Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Handlingsimperativets dilemman – Om frihet och kontroll i socialtjänstens arbete med klienter som använder narkotika
(2020-10-13)ABSTRACT Title: Dilemmas of the imperative for action – On freedom and control in social services’ work with clients who use illicit drugs Author: Johan Lindwall Keywords: social service, substance use, discourse, ... -
The Business Case for Democracy
(2020-10)I present a business case for democracy, focusing on the impact of democracy on economic growth. This relationship is widely studied, and results are less clear for growth than many other development outcomes such as ... -
Worth the sacrifice? Illiberal and authoritarian practices during Covid-19
(2020-09)Excessive use of emergency powers and limitations of media freedoms have raised concerns that Covid-19 is infecting democracy itself. How do government responses to Covid-19 violate democratic standards? How do such ... -
Empirical Dimensions of Electoral Democracy
(2020-09)This paper investigates conceptual ambiguities concerning the dimensionality of democracy and what it can tell us about political development. We explore variation in components of the Electoral Democracy Index from the ... -
Sexting among adolescents: A gendered online phenomenon, related to individual and social determinants
(2020-09-24)This thesis concerns sexting among Swedish adolescents and adolescent sexual development. Adolescence is a period of major bodily, cognitive, and social changes and of sexual exploration. As many post-millennials have ... -
Institutions of Electoral Integrity and Clientelism: The Role of Electoral Management Bodies
(2020-09)While clientelism is most often viewed as a symptom of traditional politics, empirical evidence suggests that it is actually a varied and multifaceted phenomenon, found in widely differing economic, political, and cultural ... -
Measures of State Capacity: Same Same, but Different?
(2020-09)This study provides a systematic comparative analysis of seven established cross-national measures of state capacity by focusing on three measurement issues: validity, interchangeability, and rating discrepancy. ... -
Sharing & Caring. Division of parental leave from a psychological perspective
(2020-09-17)Parents’ preconditions for early parenting vary depending on social and cultural contexts. This thesis provides a psychological perspective on parenting and family life within the context of parental leave in Sweden, ... -
Living in times of climate change. Weather-related understandings, realities, and entanglements among Guarani people in the Bolivian Chaco
(2020-09-17)Since climate change became an issue of public concern worldwide, the weather has attracted increasing attention and come to stand as a common ground for joint action between Indigenous people and governmental and ... -
Det moderna samhällets paradox
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Democracy Promotion and Electoral Quality: A Disaggregated Analysis
(2020-09)The international community spends significant sums of money on democracy promotion and support, focusing especially on producing competitive and transparent electoral environments in the developing world. In theory, this ... -
Populism and Politicization of the Bureaucracy: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effect of Populist Rule in Europe and Latin America
(2020-09)Do populist rule lead to more politicization? As populists have had electoral success in many coun-tries in recent years, populism has received much attention both in the public debate and in political science. One aspect ... -
Voting Rights of Denizens and Expats: Adjusting Democracy Indices to the Age of Mass Migration
(2020-09)Contemporary migration flows affect virtually all aspects of the social fabric, democracy included. Focusing their attention on the competitiveness aspects of the regime, comparative measurements of democracy have ... -
Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and Its Implications for Contemporary Debates
(2020-09)Endemic corruption in developing countries often seems intractable. Yet most countries that cur-rently have relatively high public integrity were, at an earlier point in their history, afflicted with sim-ilarly pervasive ... -
Cui Bono? Business Elites and Interstate Conflict
(2020-08)We address how regime supporters affect war-making by re-opening a classic debate on business elites and their influence on states' conflict behavior. Imperialist theories contend that business elites encourage executives ... -
Mating and Political Inequality
(2020-08-20)Political equality is one of the cornerstones of a well-functioning democracy. Yet, very few democracies live up to this ideal. In this dissertation, I show that a central part of human behavior, mating, can help us explain ... -
Everyday (Anti-)Nationalization in Thailand: Power and Resistance in Khao Phra Wihan Conflict Narratives
(2020-08-20)Through a compilation of four research articles, this Ph.D. thesis investigates everyday life nationalization processes in Thailand in relation to expressions of power and resistance. How individuals sustain and challenge ... -
Explaining the Homogeneous Diffusion of Covid-19 Policies among Heterogenous Countries
(V-Dem Institute, 2020-08)The need for non-pharmaceutical interventions aimed at curtailing the spread of infectious diseases depends crucially on country-specific demographic and public health situations. However, the early stages of the Covid-19 ... -
Female Empowerment and Economic Growth
(2020-06)We discuss how inclusive institutions enhance technological change, the main driver of long-term economic growth. Specifically, institutions that promote female political empowerment advance technological change through ...