elections
The UK election and Brexit - David Miller and Gustaf Arrhenius
On midnight, the 31:st of January 2020, Britain left the EU. This was possible in part because the Concervative party won a landslide in the general election on December 12 2019. Why did they win so b
The UK election and Brexit - David Miller and Gustaf Arrhenius
On midnight, the 31:st of January 2020, Britain left the EU. This was possible in part because the Concervative party won a landslide in the general election on December 12 2019. Why did they win so b
"Botten Ada" - Predicting the Swedish Election Using a Bayesian State-Space-Model
Research seminar with Jens Finnäs (J++), Måns Magnusson (Assistant Professor in statistics at Uppsala University), and Jonas Wallin (Associate Professor at Lund University). Register In the Swedish elect
Personhood and legal status: reflections on the democratic rights of corporations
Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 47:1, pp. 13-28., doi: 10.5553/NJLP/.000068. Introduction Corporations are regularly ascribed rights and duties, yet few believe they should have the right to part
Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth
This paper develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human species. It argues that the transiti
Social selection in formal and informal tracking in Sweden
in: Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality: An International Comparison, Reds.: H-P. Blossfeld, S. Buchholz, J. Skopek och M. Triventi, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, s.165-180. From an interna
Excluding Citizens: Belongership and the Constitutional Demos in British Overseas Territories
Ethnopolitics Abstract Previous literature explains the fact that sub-national elections tend to be more inclusive than national elections by reference to the level of the election. This paper argues th
Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem
Synthese 199 Abstract This article is about the role of factual uncertainty for moral decision-making as it concerns the ethics of machine decision-making (i.e., decisions by AI systems, such as autonomo
James Fishkin: Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room”
AbstractIs Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room” Register here to join the seminar This talk is positioned at the intersectionof two literatures
Sex Selection for Daughters: Demographic Consequences of Female-Biased Sex Ratios
Population Research and Policy Review 41, p. 1619–1639 Abstract Modern fertility techniques allow parents to carry out preimplantation sex selection. Sex selection for non-medical purposes is legal in m
