The professors Sverker Gustavsson and Torbjörn Tännsjö discuss "Decemberöverenskommelsen" together with Sanna Rayman and Daniel Suhonen. The seminar will be entirely in Swedish. For more information abo

Rojan Karakaya

I work as a research engineer in two projects. In the project Ethnic stereotypes over time - a Nordic comparison, I implement and develop machine learning methods to investigate implicit bias in Swedis, I develop and maintain the entirety of the data collection infrastructure and I contribute to the quantitative analysis.

Who are the policy professionals? Do they pose a threat to democracy? Welcome to a seminar where the results of a research project are presented and discussed. The seminar will be entirely in Swedish. R

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

The territory of democracy

The presumption that the jurisdiction of the state extends to the borderes of a certain territory is increasingly being challenged, both by indigenous people within this territory, and by extraterritoriral border control.

Noûs, (Early View), DOI: 10.1111/nous.12135. Introduction A familiar way of supporting skeptical doubts about the beliefs in some area, such as ethics orreligion, is to provide a “debunking argument” agaiway is to appeal to the disagreement that occurs in the area.2 These types of challenge areoften treated separately and there is not much overlap in the literature they have given rise to.Yet, as they pursue the same conclusion—that the target beliefs are not (fully) justified andthat we should reduce our confidence in them—one might well wonder how they are related.Are they entirely independent or do they interact in non-trivial and interesting ways? That isthe question I shall explore.

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5:3. DOI 10.1186/s40174-016-0051-8. Abstract We study cross-sectional and long-term poverty in Sweden over a period spanning two recessions, and discuss changes in th

Is it possible to reduce individual implicit bias in organizational settings?

A study of social assistance officers Implicit bias reduction is a popular form of antibias training when organizations engage their employees in diversity training. It remains popular, despite limite

Climate science faces a challenge in delivering direct and immediate societal benefits. Today, there is a gap between what it produces and what users actually need. In the article "Usability of climat

Social Forces, Volume 96, Issue 1, pp. 121–152, doi.org/10.1093/sf/sox051 Abstract Previous studies have found that intergenerational income persistence is relatively high in the United States and Brita