Inari Gustafsson, Author at BIBU

Lapsuuden psykiatrisilla ja käytöshäiriödiagnooseilla on yhteys nuorten aikuisten maksuhäiriömerkintöihin

Aapo Hiilamo, Markus Keski-Säntti, Sami Pirkola, Tea Lallukka, Antti Kääriälä

Tutkimus selvitti miten lapsuuden psykiatriset ja käytöshäiriödiagnoosit yhdistyvät maksuhäiriömerkintöihin nuorilla aikuisilla ja miten yhteys vaihtelee vanhempien sosioekonomisen aseman mukaan. Maksuhäiriömerkinnät ovat huolestuttavan yleisiä haavoittuvissa ryhmissä. Nuorisopsykiatrian tueksi tarvitaan taloudellisia ongelmia ehkäiseviä toimia.

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Striving for normality: Agency, citizen participation and intergroup belonging on the urban periphery of Helsinki

Pekka Tuominen

This article examines how the inhabitants of a culturally diverse suburban estate in Finland strive for meaningful encounters in their lives. The focus is on Kontula, a residential working-class district on the eastern periphery of Helsinki, which has become a powerful symbol of the ills of contemporary urbanity—poverty and social problems, as well as rootlessness and the failed integration of the immigrant populations—in the vernacular geography and media representations of the city. The article examines how everyday mobility in an increasingly segregated city is related to a range of qualities of sociocultural encounters, both within the immediate neighbourhood and across other urban areas. The article also argues that for many marginalised inhabitants, agency predominantly emphasises striving for normality, not a challenge to the system.

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Psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnoses in adolescence and adulthood over-indebtedness among Finns born in 1987

Aapo Hiilamo, Markus Keski-Säntti, Sami Pirkola, Tea Lallukka, Antti Kääriälä

Adolescence psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnoses are common but their link to adulthood over-indebtedness is unknown. This study aims to determine this relationship and explores the possible mediating role of upper secondary education completion

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With status decline in sight, voters turn radical right: how do experience and expectation of status decline shape electoral behaviour?

Zhen Jie Im, Hanna Wass, Anu Kantola and Timo M. Kauppinen

We distinguish between the experience and expectation of subjective status decline in relation to electoral behaviour. Studies often link support for radical parties, especially radical right ones, to voters’ experience of status decline. A few other studies argue that voters’ expectation of status decline also triggers radical right support. Using multivariate analyses, this article finds that voters who expect status decline consistently prefer radical right parties more than voters who expect status improvement. However, there is no robust evidence of radical right support among voters who have experienced status decline. These findings suggest that the expectation, not experience, of status decline drives radical right support. If these expectations trigger radical right support in Nordic welfare states, they may be even more pertinent in less comprehensive welfare states.

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Miten tieto ja tuki tavoittivat maahanmuuttajayrittäjät koronapandemian aikana?

Pekka Tuominen ja Anu kantola

Koronaviruksen aiheuttama pandemia ajoi suomalaisen yhteiskunnan kriisiin, jossa testattiin monien asioiden ohella sitä, kuinka yhteiskunnan politiikkatoimet tavoittavat kaikki maassa asuvat. Erityisesti pandemia nosti kysymyksen siitä, miten tavoittaa muita kuin kotimaisia kieliä puhuva väestö ja välittää heille tietoa pandemian vaatimista toimista ja tukitoimista. Tämä kysymys oli erityisen tärkeä maahanmuuttajille, jotka pyörittävät yrityksiä Suomessa. Pandemia vei tuloja monilta yrityksiltä, joiden toiminta vaikeutui, joihin kohdistui viranomaisten rajoitustoimia ja joille suunnattiin myös erilaisia tukitoimia pandemian kuluessa. Tässä analyysissa arvioimme pandemian aikana tehdyn haastattelututkimuksen perusteella sitä, miten pandemiatoimia koskeva tieto ja yhteiskunnan tukitoimet tavoittivat maahanmuuttajataustaiset yrittäjät.

