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03 October, 2023
Causes and consequences of environmental protests

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.

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17 November, 2015

Wlodek Rabinowicz: Aggregation of value judgments differs from aggregation of preferences

Wlodek Rabinowicz, Senior Professor of Practical Philosophy at Lund university and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics ABSTRACTIn this talk I focus on a contrast between aggregation

Wlodek Rabinowicz, Senior Professor of Practical Philosophy at Lund university and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics
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07 October, 2022

Toward a hybrid theory of how to allocate health-related resources

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Abstract How should scarce health-related resources be allocated? This paper argues that values that apply to these decisions fail to always fully determine what we sh

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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18 September, 2018

Completed: Good and just allocation of health-related resources

How should health-related resources be allocated at the population-level? This project explores some problems with conventional approaches and presents a new one.

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15 May, 2013

Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, Debt, and Energy Consumption

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland By analogy with the probability distribution of energy in statistical physics, I argue that the probability distribution of money in a closed economic system sh, Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1703 (2009), New Journal of Physics 12, 075032 (2010).  This work is currently supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking,

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
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03 September, 2020

Insecurity and political values in the Arab world

Democratization, vol 27, issue 5, p. 699-716 Abstract Within a few years of the historic Arab uprisings of 2011, popular mobilization dissipated amidst instability in many Arab countries. We trace the r

Type of publication: Journal articles | Vartanova, Irina , , Cammet, Melani & Ishac Diwan
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26 March, 2025

War Policies and Migration Aspirations in Russia

Delmi Report 2024:11 Summary This report investigates how migration aspirations within the Russian population have evolved following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. It primarily fo

Type of publication: Other | Hammar, Olle , Elinder, Mikael & Oscar Erixson
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11 April, 2016

Completed: The organization of violent extremism and anti-social careers

How are environments of violent extremism organized? How do people move between these, in and out of these and what do their criminal careers look like?

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15 February, 2016

Donatella Della Porta: Antiausterity protests in Europe and beyond: bringing capitalist back into social movement studies

Donatella Della Porta, Professor of Sociology at Scuola normale superiore, and Director of the Centre of Social Movements Studies. ABSTRACTSocial movement studies have developed a useful kit of concept

Donatella Della Porta, Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, and professor of Political science at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane
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