Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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CAN CIVIL SOCIETY CURB CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT? A comparative study of the conditional effect of societal accountability in EU regions
(2019-09)Public procurement involves large sums of public funds and is major component of public sector fiscal activity. For this very reason, procurement is vulnerable to corruption, as it presents both motive and ... -
Change and Continuity in Psychological Health Across the Retirement Transition: Interindividual Differences and Post-Retirement Adjustment
(2019-09-05)Retirement is an important life event. Individuals leave their place of work, which often played a vital part in their daily lives, and enter a new phase of life with new opportunities, new challenges and new roles. The ... -
The New Portuguese Presence in Angola: Traces, Emplacements and Interactions of a Postcolonial Encounter
(2019-08-30)Propelled by the impact of the Euro-crisis in the Portuguese economy and job market and the booming economy in Angola, during the last decade a great number of Portuguese workers migrated to the former colony. At the same ... -
Being political in the media – Political identities in journalistic and Twitter discourse
(2019-08-30)This thesis is about the role of media discourse in shaping the political identities of those who want to be heard in public. The ways in which people are able to speak, know, and feel in political situations have important ... -
Retirement and Life Satisfaction: A Resource-Based Dynamic Perspective
(2019-08-29)Retirement from work is a major life event requiring adjustment to new life circumstances. The impact of retirement on well-being has been shown to vary, not only between individuals, but also within individuals over time. ... -
Skola för lönsamhet. Om elevers marknadsanpassade villkor och vardag
(2019-08-21)The aim of the thesis is twofold: to explore the ways in which the transformation of the Swedish elementary school can be understood through Marxist theory; and, by ethnographic methods, understand the everyday lives of ... -
Agency Design, Favoritism and Procurement in the United States
(2019-05)The U.S. federal government spend s huge sums buying goods and services from outside of the public sector. Given the sums involved, strategic government purchasing can have electoral consequences. In this ... -
#InFlux. Journalists’ adoption of social media and journalists’ social roles
(2019-08-16)#InFlux investigates journalists’ adoption of social media and social network sites (SNS) from the theoretical perspective of journalistic roles. It shows how the social roles of journalists are situated along the axes of ... -
Clientelism, conditional cash transfers, and cross-class coalitions: why governments expand pro-poor redistribution.
(2019-08-16)Conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) allow poor households and individuals access to income support in return for investments in health and education. Originally adopted in Brazil and Mexico in the late 1990s, CCTs ... -
Corruption as a Self-Reinforcing “Trap”: Implications for Reform Strategy
(2019-06)Corruption is widely believed to be a self-reinforcing phenomenon, in the sense that the incentive to engage in corrupt acts increases as corruption becomes more widespread in the relevant community. Leading scholars have ... -
Correlates of Corruption
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Correlates of Electoral Democracy
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Is impartiality enough? Government impartiality and citizen’s perceptions of public service quality
(2019-05)Government impartiality is considered a core feature of government quality that leads to favorable macro-level outcomes. We still have limited knowledge, however, of how impartiality affects citizens’ perceptions of public ... -
Elite Survival First, Then Meritocratization Implications of Elite Survival on the Meritocratization of Bureaucracies: A Panel Data Study from 1820 to 2010
(2019-05)Previous research has shown that meritocratic recruitment increases bureaucratic performance and decreases corruption (Evans and Rauch, 1999, 2000). However, less emphasis has been made on why meritocratic practices take ... -
Transparency and the Quality of Local Public Service Provision: Street-Level Discretion in Education, Health and Infrastructure.
(2019-05)Transparency has been widely promoted as a tool for improving public service delivery; however, empirical evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that the effects of transparency on service provision are ... -
Trust, Regulation and Redistribution
(2019-05)For many social scientists government intervention is linked to low levels of social trust and corruption, while, on the contrary, for others government intervention is associated with high trust and low corruption. We aim ... -
Does Quality of Government and Trust Explain the Cross-National Variation in Public Support for Climate Policy?
(2019-02)In accordance with the Paris agreement, the signing countries have undertaken to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, implying more government intervention to steer the behaviors of different actors with climate policy ... -
The Focal Power of Anticorruption Law: Insights from Italian State-Building
(2019-01)Until recently, it has been taken for granted that laws play an important role in the fight against corruption. However, a recent debate casts doubt on the influence of laws to curb corruption in societies with systemic ... -
New public management and municipal performance: Do NPM reforms boost performance?
(2018-12)New Public Management (NPM) reforms have been adopted worldwide since the mid-1970s to improve government effectiveness and efficiency. The basic premise of NPM reforms is that market orientation and management focus in ...