Perceptions of Sweden’s Welfare State: Cause for Concern?
This article critically explores perceptions of the Swedish welfare state, three decades after the much-documented Choice Revolution fundamentally altered the traditional model. This research examines qualitative data from focus group interviews conducted in Sweden in 2021 and 2022. This paper investigates the current status of folkhemmet (the people’s home) according to those who experience it. From its peak in the […]
Migration, Crime, and Politics: Democratic Decay in Sweden and Ireland
By examining the current status of Sweden’s constitutional democracy, this book addresses two complex societal problems: forced migration and democratic decay. The interdisciplinary empirical approach finds a relationship between right-wing populism and non-Western migration to Sweden. Based on extensive qualitative research with Swedish residents, the book develops both the meta-concept of democratic decay and crimmigration theory. Significantly, the book […]
Ireland: Legal Response to Covid-19
By Eoin Carolan, Silvia Gagliardi, Seána Glennon, Ailbhe O’Neill in Jeff King and Octávio LM Ferraz et al (eds.) The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19 (OUP, 2021). Abstract This details the Irish response to Covid 19 from legislation enacted to guidance and policy issuance across all of Irish life. Keywords: Constitutional culture; Covid-19; Sociological constitutionalism Link […]
The Influence of Popular Conceptions of National and Constitutional Identity on the Position of Marginalized or Minority groups within a Nation State. A Legal, Empirical, and Comparative Analysis of Four Jurisdictions through the Prism of Gender, Populist Discourse, and Human Rights
By Silvia Gagliardi, Eoin Carolan, Som Banerjee, Demian Iglesias Seifret and Daniela Gutierrez Rodriguez in Latin American Legal Studies (2024). Abstract What influence might popular conceptions of national and constitutional identity have on the position of marginalized or minority groups within that system? In this article, we investigate whether and to what extent there may be a […]
Youth Justice in Transition: Penal Populism and the Decline of Nordic Exceptionalism in Sweden How to investigate a constitutional culture?: The case for the focus group method in comparative constitutional studies
By Orlaith Rice, Silvia Gagliardi and Daniela Rodriguez Gutierrez (2025) In E. Pearce & G. Martin (Eds.) Research Handbook on Youth Criminology. Elgar. Abstract The Nordic model of youth justice is highly regarded globally for its penal welfarist approach. Sweden’s rehabilitative attitude when it comes to young offenders has a long history. Sweden also has a more recent […]
How to investigate a constitutional culture?: The case for the focus group method in comparative constitutional studies
By Eoin Carolan, Silvia Gagliardi, and Daniela Rodriguez Gutierrez Abstract This article makes the case for the use of focus groups as a method with particular relevance to the field of comparative constitutional studies. The article begins with a brief overview of the most common approaches to accounts of constitutional culture. It then explains how […]
Public opinion as a foundation of de facto judicial independence?: lessons from Argentina and Uruguay
By Demian Iglesias Seifert, Daniela Rodriguez Gutierrez, and Eoin Carolan Abstract It is anecdotally clear from experiences in various countries that the perception that judicial independence is under threat can mobilise significant public opposition. The extent to which the public may oppose measures that impinge on judicial autonomy has clear implications for de facto judicial […]
Cracks in the Foundations?
Exploring the Tension Between Constitutional Tradition and Constitutional Culture in the UK on Referendums and Scottish Independence. By Nicky Gillibrand, Somsubhra Banerjee and Eoin Carolan To read the full article please click here:
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