Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Environmental protection in authoritarian regimes: Investigating the role of pluralism.
(2020-06)When and how do authoritarian states secure environmental protection? Answering thisquestion is critical given that over half of the world’s population currently live in suchregimes. Furthermore, the ... -
Autocratic Ruling Parties During Regime Transitions: Investigating the Democratizing Effect of Strong Ruling Parties
(2020-06)This study examines the role of autocratic ruling party strength in democratic transitions. While the impact of ruling party strength on regime stability is extensively studied, we know much less about when and why ruling ... -
Lokaljournalistiken som blåslampa. - Medias inverkan på redovisningskvalitet i svenska kommuner
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2020)Lokaltidningarna och de journalister som aktivt granskar kommunal politik och förvaltning blir allt färre. Många oroar sig över att granskningen av politik och förvaltning försvagas. Men vilken betydelse har egentligen ... -
Deterring Dictatorship: Explaining Democratic Resilience since 1900
(V-Dem Institute, 2020-05)Democracy is under threat globally from democratically elected leaders engaging in erosion of media freedom, civil society, and the rule of law. What distinguishes democracies that prevail against the forces of autocratization? ... -
Teenage Kicks – The Differential Development of Drug Use, Drunkenness, and Criminal Behaviour in Early to Mid-Adolescence
(2020-05-12)This thesis studies the development of drug use, drunkenness, and criminal behaviour in early to mid-adolescence. Its main aims are to improve knowledge about how and why these three behaviours develop and to contribute ... -
The V-Dem Measurement Model: Latent Variable Analysis for Cross-National and Cross-Temporal Expert-Coded Data
(2020-03)The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project relies on country experts who code a host of ordinal variables, providing subjective ratings of latent- that is, not directly observable- regime characteristics over time. Sets ... -
Democratic Legacies: Using Democratic Stock to Assess Norms, Growth, and Regime Trajectories
(2020-05)While social scientists often theorize about the enduring effects of past regime characteristics, conceptual issues and data limitations pose real challenges for assessing these legacies empirically. This paper introduces ... -
Regimes and Industrialization
(2020-04)A large literature addresses the impact of regimes on domestic policies and outcomes, e.g., education, health, inequality, redistribution, public spending, wages, infrastructure, volatility, productivity, and economic ... -
Autocratization by Decree: States of Emergency and Democratic Decline
(2020)States of emergency grant chief executives the power to bypass democratic constraints in order to combat existential threats. As such they are ideal tools to erode democratic institutions while maintaining the illusion of ... -
Conflict-resolvers or tools of electoral struggle?Swedish commissions of inquiry 1990-2016
(2020-04)Many countries face growing challenges of democratic governance from political polarizationand the increasingly complex nature of policy problems. The question is then how can governments build consensus and confer ... -
Municipally owned enterprises and heightened corruption risks
(2020-03)Some scholars argue that there areunattractive, unintended side-effects of the ‘quasi-privatizations’ that have been associated with New Public Management(NPM).One aspect of this question is the international trend towards ... -
Exploring the Impact of Political Regimes on Biodiversity
(2020-03)National governments are the main actors responsible for mapping and protecting their biodiversity, but countries differ in their capacity, willingness, and effectiveness to do so. We quantify the global biodiversity managed ... -
HUR MÅR DEN SVENSKA YRKESFISKAREN? : EN ENKÄTUNDERSÖKNING OM FISKELICENSINNEHAVARE, 2019
(2020)Hur mår den svenska yrkesfiskaren idag? I denna rapport redovisar vi hur yrkesfiskare i dagens Sverige utövar sitt yrke, vilka utmaningar de möter, vilka frågor och problemområden de vill lyfta fram, och i vilken grad ... -
Alienation och Arbete. Unga behovsanställdas villkor i den flexibla kapitalismen
(2020-03-04)The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how flexible capitalism, drawing from the case of on-call employees, influences the ability to control life and work and affects relationships with other people, both inside ... -
Standardiseringsarbetets kollektiva praktik. En studie om att kvalitetssäkra integrationssatsningen Samhällsorientering för nyanlända.
(2020-02-27)Societal efforts to support the integration of newly arrived immigrants have been repeatedly highlighted in the political debate in Sweden and they are described as inadequate and ineffective. Demands have been made for ... -
Successful and Failed Episodes of Democratization: Conceptualization, Identification, and Description
(2020)What explains successful democratization? This paper makes four contributions towards providing more sophisticated answers to this question. Building on the comparative case study and large-N literature, it first presents ... -
Visualizing Authority Patterns over Space and Time
(2020)Unidimensional measures of democracy fail to account for the complex and varied nature of political systems. This article disaggregates the concept of democracy and proposes a multidimensional conceptualization to account ... -
Establishing Pathways to Democracy Using Domination Analysis
(2020)How does the order in which liberalization unfolds a ect the likelihood for a successful democratic transition? Dahl was among the rst to argue that the sequence matters for the outcome when it comes to democratization. ... -
Att styra på tvären. Tre studer om tvärsektoriell koordinering och dess aktörer i offentlig förvaltning
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2020)Idag uppfattas alltfler frågor som komplexa och som i behov av strategisk samordning och tvärsektoriell koordinering. Detta har gett till upphov till nya roller och professioner i den offentliga förvaltningen. Dessa kallas ... -
Settler-Colonial Assemblages and the Making of the Israeli Frontier: Palestinian experiences of (in)security, surveillance and carceral geographies
(2020-02-06)This dissertation examines the operations of contemporary Israeli security machinery as it unfolds in the course of expanding the Israeli colonial frontier over Palestinian rural areas of the occupied West Bank. Since the ...