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When Unionization Disappears: State-Level Unionization and Working Poverty in the U.S., 1991-2010
Professor David Brady, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Seminars host is Stefan Svallfors. The seminars are free of charge and take place at 13.00–14.30 in the Institute’s seminar room at Holländargatan 13,
The road to civilization goes through threat and punishment
Do you frown at people who sneeze in their hand instead of in a tissue? Would you be prepared to punish that person by frowning at him or her, showing you dislike the behaviour? In that case you are a

Causes and consequences of environmental protests. The global environmental contestation and civic mobilization observatory
Environmental protest events are increasing. Does it have any consequences for policy? With global data-sets, this project will try to answer that question.
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Bentham's Mugging
Utilitas, 2022, 1–6 Abstract A dialogue, in three parts, on utilitarian vulnerability to exploitation. Read the whole article
What Future for Europe? New Perspectives in Post-Industrial Fertility Issues
After years of falling fertility, most countries of the EU have reached stabilization; however, at very different levels across Europe. Examining this difference may help in understanding the underlyi
Ecocentrism and Biosphere Life Extension
Science and Engineering Ethics, 28. Abstract The biosphere represents the global sum of all ecosystems. According to a prominent view in environmental ethics, ecocentrism, these ecosystems matter for the
Utilitarianism without Moral Aggregation
Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2021), 51: 4, 256–269 Is an outcome where many people are saved and one person dies better than an outcome where the one is saved and the many die? According to the stan
Where Does Europe End? Christian Democracy and the Expansion of Europe
Journal of Common Market Studies Abstract In this article, we argue that an analysis of the conflict around the nature and limits of European integration that arose between Catholic and Protestant Chris

Karim Jebari
I am a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. I defended my doctoral thesis in December 2014 at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). I am writing a book on the climate crisis and the futu