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The status of ethics in Swedish health care management: a qualitative study
BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:608, doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3436-8. Abstract BackgroundBy tradition, the Swedish health care system is based on a representative and parliamentary form of governm
Contexts and Conditions of Ethnic Discrimination: Evidence from Field-Experiments in German Housing Markets
Katrin Ausprung, History and Sociology, Konstanz University, Germany People’s housing conditions and places of residence have serious impacts on individual living conditions and social stratification.
Camilla Nothhaft: Lobbying - Systems and People
Camilla Nothhaft is a researcher and lecturer at Lund University, Department of Strategic Communication. ABSTRACT This seminar will present results from a study on how lobbyists and politicians meet in
Hanna Wass: Too much of a good thing? The future of the antifragile democracy
Hanna Wass is an Academy Research Fellow and University Lecturer in the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki. ABSTRACT As a potentially antifragile system, the stre
Seeking a reflective equilibrium in the face of disagreement
Synthese, vol. 204, 86 Abstract How is someone who seeks a reflective equilibrium to respond upon learning that others disagree with her? Regrettably, not much attention has been devoted to that questio
Critique and Capital in History and in the Twenty-first Century
Organised by the Institute for Futures Studies and Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in the long-run global development of wealth and inequality as we.
Rethinking society for the 21st century
A couple of weeks ago it was decided that the Institute for Futures Studies will support the project International Panel on Social Progress. It is a large project with high ambitions that mobilizes se
Is there room for everyone within Swedish labor market policy?
The labor market has changed in recent decades, demanding a high level of education. Meanwhile, a high percentage of the individuals who have sought refuge in Sweden the past two years have been to sc
Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries
Nature Communications Abstract The emergence of COVID-19 dramatically changed social behavior across societies and contexts. Here we study whether social norms also changed. Specifically, we study this
The Origin of Status Inequality: A Simulation-Based Study
Gianluca Manzo, Sociology Sorbonne Status hierarchies have the characteristic of being increasingly asymmetric distributions that, however, never turn into winner-take-all structures. In this paper we