Futures: Politics and psychology - how to gain support for climate policies

Combating climate change means implementing policies that will encourage people to act in a more sustainable way. But how can policies be constructed and implemented in a way that is acceptable to the

Geoffrey Brennan is an Australian philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a professor of political science at Duke University. This seminar was su

Nature Human Behavior, one of the most influential social science journals, is now publishing a groundbreaking study from a Swedish team of researchers that answers several critical questions on how public opinion changes on moral issues, such as: How come today’s conservatives are more liberal than yesterday’s liberals? Why has the public opinion in large parts of the world shifted so rapidly in favor of gay and lesbian rights, but been virtually unchanged on other contested issues such as abortion rights? And is it possible to create a scientific model that can predict public opinion changes on moral issues?

Futures: Climate policies and public support in the US - the way forward

Many agree that some aggressive policy changes need to be put in place when it comes to climate change. Megan Mullin, associate professor of environmental politics at Duke University’s Nicholas School

In order to reach the goals in the Paris Agreement on how to combat climate change, some aggressive policy changes need to be put in place. Apart from creating policies, policy makers also need to gai

Kapitel 3. http://www.russellsage.org/publications/parents-to-children Abstract This chapter analyses the role of cognitive ability, personality traits, and physical characteristics in transmission of so

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Emily Jones, Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. Register here > Abs

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Katherine Puddifoot, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Durham University. Her recent mnemonic form epistemic injustice

Social norms for cooperation under collective risk

How could people be individually motivated to cooperate to reduce the risk of a collective loss?

European Journal of Political Research 56: 735–756. DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12201 Abstract What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? This article explores the impact of granting civil