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15 February, 2016

Donatella Della Porta: Antiausterity protests in Europe and beyond: bringing capitalist back into social movement studies

Donatella Della Porta, Professor of Sociology at Scuola normale superiore, and Director of the Centre of Social Movements Studies. ABSTRACTSocial movement studies have developed a useful kit of concept

Donatella Della Porta, Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, and professor of Political science at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane
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31 August, 2018

Richard Bellamy: Taking Back Control: Why National Democracy Needs the EU, and the EU Needs National Democracy

Richard Bellamy, Professor of Political Science, UCL and Director of the Max Weber Programme, EUI. Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter. Abstract The muted popular support for, and certain faiI dispute this analysis. I argue that the EU’s role consists of supporting the democratic institutions of the member states, not least by enabling them to regulate their mutual interactions in non-dominating ways. From this perspective, the standard solution to the EU’s democratic deficit would create a domestic democratic deficit within each of the member states, one I contend democracy at the EU level would be unable to compensate for. Indeed, the current rise in Euro scepticism can be regarded as a product of this situation. By contrast, I suggest we conceive the EU as an association of democratic states, the decisions of which are under their joint and equal control. Drawing on the book, the talk will cover why such an arrangement is necessary, the norms that govern it, and the institutional framework required for it to work effectively and efficiently as well as equitably.

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11 December, 2019

John Broome: A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change

The usual way of thinking about climate change is that the present generation will have to make large sacrifices in order to reduce emissions. For example, by consuming less goods and services. This is one reason why cutting emissions is so hard. But what if there is a way to get climate change under control where no one needs to sacrifice?

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06 December, 2023
The Black Shore

The Black Beach: Moving Images between Swedish and Caribbean Shores

How can we understand life on the former Swedish Caribbean colony Saint-Barthélemy? This project aims to add to our undestanding using artistic methods as a complement to the juridical documents available in archives.

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20 January, 2020
A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change: A conversation between John Broome & Gustaf Arrhenius podcast

A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change: A conversation between John Broome & Gustaf Arrhenius

Reducing emissions and combatting climate change now will be of huge value for the coming generations. In principle this value could be used to fund the huge green investment loans needed today in ord

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28 September, 2022

Money-Pump Arguments

Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy, red. Martin Peterson. Cambridge University Press Abstract Suppose that you prefer A to B, B to C, and C to A. Your preferences violate Expected Utility Theory

Type of publication: Books | Gustafsson, Johan E.
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30 May, 2018

How do we measure well-being?

Stella lives with her family in a villa in a medium-sized town in Sweden. She likes her job but her back is hurting. How do we measure her well-being? Increasing well-being is generally accepted as one

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13 November, 2018

Social consensus influences ethnic diversity preferences

Forthcoming in Social Influence. Published online: DOI: 10.1080/15534510.2018.1540358. Abstract There is widespread segregation between workplaces along ethnic lines. We expand upon previous research on

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa , , Fredrik Jansson
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05 May, 2021

On Frogs, Monkeys, and Execution Memes: Exploring the Humor-Hate Nexus at the Intersection of Neo-Nazi and Alt-Right Movements in Sweden

Television and New Media. Special issue: Nationalisms and Racisms on Digital Media. Volume: 22 issue: 2,page(s): 147-165 Abstract This article is based on a case study of the online media practices of th

Type of publication: Journal articles | Askanius, Tina
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09 December, 2015

Daniel Wikler: Ethics and E-cigs. An analysis and a proposal

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

Daniel Wikler, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health at the Harvard School of Public Health
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