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Finding popular solutions to climate change

A global investigation of public opinions about climate policies and their determinants.

Irina Vartanova, Kimmo Eriksson and Pontus Strimling at the Institute for Futures Studies have created a model to predict changes in moral opinion. –Ourmodel did considerably better than all known methPontus Strimling.

New Methods for Sharing Research Findings with Society

Finding new formats for presenting policy-relevant research results.

Dr Simone Abram, Department of Anthropology, Durham University ABSTRACT Within the broad term 'democratic state' there is a messy set of imagined virtues, vices and possibilities. In this paper, I consi

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Ann Legeby, KTH School of Architecture Seminars hosts are Peter Hedström, David Sumpter and Fredrik Liljeros from the Institute for Futures Studies. The seminars are free of charge and take place at 12

This paper aims to study the theoretical linkages between the design of the pension system and that of the labor market and their interplay in determining poverty outcomes in old age, particularly fro

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