asks
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
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
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
Luc Bovens: Secular Hopes in the Face of Death
Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ABSTRACT We will discuss various questions concerning secular hopes in the face of death, that is, hopes other than the hope for eternal life. What
Completed: The consequences of poverty
How does poverty affect children and adults? We study social relations, social participation, physical and mental health, but also the effect on children's education and income.
A Paradigm Shift in Plain Sight? AI and the Future of Healthcare in the Nordic States
Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research Abstract All the Nordic states (except for Iceland at the time of analysis) have published a national artificial intelligence strategy (NAIS) document
Social norms and collective threats
Do social norms help dealing with collective threats? This project studies the behavior of people in the face of risk, and asks how social norms can motivate people to cooperate.
