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25 April, 2018

Board member Berit Högman County Governor

Our board member Berit Högman is the new County Governor in Västernorrland County, Sweden from April 16. Her appointment as County Governor and Head of the County Administrative Board in the province

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07 March, 2019

Should the probabilities count?

Philosophical Studies, June 2012, Volume 159, Issue 2,  pp 205–218. Online first. doi.org/10.1007/s11098-011-9698-1 Abstract When facing a choice between saving one person and saving many, some people ha

Type of publication: Journal articles | Berndt Rasmussen, Katharina
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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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10 May, 2019

Policy and the public in a polarized country

In order to reach the goals in the Paris Agreement on how to combat climate change, some aggressive policy changes need to be put in place. Apart from creating policies, policy makers also need to gai

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03 October, 2017

What can be understood, what can be compared, and what counts as context? Studying lawmaking in world history

In: Arne Jarrick, Janken Myrdal, Maria Wallenberg-Bondesson (eds.). Methods in world history. A critical approach. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. Methods in World Historyis the first international volume

Type of publication: Chapters | Wallenberg Bondesson, Maria
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16 April, 2019

Healthcare Rationing and the Badness of Death: Should Newborns Count for Less?

in: Saving People from the Harm of Death, Eds. Espen Gamlund and Carl Tollef Solberg, p. 255-266, Oxford University Press. In this volume, leading philosophers, medical doctors, and economists discuss

Type of publication: Chapters | Campbell, Tim
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23 September, 2022

No Escape from Tradition? Source Country Culture and Gendered Employment Patterns among Immigrants in Sweden

International Journal of Sociology Abstract The study aims to explore whether gendered family roles in the country of origin and the country of destination explain labor market outcomes for immigrants i

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & Anne Grönlund
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30 March, 2016

Ethnicity in England: What Parents' Country of Birth Can and Can't Tell Us about Their Children's Ethnic Identification.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(3), 399-424. DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2014.920690 Abstract Despite the importance of adequately measuring ethnicity to keep track of ethnic disparities in importa

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14 March, 2016

Declining willingness to fight for one’s country: The individual-level basis of the long peace

Journal of Peace Research,  vol. 52,  no. 4,  p. 418-434. Abstract The Democratic Peace thesis suggests that the absence of war between major powers since 1945 is caused by the spread of democracy. The

Type of publication: Journal articles | Puranen, Bi , , Inglehart R.F., Welzel C,
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10 December, 2024

Environmentalism around the globe. An introduction to the 2020 ISSP environment module and selected country-level findings

International Journal of Sociology Abstract Environmental problems such as climate change, air and water pollution, and biodiversity loss affect humans globally. The International Social Survey Programm

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & M. Hadler et.al.
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