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.

2010. Nature Physics 6:888-893. AbstractNetworks portray a multitude of interactions through which people meet, ideas are spread, and infectious diseases propagate within a society. Identifying the most

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(3), 399-424. DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2014.920690 Abstract Despite the importance of adequately measuring ethnicity to keep track of ethnic disparities in importa

Urbanisation, education, mobility and communication technology were all supposed to weaken people’s identification with “primordial” ethnic or religious groups. This has not occurred. Why this is and w

Kay Axhausen, ETH Zürich Transport planning has studied social networks as central element behind the location choice for residential locations and for leisure activities. The talk will introduce the o

Patrik Lindenfors, Associate Professor of Zoological Ecology. Abstract What explains successful democratization? We present a suggestion for a new solution that identifies the discrete beginning of a li

in: Distinktion: Journal of Social TheoryAbstractThis article evaluates Andreas Wimmer’s theory of ethnic boundary making by applying it to the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, a

Anca Gheaus: What does it mean to have a gender identity?

Anca Gheaus is a political philosopher interested in justice and the normative significance of personal relationships. Abstract The concept of "gender identity" is at the core of heated current p

The British Journal of Sociology 2019, Volume 70, Issue 2 Abstract Research on privilege and education often focuses on institutions that are elite in a rather traditional way, for example schools that i

Avital Livny, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign.ABSTRACTThe negative associations between diversity and economic growth, public goods provision, and in