Conservatism as a distinctive political ideology was born out of Edmund Burke’s critique of the French revolution. Despite its significant influence in society and research, there exists no unified un

Security Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, pp 73–92, doi:10.1057/s41284-017-0089-y Abstract The concept of near-repeat patterns illustrates how crimes are clustered in space and time, with a crime event often s

4C – The Swedish Consortium for the study of Contemporary Criminal Collaboration

4C seeks to expand the focus beyond narrow phenomena like gun violence by generating knowledge on the formation and group dynamics of criminal collaborations; how they arise, evolve, dissolve, and draw in people.

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Andreas Duit, Professor at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. Andreas Duit

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Abstract While existing theories of political polarization tend to suggest that the opinions of liberals and conservatives move in opposite directions, avai

How policy creates politics. Policy feedback in contemporary democracies

Why do political actors find it increasingly difficult to design effective policies and address pressing social problems. This project tries to find the answer in changes of the policy feedback mechanisms by using longitudinal datasets from 30 countries.

European Sociological Review Abstract We studied how individuals’ ethnolinguistic affiliation relates to the ethnolinguistic structure of kinship in contemporary Finland, a society in which Finnish-spea

Nordic Council of Ministers, 54 pages Women have generally been treated as “side shows” in the literature on war,terrorism and violent extremism and have thus been given scant scholarly attention.In mato be framed as unwitting, passive agents or brainwashed victims pulled into violentextremist movements only through the relations of their husbands, boyfriends, orfathers.

Our two seminar series will continue this spring, "Seminar on contemporary social and political issues" on Wednesdays and "Social-mechanism seminar" on Fridays. Come meet among others Michael Macy, Je

Demography, 54(2): 459-484, doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0550-x Abstract We examine the relationship between birth-to-birth intervals and a variety of mid- and long-term cognitive and socioeconomic outcom