Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: Threat, Mobilization and Gender Norms
(2019-05-13)Sexual violence is a highly gendered violence. It disproportionately – albeit not exclusively – affects women and girls, and it asserts gendered hierarchies between perpetrators and victims. The widespread rape of women ... -
Children with Congenital Heart Defects. Intellectual Functioning and Family Impact
(2019-05-13)The purpose of the present doctoral thesis was to investigate intellectual functioning and the influence of the children with congenital heart defects in their families. We analyzed how the severity of the heart defect, ... -
Gendered Accountability: When and Why Do Women's Policy Priorities Get Implemented?
(2019)The past two decades have seen dramatic increases in women occupying positions of political power. Such developments have been welcomed as a means of achieving better outcomes for women in their everyday lives. We interrogate ... -
Med avstegen som arbetsplats – En etnografisk studie av hälso- och sjukvårdskuratorns arbete
(2019-05-06)ABSTRACT Title: Out of line as workplace – An ethnographic study of health social work Author: Elisabet Sernbo Keywords: health social work, ethnography, queer phenomenology, reorienting work, jurisdictional work, ... -
REACHING OUT WITH UNIVERSAL PARENTAL SUPPORT
(2019-04-30)The overarching aim of this thesis was to explore the general interest in universal parental support, the circumstances under which this interest is stronger, and how universal support groups for parents of adolescents ... -
True and False Intentions: A Mental Representational Approach
(2019-04-25)The study of true and false intentions is a specific case of deception-detection research. The focus is on how to discriminate between lies and truths about future behavior, as opposed to previous deception research that ... -
Regime Legitimation Strategies (RLS) 1900 to 2018
(2019)In this paper we introduce new expert-coded measures of regime legitimation strategies for 179 countries in the world from 1900 up until 2018 that are comparable across time and space. Country experts have rated the extent ... -
När idéer får liv - Om intraprenader i tre kommuner
(2019-04-04)In the early 2000s an idea regarding how to organise the Swedish public sector, called internal contracts, attracted attention from many different public authorities in Sweden. Organising in the form of internal contracts ... -
Mot en visare organisering av äldreomsorgen - Rapport från ett följeforskningsprojekt
(2019)Det sker idag många olika satsningar för att utveckla former för organisering av äldreomsorgen men flera av dessa har haft stora svårigheter att genomföra förändringar i praktiken. Den visa organisationen är ett ESF- finansierat ... -
När hjärtat skriker av glädje och sorg. Hur faddrar påverkas av sitt frivilliga engagemang för ensamkommande flyktingbarn
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2019)I samband med flyktingkrisen 2015 har ett antal olika initiativ och åtgärder vidtagits i Europa för att hantera mottagande och integration av flyktingar. I Sverige driver frivilligorganisationen Räddningsmissionen i Göteborg ... -
Navigating "the local". Municipal Engagement in Lebanese Local Peacebuilding
(2019-03-13)The last decade or so, there has been an increasing disappointment in and critique towards the way peace is built. As peacebuilding is critiqued for being too shallow, too centralised and neglecting local contexts, “the ... -
When Democracy has a Fever: States of Emergency as a Symptom and Accelerator of Autocratization
(2019)States of emergency grant chief executives the power to circumvent democratic constraints in order to combat existential threats. As such they are ideal tools to erode democratic institutions while maintaining the illusion ... -
How and How Much Does Expert Error Matter? Implications for Quantitative Peace Research
(2019)Expert-coded datasets provide scholars with otherwise unavailable cross-national longitudinal data on important concepts. However, expert coders vary in their reliability and scale perception, potentially resulting in ... -
Memory-Based Approaches to the Examination of Alibis Provided by Innocent Suspects
(2019-02-07)The aim of the current thesis was to extend research on suspect alibis by exploring how the process of providing alibis may be improved for innocent suspects, for whom the provision of inaccurate and incomplete alibis may ... -
Jämställdhetspolitik och styrformens betydelse. Europeiska socialfonden i svensk och spansk förvaltning
(2019-02-06)The EU´s regional policy is one of the world's largest in terms of budget size and geographical range. The regional policy promotes project activities across Europe funded by structural funds, of which the European Social ... -
Operational Military Violence: A Cartography of Bureaucratic Minds and Practices
(2019-01-28)Western use of military violence is becoming increasingly centralised, partly through the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (or more commonly referred to as “drones” in the literature). Drone technology allows control and ... -
Memory-based Lie Detection in Repeated Interviews: The Importance of Early Use of Mnemonics
(2019-01-23)The aim of this thesis was to examine how memory-enhancing (mnemonic) techniques used in an interview carried out immediately after an event affected truth tellers’ and liars’ responses in both an immediate interview and ... -
Mother Tongue Education - The Interest of a Nation. A policy study in Sweden 1957-2017.
(2019-01-16)This doctoral thesis is a policy study about mother tongue education policies as they have developed historically in Sweden.The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate the policies of mother tongue education from ... -
The Migration Industry in Managed Migration: Authority, Control and Guestworkers in the United States
(2019-01-16)This thesis is an investigation into the private migration actors, also known as the migration industry, that have become ubiquitous within managed migration programs in the United States. From employers and visa agents ... -
Political conflicts - Dissent and antagonism among political parties in local government
(2019-01-09)Political conflicts arise out of, or are at least nourished by, divisions and tensions in society over how resources are distributed between citizens and social groups. In the parliamentary arena, these conflicts are ...