The institute is primarily funded through a grant from the state budget and external research funding from government and private research financiers, awarded in competition with other research organi

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

Erik Angner, Professor of Practical Philosophy Abstract The nudge agenda due to Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein has proven polarizing. To advocates, nudging allows us to improve people’s choices and th

Last week the institute was granted 8 million SEK by the Wallenberg Foundations for two research projects that will go on for four years. The boundary problem in democratic theory. Gustaf Arrhenius was g

Minerva, vol. 62 Abstract A critical debate has blossomed within the field of research policy, science and technology studies, and philosophy of science regarding the possible benefits and limitations opure lottery

Clara Lindblom from the Institute has participated in IMISCOE:s 10th Annual Confernce in Malmö August 26–27th, presenting results from a study by the Thematic Group on Inclusion in Working Life. The conf and the Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) and the Department of Global Political studies (GPS), Malmö University.

IPSP: Daniel Wikler on demographic changes and challenges

Short interview with Daniel Wikler, professor of ethics and population health, on the chapter "The contours of human life" in the IPSP-report. Daniel Wikler's visit to Stockholm was made possible t

Mathematical Social Sciences, 77, 1-8. Abstract Here we propose the idea that the success of an argument in favor of an issue position should depend on whether the argument resonates with the audience’s

Peter Hedström at the Institute for Futures Studies has been granted funding for a project called "Analytical sociology: Theoretical developments and empirical research”. 302 researchers in total were

Mind Abstract Candice Delmas’ A Duty to Resist arrives, fittingly, in a world of increasing authoritarianism, and the caged children and burning forests left in its wake. Widely diagnosed as a failure t