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17 May, 2023

Humanity - the biosphere's best hope?

Human activity often has a negative impact on the Earth's ecosystems. However, according to researchers Karim Jebari and Anders Sandberg, humans are still, in the long run, the best and actually the only

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19 March, 2021

Social capital and leaving the nest: Channels and housing tenures

i Social Networks, Volume 65 AbstractYoung adults in Europe sometimes have trouble moving away from their parents and obtaining a home of their own, which is considered an important step in the transit

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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11 November, 2021

The climate ethics program: "Interdisciplinary at its best"

"Innovative, ambitious, and extremely well managed." A mid-term evaluation of the research program Climate Ethics and future generations praises it for being interdisciplinary at its best. Riksbankens

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15 January, 2025

Daniel Waldenström: Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Daniel Waldenström, Professor of Economics and Director of the Taxes and Society research program a

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03 November, 2021

Maria Ojala: Hope in the face of climate change. Wishful thinking or an existential must?

Maria Ojala is Associate Professor (docent) in psychology at Örebro University. Her research interest mainly concerns how young people think, feel, act, cope, learn and communicate about climate chang

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26 August, 2021

Avia Pasternak: Violent Protests and the Proportionality Test

Research seminar with Avia Pasternak, Associate Professor in Political Theory at University College London. REGISTER HERE TO GET A MEETING LINK AbstractViolent protestors against state injustice typical

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17 May, 2015

The Social Consequences of Poverty. An Empirical Test on Longitudinal Data

Social Indicators Research, May 2015, Open Access, DOI 10.1007/s11205-015-0983-9. Poverty is commonly defined as a lack of economic resources that has negative social consequences, but surprisingly lit

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mood, Carina , Jonsson, Jan O.
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18 December, 2018

Countering Protection Rackets Using Legal and Social Approaches: An Agent-Based Test

Hindawi, Volume 2018, Article ID 3568085, 16 pages, doi.org/10.1155/2018/3568085. Abstract Protection rackets cause economic and social damage across the world. States typically combat protection rackets

Type of publication: Journal articles | Andrighetto, Giulia , , Luis G. Nardin
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07 July, 2017

“Most MPs are Not All that Sharp.” Political Employees and Representative Democracy

International Journal of Public Administration, Vol 40 (7), s 548-558 (2017) DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2016.1157693 Abstract The article analyses the orientations of political employees in

Type of publication: Journal articles | Svallfors, Stefan
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09 December, 2015

Janine Wedel: Meet the new influence elites. How top players sway policy and governing in the twenty-first century

Janine R. Wedel is a university professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Senior Research Fellow of the New America Foundation. ABSTRACTA new breed of influence elite ha

Janine R. Wedel is a university professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Senior Research Fellow of the New America Foundation.
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