Earlier this spring, Erik Olin Wright came to Stockholm to talk at our research seminar. He spoke about pathways to a cooperative market economy. The day before, sociologist Stefan Svallfors took the

Erik Olin Wright, a Marxist sociologist with a focus on the complexities of social classes and inequalities of contemporary capitalism, died from acute myeloid leukemia on January 23 in Milwaukee. He

Erik Olin Wright: Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Madison-Wisconsin. ABSTRACT The idea that there is a pathway from a capitalist economy to a cooperative market economy is grounded in

Pathways to a cooperative market economy. Interview with Erik Olin Wright

American sociologist Erik Olin Wright, interviewed by Swedish Professor Stefan Svallfors, on cooperative market economy and how to be an anti-capitalist today.

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, pp. 1-13, DOI 10.1007/s10677-017-9824-z. Abstract The question raised in this paper is whether legal rights to vote are also moral rights to vote. The challenge to the

In: Gheaus, Anca, Calder, Gideon, and De Wispelaere, Jurgen, eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children. Milton: Routledge. Introduction The history of democracy is stronglySixty years ago, no European democracy allowed 18-year-olds to vote; today, no European nation denies people aged 18 the vote. The tendency is to lower the age of voting further. Voting from the age of 16 is now allowed in several countries, including Austria, Argentina and Brazil. The general question raised by these developments concerns what the final destination should be: what is the appropriate voting-rights age in a democracy?

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. RegisterResearch seminar with Bo Rothstein, Professor of Political Science, University of Gothenburg Abstract In the recent

Bo Rothstein: The Shadow of the Swedish Right

In the recent election to the Swedish Parliament, the Sweden Democrats, a right-wing populist and nationalist Party, gained 20.5 percent of the vote, making it for the first time the second-largest pa

Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 30(1), 5–22. Abstract It is widely believed that voting rights confer power to individual voters as well as to the collective body of the electorate. This pa

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online  Research seminar with Nils Holtug, Professor at the department of communication at the university of Copenhagen. His primar