Venue:Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Lina Eriksson, professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg.  Register here > Abstract Social makelevers to pull

Lina Eriksson: Changing social norms - what levers can we pull?

Research seminar with Lina Eriksson, professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg. Social norms affect us in almost all aspects of our lives, whether we comply with them, choose to v

Feminist Media Studies Abstract This paper is based on a case study of the online media practices of the neo-Nazi organisation, the Nordic Resistance Movement,conducted in the context of an ongoing proje

Christian Munthe, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg and comments by Olle Häggström, Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Chalmers. "The Price of Precaution: Evaluating Acti

Voting behavior, policy responsiveness and democratic anger. Interview with Armin Schäfer

European citizens with low socio-economic status are staying away from the polls in disproportionate numbers. Some of them say it is because politicians don't care about them anyway. Are they right? P

How policy creates politics. Policy feedback in contemporary democracies

Why do political actors find it increasingly difficult to design effective policies and address pressing social problems. This project tries to find the answer in changes of the policy feedback mechanisms by using longitudinal datasets from 30 countries.

Prof. Dr. Armin Schäfer, Institut Für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück ABSTRACTAs turnout has declined in many developed democracies, it has also become more unequal. Recent studies show tha

Postponed. New date pending. James Fishkin, Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) and Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy, Stanford University. Abstract D

The research network World Values Survey has explored people's values since the 1980s in six waves of interviews in a total of 100 countries. The latest survey was completed in 2014 and the result has