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The Swedish Mujahideen. An exploratory study of 41 Swedish foreign fighters deceased in Iraq and Syria.
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2018.1463615 Abstract This study analyzes the demographics, criminality, and network relations of forty-one deceased Swedish foreign fighter

Finding popular solutions to climate change
A global investigation of public opinions about climate policies and their determinants.
Disagreement, Indirect Defeat, and Higher-Order Evidence
in Klenk, M. (ed.), Higher Order Evidence and Moral Epistemology, London: Routledge, 2020. (ISBN: 0367343207) AbstractSome philosophers question whether higher-order evidence can support the radical sk
A Bedrock of Support? Trends in Welfare State Attitudes in Sweden, 1981–2010
Social Policy & Administration issn 0144–5596. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2011.00796.x. Vol. 45, No. 7, December 2011, pp. 806–825 AbstractThis article reports findings about Swedes’ attitudes toward
Sequential Requisites Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Sequential Relationships in Ordinal Data
Social Science Quarterly, 838-856 Abstract Objectives This article presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outc
How does political discussion frequency impact political moral opinions? The moral argument theory of opinion dynamics
Frontiers in Psychology Abstract Discussions of political issues may influence people's opinions. Is there any systematic difference in opinions between those who discuss frequently and those who do notnn
Cooperation through collective punishment and participation
Political Science Research and Methods Abstract We experimentally explore the role of institutions imposing collective sanctions in sustaining cooperation. In our experiment, players only observe noisy
Measuring Cumulative Advantage and the Matthew Effect
Mikael Bask, Department of Economics Uppsala University Abstract To foster a deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind inequality in society, it is crucial to work with well-defined concepts associa

Faradj Koliev
I am a researcher in political science at Stockholm Univesity and at the Institute for Futures Studies. I do research on issues concerning international cooperation, international organizations, NGOs,

H. Orri Stefánsson
I am Professor of Practical Philosophy and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Stockholm University, and Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. My current research mostly concerns how one should cho uncertainty, including situations where one suspects that the outcome of one’s actions (or inaction) could be catastrophic.