Future Barometer: The concerns and expectations for the future in Sweden, Denmark, Poland and Ukraine

This project will aim to understand the public's future-oriented attitudes in different contexts in order to understand how to better strengthen societal resilience.

Michaela Borg

I have a master's degree in political sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). I'm a research assistant in BRIDGEGAP, an international and interdisciplinary research pr. The aim of the project is to fill knowledge gaps on both the extent and the mechanisms through which corruption infiltrates open societies.

Environmental Research Communications Abstract While previous studies on the relationship between political trust and support for climate policy have focused on the evaluative component of trust, namely

Plats: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4 trappor i Stockholm Register here Research seminar with Janine R. Wedel, University Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government,George Mas

Janine Wedel: Can civil society counter oligarchic capitalism?

Full title: Russia, Ukraine, and our world of competing visions. Can civil society counter oligarchic capitalism? Research seminar with Janine R. Wedel, University Professor, Schar School of Policy an

The elevated risk of divorce among certain immigrant groups can be explained by socioeconomic factors. Stress due to immigration status does not seem to elevate the risk for divorce. These are some of

According to a new Policy Brief by Swedish Delmi, a third of all Ukrainians - 12 million - wanted to move permanently to another country when asked by Gallup World Poll in summer 2021. 300 000 of them

Welcome to Janine Wedel's inaugural lecture as a Kerstin Hesselgrens Visiting Professor: The Role of Elite Corruption in Today’s Illiberalism: Trump as “Trickster,” Why Trumpism is No Accident, and theThis talk, by social anthropologist and public policy professor Janine R. Wedel, examines how the activities of a novel breed of “shadow” or “influence elites” have helped corrode civic trust and fueled the surge in income inequality.  Partly as a result, many citizens in the United States and Europe (notably Poland and Hungary) have turned to demagogic figures who flout both the norms of the rigged system they seek to smash, and the Weltanschauung of the establishment. The talk will explore why people turn to them, Donald Trump’s role as “trickster,” and how Trump and other taboo-breaking, system-busting leaders govern once in power. 

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A carbon tax would be effective and inexpensive – so why do people dislike the idea? A new study provides answers. Economists agree that a carbon tax is one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce gr No, not at all, according to a new study.