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Continued Work or Retirement? Preferred Exit-age in Western European countries?
Through multi-level analyses, this study evaluates how welfare regime generosity as well as production regime coordination explains cross-national patterns of retirement preferences across twelve West
Emergent hierarchical structures in multiadaptive games
2011. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106: 028702. We investigate a game-theoretic model of a social system where both the rules of the game and the interaction structure are shaped by the behavior of the agents. We ca
Patterns of Participation: Engagement among Ethnic Minorities and the Native Population in Oslo and Stockholm
Pp. 172-197 in Laura Morales and Marco Giugni, (Eds.), Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe: Making Multicultural Democracy Work. Palgrave Macmillan. Abstract There is a widespr
Does education indoctrinate?
International Journal of Educational Development Abstract Do states manage to build education systems that produce students with political values they uphold? We test the indoctrination hypothesis using
The institutional order of liberalization
British Journal of Political Science 52: 1465–1471 Abstract When authoritarian regimes liberalize, are there observable patterns in the ordering of reforms, and are these patterns distinct for cases that
Democratic revolutions as institutional innovation diffusion: Rapid adoption and survival of democracy
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 80, Issue 8, October 2013, Pp. 1546–1556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2013.02.002 Abstract Recent ‘democratic revolutions’ in Islamic countries
Women's rights in democratic transitions: A global sequence analysis, 1900–2012.
European Journal of Political Research 56: 735–756. DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12201 Abstract What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? This article explores the impact of granting civil
Benjamin Gerdes
Benjamin Gerdes is an artist, writer, and organizer working in video, film, and related public formats, individually as well as collaboratively. He is interested in intersections of radical politics,
Research seminar with Vegard Skirbekk: Understanding the global transition to low fertility
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holändargatan 13 i Stockholm Research seminar with Vegard Skirbekk, professor at Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University and senior researcher at the Norwegian I
Vegard Skirbekk: Understanding the global transition to low fertility
Globally, women are having half as many children as they had just fifty years ago. Why have birth rates fallen, and how will low fertility affect our shared future? The vast majority of current resear
