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IF starts a blog
The Institute for Futures Studies now has a blog named Framtider (Futures), a name it has inherited from a magazine that was previously published by the Institute. On this blog you will find posts on
Explaining the growth patterns of social movements
Pp. 111-26 in J. Elster et. al. (eds.) Understanding Choice, Explaining Behaviour: Essays in Honour of Ole-Jørgen Skog. Oslo: Oslo University Press.
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
How and why do we discriminate?
At last Friday’s research seminarKatrin Ausprung from the Department of History and Sociology at Konstanz University in Germany came to talk to us about her reserach on discrimination in housing marke
Positive online emotions
Is it possible to study emotions using mathematical models? Frank Schweizer is one of the resesarchers who have tried and he finds for example that we are quite nice to each other online. He came to te
AI is watching. But who is watching AI?
AI is watching. A constantly growing number of programs, microphones and cameras, are collecting data about you. Data that will be used. Maybe not by a killer robot who thinks you are the enemy. But m
Daniel Waldenström: Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Daniel Waldenström, Professor of Economics and Director of the Taxes and Society research program a
“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
Do we need dual-process theory to understand implicit bias? A study of the nature of implicit bias against Muslims
in: Poetics AbstractPsychological dual-process theory has become increasingly popular among sociologists. The dual-process framework accounts for two types of thinking; a fast, associative, automatic o
How to solve the climate crisis together
This projects aims to solve ideological conflicts when it comes to climate politics, by suggesting climate work that aligns with the different ideologies' values.
