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05 December, 2018

A Game of Stars: Active SETI, radical translation and the Hobbesian trap

Futures  Volume: 101, pp. 46–54. doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.06.007  Abstract Among scholars dedicated to Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), the risks and possibilities of actively contac

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jebari, Karim , Niklas Olsson-Yaouzis
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16 October, 2020

The Matthew effect in political science: head start and key reforms important for democratization

Are some countries better equipped from the onset of a democratization process to become democracies? We compared successful and failed episodes of liberalization over the period 1900 to 2018 to exami

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , & Matthew Wilson & Staffan I. Lindberg
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26 August, 2014
The more things change, the more they stay the same. A follow up of participants in Social Fund financed projects

The more things change, the more they stay the same. A follow up of participants in Social Fund financed projects

Research report 2014/5, 77 p. Every year in Sweden, over one hundred thousand job-seekers are assigned to local labour market policy measures, of which a large proportion are financed with money from t

Type of publication: IFFS reports |
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20 December, 2024

Never eat a Pigeon with a Pumpkin: a model for the emergence and fixation of unsupported beliefs

This work was presented at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2023, and a shortened form of the paper is Chapter 30 in Food Rules and Rituals: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Coo

Type of publication: Other | Sandberg, Anders , & Len Fisher
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24 April, 2025

Eli Cook: Choose Your Own Captivity: Choice Architects and the Analog Origins of Digital Capitalism

Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online Research seminar with Eli Cook, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Haifa. Abstract Based on my forthcoming book with Penguin-Random House,  seeks to redefine how we understand freedom and power in a choice-saturated world.

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12 March, 2014

Peter Hedström leaves the Institute for Futures Studies to start new research center for analytical sociology

Peter Hedström, Director of the Institute for Futures Studies, will leave the Institute in August 2014. Peter will then be Professor of Sociology at Linköping University, where he will build a new rese

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05 May, 2017
Bortom IT. Om hälsa i en digital tid

Bortom IT. Om hälsa i en digital tid

Lansering av rapporten med samma namn där flera av rapportförfattarna berättar om förutsättningarna för att omvandla vård och omsorg med digitaliseringens hjälp, och om vad som står i vägen. Medver

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09 March, 2016

The implications of learning across perceptually and strategically distinct situations

Synthese, 1-18. Abstract Game theory is a formal approach to behavior that focuses on the strategic aspect of situations. The game theoretic approach originates in economics but has been embraced by sch

Type of publication: Journal articles | Strimling, Pontus , , Cownden, D Eriksson, Kimmo , , Cownden, D
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03 February, 2017

Funding

The institute is primarily funded through a grant from the state budget and external research funding from government and private research financiers, awarded in competition with other research organi

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14 February, 2011

Long-term Care Insurance in Germany

Arbetsrapport 2011 nr. 13 Hur kan vi organisera och finansiera äldreomsorgen i framtiden med en åldrande befolkning? Den tyska äldreomsorgsförsäkring som infördes 1995/96 utgör ett intressant alternati

Type of publication: Working papers | Hildegard Theobald
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