Matthias Matthijs, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at SAIS in Washington, DC ABSTRACTThe advent of the euro crisis brought back a gap between North and South in Europe not just i

Matthias Matthijs, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at SAIS in Washington, DC Dis-Embedded Markets and Embedded Politics. The Erosion of National Democracy in the Euro Periphery Th

Nature Communications 12, 5452 AbstractSocial norms can help solve pressing societal challenges, from mitigating climate change to reducing the spread of infectious diseases. Despite their relevance, h

Partha Dasgupta, professor of economics and member of the Climate Ethics and Future Generations-team at IFFS, and Gustaf Arrhenius at a conference in honour of Dasgupta who is turning 80 in 2023. Dasg

Jonathan Boston, Professor of Public Policy, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington.ABSTRACTFundamental to good governance is the active anticipation, assessment and management of risBased on this analysis, the paper applies the concept to the policy challenges posed by climate change adaptation, particularly sea-level rise. In this regard, humanity is confronted with a slow-motion disaster that will grow progressively in scope and scale, sometimes abruptly. Societies will face significant uncertainty, multiple and compounding risks, immense costs and difficult intertemporal and intragenerational trade-offs. More specifically, rising sea levels will have a major and increasing impact on the built environment in coastal regions. Globally, hundreds of millions of people could be forced this century to relocate from areas at risk from coastal erosion and inundation, higher water tables, and more frequent and intense rainfall events. Mitigating some of the risks and increasing societal resilience via anticipatory, pro-active, prudent and adaptive policy responses will be politically challenging, not least because of the large upfront costs, the likelihood of powerful blocking coalitions, and the complexities of inter-governmental and inter-agency coordination. This paper outlines how, in the interests of sound anticipatory governance, these challenges might be addressed through the creation of new governmental institutions, funding mechanisms and revised planning processes.

The Future of Democracracy with Chantal Mouffe - edited version

This is a short version of the seminar "The Future of Democracy: How to face the challenge of the protest movements?" with Chantal Mouffe, recorded in Stockholm 2014-03-06 by the Institute for Futures

Pp. 315-336 in The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science, edited by Hans Joas and Barbro Klein. Leiden: Brill.

Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Working paper 2011:13.

Why are Italians so reluctant to pay taxes? This is what Josef Hien explores in his paper "Culture and tax avoidance: the Italian case" - for which he has now been awarded the2022 Herbert Gottweis Prize for Best Paper of 2021 by the Critical Policy Studies awards committee. 

Critical Policy Studies, volume 15 Abstract Culture is increasingly used as an explanatory variable for tax evasion. So far, we know, however, little about the mechanisms that link culture and tax behav