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22 October, 2013

Tax Setting and Electoral Accountability with Policy-Motivated Politicians

Professor Eva Mörk, Department of economics, Uppsala University Seminars host is Stefan Svallfors. The seminars are free of charge and take place at 13.00–14.30 in the Institute’s seminar room at Hollä

Professor Eva Mörk, Department of economics, Uppsala University
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06 September, 2019

Nora Sánchez Gassen: Who will be able to vote in the future? Exploring how population change influences the electorate in Germany and why it matters

Nora Sánchez Gassen, political scientist and demographer, Nordregio.AbstractThe presentation will analyse how demographic trends such as population aging and international migration have influenced th

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04 July, 2025

Democratic duties. Why we should vote to rectify political injustice

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy  Abstract This paper argues that voters have duties of political justice to rectify imperfections in the democratic process, specifically

Type of publication: Journal articles | Beckman, Ludvig
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09 June, 2017

Hanna Wass: Too much of a good thing? The future of the antifragile democracy

Hanna Wass is an Academy Research Fellow and University Lecturer in the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki. ABSTRACT As a potentially antifragile system, the stre

Hanna Wass, Principal Investigator, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki.
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01 February, 2005

Social Democracy Lost – The Social Democratic Party in Sweden and the Politics of Pension Reform

The Swedish pension reform of the 1990s is here studied from a power-political perspective focusing on the Social Democratic Party. Despite a strong heritage in the “income security principle”, guidel

Type of publication: Working papers | Urban Lundberg
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15 February, 2017

Legal Power and the Right to Vote: Does the Right to Vote Confer Power?

Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 30(1), 5–22. Abstract It is widely believed that voting rights confer power to individual voters as well as to the collective body of the electorate. This pa

Type of publication: Journal articles | Beckman, Ludvig
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18 March, 2022
Ulf Mörkenstam

Ulf Mörkenstam

 I’m Professor in Political Science at Stockholm University. I defended my dissertation at the same university in 1999. At the institute, I participate in the research project "The territory of democrac

Professor in Political Science
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12 December, 2017

Jennifer Saul: Dogwhistles and Figleaves: Techniques of Racist Linguistic Manipulation

Professor Jennifer Saul, Director of Research, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield.ABSTRACTUntil recently, it was widely believed that explicit expressions of racism would doom a politic

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21 August, 2018

Kirsti Jylhä: Sweden Democrats’ voters. Who are they, where do they come from and where are they headed?

PhD, Psychology, Institute for Futures Studies.ABSTRACT In a few years, the Sweden Democrats has grown to become one of Sweden's largest parliamentary parties. However, much is still unknown about thei

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27 August, 2021

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

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