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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
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
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
Bo Rothstein: The Shadow of the Swedish Right
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. RegisterResearch seminar with Bo Rothstein, Professor of Political Science, University of Gothenburg Abstract In the recent
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
Radical Right-wing Populism in Denmark and Sweden: Explaining Party System Change and Stability
2010. The SAIS Review of International Affairs 30: 57-71. AbstractThis paper aims to present possible explanations as to why radical right-wing populist parties have been highly successful in Denmark but
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
Bo Rothstein: The Shadow of the Swedish Right
In the recent election to the Swedish Parliament, the Sweden Democrats, a right-wing populist and nationalist Party, gained 20.5 percent of the vote, making it for the first time the second-largest pa
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
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
