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(Re)centralizing Tendencies within Health Care Services. Implementation of a New Idea?
Decentralization has for many years been a widespread trend in health care sectors throughoutEurope, but some implications of ambitions for states to regain control can be seen. This paper examines wh
The institutional order of liberalization
British Journal of Political Science 52: 1465–1471 Abstract When authoritarian regimes liberalize, are there observable patterns in the ordering of reforms, and are these patterns distinct for cases that

Garrett Cullity: How Discriminatory Attitudes Can Make Actions Wrong
Research seminar with Garrett Cullity, professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, known for his research on moral philosophy. Abstract In general, otherwise permissible actions do

Garrett Cullity: How Discriminatory Attitudes Can Make Actions Wrong
Research seminar with Garrett Cullity, professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, known for his research on moral philosophy. Abstract In general, otherwise permissible actions do
Garrett Cullity: But Thinking Makes It So: How Discriminatory Attitudes Can Make Actions Wrong
Research seminar with Garrett Cullity, professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, known for his research on moral philosophy. Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Register here > Ab
Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization
Political Science Research and Methods, 1-20 Abstract This paper introduces a new approach to the quantitative study of democratization. Building on the comparative case-study and large-N literature, it
Cooperation, structure and hierarchy in multiadaptive games
2011. Phys. Rev. E. 84:061148. Abstract Game-theoretical models where the rules of the game and the interaction structure both coevolves with the game dynamics —multiadaptive games—capture very flexible
Establishing pathways to democracy using domination analysis
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
Successful and failed episodes of democratization: conceptualization, identication, and description
Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 97. Abstract What explains successful democratization? This paper makes four contributions towards providing more sophisticated answers to this questishowing that while several established covariates are useful for predicting outcomes, none of them seem to explain the onset of a period of liberalization. Fourth, it illustrates how the identification of episodes makes it possible to study processes quantitatively using sequencing methods to detail the importance of the order of change for liberalization outcomes.
Patrik Lindenfors: Sequences of democratization
Patrik Lindenfors, Associate Professor of Zoological Ecology. Abstract What explains successful democratization? We present a suggestion for a new solution that identifies the discrete beginning of a li