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Usability of climate information: Toward a new scientific framework
WIREs Climate Change Abstract Climate science is expected to provide usable information to policy-makers, to support the resolution of climate change. The complex, multiply connected nature of climate c
Attitudes Toward Migration and Migrants in Sweden During Years of Escalating Gang Crime
How has the public debate on crime influenced general opinion regarding views on migration and migrants in Sweden? The project aims to result in policy-relevant insights to be presented in 2025.
Toward a hybrid theory of how to allocate health-related resources
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Abstract How should scarce health-related resources be allocated? This paper argues that values that apply to these decisions fail to always fully determine what we sh
Rethinking the Green State: Environmental Governance toward Climate and Sustainability Transitions
London: Routledge This innovative book is one of the first to conduct a systematic comprehensive analysis of the ideals and practices of the evolving green state. It draws on elements of political theo
A negative attitude toward immigration, the parliament and societal change, unite those who vore for the Sweden Democrats
During the last couple of decades, Europe has experienced significant political change as a result of new political parties that have emerged in many countries. We can see this development also in Swe
NEW SEMINAR: Social Networks, Employee Selection and Labor Market Outcomes: Toward an Empirical Analysis
Oskar Nordström Skans och Lena Hensvik, Institutet för arbetsmarknads- och utbildningspolitisk utvärdering The Montgomery (1991) model of employee referrals suggests that it is optimal for firms to sel
Does educational attainment matter forattitudes toward immigrants in Chile? Assessingthe causality and generalizability of highereducation's so‐called “liberalizing effect” oneconomic and cultural threat
The British Journal of Sociology, vol. 75, issue 5 Abstract Despite a large literature consistently showing a relationship between higher levels of education and lower levels of ethnic prejudice, some pattaining
Symposium on basic income
The basic income proposal has received increasing attention in the past few years. Several ambitious basic income experiments are currently being planned in different parts of the world and the very f
When trusting the state is not enough: broader institutional trust and public support for energy transition policies
Environmental Sociology Abstract Existing research shows that public attitudes toward climate policies reflect political trust. Support for some policies may reflect not only trust in the state and its
From Categories to Categorization: A Social Perspective on Market Categorization
Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 51, 2017 Abstract The popularity of research into categories has grown in recent decades and shows no sign of abating. This introductory article takes
