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17 January, 2020

David Miller - Controlling Immigration in the Name of Self-Determination

David Miller, Professor of Political Theory, FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College Abstract States often justify their restrictive immigration policies by appealing to their right of self-determ

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29 April, 2021

CUSP: Controlling Corruption. The Social Contract Approach

Welcome to the first lecture in the new series CUSP - Critically Urgent Societal Problems - that we arrange in collaboration with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) in Uppsala. At this first

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13 November, 2024

The effect of trusting contexts in social dilemmas with collective and individual solutions

Scientific Reports 14 Abstract Trust encourages members of communities to cooperate and provide public goods. However, the literature has yet to fully investigate how high and low trusting communities de

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , Sergio Lo lacono & Burak Sonmez
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02 February, 2015

Malcolm Fairbrother: Trust and Public Support for Environmental Protection

Dr Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol ABSTRACTMost people say they are concerned about the serious environmental problems confronting the world today and threatening the well-being of future ge

Dr Malcolm Fairbrother
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13 June, 2011

Children’s Work in Everyday Life

Institutet för Framtidsstudiers skriftserie: Framtidens samhälle nr 6 Children’s work has been an important political issue throughout the 20th century, but today it is mostly when discussed with a foc

Type of publication: IFFS reports | Eds. Kristina Engwall and Ingrid Söderlind
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18 September, 2024

Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy

Regulation & Governance Abstract As scholars race to address the climate crisis, they have often treated the problem as sui generisand have only rarely sought to learn from prior efforts to make indu

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & Tim Bartley
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10 March, 2016

Graffiti: A precursor to future deviant behaviour during adolescence?

Deviant Behavior Volume 36, Issue 7, pages 565-580. DOI:10.1080/01639625.2014.951569 Abstract This study examines if graffiti initiation leads to greater deviant behavior. Swedish students (N = 1,010) co

Type of publication: Journal articles | Plenty, Stephanie , , Knut Sundell
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06 October, 2022

The knowledge-management complex: From quality registries to national knowledge-driven management in Swedish health care governance

Politics & Policy Abstract This article analyzes the emergence of the Swedish “national system for knowledge-driven management.” We argue that the system is best understood as a meta-instrument that

Type of publication: Journal articles | Falkenström, Erica , Svallfors, Stefan
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30 October, 2019

Incommensurability: Vagueness, Parity and other Non-Conventional Comparative Relations

The workshop will focus on how one can account for value incommensurability, its implications for ethical theory and decision theory.

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30 October, 2019

Incommensurability: Vagueness, Parity and other Non-Conventional Comparative Relations

The workshop will focus on how one can account for value incommensurability, its implications for ethical theory and decision theory.

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