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12463

L Alcorta, J Smits and HJ Swedlund. 2018. “Inequality and ethnic conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.” Social Forces, 97(2): 769-792. DOI: 10.1093/sf/soy049

HJ Swedlund. 2017. “Can foreign aid donors credibly threaten to suspend aid? Evidence from a cross-national survey of donor officials.” Review of International Political Economy, 24(3): 454- 496. DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2017.1302490

HJ Swedlund. 2017. “Is China eroding the bargaining power of traditional donors in Africa?” International Affairs. 93(2): 389-408. DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiw059
**Nominated for Early Career Award (2017), International Affairs & Chatham House

HJ Swedlund. 2013. “From donorship to ownership? Budget support and donor influence in Rwanda and Tanzania.” Public Administration & Development. 33(5): 357-370. DOI: 10.1002/pad.1665

HJ Swedlund. 2013. “The domestication of governance assessments: Evidence from the Rwandan ‘joint’ governance assessment.” Conflict, Security & Development. 13(4): 449-470. DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2013.834117

J Lecy, HP Schmitz, and HJ Swedlund. “Non-governmental and not-for- Profit organizational effectiveness: A modern synthesis.” 2012. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 23(2): 434-457. DOI: 10.1007/s11266-011-9204-6
**Best article in journal (2012), International Society for Third-Sector Research

Book Chapters

HJ Swedlund. 2023. ”Why didn’t they see it coming?’ Ground-level diplomats, foreign policy, and unconstitutional regime change.” Uncertainty in Global Politics, edited by Miriam Matejova and Anastasia Shesterinina. Routledge.

M Ferry and HJ Swedlund. 2022. “Emerging powers, governance and development.” Elgar Handbook on Governance and Development, edited by Wil Hout and Jane Hutchison. Edward Elgar Publishing, pg. 356-374. 

HJ Swedlund. 2022. “Narratives and negotiations in foreign aid: How post-genocide Rwanda uses narratives to influence perceptions of power.” In International Negotiation and Political Narratives: A Comparative Study, edited by Fen Osler Hampson and Amrita Narlikar. Routledge. 

C Loyle, A Smith and HJ Swedlund. 2019. “Fieldwork in ‘restrictive’ states: Contrasting methodologies.” SAGE Research Methods Cases. DOI: 10.4135/9781526466631

HJ Swedlund. 2014. “Assessing the promises of budget support: Case study evidence from Rwanda.” In Problems, Promises, and Paradoxes of Aid: Africa’s Experience. Editors, Muna Ndulo and Nicolas van de Walle. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: pg. 238-264.