{"id":4809,"date":"2026-06-12T07:39:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:16:41","slug":"should-political-decisions-be-based-on-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/should-political-decisions-be-based-on-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Should political decisions be based on science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-lead\"><strong>The last episode of the season&#8217;s podcast Om Vetenskap! Take the opportunity to listen!<\/strong><br \/>\nMust political decisions be based on science &#8211; what does the constitution say? What help do our members of parliament and ministers have to produce facts and evidence? What does it look like in the EU? And how fact-based are the decisions really?<br \/>\n<strong>Guests:<\/strong> G\u00f6ran Sundstr\u00f6m, professor of political science at Stockholm University and Carina Keskitalo, professor of political science at Ume\u00e5 University and Maria Gunther, science editor at Dagens Nyheter.<br \/>\n<strong>Host:<\/strong> Sofie Pehrsson<\/p>\n<div class=\"article--content\">\n<p class=\"text-lead\">Finns d\u00e4r poddar finns, och h\u00e4r:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-lead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/6H5ewKrFIDIginMblfhf0q?si=1d6d18ba8cff4300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Spotify<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-lead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/se\/podcast\/om-vetenskap\/id1559361426?i=1000772277569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>iTunes\/podcaster<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-lead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.podplay.com\/sv-se\/podcasts\/om-vetenskap-1116547\/episodes\/ska-politiska-beslut-vara-grundade-i-vetenskap-814391515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Podplay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article--author\">\n<h4 class=\"rem lined\">Artikelf\u00f6rfattare<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last episode of the season&#8217;s podcast Om Vetenskap! Take the opportunity to listen! Must political \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4818,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions\/4818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategiska.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}