Socially constructed beliefs about biological gender differences, i.e. gender essentialism, can to a large extent explain the remaining gender segregation and inequality. That’s one of the conclusions

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

Research seminar with Garrett Cullity, professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, known for his research on moral philosophy.  Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Register here > Ab

Who are the policy professionals? Do they pose a threat to democracy? Welcome to a seminar where the results of a research project are presented and discussed. The seminar will be entirely in Swedish. R

This paper investigates skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden 1993 to 2002. It shows that over- and undereducation contribute far more t

Väljarna, pengarna och den nya eliten. Forskning om demokratins utmaningar

Gustaf Arrhenius, Janine Wedel och Kirsti Jylhä berättar om forskning som visar hur makt på olika sätt förskjuts från väljarna till en mindre grupp i samhället, och om hur det gynnar systemkritiska pa

Den nya skuggeliten med Janine Wedel

Det finns en ny slags elit, en elit av personer som genom sin position i samhället kan tillskanska sig makt på ett sätt som inte är olagligt, med djupt oetiskt. Janine Wedel, professor vid George Maso

in: Utilitas 32 (4): 1-9 (2020) Abstract:All else being equal, creating a miserable person makes the world worse, and creating an ecstatic person makes it better. Such claims are easily justified if it

Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 97. Abstract What explains successful democratization? This paper makes four contributions towards providing more sophisticated answers to this questishowing that while several established covariates are useful for predicting outcomes, none of them seem to explain the onset of a period of liberalization. Fourth, it illustrates how the identification of episodes makes it possible to study processes quantitatively using sequencing methods to detail the importance of the order of change for liberalization outcomes.

For three years, three researchers and two research assistants have surveyed and interviewed a group of people who are remarkably invisible in research. it's remarkable since it is a category of peopl (in Swedish).