Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Social trust - The Nordic Gold?
(2020-01)Interpersonal trust is among the highest in the world in Scandinavia. Since everything in a society functions better with high trust lowering all transaction costs trustful Scandinavi-ans is truly a Nordic Gold. However, ... -
Civil Society and Post-Independence Democracy Levels
(2020-01)The role of civil society for the consolidation of democracy is contested. Some argue that Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are important “schools of democracy” and may foster democratic consolidation. Others emphasize ... -
Liquid landscapes: Human-water interactions and water scarcity in Yanque, Peru
(2020-01-09)In the farming district of Yanque in the Southern Peruvian Andes, everyday life revolves around acquiring enough water for irrigation. This thesis concerns water scarcity and focuses on a range of water management practices. ... -
Taxation and Turnout in Swedish Municipalities
(2019-12)The link between taxation and representation is considered foundational to the emergence of demo-cratic governance. Nevertheless, the empirical relationship between taxation and the extent to which citizens actually exert ... -
Medarbetardrivna brukarriktade innovationer i omsorgsarbetet? Förutsättningar och hinder i implementering av satsning för ökad delaktighet bland medarbetare
(2019)Föreliggande rapport ger en vetenskaplig processutvärdering av implementering av ”Den tvåhänta förvaltningen: Medarbetardriven innovation i SDF Västra Göteborg”. Följeforskningen utforskar implementeringen av modellen för ... -
The Link between Ethnic Fractionalization and Corruption Revised: Ethnic Voting in Africa
(2019-12)This paper revisits the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and corruption. Earlier literature argues that ethnic fractionalization leads to corruption via mechanisms involving ethnic in-groupfavoritism. ... -
Moral i rätten. Utredningar av hedersrelaterat våld i Sverige 1997-2017
(2020-01-07)This doctoral thesis investigates assumptions about honour that emerge in the Swedish justice system’s investigations of honour related violence and oppression during the period 1997 – 2017, and with what implications. The ... -
Child maltreatment among young adolescents: Effects on mental health, academic functioning and substance use
(2019-12-11)The main aim of this doctoral thesis was to investigate how experiences of childhood maltreatment affected three developmentally salient areas of functioning in adolescent development. Participants were recruited through ... -
2The effect of gender on corruption: Sorting out explanations for gender differences with new exper-imental research
(2019-12)An extensive literature demonstrates a relationship between gender and corruption, with women be-ing less involved in corrupt transactions than men. There are two major ways of explaining this cor-relation; one emphasizes ... -
Characterizing and Assessing Temporal Heterogeneity: Introducing a Change Point Framework, with Applications on the Study of Democratization
(2019)Various theories in political science point to temporal heterogeneity in relationships of interest. Yet, empirical research typically ignores such heterogeneity or employs fairly crude measures to evaluate it. Advances in ... -
Economic Crisis and Regime Transitions from Within
(2019-11)We study how economic crises affect the likelihood of regime change brought about, in part or fully, by actors in the incumbent regime. While historically common, such processes remain far less studied than regime transitions ... -
Visuospatial inattention and processing speed: Predictors of long-term outcome and patterns of change after ischemic stroke
(2019-11-05)Impairments of visuospatial attention, language, and processing speed (PS) are common early after stroke and have been associated with unfavorable short-term functional outcomes but little is known about this relationship ... -
TVÅ VÄRLDAR AV MIGRANTARBETE - En studie av migranters arbetsvillkor i restaurangsektorn och IT-sektorn
(2019)Previous research indicates that there are tendencies towards polarisation in the positions of migrants in the Swedish labour market. For example, the number of migrants has increased in both low-paid and high-paid ... -
Democracy and Populism: Testing a Contentious Relationship
(2019)The phenomenon of populism and its relationship with modern democracy has gained considerable attention in recent years. This paper aims at advancing our understanding of how populism affects different models of democracy ... -
Identity: Understanding Aspects of Process, Content, and Structure in Context
(2019-10-16)The overall aim of this thesis was to broaden our knowledge of identity by using an integrated theoretical approach to understanding multidimensional aspects of identity process, content, and structure. Specifically, in ... -
(Re)Inventing the Armed Forces: A Governmentality Analysis of Swedish Military Marketing and Outreach in the Era of Voluntarism
(2019-10-03)In 2010, Sweden abandoned its century-old military conscription in favour of an All-Volunteer Force (AVF). The Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) was now exposed to competition over labour, and soldiering was no longer a duty ... -
Barns röster om växelvis boende. Vardagsliv, familjepraktiker och nära relationer
(2019-09-25)Over the past decades, the ways in which children’s care is arranged after parental separation have changed significantly in many societies. Dual residence, where children live across two households spending equal amounts ... -
Ömsesidigt förtroende eller rättsstatsprincipen? Vilket grundläggande värde prioriteras av EUdomstolen i förhandsavgöranden angående den europeiska arresteringsordern?
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2019)Såväl rättsstatsprincipen som ett ömsesidigt förtroende mellan EU:s medlemsstater framhålls som grundläggande värden för EU-samarbetets fortlevnad. Men vad händer när dessa värden hamnar i konflikt och ett värde prioriteras ... -
Inequity in Mind. On the Social and Genetic Risk Factors of Dementia and Their Interactions
(2019-09-20)The present thesis seeks to further explain the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias by studying the long-term impact of class- and gender-based inequities as well as the extent to which they potentially ... -
Determinants of Guilty Suspects’ Behavior in Investigative Interviews: Evidence-Disclosure Tactics and Question Content
(2019-09-18)Research in the Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) paradigm has shown that guilty suspect’s verbal behavior is a product of the counter-interrogation strategies suspects employ based on the prior knowledge they believe ...