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Malcolm Fairbrother
I am a professor of sociology at Uppsala University, and a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. I moved to Sweden in 2017, after spending ten years at Bristol University in the UK. Before
Malcolm Fairbrother: Elites, Democracy and the Rise of Globalization
Dr Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol ABSTRACTWhy have the governments of so many nations decided to globalize their economies in the last 30 years? The literature on this question is polarized
Malcolm Fairbrother: Trust and Public Support for Environmental Protection
Dr Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol ABSTRACTMost people say they are concerned about the serious environmental problems confronting the world today and threatening the well-being of future ge
Malcolm Fairbrother: Explaining Environmental Successes and Failures
Venue:Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Malcolm Fairbrother, Professor of Sociology, researcher at the Institute for Futures Stud
Malcolm Fairbrother: Explaining Environmental Successes and Failures
Research seminar with Malcolm Fairbrother, Professor of Sociology, researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. Abstract Why has the world failed so disastrously on climate change? Humanity has su
Free Traders: Elites, Democracy, and the Rise of Globalization
Oxford University Press Today's global economy was largely established by political events and decisions in the 1980s and 90s, when scores of nations opened up their economies to the forces of globaliz
Implementing the Water Framework Directive and Tackling Diffuse Pollution from Agriculture: Lessons from England and Scotland
in: Water 12: 244 AbstractTackling diffuse pollution from agriculture is a key challenge for governments seeking to implement the European Union’s Water Framework Directive (WFD). In the research liter
Experiences matter: A longitudinal study of individual-level sources of declining social trust in the United States.
Social Science Research 95 Abstract The US has experienced a substantial decline in social trust in recent decades. Surprisingly few studies analyze whether individual-level explanations can account for
No Escape from Tradition? Source Country Culture and Gendered Employment Patterns among Immigrants in Sweden
International Journal of Sociology Abstract The study aims to explore whether gendered family roles in the country of origin and the country of destination explain labor market outcomes for immigrants i
Climate policy in British Columbia: An unexpected journey
Frontiers in Climate 4 Abstract Since introducing a path-breaking carbon tax in 2008, the western Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) has attracted significant attention from climate policy schola
