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09 July, 2019

Democratic legitimacy does not require constitutional referendum. On ‘the constitution’ in theories of constituent power

European Constitutional Law Review, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 567-583, doi.org/10.1017/S1574019618000287 Abstract Constitutional referendum – Popular sovereignty – Constituent power – Democratic legitimac

Type of publication: Journal articles | Beckman, Ludvig
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03 October, 2023
Causes and consequences of environmental protests

Causes and consequences of environmental protests. The global environmental contestation and civic mobilization observatory

Environmental protest events are increasing. Does it have any consequences for policy? With global data-sets, this project will try to answer that question.

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11 September, 2018

Consumption-based emissions accounting: the normative debate

Environmental Politics, published online doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2018.1507467          Abstract The normative debate surrounding consumption-based emissions accounting, conceived of as a method for constructing

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran , & Fredrik D. Hjorthen
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24 November, 2023
Swedish preparedness for silent health crises and organizational learning after the swine flu, the heatwave, and the COVID-19 pandemic

Swedish preparedness for silent health crises and organizational learning after the swine flu, the heatwave, and the COVID-19 pandemic

This project aims to identify organizational conditions for efficient crisis management within intensive care units and special accommodations. It will also give recommendations on how the regions can strengthen their preparedness for silent health crises.

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26 January, 2023

Rodney Edvinsson: An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Rodney Edvinsson, professor of economic history, Stockholm University.ABSTRACTThe book An Econom presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.

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15 May, 2013

Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, Debt, and Energy Consumption

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland By analogy with the probability distribution of energy in statistical physics, I argue that the probability distribution of money in a closed economic system sh, Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1703 (2009), New Journal of Physics 12, 075032 (2010).  This work is currently supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking,

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
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23 September, 2024

Birth Spacing and Parents’ Physical and Mental Health: An Analysis Using Individual and Sibling Fixed Effects

Demography 61(2): 393–418 Abstract An extensive literature has examined the relationship between birth spacing and subsequent health outcomes for parents, particularly for mothers. However, this researc

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , Barclay, K. & Ö. Kravdal
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19 December, 2022

Replies to “Can Consumption-Based Emissions Accounting Solve the Problem of Historical Emissions? Some Skeptical Remarks”

Ethics, Policy & Environment vol 25, no 3, 371–374 Introduction In ´Consumption-Baed Emissions Accounting and Historical Emissions´(Torpman, 2022), I argued that a move from production-based emissio

Type of publication: Journal articles | Torpman, Olle
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01 February, 2017

We welcome Berit Högman to our board

The Swedish government has appointed Berit Högman to the board of the Institute for Futures Studies during 2017–2022. Berit Högman is Deputy Group Leader (SocDem) in the Swedish Parliament and has been

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21 August, 2019

Popular sovereignty facing the deep state. The rule of recognition and the powers of the people

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, published online first. doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2019.1644583 Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between the idea of popula

Type of publication: Journal articles | Beckman, Ludvig
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