Johan Westerman

Johan Westerman is a researcher who obtained his PhD in sociology from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) in 2020. His dissertation, entitled Motives Matter, investigated the intrinsic mo

Johan Mellberg

I am Adjunct Associate Professor in Finance at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen (NHH) and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. I received my PhD in 2020.  My research is focused o

Johan E. Gustafsson

I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg and a Lecturer at the University of York. My research focuses on theoretical problems in ethics, value theory, and political philosophy. I also w

Johanna Rickne: The Class Ceiling in Politics

Research seminar with Johanna Rickne, professor of Economics at SOFI, Stockholm University Abstract: Prior studies have documented that working-class individuals rarely become parliamentarians. We kno

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Johanna Rickne, professor of Economics at SOFI, Stockholm University.Register hereAbstracPrior studies have documented that working-class individuals rarely become parliamentarians. We know less about when in the career pipeline to parliament workers disappear, and why. We study these questions using detailed data on the universe of Swedish politicians’ careers over a 50-year period. We find roughly equal-sized declines in the proportion of workers on various rungs of the political career ladder ranging from local to national office. We reject the potential explanations that workers lack political ambition, public service motivation, honesty, or voter support. And while workers’ average high school grades and cognitive test scores are lower, this cannot explain their large promotion disadvantage, a situation that we label a class ceiling. Organizational ties to blue-collar unions help workers advance, but only to lower-level positions in left-leaning parties. We conclude that efforts to improve workers’ numerical representation should apply throughout the career ladder and focus on intra-party processes.

Personality and Individual Differences, Volume: 122, pp. 29-37. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.10.001 Abstract Ambivalent sexism is a two-dimensional framework that assesses sexist and misogynous attitudes

Demographic Research, 39(32): 884-893. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.39.32 Abstract Objective: The aim of this descriptive study is to determine which of the family-specific factors, parental fertility behav

Journal of Political Philosophy, 27/1 (2019): 48–66. DOI: 10.1111/jopp.12157 Read the article: Rawlsian Constructivism and the Assumption of Disunity

Lag eller näve? Intervju med Victor Lundberg och Johan A Lundin om SSU och en antifascistisk kamp

Historikerna Johan A Lundin och Victor Lundberg intervjuas av Gustaf Arrhenius och Erika Karlsson om sin artikel "Med ett våldsamt knytnävsslag och en välriktade spark? SSU och den nazistiska utmaning

PLoS ONE Abstract Primate brains differ in size and architecture. Hypotheses to explain this variation are numerous and many tests have been carried out. However, after body size has been accounted for