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11 December, 2019

Democracy and the Common Good: A Study of the Weighted Majority Rule

Doctoral thesis in practical philosophy, Stockholm: Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University. Abstract In this study I analyse the performance of a democratic decision-making rule: the weighted ma

Type of publication: Journal articles | Berndt Rasmussen, Katharina
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17 January, 2017

New initiative: Anxieties of Democracy

New year and new exciting projects! One of them is named Anxieties of Democracy, which will investigate in what ways representative democracy may be said to be in crisis, to explain why this is so, and

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25 January, 2017

Completed: Anxieties of democracy

Is representative democracy in crisis? If so, in what ways and how is it possible to strengthen it?

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26 October, 2016

Social Exclusion among Peers: The Role of Immigrant Status and Classroom Immigrant Density.

Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Advanced online publication. DOI: 10.1007/s10964-016-0564-5. Abstract Increasing immigration and school ethnic segregation have raised concerns about the social integrat

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jonsson, Jan O. , Plenty, Stephanie
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23 September, 2022

The popular sovereignty of Indigenous peoples: a challenge in multi-people states

Citizenship Studies ABSTRACT The doctrine of popular sovereignty holds that the ‘supreme authority of the state’ belongs to the people, not to the political institutions exercising public power. What ar

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mörkenstam, Ulf , & Kirsty Gover
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13 May, 2007

Predicaments in the Futures of Aging Democracies

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

Type of publication: Working papers | Thomas Lindh and Urban Lundberg
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15 June, 2012

Political Integration through Associational Affiliation? Immigrants and Native Swedes in Greater Stockholm

2011. 37:99–115. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Abstract Theories of participation have been developed and tested almost exclusively on majority populations. While the relative underrepresentat

Type of publication: Journal articles | Gunnar Myrberg
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23 September, 2024

Kinship, heritage and ethnic choice: ethnolinguistic registration across four generations in contemporary Finland

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

Type of publication: Working papers | Kolk, Martin , Saarela, J. & O. Obucina
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03 February, 2017

Allocating adaptation finance: examining three ethical arguments for recipient control

International Environmental Agreements , 16(5), p.655–670. doi:10.1007/s10784-015-9288-3 Abstract Most agree that large sums of money should be transferred to the most vulnerable countries in order to he

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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19 March, 2021

Vaccine confidence is higher in more religious countries

Human vaccines and immunotherapeutics Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is a threat to global health, but it is not ubiquitous; depending on the country, the proportion that have confidence in vaccines ranges

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Vartanova, Irina
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