Jessika Wide is Associate Professor and appointed as Qualified Teacher. Her research interests deals with local democracy; marketization in elderly care; and women's political representation.
My research interests concern local and regional democracy, marketization in elderly care and women's political representation.
Local and regional democracy: I have a great interest in issues concerning democracy in municipalities and regions, with a special focus on political parties, social representativeness, turnout, gender equality and participatory democracy. I participate in SNS Democracy Council 2022, which deals with the future path of Swedish local democracy.
Marketization in elderly care: I conduct research on the public home-care provider in municipalities that have introduced a system of freedom of choice (LOV) in home-care services, as well as on the opportunities of pensioners' organizations or participation and influence on issues related to a marketized elderly care in the municipalities.
Women's political representation: My dissertation dealt with women's political representation in a comparative perspective. Later, I have mainly been interested in female representation at the municipal level in Sweden and more specifically the parties' gender quotas and candidate selection in both general elections and to indirectly elected political appointments.
Since 2016, I have been placed as a Qualified Teacher at Umeå University.
I am responsible for courses in public administration at the Programme for International Crisis and Conflict Management, the Programme in Health Care Administration and the Programme for Social Work. In addition, I supervise and examine student theses and examination projects in political science at all levels.