Lars Ingelstam on the beginnings of the Institute for Futures Studies in Sweden

In 2013 the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm celebrated 40 years. Lars Ingelstam, the first CEO of the organisation reminisces how it all began and talks about the first years of activities

When restrictions were introduced at the beginning of the pandemic, many assumed that young adults' mental health would deteriorate rapidly due to factors such as social isolation, unemployment and ec

Patrik Lindenfors, Associate Professor of Zoological Ecology. Abstract What explains successful democratization? We present a suggestion for a new solution that identifies the discrete beginning of a li

Political Science Research and Methods, 1-20 Abstract This paper introduces a new approach to the quantitative study of democratization. Building on the comparative case-study and large-N literature, it

Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 97. Abstract What explains successful democratization? This paper makes four contributions towards providing more sophisticated answers to this questishowing that while several established covariates are useful for predicting outcomes, none of them seem to explain the onset of a period of liberalization. Fourth, it illustrates how the identification of episodes makes it possible to study processes quantitatively using sequencing methods to detail the importance of the order of change for liberalization outcomes.

Staffan Julén

I am Head of communications at the Institute for Futures Studies, documentary film director and producer. At the institute I have among other things been working on a research project financed by the where I examined how artistic subjective narration can develop the documentary film. 

2010. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:5706-5711. Abstract Like many other social phenomena, prostitution is increasingly coordinated over the Internet. The online behavior affects the offline activity; the r

Larry Temkin, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. The State University of New Jersey. ABSTRACT The goal of this talk is modest. It is simply to help illuminate

in: Social ForcesAbstractWe know that parenthood has different consequences for men’s and women’s careers. Still, the research remains inconclusive on the question of whether this is mainly a conseque

Did the COVID-19 pandemic change our social norms?

As you might remember, a lot of our social behaviors changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we perceived the behaviors of others. What was once deemed acceptable behavior became scrutinized, wi