In the last months, Spain and Catalonia have experienced an exceptional political crisis. On October 1st, 2017, a referendum took place in Catalonia to decide whether it should separate from Spain, wh

The future of Catalonia in Spain and Europe. In or out?

Seminar at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, October 2017. Professor Jose Luis Marti, University Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona Dr Niklas Bremberg, Swedish Institute for International A

This literature review describes the demographic development in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal from the 1960s. The general pattern is delayed transition to adulthood and first birth, decline of fer

in: Analysis (2020) Volume 80:3. AbstractA notorious problem that has recently received increased attention in axiology, normative theory and population ethics is the apparent ubiquity of what can be g. This paper illustrates how nondeterminacy can spawn cyclical rankings. So, accepting that practical reasons can admit of nondeterminacy challenges the widely held idea that ‘better than’ is transitive. As a result, standard approaches to rational choice under nondeterminacy fail to be action-guiding, since in some situations all options are dominated, that is, impermissible according to standard rational choice criteria.

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Vito Peragine, Professor of Economics at the University of Bari. His work spans the area of public

Filip Olsson

I work as a researcher in sociology at the Institute for Futures Studies. In the fall of 2024, I defended my dissertation, Culture and Implicit Cognitions, at Stockholm University. My dissertation focu

Fernando Filgueira, Senior researcher at CIPPEC (Argentina) and CIESU (Uruguay), and lead author for the UN-Women Gender Progress Report for Latin America and the Caribbean. ABSTRACT As countries in Lat

Institutet för Framtidsstudiers skriftserie: Framtidens samhälle nr 2, 2006 The future always seems to come as a surprise. A good example would be the eastern enlargement of the EU two years ago. Regar

Nearly ten years after the first financial chock Waves rippled through the world economy, generating a global recenssion, the track record of high income countries in protecting Children from its worsoch .

Minna Persson

I have an MA. in General Linguistics from Stockholm University and an MSc. in Migration, Mobility and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. At the In and . The topics of these projects span over several fields, but in different ways revolve around questions of social norms, values, and the mechanisms by which they change.