Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. RegisterResearch seminar with Bo Rothstein, Professor of Political Science, University of Gothenburg Abstract In the recent

Bo Rothstein: The Shadow of the Swedish Right

In the recent election to the Swedish Parliament, the Sweden Democrats, a right-wing populist and nationalist Party, gained 20.5 percent of the vote, making it for the first time the second-largest pa

Interest Groups & Advocacy volume 10, pp.47–67 AbstractThe weak correlation between lobbying and policy outcomes is puzzling. The main argument developed here is that the puzzle is partly caused by

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, and onlineResearch seminar with Michael Rosen, professor of political theory, Government Department, Harvard UniversityYou can jo

The Shadow of God and the Passage from Heaven to History - Michael Rosen

Research seminar with Michael Rosen, professor of political theory, Government Department, Harvard University. Abstract In a letter to his friend, Étienne Falconet, Denis Diderot wrote that “Posterity

Michael Rosen: The Shadow of God and the Passage from Heaven to History

Research seminar with Michael Rosen, professor of political theory, Government Department, Harvard University. Abstract In a letter to his friend, Étienne Falconet, Denis Diderot wrote that “Posterity

In 2018 the Institute for Futures Studies will host the Kerstin Hesselgrens gästprofessur, held by Janine R Wedel, an American anthtropologist and professor at George Mason University i USA. Janine Wed at the institute in 2016. Follow that link and listen to Janine's TEDx-talk about the shadow elite affecting American politics.

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. 

Janine R. Wedel is a university professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Senior Research Fellow of the New America Foundation. ABSTRACTA new breed of influence elite ha

Venue: Medelhavsmuseet, Fredsgatan 2 i Stockholm. We will be in Hörsalen, which is just behind Bagdad Café which will be open until 19.00. Register here > Abandoning its age-old doctrine of military n