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10 October, 2003

The Future of Housing and Technology in Japan – The Connected House Group Study Tour

The report describes experiences drawn from a study tour in Japan, June 2003. An important conclusion is that not only does the future of housing lay in technology, but technology is an integral part

Type of publication: Working papers | Anna Hrdlicka
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08 May, 2024
Gustav Nilsonne: Pathways to an Open Science System. Replacing Academic Journals

Gustav Nilsonne: Pathways to an Open Science System. Replacing Academic Journals

Open science enables cumulative knowledge and facilitates discovery. The transition to an open science system is underway, but important roadblocks remain. A decentralised, evolvable network of platfo

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02 October, 2024

The refinement paradox and cumulative cultural evolution: Complex products of collective improvement favor conformist outcomes, blind copying, and hyper-credulity

PLOS Computational Biology Abstract Social learning is common in nature, yet cumulative culture (where knowledge and technology increase in complexity and diversity over time) appears restricted to huma

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Miu, E., Rendell, L., Bowles, S., Boyd, R., Cownden, D., Enquist, M., et al
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27 January, 2015

Sweden, the extreme country

The research network World Values Survey has explored people's values since the 1980s in six waves of interviews in a total of 100 countries. The latest survey was completed in 2014 and the result has

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18 August, 2023

Gustav Nilsonne: Pathways to an open science system: Replacing academic journals

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, and onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Gustav Nilsonne, Associate Professor of neuroscience. He is active in meta-sciencOpen science enables cumulative knowledge and facilitates discovery. The transition to an open science system is underway, but important roadblocks remain. A decentralised, evolvable network of platforms interconnected by open standards, and governed by the scientific community, is technically feasible. However, academic researchers remain tied to traditional journals not least because assessment of merit is tied to the venue of publication. Ways forward can include redirection of funding from legacy publishing models to new infrastructure and the development of new methods to assess scientific contributions. Concerted action by stakeholders needs to be combined with pluralistic experimentation on policies and interventions to further open science practices.

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03 August, 2012

Welfare Attitudes in Context

Stefan Svallfors (Red.) Contested Welfare States? Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012, p. 222-239.

Type of publication: Chapters | Svallfors, Stefan
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24 July, 2012

Age, Class, and Attitudes Towards Government Responsibilities

Svallfors, Stefan (Red.) Contested Welfare States? Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012, s 158-192.

Type of publication: Chapters | Svallfors, Stefan , , Joakim Kulin, Annette Schnabel
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30 June, 2012

Welfare States and Welfare Attitudes

Svallfors, Stefan (Red.) Contested Welfare States? Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012, s. 1–24.

Type of publication: Chapters | Svallfors, Stefan
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23 September, 2024

Religion and Fertility: A Longitudinal Register Study Examining Differences by Sex, Parity, Partner’s Religion, and Religious Conversion in Finland

European Journal of Population, vol. 40:9 Abstract We use longitudinal data on religious affiliation in Finland to examine childbearing behavior. All analyses are based on detailed fertility information

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , & J. Saarela
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15 February, 2017

Legal Power and the Right to Vote: Does the Right to Vote Confer Power?

Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 30(1), 5–22. Abstract It is widely believed that voting rights confer power to individual voters as well as to the collective body of the electorate. This pa

Type of publication: Journal articles | Beckman, Ludvig
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