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19 February, 2020

Successful and failed episodes of democratization: conceptualization, identication, and description

Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 97. Abstract What explains successful democratization? This paper makes four contributions towards providing more sophisticated answers to this questishowing that while several established covariates are useful for predicting outcomes, none of them seem to explain the onset of a period of liberalization. Fourth, it illustrates how the identification of episodes makes it possible to study processes quantitatively using sequencing methods to detail the importance of the order of change for liberalization outcomes.

Type of publication: Working papers | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Wilson MC, Morgan R, Medzihorsky J, Maxwell L, Maerz SF, Lührmann A, Edgell AB, Boese V & Lindberg SI
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01 January, 2011

Heavy-Tailed Distribution of Seclusion and Restraint Episodes in a State Psychiatric Hospital

2011. The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law39:1- 93-99.

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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18 January, 2021
The New World - Martin Hägglund podcast

The New World - Martin Hägglund

The Institute for Futures Studies together with Aftonbladet Kultur present The New World - a podcast series where great thinkers think (and talk) about the most pressing issues concerning our future.

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08 October, 2020

IFFS and Aftonbladet present - The New World

Karin Pettersson, Martin Hägglund, Georg Diez The Institute for Futures Studies together with Aftonbladet Kultur are proud to present the new podcast collaboration: The New World - a podcast series whe

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28 August, 2015

Anders Sandberg: The Survival Curve of Our Species: Handling Global Catastrophic and Existential Risks

Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University ABSTRACTHow likely is humanity to be severely damaged by a global disaster, or go extinct? How bad would it be? This talk will review wo

Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University
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18 March, 2024

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

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28 June, 2024
Malcolm Fairbrother: Explaining Environmental Successes and Failures

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

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01 January, 2010

Radical Right-wing Populism in Denmark and Sweden: Explaining Party System Change and Stability

2010. The SAIS Review of International Affairs 30: 57-71. AbstractThis paper aims to present possible explanations as to why radical right-wing populist parties have been highly successful in Denmark but

Type of publication: Journal articles | J. Rydgren
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16 October, 2020

The Matthew effect in political science: head start and key reforms important for democratization

Are some countries better equipped from the onset of a democratization process to become democracies? We compared successful and failed episodes of liberalization over the period 1900 to 2018 to exami

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , & Matthew Wilson & Staffan I. Lindberg
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13 February, 2020

Establishing pathways to democracy using domination analysis

Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 95. Abstract How does the order in which liberalization unfolds affect the likelihood for a successful democratic transition? Dahl was among the first

Type of publication: Working papers | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Edgell AB, Boese VA, Maerz SF & Lindberg SI
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