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The aim of this paper is to identify the most vaccine-hesitant groups in a contemporary democratic state, Sweden. We rely on two representative surveys that were conducted in 2020 and that asked Swedish citizens how likely they were to accept immunization with a Covid-19 vaccine if one were offered to them. Using clustering methods, we find a wide variety of vaccine-hesitant groups, with the highest levels of vaccine hesitancy among individuals who combine low personal health risks with political orientations and ideological convictions that are associated with antivaccinationist attitudes. The paper's findings have important implications for public-health policy and, more broadly, for theories of how governments can convince individual citizens to play their part in achieving important social goals.

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-esp-10.1177_0958928720954699 for Unions and the rights of migrants in the long run by Frida Boräng, Sara Kalm and Johannes Lindvall in Journal of European Social Policy

Supplemental material, Lindvall_Supplementary for Immigration policy and the modern welfare state, 1880–1920 by Sara Kalm and Johannes Lindvall in Journal of European Social Policy

Supplemental material, Supplementary_Materials for The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State by Thomas Brambor, Agustín Goenaga, Johannes Lindvall and Jan Teorell in Comparative Political Studies

This article examines the relationship between conscription (the compulsory enlistment of civilians for military service) and democracy. Using the best available cross-country comparable data on the history of conscription and democracy, we demonstrate that there is an empirical relationship between conscription and democratization, but the relationship is more complicated than commonly believed. Specifically, we find that conscription increases the likelihood of male suffrage extensions, but only in wartime (when the conscript army is mobilized). We find no relationship between conscription and democratization apart from extensions of suffrage. Nor do we find support for the hypothesis that conscription shelters democracies from coups.