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Public broadcasting and democracy’s defense: responses to far-right parties in Germany and Sweden
Democratization, vol 30, issue 6 Abstract This article studies the response by public sphere institutions in democratic societies to far-right parties, focusing specifically on public broadcasting organ
Chapter 26: The evolution of legal positivism: Reflections on continuity and discontinuity in the positivist tradition
In Zaluski, W., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & A. Dyrda (eds.) Research Handbook on Legal Evolution. Elgar Abstract This chapter maps the evolution of legal positivism (LP) with an eye to both continuous and
Environmentalism around the globe. An introduction to the 2020 ISSP environment module and selected country-level findings
International Journal of Sociology Abstract Environmental problems such as climate change, air and water pollution, and biodiversity loss affect humans globally. The International Social Survey Programm
Towards a Theory of Pure Procedural Climate Justice
Journal of Applied Philosophy, published online first, doi.org/10.1111/japp.12357 Abstract A challenge for the theorising of climate justice is that even when the agents whose actions are supposed to be r
Sequences of democracy and development
USAID Center for Democracy and Governance & NORC at the University of Chicago, September 2020. AbstractScholars have long studied the correlation between democracy and development; yet, there is no
Completed: Good and just allocation of health-related resources
How should health-related resources be allocated at the population-level? This project explores some problems with conventional approaches and presents a new one.
Julia Driver: Schadenfreude
Professor Julia Driver, Dept. of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis.ABSTRACT One typical definition of "schadenfreude" is: "a feeling of enjoyment that comes from seeing or hearing about the
20 MSEK to research program on Agenda 2030
The project Transformative partnership for sustainable development, led by Karin Bäckstrand, has been granted 20 million SEK from the Research Council Formas. The title of the project is "Transformative EnvironmentalStockholm
Explaining Swedish Sibling Similarity in Fertility: Parental Fertility Behavior vs. Social Background
Demographic Research, 39(32): 884-893. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.39.32 Abstract Objective: The aim of this descriptive study is to determine which of the family-specific factors, parental fertility behav

Transformative partnerships 2030
As part of the 2030 Agenda, all UN member states agreed that sustainable development should be achieved through multi-stakeholder partnerships. But do they?