Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Marketization and the Quality of Residential Elderly Care in Sweden
(2018-11)Against a backdrop of increased levels of marketization of welfare services in OECD countries, this article aims to shed light on the separate effects of private ownership and competition on service quality. Using residential ... -
Why Support International redistribution? Corruption and Public Support for Aid in the Eurozone
(2018-05)What factors explain public support for international redistribution? While the European Union has sent billions of taxpayers’ money to over indebted euro countries in an attempt to avoid an economic collapse, these ... -
Women’s Empowerment and Foreign Aid Effectiveness
(2018-10)The longstanding debate on whether foreign aid promotes development suggests that aid’s efficacy depends on conditions in recipient states. Advocates of gender equality argue that empowering women is desirable not only in ... -
Exploring Shades of Corruption Tolerance: Three Lessons from Iceland and Sweden
(2018-10)It is sometimes argued that tolerance for corruption is universally low, i.e. that corruption is shunned among all individuals, in all societies and cultures. Against this backdrop, this paper engages in two interrelated ... -
Trust, Values and Quality of Government. Exploring Interactions Between Individual and Contextual Level Determinants of Environmental Tax Support
(2018-06)Environmental taxes are argued to be the key to more effective environmental protection in developing countries. This paper investigates whether such taxes have the necessary public support to be successfully implemented ... -
What Do Citizens Think About Redistribution and Aid Within the EU? Description and Highlights of a Pan-European Citizen Survey on Public Support for Cohesion Policy
(2018-02)This paper introduces the main findings and methodology of a new large-scale pan European survey capturing citizens’ support for EUs efforts to reduce inequality between richer and poorer regions in Europe, cohesion policy. ... -
Quality of Government in EU Regions: Spatial and Temporal Patterns
(2018-02)A wave of recent cross-national research has pointed to the positive consequences for countries with high levels of ‘quality of government’ (QoG), broadly defined, such as corruption, impartiality, and quality of public ... -
State Capacity, Democracy and Public Good Production: The case of Child Mortality
(2018-12)The paper examines government-business relationships by focusing on the effect of the organizational design of public bureaucracies on entrepreneurship in Russia. Using novel data from an expert survey on bureaucratic ... -
Public Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Russia’s Region
(2018-12)The paper examines government-business relationships by focusing on the effect of the organizational design of public bureaucracies on entrepreneurship in Russia. Using novel data from an expert survey on bureaucratic ... -
The electoral consequences of institutional failure: A comparative study of audits, rulers, and voters in Swedish municipalities
(2018-12)Electoral accountability is widely considered an essential element for ascertaining institutional quality. Nevertheless, and contrary to this notion, a growing body of empirical research finds weak or limited support for ... -
Accepting the Inevitable or Resisting Quietly? Responses to Corruption and Competence in Highly Corrupt Environments
(2018-11)The literature studying citizen responses to exposed political corruption is rapidly growing. While some studies explore how information credibility and group identities can reduce the electoral impact of the exposure of ... -
Bureaucratic Structures and Organizational Commitment of Senior Public Officials: Evidence from a Cross-National Study of 20 European Countries
(2018-11)In recent years there has been growing scholarly interest in the effects of bureaucratic structures on corruption, socioeconomic development, government effectiveness, policy implementation, and support for democracy. ... -
Moving beyond Categorical Measures of Gender in Corruption Research
(2018-11)There are a growing number of studies with the ambition to present causal reasoning linking the presence of women in political organizations to reductions in levels of corruption. The theoretical mechanisms proposed are ... -
Effektivitet och rättssäkerhet vid brandskydddstillsyn – utmaningar och målkonflikter för lokala tjänstemän
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2019)Rapporten Effektivitet och rättssäkerhet vid brandskyddstillsyn är en bearbetad version av en studie som genomförts vid Förvaltningshögskolan på uppdrag av Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB). Uppdragets ... -
Generalized Nonlinear Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences
(2019)Difference-in-difference-in-differences (DiDiD) allow for the correction of unmeasured con-founding and function as a robustness check for difference-in-differences (DiD) techniques. However, this technique is not scale ... -
Skador och riskgrupper i hem - och boendemiljöer
(Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap, 2019)Skadehändelser som inträffar i hem - och boendemiljöer är ett utbrett fenomen i vårt samhälle och drabbar alla åldersgrupper. M e d nya utmaningar i vår samtid , som en åldrande befolkning och förändringar ... -
När beslutet fattats - en studie av kommuners hantering av skolnedläggningar
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2019)Att lägga ner en skola är antagligen bland det svåraste en lokalpolitiker kan behöva göra. Skolnedläggningar är en laddad fråga då det handlar om barns framtid och en institution i samhället som ofta betyder något mer än ... -
Varieties of Forecasts: Predicting Adverse Regime Transitions
(2019)This article introduces the V-Forecast project, the forecasting intuitive of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) institute. In this the initial year of the V-Forecast project, we provide two-year ahead forecasts of the risk ... -
Being at home in one's body. Body image in light of identity development
(2019-05-14)Although the importance of the body to people’s identities has long been theoretically inferred, research linking body image and identity development is scarce. The objective of this thesis was to address this research gap ... -
The Decline of Class Voting in Sweden 1968–2014: Reconsiderations, Explanations and the Role of the New Middle Class
(2019-05-13)Class voting has been one of the most wide-spread and persistent patterns of voting behavior in Western democracies throughout the 20th century. Understanding its decline is an important part of understanding the current ...