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08 April, 2020

Where there is trust, there is testing

In the US, levels of Covid-19 testing have varied greatly between states. But there seems to be a pattern. According to a new study by Malcolm Fairbrother, researcher at Institute for Futures Studies, , states with high levels of social trust and social capital performs more Covid-19 tests.  

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17 June, 2016

Catriona McKinnon: Endangering Humanity: An International Crime?

Catriona McKinnon, Professor at Politics and International Relations, University of Reading ABSTRACTWith the Anthropocene underway, the vulnerability of future people to present people is greater than

Catriona McKinnon, Professor at Politics and International Relations, University of Reading
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31 March, 2020

Articles, videos and interviews on the corona pandemic

Our researchers comments the corona pandemic from their field of expertise. All the articles, videos and interviews are collected here. Is Sweden's soft lockdown working?Despite relatively high number

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03 August, 2011

Health Care Developments in EU Member States Regressing Trends and Institutional Similarity?

The purpose of this paper is to perform a diachronical cross-national analysis of health care services and raise questions of decline and convergence of European health care systems. Contrary to previ

Type of publication: Working papers | Ingalill Montanari and Kenneth Nelson
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04 July, 2016

The future of automation

Depending on your perspective, technological development has been saving us from drudgery, or destroying our livelihoods, for centuries. From the very first domestication of animals we’ve been finding

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12 April, 2017

A march for science and research!

Alternative facts and fake news. These are phenomenons that March for Science wants to counteract. March for Science will be organized in 400 cities around the World on the 22nd of April, highligting th

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17 August, 2002

The Timing of Retirement and Social Security Reforms: Measuring Individual Welfare Changes

The paper argues that it is not sufficient to restrict calculations of effects of social reforms on individual welfare to income streams, but necessary to model individual behavior and thereafter calc

Type of publication: Working papers | Anders Karlström, Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson
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16 October, 2020

The Matthew effect in political science: head start and key reforms important for democratization

Are some countries better equipped from the onset of a democratization process to become democracies? We compared successful and failed episodes of liberalization over the period 1900 to 2018 to exami

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , & Matthew Wilson & Staffan I. Lindberg
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03 September, 2020

The Relation Between Gender Egalitarian Values and Gender Differences in Academic Achievement

Frontiers in Psychology, 11:236 Abstract Gender differences in achievement exhibit variation between domains and between countries. Much prior research has examined whether this variation could be due t

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Vartanova, Irina
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31 August, 2022

Completed: METAKLUBB

What happens in a nightclub that only exists in a virtual reality? What happens to interaction and intimacy in a world where physical contact is not possible?

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