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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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19 March, 2021

Vaccine confidence is higher in more religious countries

Human vaccines and immunotherapeutics Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is a threat to global health, but it is not ubiquitous; depending on the country, the proportion that have confidence in vaccines ranges

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Vartanova, Irina
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31 August, 2018

Daniel Cohnitz: Trust no one? The (social) epistemological consequences of belief in conspiracy theories

Daniel Cohnitz, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Utrecht University. Abstract Conspiracy theorists are typically skeptical about the trustworthiness of central governmental institutions. Some philos

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18 March, 2022
Ulf Mörkenstam

Ulf Mörkenstam

 I’m Professor in Political Science at Stockholm University. I defended my dissertation at the same university in 1999. At the institute, I participate in the research project "The territory of democrac

Professor in Political Science
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26 June, 2018

The Role of Education for Intergenerational Income Mobility: A comparison of the United States, Great Britain, and Sweden

Social Forces, Volume 96, Issue 1, pp. 121–152, doi.org/10.1093/sf/sox051 Abstract Previous studies have found that intergenerational income persistence is relatively high in the United States and Brita

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jonsson, Jan O. , Paul Gregg & Lindsey Macmillan Mood, Carina , Paul Gregg & Lindsey Macmillan
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03 September, 2020

The Relation Between Gender Egalitarian Values and Gender Differences in Academic Achievement

Frontiers in Psychology, 11:236 Abstract Gender differences in achievement exhibit variation between domains and between countries. Much prior research has examined whether this variation could be due t

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Vartanova, Irina
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31 August, 2022
The territory of democracy

The territory of democracy

The presumption that the jurisdiction of the state extends to the borderes of a certain territory is increasingly being challenged, both by indigenous people within this territory, and by extraterritoriral border control.

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28 June, 2019

Daniel J. Benjamin & Ori Heffetz: What Do Happiness Data Mean? Evidence from a Survey of Happiness Respondents

Daniel J. Benjamin, Professor (Research) of Economics, Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern CaliforniaOri Heffetz, Associate Professor of Economics, Cornell University, Samu

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09 March, 2018

Family Structure, Child Living Arrangement and Mothers’ Self-rated Health in Sweden—A Cross-Sectional Study

International Journal of Health Services, 47:2, pp. 298-311, doi.org/10.1177/0020731416685493 Abstract Alternate living, i.e. children living 50-50 with their parents following separation is emerging as

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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