Completed: Preferences for coordination - their function and evolutionary foundation

Using behavioral game theory, this project aims to provide a deeper understanding of how collective action decisions are made and why people make the choices they do.

Johan Westerman

Johan Westerman is a researcher who obtained his PhD in sociology from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) in 2020. His dissertation, entitled Motives Matter, investigated the intrinsic mo

Political Studies, vol. 72 Abstract Although the concept of “AI governance” is frequently used in the debate, it is still rather undertheorized. Often it seems to refer to the mechanisms and structures

Research seminar with Eva Erman. AbstractThe study of the social and ethical impact of AI is still in its infancy and contributions to the field have to keep up with the continuous developments of the important procedural aspects of good AI governance. One of the most important properties of good governance is political legitimacy. Starting out from the assumption that AI governance should be seen as global in scope, this paper has a twofold aim: a) to develop a theoretical framework for theorizing the political legitimacy of global AI governance and b) to demonstrate how it can be used as a critical yardstick for assessing the (lack of) legitimacy of actual instances of AI governance. 

Political philosophy meets philosophy of science Philosophers of science have long discussed whether the core activities of science can be free from non-epistemic values (this term is used broadly to i

Eva Erman: Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance

The study of the social and ethical impact of AI is still in its infancy and contributions to the field have to keep up with the continuous developments of the booming AI industry. Though it is widely

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Eva Erman, Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on democrat

The World Values ​​Survey (WVS) is a worldwide network of researchers studying values ​​and their impact on social and political life. The network mainly collects data on people's values ​​via extensi

Welcome to the Institute for Futures Studies. We are an independent research foundation for interdisciplinary research on issues that are of great importance for how we shape our future society. Why we

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Johanna Rickne, professor of Economics at SOFI, Stockholm University.Register hereAbstracPrior studies have documented that working-class individuals rarely become parliamentarians. We know less about when in the career pipeline to parliament workers disappear, and why. We study these questions using detailed data on the universe of Swedish politicians’ careers over a 50-year period. We find roughly equal-sized declines in the proportion of workers on various rungs of the political career ladder ranging from local to national office. We reject the potential explanations that workers lack political ambition, public service motivation, honesty, or voter support. And while workers’ average high school grades and cognitive test scores are lower, this cannot explain their large promotion disadvantage, a situation that we label a class ceiling. Organizational ties to blue-collar unions help workers advance, but only to lower-level positions in left-leaning parties. We conclude that efforts to improve workers’ numerical representation should apply throughout the career ladder and focus on intra-party processes.