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Därför håller liberalerna på att vinna kulturkriget
Pontus Strimling som forskar om normer, förklarar hur det kommer sig att våra värderingar på vissa områden tycks förändras i samma riktning i många länder, medan de på andra områden aldrig tycks komma
Debating demography
This week the newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning published an article by Joakim Palme, former CEO at the Institute, on how we can meet the challenge of an ageing population. Educating young people is necess
Is risk aversion irrational? Examining the “fallacy” of large numbers
Synthese, doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01929-5 Abstract A moderately risk averse person may turn down a 50/50 gamble that either results in her winning $200 or losing $100. Such behaviour seems rational i
Limited and Mixed Evidence for System-Sanctioned Change to Protect the Environment: A Replication Study
International review of social psychology, vol 37:1 Abstract Feygina and colleagues (2010, Study 3) reported that people who prefer the status quo can be encouraged towards pro-environmental responses w
Learning to play
In 2007, the Swedish gambling agency ran a simple gambling game called LIMBO. Gamblers were invited to stake 10 kronor on a number of their choice between 1 and 99,999. The person choosing the smalles
A conversation with Lea Ypi: Indignity - A Life Reimagined
We welcome back Lea Ypi, professor and award-winning author of the book Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. Now she returns to present her new book, Indignity: A Life Reimagined. In this work,
Indignity: A conversation with Lea Ypi
Venue:Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in StockholmNote that this seminar will not be broadcasted, but recorded. REGISTER > Join us as we welcome back Lea Ypi, professor and award-win. In this memoir, Ypi tells the story ofgrowing up in Albania during the rule and collapse of communism.
Fernando Filgueira: Latin America`s left shift: why, what it did, for how long and what comes after.
Fernando Filgueira, Senior researcher at CIPPEC (Argentina) and CIESU (Uruguay), and lead author for the UN-Women Gender Progress Report for Latin America and the Caribbean. ABSTRACT As countries in Lat
Radical right‐wing voters from right and left: Comparing Sweden Democrat voters who previously voted for the Conservative Party or the Social Democratic Party
Scandinavian Political Studies, doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.12147 Abstract As in many other European countries, the political system has undergone rapid changes in Sweden while a radical right‐wing party –
Cynthia P. Schneider: Why Soft Power is not so Soft
Soft power played a critical role in the most significant socio-political transformation of the twentieth century - the breakup of the Soviet Union and the spread of democracy to Eastern Europe. Yet t
