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A broken process - the Swedish health care system asks for expert advice
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 27. No. 2, p. 57–70. Abstract This paper analyses the process in which expert reports on health care governance are commissioned, produced and receive
Kristian Lasslett
Kristian is an investigative criminologist specialising in the study of elite networks involved in the organisation of serious economic crime. His research focuses thematically on grand corruption, kl
Maria Wallenberg Bondesson
I am a historian, and defended my thesis at Stockholm University in 2003. In my thesis, I studied different types of religious conflicts in Sweden in the 17th-19th centuries. Since 2007 my research has
Is the world ready for democracy?
Welcome to a seminar where we present the newest results from World Values Survey, the world's largest survey on values and cultural changes. The results concern several countries in the Middle East, A
Simone Abram: Caring and sharing: Democratic imaginaries in question
Dr Simone Abram, Department of Anthropology, Durham University ABSTRACT Within the broad term 'democratic state' there is a messy set of imagined virtues, vices and possibilities. In this paper, I consi
Global Social Norms
The Global Social Norms network is a research collaboration with its base at the Institute for Futures Studies, connecting social norms researchers from over 130 countries.
Students’ occupational aspirations: Can family relationships account for differences between immigrant and socioeconomic groups?
Child Development Abstract Immigrant background and disadvantaged socioeconomic background are two key predictors of poorer school achievement in Europe. However, the former is associated with higher wh
Value and Time
in: The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory, Eds. Iwao Hirose and Jonas Olson, Oxford University Press. This chapter discusses time and value. The two main questions are: What is the time of value? and Wha
Consequentialism, ignorance, and uncertainty
in: OUP Handbook on Consequentialism, Doug Portmore, ed., Oxford University Press (2020) Abstract:Act consequentialism provides an answer to the question of what one ought to do, no matter which situat
Peer acceptance and rejection during secondary school: Do associations with subsequent educational outcomes vary by socioeconomic background?
Child Development Abstract Research shows that peer relationships are associated with students' school adjustment. However, the importance of advantageous and disadvantageous factors for students' educa
