Socio-Economic Review Abstract Ordoliberalism has been accused of being the ideational blueprint for Germany’s fiscal stance during the Eurozone-crisis. While the literature that debates the influence o

The Swedish response to Covid-19 put in context.

School impacts of violent relgious extremism

How does the spread of violent extremism in the Sahel region in Africa affect the access to education for boys and girls?

Research seminar with Bo Rothstein.AbstractMost definitions of democracy rely on a set of procedural rules for how political power should be accessed legitimately. The basic norm for these procedural ru realized by equal democratic rights. In this understanding of political legitimacy, democracy is a “partisan game” where various interests are given fair possibilities to compete for political power. The concept of “quality of government” relates to the legitimacy in the of political power and is based on the norm of  that is the opposite of partisanship. This is to be realized by, for example, the rule of law and a public administration built on meritocracy. Several tensions between these two bases for achieving political legitimacy will be present. For example, a democratically elected government may want to politicize the public administration and may establish public services and benefits directed only to their political supporters. The rule of law includes the principle of equality before the law, but a democratically elected government may take actions that put itself “above” the law. Various empirical measures and philosophical principles for understanding these type of tensions between democracy and the quality of government will be presented in this lecture.

Bo Rothstein: Is there a contradiction between democracy and quality of government?

Most definitions of democracy rely on a set of procedural rules for how political power should be accessed legitimately. The basic norm for these procedural rules is according to noted democracy theor

Bi Puranen

Secretary General of the World Values Survey Association and Principal Investigator of WVS Sweden. I am affiliated as Senior Research Fellow to the Institute for Futures Studies. My research is focused

This preliminary study of central actors in the future landscape argues that there is a spectrum from institutions claiming independent expertise and scientific certainty about the future, to those fo

Johan Mellberg

I am Adjunct Associate Professor in Finance at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen (NHH) and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. I received my PhD in 2020.  My research is focused o

Stefan Schubert

My research in recent years has focused on effective altruism, and in particular the question of why most people are not more effective when helping others. Lucius Caviola and I have recently compiled (Oxford University Press, Open Access).

World Values Survey

World Values Survey is a global research network studying trends in values all over the world. Their secretariat is located at the Institute for Futures Studies.