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Lobbying for profits
If a social scientific observer of the mid-1980s had been presented with a line-up of rich Western countries – say Germany, Sweden, the UK, France, the US – and asked to guess which of these countrie
New initiative: Anxieties of Democracy
New year and new exciting projects! One of them is named Anxieties of Democracy, which will investigate in what ways representative democracy may be said to be in crisis, to explain why this is so, and
New perspectives on the privatization of Swedish welfare
If a social scientific observer of the mid-1980s had been presented with a line-up of rich Western countries – say Germany, Sweden, the UK, France, the US – and asked to guess which of these countriesextent come from for-profit providers.
Completed: Anxieties of democracy
Is representative democracy in crisis? If so, in what ways and how is it possible to strengthen it?
Symposium on basic income
The basic income proposal has received increasing attention in the past few years. Several ambitious basic income experiments are currently being planned in different parts of the world and the very f
Completed: "If you're all egalitarians, how come you're so racist?". Social norms, implicit bias and discrimination
Why are ethnic discrimination and inequality widespread in Sweden when studies suggest that Swedes are among the most egalitarian people in the world? This project analyses implicit biases in relation to social norms.
The Limits of Judicial Independence. How is the European Court of Justice Politically Constrained?
Daniel Naurin, Department of Political Science, Göteborg University Judicial independence is a challenge for courts whose decisions have politically salient consequences. Several tools are available fo
Disinformation campaigns 2.0
Propaganda and lying are as old as humanity itself and the post-print social media age has created a hyperactive environment of sharing information including lies. Disinformation and misinformation po
Marte Mangset: Subtle shifts in sectorial power and party affinities: Post-ministerial careers in Norway 1965-2021
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Marte Mangset,Director at Centre universitaire de Norvège à Paris andAssociate professor, Department
Marte Mangset: Shifts in sectorial power and party affinities: Post-ministerial careers in Norway
Research seminar with Marte Mangset, Director at Centre universitaire de Norvège à Paris and Associate professor, Department of sociology and human geography, University of Oslo. Abstract The paper ex
