Through multi-level analyses, this study evaluates how welfare regime generosity as well as production regime coordination explains cross-national patterns of retirement preferences across twelve West

Chapter 4 in: Anthony Heath and Yaël Brinbaum (Eds.), Unequal attainments: Ethnic educational inequalities in ten Western countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Proceedings of the British Academy

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, pp. 1-14, doi.org/10.1007/s10610-018-9387-0 Abstract This population-based time-trend study examines gun violence rates among males in Sweden during the

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 25(4): 365-378 Abstract This population-based time-trend study examines gun violence rates among males in Sweden during the years 1996 to 2015 and compar

Cécile Laborde, Professor of Political Theory FBA, Nuffield Chair of Political Theory.ABSTRACTIn this talk, I ask whether liberal legitimacy requires secularism – or separation between state and relig

European Societies Abstract Western labor markets are typically segregated by country of birth, with immigrants often employed in roles such as cleaners, taxi drivers, and fast-food cooks. We examine wh

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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

Josef Hien

I am interested in the connection between politico-economic institutions, religion, ideologies, and cultures. After receiving my PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 2012 I had po

Journal of European Social Policy, Published online before print June 17, 2015, doi: 10.1177/0958928715588707 We question the common description of poverty in Western countries as largely brief and tra