democracies
Predicaments in the futures of aging democracies
2008. Futures 40(3), April, 203-217.
Predicaments in the Futures of Aging Democracies
Alternative demographic scenarios for Sweden are used to illustrate how even very small variations in the assumptions of demographic projections lead to radically different future population structure
Jan Teorell: Commitments and bargaining delays in parliamentary democracies
Research seminar with Jan Teorell, professor of political science at Lund University. Register hereAbstractDuring the past decade, many parliamentary democracies have experienced bargaining delays when
Andreas Duit: How Policy Creates Politics: Policy Feedback in Contemporary Democracies
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Andreas Duit, Professor at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. Andreas Duit
How policy creates politics. Policy feedback in contemporary democracies
Why do political actors find it increasingly difficult to design effective policies and address pressing social problems. This project tries to find the answer in changes of the policy feedback mechanisms by using longitudinal datasets from 30 countries.
Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization
Political Science Research and Methods, 1-20 Abstract This paper introduces a new approach to the quantitative study of democratization. Building on the comparative case-study and large-N literature, it
Väljarna, pengarna och den nya eliten. Forskning om demokratins utmaningar
Gustaf Arrhenius, Janine Wedel och Kirsti Jylhä berättar om forskning som visar hur makt på olika sätt förskjuts från väljarna till en mindre grupp i samhället, och om hur det gynnar systemkritiska pa
A monster in the making. Interview with Matthias Matthijs on the euro crisis and democracy
What started off as a political project aimed at strengthening democracies has become an economic project in crisis that undermines democracy. We are of course talking about the european union and the
The Matthew effect in political science: head start and key reforms important for democratization
Are some countries better equipped from the onset of a democratization process to become democracies? We compared successful and failed episodes of liberalization over the period 1900 to 2018 to exami
New initiative: Anxieties of Democracy
New year and new exciting projects! One of them is named Anxieties of Democracy, which will investigate in what ways representative democracy may be said to be in crisis, to explain why this is so, and
