Are some countries better equipped from the onset of a democratization process to become democracies? We compared successful and failed episodes of liberalization over the period 1900 to 2018 to exami

This paper examines the Nordic Social Democratic parties’ own efforts to manage the inner and outer challenges of the so-called Nordic welfare model, i.e. how it is described, legitimized, and what ro

Alternative demographic scenarios for Sweden are used to illustrate how even very small variations in the assumptions of demographic projections lead to radically different future population structure

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

CFO and Head of Research CoordinationTel: +46 8 402 12 00 (vx)E-mail: [email protected] In my role as the Manager of Research Coordination, I lead our team of research coordinators. Research at

Causes and consequences of environmental protests. The global environmental contestation and civic mobilization observatory

Environmental protest events are increasing. Does it have any consequences for policy? With global data-sets, this project will try to answer that question.

Philosophical Studies, June 2012, Volume 159, Issue 2,  pp 205–218. Online first. doi.org/10.1007/s11098-011-9698-1 Abstract When facing a choice between saving one person and saving many, some people ha

The purpose of this project is to investigate the relevance of empirical results for the philosophy of mathematics.

Joe Roussos

I am a researcher in philosophy at the Institute for Futures Studies. I did my PhD at the London School of Economics, with a thesis entitled Policymaking under scientific uncertainty. My research concer

Kimmo Eriksson

I am a professor of mathematics/applied mathematics at Mälardalen University, but I also have a PhD in social psychology. I lead the global research network Global Social Norms (globalsocialnorms.org). My.