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Radical right-wing parties in Europe: What populism got to do with it?
Journal of Language and Politics, Volume 16, Issue 4, pp. 485–496. Abstract In this paper I discuss, critically, the literature on populism and the extent to which it applies to the contemporary radical
Climate Change Denial among Radical Right-Wing Supporters
i: Sustainability The linkage between political right-wing orientation and climate change denial is extensively studied. However, previous research has almost exclusively focused on the mainstream righ= 2216), a mainstream right-wing party (the Conservative Party,,= 634), and a mainstream center-left party (Social Democrats,= 548) in Sweden. Across the analyses, distrust of public service media (Swedish Television,), socioeconomic right-wing attitudes, and antifeminist attitudes outperformed the effects of anti-immigration attitudes and political distrust in explaining climate change denial, perhaps because of a lesser distinguishing capability of the latter mentioned variables. For example, virtually all Sweden Democrat supporters oppose immigration. Furthermore, the effects of party support, conservative ideologies, and belief in conspiracies were relatively weak, and vanished or substantially weakened in the full models. Our results suggest that socioeconomic attitudes (characteristic for the mainstream right) and exclusionary sociocultural attitudes and institutional distrust (characteristic for the contemporary European radical right) are important predictors of climate change denial, and more important than party support per se.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Overheating
Overheating. Understanding accelerated change. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. ABSTRACTThe contemporary world is … too full? Too intense? All of the above, and more. Ours is a world of high-speed modernity where exponential growth can be found in domains as different as the number of cellphones in Africa and the number of international tourist arrivals. The fossil fuel revolution two centuries ago led to the contemporary ‘overheated’ world of exponential growth. The main dilemma of this overheated world is the insight that what was the salvation for humanity for two hundred years, namely fossil fuels, has rapidly become our damnation owing to climate change. This lecture outlines the parameters of ‘overheating’ and describes the main global challenges for our century.
Right-Wing Populism and Climate Change Denial: The Roles of Exclusionary and Anti-Egalitarian Preferences, Conservative Ideology, and Antiestablishment Attitudes
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Abstract Populist right‐wing politicians and voters tend to dismiss climate change. To investigate possible reasons for this, we tested correlations between c
Xenophobia among radical and mainstream right-wing party voters: prevalence, correlates and influence on party support
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 45, 2022 - Issue 16 Abstract Considering the current political relevance of anti-immigration sentiments, we examined preference to avoid interacting with immigrants – conc
Radical Right-wing Populism in Denmark and Sweden: Explaining Party System Change and Stability
2010. The SAIS Review of International Affairs 30: 57-71. AbstractThis paper aims to present possible explanations as to why radical right-wing populist parties have been highly successful in Denmark but
Radical right‐wing voters from right and left: Comparing Sweden Democrat voters who previously voted for the Conservative Party or the Social Democratic Party
Scandinavian Political Studies, doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.12147 Abstract As in many other European countries, the political system has undergone rapid changes in Sweden while a radical right‐wing party –
Mike Otsuka: How to guard against the risk of living too long: the case for collective pensions
Mike (Michael) Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy at London School of Economics ABSTRACTIn this paper, I defend the realization here and now of a type of occupational pension that is collective rather tha

The (New) Case for Wage-Earner Funds
Research seminar with Markus Furendal, Post-Doc in Political Science, Stockholm University, and Martin O'Neill, Professor of Philosophy at University of York. Abstract In our presentation we make the
Research seminar with Markus Furendal & Martin O'Neill
Place: At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. REGISTER HEREResearch seminar with Markus Furendal, Post-Doc in Political Science, Stockholm University, and Martin