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Possible Worlds: Towards a New Imaginary
Venue: Uppsala Konsert & Kongress The internationally recognized philosopher Timothy Morton and innovation expert Michela Magas meet game designer Doris Rusch and futurist Karim Jebari in a captivat
Cybercrime in Nordic countries: a scoping review on demographic, socioeconomic, and technological determinants
SN Social Sciences Abstract Knowledge of factors contributing to cybercrime threats is needed to plan effective prevention strategies to combat the increasingly common occurrence of cybercrime. This scon
Elite Schools, Elite Ambitions? The Consequences of Secondary-Level School Choice Sorting for Tertiary-Level Educational Choices
in: European Sociological Review, Volume 36, Issue 4 AbstractWe ask if school choice, through its effect on sorting across schools, affects high school graduates’ application decisions to higher educatof higher educational programs applied for. Low achievers increased their propensity to apply for the ‘low-status’ educational programs, on average destining them to less prestigious, less well-paid occupations, and high achievers increased their propensity to apply for ‘high-status’ educational programs, on average destining them to more prestigious, well-paid occupations. The results suggest that increased sorting across schools reinforces differences across schools and groups in ‘cultures of ambition’. Although these effects translate into relatively small increases in the gender gap, the immigration gap, and the parental education gap in educational choice, our results indicate that school choice, and the increased sorting it leads to, through conformity mechanisms in schools polarizes educational choices of students across achievement groups.
John Broome
I am Emeritus White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy and Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford. I am also a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, and Adjunct Profes
Near-repeat shootings in contemporary Sweden 2011 to 2015
Security Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, pp 73–92, doi:10.1057/s41284-017-0089-y Abstract The concept of near-repeat patterns illustrates how crimes are clustered in space and time, with a crime event often s
Anna Tyllström: The social life of elite students: early socialization tactics in top business education
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Anna Tyllström, Associate Professor at Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University and IFFS affiliated
Spatial Numerical Associations by Modality: the Differences Between Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Numerical Representations
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72 (10), 2423-2436 Abstract During the last decades, there have been a large number of studies into the number-related abilities of humans. As a result, we kn
“Most MPs are Not All that Sharp.” Political Employees and Representative Democracy
International Journal of Public Administration, Vol 40 (7), s 548-558 (2017) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2016.1157693 Abstract The article analyses the orientations of political employees in
A more plausible collapsing principle
Theoria, Volume 84, Issue 4. doi.org/10.1111/theo.12166 Abstract In 1997 John Broome presented the Collapsing Argument that was meant to establish that non‐conventional comparative relations (e.g., “par

Richard Arneson: Should we reward the deserving? Some puzzles
Do plausible fundamental principles of justice incorporate the idea of rewarding the deserving? Utilitarianism is famously indifferent between a world in which saints fare badly and scoundrels fare we