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Jason Beckfield: Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality
Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Abstract The Euro-crisis of 2009–2012 and the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the EU vividly demonstrated that EU policies matter for the distribut
Welfare Enhancing Marginal Tax Rates: The Case of Publicly Provided Day Care
This paper highlights the role of tax funding of day care for children and demonstrates that the optimal income tax should face all agents with the cost of the needed day care in order to earn further
Completed: Numbers: The relevance of empirical results for philosophy
The purpose of this project is to investigate the relevance of empirical results for the philosophy of mathematics.
The role of psychosocial school conditions in adolescent prosocial behaviour
School Psychology International, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 283-300. Abstract This study examined how psychosocial conditions at school are associated with prosocial behaviour, a key indicator of positive me
Ideology and climate change denial
Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 70, Pages 62-65.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.06.030 Abstract Examining the relation between ideological variables and climate change denial, we found social
Social Exclusion among Peers: The Role of Immigrant Status and Classroom Immigrant Density.
Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Advanced online publication. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-016-0564-5. Abstract Increasing immigration and school ethnic segregation have raised concerns about the social integrat
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
Establishing pathways to democracy using domination analysis
Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 95. Abstract How does the order in which liberalization unfolds affect the likelihood for a successful democratic transition? Dahl was among the first
Domain-specific tightness: Why is Sweden perceived as tighter than the United States?
Current research in ecological and social psychology, vol 3 Abstract The tightness of a society is defined as the strength of social norms and the degree of sanctioning within the society. However, a so
Why Inflicting Disability is Wrong: The Mere Difference View and The Causation Based Objection
I The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability, Adam Cureton and David Wasserman (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020) Abstract This Handbook introduces philosophers, as well as other scholars