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Northern Saints and Southern Sinners? Culture, Religion and Economic Policy
Research seminar with Josef Hien, political scientist and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. This presentation promotes a novel explanation of the rift between Northern and Southern memb
Demographic and Educational Success of Lineages in Northern Sweden
Population and Development Review, Vol. 43, Issue 3, pp. 491-512, https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12091 REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS AND socioeconomic status are inherited across generations, both in contemporar
Divided by Memories? Beliefs about the Past, Ethnic Boundaries, and Trust in Northern Iraq.
Geopolitics, History, and International Relations 9(1), pp. 128-175. Abstract This paper examines beliefs about the past across ethnic groups in con- flict ridden Northern Iraq, and the extent to which s
Fading family lines- women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th and 21st Century Northern Sweden
Advances in Life Course Research, vol. 53 Abstract We studied to what extent family lines die out over the course of 122 years based on Swedish population-level data. Our data included demographic and s
A monster in the making. Interview with Matthias Matthijs on the euro crisis and democracy
What started off as a political project aimed at strengthening democracies has become an economic project in crisis that undermines democracy. We are of course talking about the european union and the
In Sweden we shake hands – but are we really?
Sociologisk Forskning, vol 54, no 4, pp 377–381. Abstract Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting prac
Josef Hien: Cultural Political Economy and Crisis of economic integration in Europe
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Josef Hien, political scientist and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies.Regis
A monster in the making. On the euro crisis and democracy
What started off as a political project aimed at strengthening democracies has become an economic project in crisis that undermines democracy. That is how economist Matthias Matthijs describes the Eur
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist: Impacts of past climate variability – lessons for the 21st century
The talk summarizes key findings of state-of-the-art research on how climate variability and change have affected different aspects of human history in medieval and early modern Europe (c. 700–1815 CE
Children of austerity
Nearly ten years after the first financial chock Waves rippled through the world economy, generating a global recenssion, the track record of high income countries in protecting Children from its worsoch .
