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Government quality, egalitarianism, and attitudes to taxes and social spending: a European comparison
European Political Science Review, Vol 5 (2013), pp 363-80. First published online July 16, 2012, doi:10.1017/S175577391200015X. The paper analyses how perceptions of government quality – in terms of i
POSTPONED, NEW DATE PENDING: Research seminar: Co-hosted with Rutgers University
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED, NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineResearch seminar co-hosted with Rutgers University.ABSTRACTMore i
POSTPONED. NEW DATE PENDING. James Fishkin: Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Applications of Deliberative Democracy
Postponed. New date pending. James Fishkin, Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) and Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy, Stanford University. Abstract D
POSTPONED. NEW DATE PENDING. Moa Bursell: Can implicit bias be reduced through training? (Webinar)
Online seminar Can implicit bias be reduced through training? Individual and group-level effects among Swedish social workers Moa Bursell is postdoctoral researcher in sociology. Her research concerns im
POSTPONED. NEW DATE PENDING. Katya Rhodes: Designing politically acceptable and effective climate policies: Insights from British Columbia, Canada
Dr.Katya Rhodes comes from British Columbia, Canada, to share her academicresearch findings and government policy-making experiences on how to designpolitically acceptable and effective policies to mitigate climate change usingBritish Columbia’s climate policies as a case study.
Understanding and exploiting information spreading and integrating information technologies
2011. Journal of Computer Science and Technology 26: 829-836. AbstractOur daily life leaves an increasing amount of digital traces, footprints that are improving our lives. Data-mining tools, like recomm
Children of austerity
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 .
Life-style and self-rated global health in Sweden: A prospective analysis spanning three decades
Preventive Medicine ScienceDirect http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743513003472 Abstract The article studies the relation between lifestyle and global self-rated health in the adult
Malcolm Fairbrother
I am a professor of sociology at Uppsala University, and a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. I moved to Sweden in 2017, after spending ten years at Bristol University in the UK. Before
A Bedrock of Support? Trends in Welfare State Attitudes in Sweden, 1981–2010
Social Policy & Administration issn 0144–5596. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2011.00796.x. Vol. 45, No. 7, December 2011, pp. 806–825 AbstractThis article reports findings about Swedes’ attitudes toward
