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Nancy Cartwright: Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham and at the University of California, San Diego ABSTRACTRCTs are valuable tools whose use is spreading i
Catriona McKinnon: Endangering Humanity: An International Crime?
Catriona McKinnon, Professor at Politics and International Relations, University of Reading ABSTRACTWith the Anthropocene underway, the vulnerability of future people to present people is greater than
Spectrum arguments, parity and persistency
in: Theoria (2020) Volume 86:4 AbstractThis article shows that introducing the positive comparative relation parity only helps one block so‐called “Spectrum Arguments” in order to avoid their unsavoury
Measuring Cultural Dimensions: External Validity and Internal Consistency of Hofstede's VSM 2013 Scales
in: Frontiers in Psychology AbstractCross-cultural comparisons often investigate values that are assumed to have long-lasting influence on human conduct and thought. To capture and compare cultural val
Non-transitive better than relations and rational choice
in: Philosophia 48 (2020) AbstractThis paper argues that decision problems and money-pump arguments should not be a deciding factor against accepting non-transitive better than relations. If the reason
Radical Right-wing Populism in Denmark and Sweden: Explaining Party System Change and Stability
2010. The SAIS Review of International Affairs 30: 57-71. AbstractThis paper aims to present possible explanations as to why radical right-wing populist parties have been highly successful in Denmark but
Geoffrey Brennan: A Brief History of Equality
Geoffrey Brennan, Professor at the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University ABSTRACTThis paper propounds and explicates an 'Iron Law of inter-temporal income dispersion trans
25 MSEK to research about school segregation
The past decades school segregation has become increasingly common in Sweden. Today Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council), published information on which projects will get funding for five ye
A Bedrock of Support? Trends in Welfare State Attitudes in Sweden, 1981–2010
Social Policy & Administration issn 0144–5596. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2011.00796.x. Vol. 45, No. 7, December 2011, pp. 806–825 AbstractThis article reports findings about Swedes’ attitudes toward
Tobias Hübinette: The modern history of Swedish whiteness and Swedish race thinking
Tobias Hübinette is Associate Professor in Intercultural Education and a Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Karlstad University. ABSTRACTThis presentation aims at understanding today's situati