Demography Abstract We examine the prevalence of gender transitions in Sweden over time and document the sociodemographic characteristics of people transitioning in different periods. Using administrati

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster

www.iffs.se Part 1: In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than the models assume them to

Have you used prenatal testing to determine if the fetus you or your partner is carrying has Down’s syndrome? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. The interest in genetic screening for Down’s synd

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Tore Ellingsen

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The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Bengt Hansson

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Laura Pantzerhielm

I am a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Mälardalen University, a visiting scholar with London School of Economics and an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. My research l In my current project ‘(funded by the Swedish Research Council, VR 2025-2028), I examine how political organizations on the world stage relate to the future as a temporal register amidst uncertainty and diagnoses of polycrisis.

Swedish health care delivers good outcomes for specialized diagnoses, but are experiencing problems when it comes to the easiest and the toughest cases. Patients with the easiest problems have difficu

Mind Abstract Candice Delmas’ A Duty to Resist arrives, fittingly, in a world of increasing authoritarianism, and the caged children and burning forests left in its wake. Widely diagnosed as a failure t