Gustaf Arrhenius will give the Tore Browaldh-lecture this year in Gothenburg. One of the most important insights to emerge over the past hundred years is that the actions of the current generation – th

i: Sustainability The linkage between political right-wing orientation and climate change denial is extensively studied. However, previous research has almost exclusively focused on the mainstream righ= 2216), a mainstream right-wing party (the Conservative Party,,= 634), and a mainstream center-left party (Social Democrats,= 548) in Sweden. Across the analyses, distrust of public service media (Swedish Television,), socioeconomic right-wing attitudes, and antifeminist attitudes outperformed the effects of anti-immigration attitudes and political distrust in explaining climate change denial, perhaps because of a lesser distinguishing capability of the latter mentioned variables. For example, virtually all Sweden Democrat supporters oppose immigration. Furthermore, the effects of party support, conservative ideologies, and belief in conspiracies were relatively weak, and vanished or substantially weakened in the full models. Our results suggest that socioeconomic attitudes (characteristic for the mainstream right) and exclusionary sociocultural attitudes and institutional distrust (characteristic for the contemporary European radical right) are important predictors of climate change denial, and more important than party support per se.

Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 45, 2022 - Issue 16 Abstract Considering the current political relevance of anti-immigration sentiments, we examined preference to avoid interacting with immigrants – conc

Richard Bradley on climate change assessments and policy decision making

This is a recording from a research seminar at the Institute for Futures Studies in February 2016. The full name of the seminar is: Confidence and probability. Climate change assessments and policy ma

Nancy Cartwright: Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials

Professor Nancy Cartwright speaking at a workshop at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, October 2016. Find Nancy's presentation here: http://www.iffs.se/en/calendar/evidensbaserad-poli

Nancy Cartwright: Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials

Professor Nancy Cartwright speaking at a workshop at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, October 2016. Find Nancy's presentation here: http://www.iffs.se/en/calendar/evidensbaserad-poli

Is social progress around the corner? Insights from IPSP with Marc Fleurbaey

Marc Fleurbaey presents some of the insights from the International Panel on Social Progress while visiting the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, September 2016. For more information abou

Stefan Svallfors Working Paper 2016 no. 3(Published in New Political Economy , Vol 21 (6), pp 505-19 (2016). DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2016.1156662) In this paper, Sweden is used as an example of how organize

Interview with Daniel Wikler on what happened after a seminar on ethics and e-cigs

Director and Professor of Practical Philosophy Gustaf Arrhenius met up with Daniel at a conference in Kigali and took the opportunity to ask him what happened after his talk on ethics and e-cigs at th

In 2016 dozens of prominent researchers from around the world came to our institute to work on the ambitious research report "Rethinking society for the 21st century" by the International Panel on Soci. One of the many interesting researchers we had the pleasure of hosting was Daniel Wikler, Professor of Ethics and Population Health.