Darrel Robinson

• Phd
• PhD Student at Uppsala University

Whether refugees in need of protection should be granted long- or short-term residence permits in the host country upon arrival is a long-standing debate in the migration policy and scholarly literature. Rights-based models of inclusion advocate for secure and long-term residency status arguing that this will provide the foundations for successful...

The study of popular support for authoritarian regimes has long relied on the assumption that respondents provide truthful answers to surveys. However, when measuring regime support in closed political systems there is a distinct risk that individuals are less than forthright due to fear that their opinions may be made known to the public or the au...

Prior research has consistently identified education as an important correlate of political knowledge, which, many argue, reflects an underlying causal relationship. However, recent work has questioned this interpretation rather arguing that family background causes one to both obtain an education and to develop political knowledge. I argue that th...

Authoritarian regimes throughout the world expand their education systems in an effort to appease citizens and promote economic growth. Scholars of China argue that this strategy allows the regime to enjoy a high level of public support. Yet, a vast modernization literature argues for the democratizing potential of education. These two diverging th...

In this study we exploit a sudden policy change implemented in Sweden in order to evaluate the effects of permanent residency on labour market participation. In short, the policy change implied that Syrians were granted permanent instead of temporary residency as before the new regulations. Using detailed Swedish registry data, we examine the effec...

A robust, positive correlation between education and political knowledge is a well-known finding in political science. However, in recent years the interpretation of education as causally prior to political knowledge has been challenged. Specifically, proponents of the education-as-a-proxy hypothesis argue that factors related to family background...

The study of popular support for authoritarian regimes, and the comparative study of political attitudes, has long relied on the assumption that survey respondents provide truthful answers on surveys. However, when measuring regime support in closed political systems there is a distinct risk that individuals are less than forthright due to fear tha...