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Brad Hooker: Fairness
Professor Brad Hooker, Philosophy Department, University of Reading. Consider the view that an individual behaves unfairly if, only if, and because (1) The individual treats people who are NOT relevantlAnd(2) The individual fails to treat people who ARE relevantly different in accordance with their relevant difference (e.g., needy/non-needy, someone who has a right against the individual/someone who doesn’t have a right against the individual, etc.).
Studying mechanisms to strengthen causal inferences in quantitative research
Pp. 319 – 335 in J. M. Box-Steffensmeier, H. E. Brady and D. Collier (eds.) in The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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,
On the contagiousness of non-contagious behavior: The case of tax avoidance and tax evasion
Pp. 315-336 in The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science, edited by Hans Joas and Barbro Klein. Leiden: Brill.
Migrationsdagen (in Swedish)
Människor har alltid rört sig över långa avstånd för att finna en ny plats att bo. Det finns idag många skäl att tro att vi kommer att fortsätta göra det i framtiden, kanske i ännu högre grad än förut
Completed: Children’s living conditions in a changing society. Socioeconomic and ethnic inequality
How are children affected by changes in income, educational reforms, immigration or changes in the family? Children's living conditions are examined with a focus on socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities.
John A. Ferejohn: Political Economy and Immigration: A Seven Nation Study
John A. Ferejohn, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law Abstract In many advanced democracies the major political parties have been disrupted either by the rise of new (populist) parties o
IF starts a blog
The Institute for Futures Studies now has a blog named Framtider (Futures), a name it has inherited from a magazine that was previously published by the Institute. On this blog you will find posts on

Ann-Sofie Isaksson
I am a researcher in development economics, based at the Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS) and at the University of Gothenburg. My research interests and empirical work cover a broad range of issue
Social Democracy Lost – The Social Democratic Party in Sweden and the Politics of Pension Reform
The Swedish pension reform of the 1990s is here studied from a power-political perspective focusing on the Social Democratic Party. Despite a strong heritage in the “income security principle”, guidel