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Climate policy in British Columbia: An unexpected journey
Frontiers in Climate 4 Abstract Since introducing a path-breaking carbon tax in 2008, the western Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) has attracted significant attention from climate policy schola
Air: Pollution, Climate Change and India's Choice Between Policy and Pretence
Harper Collins India’s air pollution is a deadly threat. Will its politics meet the challenge? Exposure to the world’s worst air pollution kills over a million Indians each year. It also affects childr
Malcolm Fairbrother (presenter): How Much Do People Value Future Generations? (paper together with Gustaf Arrhenius, Krister Bykvist, Tim Campbell, webinar)
Malcolm Fairbrother is professor of sociology at Umeå University and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. In this seminar he presents the paper How Much Do People Value Future Generations? C
Erez Maggor: Bidenomics, Industrial Policy, and the Twenty-First Century American Developmental State
Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Research seminar with Erez Maggor, Assistant Professor at Ben-Gurion University. He studies the political economy of industrial policy and innovation. Register here &
Peter Hedström elected to the board of the Swedish Research Council
Peter Hedström was elected to the board of the Swedish Research Council (VR) on the 4th of December for the period of 2012–2015. The researcher Christofer Edling was elected to the Scientific Council
Peter Hedström elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
On the 6th of May, Peter Hedström was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities was founded in 175
Gustaf Arrhenius elected to a council which will help government with sustainability
During the Swedish politician's week in Visby, the government decided to appoint a scientific council for sustainable development. The council will strengthen the link between politics and academia. Th
President of the Swedish Sociological Association
Professor Stefan Svallfors was elected President of the Swedish Sociological Association for the years 2014-2016. Read more about Stefan Svallfors.
"Most MPs are not all that sharp." Political employees and representative democracy
Working Paper 2016 no. 2(Published in International Journal of Public Administration, Vol 40 (7), pp 548-558 (2017) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2016.1157693) This paper analyses the orient
“Most MPs are Not All that Sharp.” Political Employees and Representative Democracy
International Journal of Public Administration, Vol 40 (7), s 548-558 (2017) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2016.1157693 Abstract The article analyses the orientations of political employees in
