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NEW DATE! Avner de-Shalit: Cities and immigrants: Should cities have the power to decide who can settle in them?
Avner de-Shalit, Professor of Political Science and Max Kampelman Chair of democracy and human rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Abstract All over the world immigrants move to cities, rather
A Game of Stars: Active SETI, radical translation and the Hobbesian trap
Futures Volume: 101, pp. 46–54. doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.06.007 Abstract Among scholars dedicated to Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), the risks and possibilities of actively contac
Putting the person in to the particle
Report on seminar 'Modelling Social Mechanisms for Knowledge Generation & Exploration' by Nanda Wijermans (Stockholm Resilience Centre) Over the last decade physicists have developed “social force”
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
Radical Right-wing Populism in Denmark and Sweden: Explaining Party System Change and Stability
2010. The SAIS Review of International Affairs 30: 57-71. AbstractThis paper aims to present possible explanations as to why radical right-wing populist parties have been highly successful in Denmark but
Predicting how US public opinion on moral issues will change from 2018 to 2020 and beyond
Royal Society Open Science, vol. 9, issue 4 Abstract The General Social Survey, conducted every 2 years, measures public opinion on a wide range of moral issues. The data from the 2020 survey are expect
Emilie Prattico
Formerly Director of Development at We Mean Business My work explores the role of democracy in enhancing climate justice by offering a critique of political discourse that aims to restore its moral dime
Allocating adaptation finance: examining three ethical arguments for recipient control
International Environmental Agreements , 16(5), p.655–670. doi:10.1007/s10784-015-9288-3 Abstract Most agree that large sums of money should be transferred to the most vulnerable countries in order to he
Spatial Numerical Associations by Modality: the Differences Between Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Numerical Representations
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72 (10), 2423-2436 Abstract During the last decades, there have been a large number of studies into the number-related abilities of humans. As a result, we kn
Where are newcomers going to live? Perspectives from Malmö and Århus on Swedish and Danish refugee dispersal policies
Institute for Futures Studies, IFFS Report 2012/3, 82 p. During the last decade, Denmark and Sweden have become increasingly dissimilar in terms of migration policy. While Sweden has remained relativel