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Balancing hope and fear – Swedish young adults’ housing strategies on a scarce market
(2016-08-24) Larsson, Moa; University of Gothenburg / Department of Sociology and Work Science; Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap
This study explores emotions in young Swedish adults’ search for housing. Along with this purpose the theoretical aim is to explore the role of emotions in action and decision-making. Through semi-structured interviews and based on sociological theory of emotions the following questions are answered: What are the main emotions associated with looking for housing on a scarce market? How do these emotions orient decisions and strategies in the housing search? How are these emotions managed by the subjects in order to avoid emotions that hamper and encourage emotions that promote continued searching? In the light of the uncertain future, housing search is driven and changed by temporal emotions such as hope, fear, hopelessness, confidence and trust. The strategies and experiences of the housing search is compromised and conflicted by moral emotions such as shame, anger and sympathy. To uphold hope needed to continue searching, active emotion management is needed. Hope in specific events are held down while a general long-term hope is built up in order to continue what appears to be fruitless actions, creating a seedbed for future possibilities.
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(2009-04-16T12:44:14Z) Larsson, Moa; Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; University of Gothenburg/Department of Political Science
Like a Bridge over Troubled Water: Gender Quotas and Women’s Representation
(2014-12-10) Larsson, Moa; Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; University of Gothenburg/Department of Political Science
The development of women’s representation the last two decades has put pressure on research explaining the causes underlying high levels. Dahlerup and Freidenvall (2005) argue that high levels of women’s representation have to be analysed from two ideal types, the incremental track and the fast track. Traditionally, women’s representation is considered to be the outcome of overall societal development and a measure of the countries’ gender-equality, advanced by the incremental track. The widespread adoption of gender quotas, however, has contributed to leaps in women’s representation in a broad number of under-developed and gender-unequal countries, advanced by the fast track. This thesis analyses the impact of three gender quota types (reserved seats, legislated candidate quotas, and voluntary party quotas) on the changed levels of women’s representation from 2001 to 2011. Particular attention is paid towards the countries’ regime types. By using statistical design and a large-N sample, the results from the regression analysis (OLS) suggest that reserved seats have contributed to a large increase in women’s representation. The most remarkable finding is that reserved seats and legislated candidate quotas have contributed to leaps in women’s representation in non-democratic regimes. The conclusions from the findings are threefold: first, the results confirm the importance of Dahlerup and Freidenvall’s two tracks to women’s representation. Second, studies of gender quotas need to consider types of quota to be able to capture the impact of quotas. Third, the finding highlights the importance of including the perspective of non-democratic regimes in cross-country studies of women’s representation and gender quotas.