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10 October, 2017

Power and Social Ontology

Bokbox Förlag, 188 pages. What is social power? How does it fit into the world of institutions, practices, rules, and norms in which we live our lives? Of what does the authority of a president or the

Type of publication: Books | Burman, Åsa
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22 October, 2013

Is there room for everyone within Swedish labor market policy?

The labor market has changed in recent decades, demanding a high level of education. Meanwhile, a high percentage of the individuals who have sought refuge in Sweden the past two years have been to sc

The labor market has changed in recent decades, demanding a high level of education. Meanwhile, a high percentage of the individuals who have sought refuge in Sweden the past two years have been to school for less than nine years. Have labor market policies aimed at new arrivals been adjusted to fit the changes in the labor market?
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17 June, 2016

Catriona McKinnon: Endangering Humanity: An International Crime?

Catriona McKinnon, Professor at Politics and International Relations, University of Reading ABSTRACTWith the Anthropocene underway, the vulnerability of future people to present people is greater than

Catriona McKinnon, Professor at Politics and International Relations, University of Reading
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16 January, 2018

Rod Rhodes: The theory and practice of governance: the next steps

Rod Rhodes is Professor of Government (Research) within Social Sciences at the University of Southampton.ABSTRACTIn the 2000s, the New Public Governance (NPG) became prominent and this article takes s

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26 February, 2018

Retributivism and Public Opinion: On the Context Sensitivity of Desert

Criminal Law and Philosophy, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp 125-142. Abstract Retributivism may seem wholly uninterested in the fit between penal policy and public opinion, but on one rendition of the theory, h

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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19 March, 2021

The Complexity of Mental Integer Addition

 in: Journal of Numerical Cognition, Volume 6 (1).  AbstractAn important paradigm in modeling the complexity of mathematical tasks relies on computational complexity theory, in which complexity is measur

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26 January, 2021

Weighing Absolute and Relative Proportionality in Punishment

in Tonry, M. (ed.) Of One-eyed and Toothless Miscreants: Making the Punishment Fit the Crime? Oxford: Oxford University Press. Abstract Conflicts between relative and absolute proportionality are an imp

Type of publication: Chapters | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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03 June, 2021
Sanja Bogojević: Infrastructure for the 21st century: how climate change shapes society and law

Sanja Bogojević: Infrastructure for the 21st century: how climate change shapes society and law

Sanja Bogojević is Fellow and Associate Professor of Law at Lady Margaret Hall and the Faculty of Law. Prior to joining Oxford Law Faculty, she was Associate Professor (‘Docent’) of Environmental Law

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26 June, 2018

Friendship trust and psychological well-being from late adolescence to early adulthood: A structural equation modelling approach

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Volume: 45 issue:3, pp.244-252. doi.org/10.1177/1403494816680784 Abstract Aims:This study explored the sex-specific associations between friendship trust and the p: The findings suggest that young people do not benefit from trustful social relations to the same extent as adult populations. Young women who express impaired well-being run a greater risk of being members of networks characterized by low friendship trust over time.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Edling, Christofer , , Alexander Miething, Ylva B. Almquist & Mikael Rostila Rydgren, Jens , , Alexander Miething, Ylva B. Almquist & Mikael Rostila
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17 August, 2018

Harm and Discrimination

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 22, 873–891. doi:10.1007/s10677-018-9908-4 Abstract Many legal, social, and medical theorists and practitioners, as well as lay people, seem to be concerned with the h

Type of publication: Journal articles | Berndt Rasmussen, Katharina
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