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03 September, 2024

Declining birth rates - should we worry?

Are declining birth rates one of the biggest threats to humanity? Among others, Elon Musk and Donald Trump's vice-presidential candidate JD Vance seem to think so. But Karim Jebari disagrees. In the p, he explains why we don't need to worry so much.

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06 March, 2020

Defining Information Security

Science and Engineering Ethics 25(2): 419–444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-9992-1. Abstract This article proposes a new definition of information security, the ‘Appropriate Access’ definition. Apar

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn , & Möller, N
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06 March, 2020

Defining Social Housing: A Discussion on the Suitable Criteria

Housing, Theory and Society 36(2): 149–166. doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2018.1459826. Abstract The term social housing has been characterized as a “floating signifier”, i.e. a term with no agreed-upon meanin

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn , & Granath Hansson, A.
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21 January, 2021

Katya Rhodes: Designing policies for climate success. Lessons from British Columbia, Canada

Dr. Katya Rhodescomes from British Columbia, Canada, to share her academic and policy-making experiences on how to achieve climate success using British Columbia’s climate policies as a case study. Abs

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20 April, 2021
Katya Rhodes: Designing policies for climate success. Lessons from British Columbia, Canada

Katya Rhodes: Designing policies for climate success. Lessons from British Columbia, Canada

Dr. Katya Rhodes comes from British Columbia, Canada, to share her academic and policy-making experiences on how to achieve climate success using British Columbia’s climate policies as a case study. Dr

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26 April, 2022

Defining disability and the role of the disability and the medical communities

Theoria Abstract Definitions of disabilityare useful for different purposes and carry normative significance. However, defining disability has proven a difficult task. Communities with different theoreti

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mosquera, Julia
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18 March, 2021

Elite Schools, Elite Ambitions? The Consequences of Secondary-Level School Choice Sorting for Tertiary-Level Educational Choices

in: European Sociological Review, Volume 36, Issue 4 AbstractWe ask if school choice, through its effect on sorting across schools, affects high school graduates’ application decisions to higher educatof higher educational programs applied for. Low achievers increased their propensity to apply for the ‘low-status’ educational programs, on average destining them to less prestigious, less well-paid occupations, and high achievers increased their propensity to apply for ‘high-status’ educational programs, on average destining them to more prestigious, well-paid occupations. The results suggest that increased sorting across schools reinforces differences across schools and groups in ‘cultures of ambition’. Although these effects translate into relatively small increases in the gender gap, the immigration gap, and the parental education gap in educational choice, our results indicate that school choice, and the increased sorting it leads to, through conformity mechanisms in schools polarizes educational choices of students across achievement groups.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bygren, Magnus , & Erik Rosenqvist
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14 March, 2016

Declining willingness to fight for one’s country: The individual-level basis of the long peace

Journal of Peace Research,  vol. 52,  no. 4,  p. 418-434. Abstract The Democratic Peace thesis suggests that the absence of war between major powers since 1945 is caused by the spread of democracy. The

Type of publication: Journal articles | Puranen, Bi , , Inglehart R.F., Welzel C,
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23 September, 2022

Experiences matter: A longitudinal study of individual-level sources of declining social trust in the United States.

Social Science Research 95 Abstract The US has experienced a substantial decline in social trust in recent decades. Surprisingly few studies analyze whether individual-level explanations can account for

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , , Mewes, Jan, Giordano, Nicola Guiseppe, Wu, Cary & Rima Wilkes
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21 February, 2020

POSTPONED. NEW DATE PENDING. Katya Rhodes: Designing politically acceptable and effective climate policies: Insights from British Columbia, Canada

Dr.Katya Rhodes comes from British Columbia, Canada, to share her academicresearch findings and government policy-making experiences on how to designpolitically acceptable and effective policies to mitigate climate change usingBritish Columbia’s climate policies as a case study. 

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