Guide for Leader Profiles

  • Title should consist of 6-10 words. (Example: Per Jimmie Åkesson: A Smiling Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?)
  • Leader profile should be written as a scholarly text.
  • Maximum length of 6000 words.
  • Should be written in a descriptive style.
  • All information should be evidence-based and properly cited/referenced.
  • Comments and analysis in the text should also be based on verifiable, concrete data and information.
  • No theoretical discussions, as profiles should appeal to an average audience.
  • Use accessible, straightforward language and style.
  • Avoid using heavy academic jargon.
  • Create a text which has a chronological flow/structure to enable readers to follow any changes or transformation in the leader’s style, stance, rhetoric, and narratives. Alternatively, the profile could begin with striking characteristics or achievements of the leader being profiled.
  • Use subheadings every 600-800 words, to provide natural breaks in the text
  • Write a conclusion (a few paragraphs) to summarize and analyse the whole text. The conclusion should not consist of new data/information.
  • Write 5-6 spots to highlight the most crucial parts of the text. Each spot should include at max. 70-90 words.
  • Add 6-8 keywords/tags.
  • Organize the references in an orderly manner.

Referencing Rules With Samples

Sample (fictive): Aiming to contribute to the growing scholarly research on populism, raise public awareness and provide practical recommendations to policy makers, the ECPS monitors the populism trends across the world by observing and reporting on the populist political parties, movements and actors (Mulinari and Neergaard, 2014). In order to follow the impact of populism trends on de-democratization and authoritarianization in national context, the ECPS prepares country profiles as scholarly texts in 1500-2000 words (Jungar, 2016). In order to follow the impact of populism trends on de-democratization (BBC, 2018) and authoritarianization in national context, the ECPS prepares country profiles as scholarly texts in 1500-2000 words (Helin, 2009)

Scholarly Journal Articles

  • Mulinari, Diana & Neergaard, Anders. (2014). “We are Sweden Democrats because we care for others: Exploring racisms in the Swedish extreme right.” European Journal of Women’s Studies, 21, 43–56.

Book Chapter

  • Jungar, A. C. (2016), “The Sweden Democrats.” In: R. Heinisch and O. Mazzoleni (eds). Understanding Populist Party Organisation: The Radical Right in Western Europe. London: Palgrave. 189-219.

Book

  • Yegenoglu, M. (1998). Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Newspaper – (news piece)

Newspaper – (featured & columns)

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