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Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media

Mona Mannevuo

This article examines Finnish politicians’ ambivalent attachments to social media – specifically Facebook and Twitter – in candidate-centred, personalised politics. The analysis draws on 20 semi-structured interviews with members of parliament (MPs) to investigate the tactics of adaptation and adjustment politicians develop in a work setting that precludes digital detox. To investigate the MPs’ contradictory feelings, the analysis builds on cultural and media theory to contextualise the porous border between the personal and the political that exists on social media. The analysis revolves around four interconnected themes: uneasiness of self-promotion, Facebook’s ordinariness, Twitter as a necessary evil, and tactics of patience MPs utilise when they encounter various forms of online harassment. The article suggests that in parliamentary research, social media should be considered an ambivalent social glue that holds things together rather than merely a platform for self-promotion.

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Ambivalentti transkansalaisuus: sukupuolivähemmistöjen kansalaisuuskamppailuista Suomessa

Mona Heimonen ja Anu A. Harju

Kansalaisuus ymmärretään usein oikeuksien ja velvollisuuksien verkostona, yksilön suhteena ympäröivään yhteiskuntaan. Eletyn elämän kokemuksia tarkastellessa kansalaisuus kuitenkin rakentuu arjen tapahtumien jatkumona. Tässä laadullisessa tutkimuksessa käsitellään transihmisten kansalaisuutta nyky-Suomessa eletyn elämän ja arjen kokemusten kautta.

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The Future of Democracy and Welfare in a Transforming Europe: Four Scenarios of Europe in 2040

Anna Björk, Aleksi Neuvonen and Nour Attalla

Europe is currently in a transitional period. The ongoing post-industrial economic and technological transformation is weakening our established societal, political, and cultural structures. Meanwhile, key 21st-century challenges including climate change, socio-economic inequalities, and external authoritarian pressure are creating instability across the continent.

The scenarios of the paper were created as a synthesis of the Finnish BIBU research project (2017-22), which studies the impact of the socio-economic transformation on our political systems, and responses to it. A report in Finnish focusing on the future of the Finnish welfare state and democracy was published alongside this volume.

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Demokratia kuilujen ja kuplien jälkeen: Neljä skenaariota Suomesta 2040

Anna Björk, Aleksi Neuvonen ja Nour Attalla

Kansalaisuuden kuilut ja kuplat (BIBU) -hanke on tuottanut laajasti tutkittua tietoa siitä, mitä suomalaiselle demokratialle ja hyvinvointimallille kuuluu globaalien murrostrendien keskellä. Julkaisun skenaarioiden tavoitteena on koota tätä tutkimusta yhteen laajalle yleisölle sekä viedä keskustelua demokratian tulevaisuudesta uusiin suuntiin.

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14.6.2022

Democracy for the next era

This live, event discusses the launch of new research & grassroots initiatives to support democracies in realising societal transformations.

Introduction:

Europe is currently in a period of transition. The ongoing post-industrial economic and technological transformation are weakening our established societal and political structures. Meanwhile, key 21st-century challenges including climate change, economic inequality, and authoritarian pressures are creating instability across the continent, manifesting as growing political distrust, polarization and extremism. Now the invasion of (authoritarian) Russia in Ukraine has initiated a new phase in the discourse on the value of democracy – and why we have to work very hard to have democratic futures for our societies.

The event:

Democracy for the next era event combines the bird’s eye view with the grassroots initiatives to support democracies in realising societal transformations. The event celebrates the launch of the scenario report on the future of liberal democracy. The scenario work is a part of Tackling Biases and Bubbles in Participation -project, led by the University of Helsinki and funded by the Strategic Research Council by the Academy of Finland (2017-2022).

Date and time

Tue, 14 June 2022
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EEST

Location

Demos Helsinki
Mechelininkatu 3 D
00100 Helsinki

Agenda

16.00 — Arrival & welcome

16.10 — Introduction to the theme and the organisations

16.20 — Opening speeches

- Aleksi Neuvonen / Demos Helsinki: "The Future of Democracy and Welfare in a Transforming Europe"

- Anthony Zacharzewski / the Democratic Society: "Not a project, a way of life"

16.50— Panel discussion: "How to combine urgency with democracy?" + Q&A

17.30 — A brief intro on the upcoming project TANDEM (Transdisciplinary and Deliberative equity appraisal of transition policies in Energy and Mobility)

17.40 — 18.00 Closing words & informal discussion

18.00 - event closes