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13 May, 2007

Predicaments in the Futures of Aging Democracies

Alternative demographic scenarios for Sweden are used to illustrate how even very small variations in the assumptions of demographic projections lead to radically different future population structure

Type of publication: Working papers | Thomas Lindh and Urban Lundberg
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17 December, 2020
Anna Lührmann: Walking the Talk. Which Parties Threaten Democracy?

Anna Lührmann: Walking the Talk. Which Parties Threaten Democracy?

The recent increase of democratic declines around the world has sparked a new generation of studies on the topic. Scholars agree that these days the main threat to democracy arises from democratically

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23 September, 2022

Do Offenders Deserve Proportionate Punishments?

Criminal Law & Philosophy Abstract The aim of the paper is to investigate how retributivists should respond to the apparent tension between moral desert and proportionality in punishment. I argue th

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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28 September, 2022

Money-Pump Arguments

Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy, red. Martin Peterson. Cambridge University Press Abstract Suppose that you prefer A to B, B to C, and C to A. Your preferences violate Expected Utility Theory

Type of publication: Books | Gustafsson, Johan E.
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02 October, 2024

The refinement paradox and cumulative cultural evolution: Complex products of collective improvement favor conformist outcomes, blind copying, and hyper-credulity

PLOS Computational Biology Abstract Social learning is common in nature, yet cumulative culture (where knowledge and technology increase in complexity and diversity over time) appears restricted to huma

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Miu, E., Rendell, L., Bowles, S., Boyd, R., Cownden, D., Enquist, M., et al
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09 June, 2014

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

Type of publication: Journal articles | Spaiser, Viktoria; Ranganathan, Shyam; Mann, Richard P.; Sumpter, David J.T.
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15 September, 2017

Is there a moral right to vote?

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, pp. 1-13, DOI 10.1007/s10677-017-9824-z. Abstract The question raised in this paper is whether legal rights to vote are also moral rights to vote. The challenge to the

Type of publication: Journal articles | Beckman, Ludvig
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26 February, 2018

Retributivism and Public Opinion: On the Context Sensitivity of Desert

Criminal Law and Philosophy, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp 125-142. Abstract Retributivism may seem wholly uninterested in the fit between penal policy and public opinion, but on one rendition of the theory, h

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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08 May, 2019
Sweden Democrat voters

Sweden Democrat voters. Who are they, where do they come from, and where are they headed?

Forskningsrapport 2019:1, 108 s. Europe has experienced major political changes over recent decades, with new political parties having emerged and become established in many countries. The same develop

Type of publication: IFFS reports | Jylhä, Kirsti , Strimling, Pontus ,
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14 January, 2020

Jeff McMahan: Creating Happy Animals in Order to Eat Them

Jeff McMahan is White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, a distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and a fellow of Corpus Christi College. Abst

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