Jason Tucker
Review of Elinor Mason’s Ways to be Blameworthy
Oxford University Press (2020) Abstract:In the moral responsibility literature, it is often said that blameworthiness presupposes wrongdoing. But there are numerous conceptions of both blame and wrongd is, to our knowledge, the first book-length attempt to spell out what the relevant kinds of wrongdoing and blame are that would make a strong connection between wrongdoing and blameworthiness plausible.
From Transfers to Individual Responsibility: Implications for Savings and Capital Accumulation in Taiwan and the United States
A demographically realistic model incorporating life cycle saving motives is used to simulate effects of changing a transfer-based old-age support to a funded system, applied to the cases of Taiwan an
Uncivil speech in the social media: Democracy, Political liberalism, and the virtue of Public Reason
Constellations Introduction Initial hopes of the democratizing potential of the internet are increasingly replaced by fear that a fragmented and unedited public sphere unleashes the destructive forces o
Stefan Svallfors keynote speaker at postdoctoral conference on the future of welfare state studies
The conference Future of Welfare State Studies Conference was held in Umeå for postdoctoral researchers, on May 15–17. It included parallel sessions focusing on the most central aspects in the researc' address had the title .
Homophily and Insularity Dynamics in an Echo Chambers: Computational Models for the Study of the Conspiracy Subculture in Facebook
Social Indicators Research Abstract The research focuses on developing a computational model (agent-based) to describe and analyse the structure and evolution of a conspiracy bubble within Facebook. Thedescriptiveexperimental
Intergenerational Redistribution in Sweden’s Public and Private Sectors
Chapter 23 in Ronald Lee , Andrew Mason (eds), Population Aging And The Generational Economy—A Global Perspective. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Om jämlikhet och vad vi egentligen vill uppnå med den. Intervju med Larry Temkin
Den amerikanske filosofen Larry Temkin har ägnat nästan hela sin forskarkarriär åt att förstå jämlikhet. Han menar att det vi egentligen vill uppnå när vi pratar om jämlikhet är ett slags rättvisa och
Violent threats and internal security - findings from a Canada-Sweden research project
The Embassy of Canada, in partnership with the Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS), would like to invite you to a seminar presenting the Canada-Sweden collaborative research project on violent threat Thursday 19 January 2023, 15:30-18:00 Embassy of Canada to Sweden, Raoul Wallenberg room, 7th floor, Klarabergsgatan 23, Stockholm
Janine Wedel
I am an anthropologist and university professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, and a senior research fellow of the New America Foundation. My main research in
Offentliga samtal: Tolerans, till vilket pris?
Det finns studier som pekar ut Sverige som ett av världens mest toleranta länder och tolerans betraktas ofta som en nödvändig förutsättning för en fungerande demokrati. Men vad menas egentligen med to
