Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Värderingsmönster bakom alkoholopinionen - Tabellbilaga
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How to Make Causal Inferences with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data under Selection on Observables
(2018)Repeated measurements of the same countries, people, or groups over time are vital to many fields of political science. These measurements, sometimes called time-series cross-sectional (TSCS) data, allow researchers to ... -
What Makes Experts Reliable?
(2018)Many datasets use experts to code latent quantities of interest. However, scholars have not explored either the factors affecting expert reliability or the degree to which these factors influence estimates of latent concepts. ... -
Do I have enough? On the act of assessing one’s personal resources
(2018-05-25)How do people assess their personal resources? This is a fundamental question, since awareness of your current resources is a prerequisite for mobilizing your efforts to secure, sustain, and safeguard resources in the best ... -
Ordinary Choices in Extra-ordinary Times. Resistance to the Genocide in Rwanda in 1994
(2018-05-25)This study explores how and why, in their perspectives, persons identified as Hutu resisted genocide targeting the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda in 1994. The violence involved more than one million victims murdered in private ... -
Growing together: Participation in and outcomes of programs for parents of adolescents
(2018-05-25)This thesis is focused on parenting during children’s adolescence and its overarching aim was to investigate universal supports offered to parents of adolescents, specifically group-based parenting programs. The thesis ... -
Mellan norm och praktik. Strategisk samverkan och brukarmedverkan inom verksamhetsområdet psykisk ohälsa.
(2018-05-25)There is a steady critique towards the mental health field stating that people with mental health problems do not get the assistance they need. Often, this critique states that collaboration between different organisations ... -
Ideals and Interests in Swedish Foreign Policy: Explaining the South African Gripen Deal
(2018-05-18)This dissertation explores ideals and interests (and their interrelation) in foreign policy. An in-depth case study of this issue examines Sweden’s 1999 JAS-39 Gripen fighter aircraft deal with South Africa. Theoretically, ... -
Waste tours. Narratives, infrastructures and gazes in interplay
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2018)Waste management makes life in cities possible. Paradoxically, well-functioning waste infrastructures can contribute to obscure the link between production, consumption and nature. One way to render waste infrastructures, ... -
The Implementation of Peace Operations. Executing Security Sector Reform and Stabilization in the DR Congo
(2018-05-09)The aim of this study is to investigate the implementation of peace operations deployed by the international community in third countries. Considering the lack of knowledge on what happens when peace operation policies are ... -
Everyday struggles with HIV/AIDS in Mafalala, Maputo (Mozambique)
(2018-05-09)Everyday struggles with HIV/AIDS in Mafalala, Maputo (Mozambique). By Margarida Paulo. Doctoral Dissertation 2018, Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Box 700, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. ... -
Being in between? Exploring identity construction among Rwandophone Congolese
(2018-05-04)This thesis is a compilation of a ‘Kappa’ (with six chapters) and four articles. It explores how civilian Rwandophone Congolese construct their identity in various settings in the North Kivu area. To achieve this aim, the ... -
Birth cohort differences in cognitive aging: Secular trends in cognitive functioning and decline over 30 years in three population-based Swedish samples
(2018-05-04)The overarching aim of this thesis was to investigate birth cohort differences in level of cognitive functioning and change in later life in three population-based representative samples drawn from the Gerontological and ... -
Necessary but not Sustainable? The Limits of Democracy in Achieving Environmental Sustainability
(2018-05-02)The world today faces a number of environmental problems that are both severe and urgent. Finding effective solutions is one of the top priorities for the international community, with at least half of the United Nations ... -
Self-Censorship in Authoritarian States: Response bias in measures of popular support in China
(2018)The study of popular support for authoritarian regimes, and the comparative study of political attitudes, has long relied on the assumption that survey respondents provide truthful answers on surveys. However, when measuring ... -
Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th Century
(2018)The Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset (Historical V-Dem) is a new dataset containing about 260 indicators, both factual and evaluative, describing various aspects of political regimes and state institutions. The ... -
Kommunrevisorns testamente
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MONITORING HANDBOOK - Methods and tools for monitoring developed in the GenderTime project
(Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap, 2018)This Monitoring Handbook offers guidelines and recommendations concerning monitoring which were developed and applied during four years of monitoring activities in the GenderTime project. It also includes detailed ... -
Reassessing the Democratic Peace: A Novel Test Based on the Varieties of Democracy Data
(2018)The democratic peace is one of the most robust findings in international relations. Yet it suffers from two important limitations. First, even those who fully embrace the democratic peace have difficulty precisely identifying ... -
Public Procurement and the Public.Private Value Conflict in the Transport Sector - A Research Model
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2018)It may be contested that a citizen in today’s Sweden is seen as equal part citizen equal part customer in the eyes of those supplying common societal functions. This comes following the privatization of a multitude of ...