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The Dynamics of Democracy, Development and Cultural Values
PLoS ONE 9(6): e97856. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097856 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0097856 A short summary: Over the past decades many countries have experienced r
R package bdynsys on Bayesian Dynamical Systems Modelling
Shyam Ranganathan, Viktoria Spaiser, Richard P. Mann, David J.T. Sumpter A collaborative work: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bdynsys/index.html
Refusing to acknowledge the problem: Interests of the few, implications for the many.
In: G. Sosa-Nunez, & E. Atkins (Eds). E-IR Edited Collections: Environment, climate change and international relations. E-International Relations Publishing. Read more about Edited Collection – Envi
How many refugees can the Swedish welfare state handle?
The past year the influx of refugees has been the topic of many discussions. How will these newcomers affect the people who already live in Sweden? How will they affect the economy, the labour market,
New method brings clarity to global economic and political change
Researchers at the Institute for Futures Studies and Uppsala University have developed a new method for studying complex social processes. The method makes it easy to discover dynamical patterns and re
Near-repeat shootings in contemporary Sweden 2011 to 2015
Security Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, pp 73–92, doi:10.1057/s41284-017-0089-y Abstract The concept of near-repeat patterns illustrates how crimes are clustered in space and time, with a crime event often s
Increased Gun Violence Among Young Males in Sweden: A Descriptive National Survey and International Comparison
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 25(4): 365-378 Abstract This population-based time-trend study examines gun violence rates among males in Sweden during the years 1996 to 2015 and compar
The future of automation
Depending on your perspective, technological development has been saving us from drudgery, or destroying our livelihoods, for centuries. From the very first domestication of animals we’ve been finding

How much crime can foreign background explain? with Amber Beckley
Can the number of people with foreign background living in an area explain the level of crime in that same area? In this talk Amber Beckley gives us the numbers and finds a correlation that points cle
On the Methodological Difficulty of Identifying Implicit Racial Beliefs and Stereotypes
American Sociological Review 85(6):1117-1122. In “Status Characteristics, Implicit Bias, and the Production of Racial Inequality,” Melamed, Munn, Barry, Montgomery, and Okuwobi present an innovative an