Modern Vikings in the East. Sweden’s Role in 1990’s Russian Economic Reforms: Institutions, Elite Networks, and Informal Practices

What role did Swedish institutions, experts, and elites play in the economic and political development in post-Soviet Russia, with corruption, tax evasion and the emergence of the oligarchy as a result?

The paper examines arguments presented by unions and employers concerning immigration in relation to the Swedish labor market. It also considers how Sweden’s institutional arrangements in this respect

Ethnopolitics Abstract Previous literature explains the fact that sub-national elections tend to be more inclusive than national elections by reference to the level of the election. This paper argues th

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster

www.iffs.se Part 1: In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than the models assume them to

Philosophy Compass Abstract This article reviews recent arguments in contemporary political philosophy on victims' duties to resist their oppression. It begins by presenting two approaches to these duti

in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism10 (ISSN: 2210-5697). Abstract:A long-standing family of worries about moral realism focuses on its implications for moral epistemology. The underlyi

Media, Culture & Society Abstract What are the new possibilities of enacting justice through the vast archives of digital eyewitness images and self-representations produced since 2011 by the grassr

David Owen, Professor of Social & Political Philosophy, University of Southampton. Abstract This article argues that the practical difficulties and normative dilemmas at stake in the European refuge

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Tore Ellingsen

www.iffs.se Part 2: Comment by Tore Ellingsen In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster replies

www.iffs.se Part 4: Jon Elster answers to comments from Tore Ellingsen and Bengt Hansson. In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual age