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Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus: Institutional Complexity and Its Challenges to Effectiveness and Legitimacy
Cambridge University Press Combating climate change and transitioning to fossil-free energy are two central and interdependent challenges facing humanity today. Governing the nexus of these challenges
Rethinking the Green State: Environmental Governance toward Climate and Sustainability Transitions
London: Routledge This innovative book is one of the first to conduct a systematic comprehensive analysis of the ideals and practices of the evolving green state. It draws on elements of political theo
Women's rights in democratic transitions: A global sequence analysis, 1900–2012.
European Journal of Political Research 56: 735–756. DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12201 Abstract What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? This article explores the impact of granting civil
Investigating sequences in ordinal data: A new approach with adapted evolutionary models.
Political Science Research and Methods, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 449-466. doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.9 Abstract This paper presents a new approach for studying temporal sequences across ordinal variables. I
Lukas Meyer: Legitimate Expectations and Compensation in Changing Circumstances
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Lukas Meyer, professor of philosophy at the University of Graz. Abstract: This paper discusses how legitimate exp
The Relationship Between Demographic Change and Economic Growth in the EU
Vienna Institute of Demography and Institute for Futures Studies, 2007: Research Report No. 32 The future economic growth in the EU will determine the opportunities of implementing age-related expenses

Conservative climate justice for a sustainable transformation
The purpose of this project is to determine whether, and how, conservative principles can support an effective and just low-carbon transition.
Democratic revolutions as institutional innovation diffusion: Rapid adoption and survival of democracy
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 80, Issue 8, October 2013, Pp. 1546–1556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2013.02.002 Abstract Recent ‘democratic revolutions’ in Islamic countries

Johan Westerman
Johan Westerman is a researcher who obtained his PhD in sociology from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) in 2020. His dissertation, entitled Motives Matter, investigated the intrinsic mo
How does Birth Order and Number of Siblings Effect Fertility? A Within-Family Comparison Using Swedish Register Data
European Journal of Population Abstract This study examines how the sibling constellation in childhood is associated with later fertility behaviour of men and women in Sweden. Administrative register da