Social Science Quarterly, 838-856 Abstract Objectives This article presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outc

Professor Jesper Strömbäck, The Swedish Commission on the Future Seminars host is Stefan Svallfors. The seminars are free of charge and take place at 13.00–14.30 in the Institute’s seminar room at Holl

By analysing pension reforms in three Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland and Sweden that apply different institutional solutions in their old-age security programmes – the paper argues that the polit

Ethics and E-cigs. An Analysis and A Proposal

Daniel Wikler, Professor of Ethics and Population Health, speaks at a research seminar at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, suggesting a public health initiative to decrease the amount o

Jus Cogens, vol. 6 Abstract Several critics have argued that private prisons are not only problematic because of their worse effects but also intrinsically wrong. This article analyzes two prominent arg

Lucia Karens

I have a bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics. I am currently finishing my Master's degree in Machine Learning. At the Institute for Futures Studies, I work as a research assistant for the project E, led by . The aim of the project is to investigate how stereotypes about minority and immigrant groups have evolved over time in Sweden and Finland, by analysing several decades' worth of newspaper articles. My main tasks are running the quantitative analysis of the data with various machine learning methods, as well as visualizing the results.

Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 95. Abstract How does the order in which liberalization unfolds affect the likelihood for a successful democratic transition? Dahl was among the first

The British Journal of Criminology Abstract In this exploratory study, individuals’ processes of engagement in violent extremist groups are analysed by drawing from criminological life-course theory and

Daniel Wikler, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health at the Harvard School of Public Health ABSTRACTTwo letters on electronic cigarettes (“E-c

Michael Osborne, Exeter College, Oxford. We examine how susceptible jobs are to computerisation. To assess this, we begin by implementing a novel methodology to estimate the probability of computerisat