Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Decoupled from GDP Growth in Well-functioning Democracies?
(2017)Empirical studies of the relationship between GDP per capita and country-level CO2 emissions tend to focus on the direct effect of per capita GDP growth, rarely taking political institutions into consideration. This paper ... -
Governing the Grey Zone: Why Hybrid Regimes in Europe’s Eastern Neighborhood Pursue Partial Governance Reforms
(2017-12-04)Every year the European Union, as well as numerous other international organizations, states, and transnational networks wield ample resources to promote democratic governance in the developing countries. However, the ... -
Cross-Sector Strategists. Dedicated Bureaucrats in Local Government Administration
(2017-11-29)It is argued that political-administrative organizations are becoming increasingly complex with more horizontal governance required. In Swedish municipal administration, there is a group of administrators assigned the task ... -
Easier said than done? Implementing RTI-laws in Sweden
(2017-11)Transparency is widely recognized as a prerequisite for accountability, good governance and de-mocracy. As right to information (RTI) laws have spread, it is pressing to ask to what extent having ambitious formal legislative ... -
The Accountability Sequence: From De-jure to De-facto Constraints on Governments
(2017)Accountability is one of the cornerstones of good governance. Establishing accountable governments is a top priority on the international development agenda. Yet, scholars and democracy practitioners know little about how ... -
Ethical Codes for the Public Administration. A Comparative Survey
(2017-11)This report is an analysis of a number of ethical codes for the national public administration. We present four theoretically grounded reasons for why such codes have been established and in many countries are seen as ... -
Eroding Regimes: What, Where, and When?
(2017)The political world lately seems to be filled with unexpected erosions of democracy. What is the most useful way to describe these phenomena? Do they all belong to a common syndrome? Certainly there are different degrees ... -
Neopatrimonialism and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation of Africa's Political Regimes
(2017)One of the most common adjectives used to describe democracy in sub-Saharan Africa is "neopatrimonial". Characterized by strong executives, pervasive clientelism and use of state resources for political legitimation (Bratton ... -
Party Institutionalization and Welfare State Development
(2017)We propose that the extent to which political parties are institutionalized shapes welfare state development. Institutionalized parties allow politicians to overcome coordination problems, avoid capture by special interests, ... -
First teachers – stratification in Swedish schools
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2017)This article is about professions in transformation and the empirical case is the teaching profession. More specifically, it is about an attempt to strengthen the profession by introducing a new career step, first teachers ... -
The Prudent Entrepreneurs. Women and Public Sector Innovation
(2017-10)This paper suggests a new argument to explain gender differences in public management: the “prudent entrepreneur theory.” We hypothesize that male and female public managers have three differences in their attitudes towards ... -
Mothers and fathers of children with developmental disabilities: Co-parenting, well-being and empowerment
(2017-10-18)Parents of children with developmental disabilities (DD) generally experience more stress and poorer well-being than other parents. However, there is considerable individual variation in parental adaptation. The general ... -
Compliance dynamics in transboundary governance of natural resources
(2017-10)The extent to which resource users abide by rules is a fundamental question in the governance of conservation efforts, such as national parks, often challenged by poaching. While a large literature studies the factors ... -
Gender Diversity on High Courts
(2017)Increasing the diversity of political institutions is believed to improve the quality of political discourse and, subsequently, the quality of political outcomes. Moreover, the presence of diverse officials in positions ... -
Experts, Coders, and Crowds: An analysis of substitutability
(2017)Recent work suggests that crowd workers can replace experts and trained coders in common coding tasks. However, while many political science applications require coders to both and relevant information and provide judgment, ... -
Ambulansföraren – efterfrågad förarkompetens och trafiksäkerhet vid anställning av sommarvikarierande förare inom ambulanssjukvården.
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Multiple Measurements, Elusive Agreement, and Unstable Outcomes in the Study of Regime Change
(2017)This comprehensive analysis of regime change indicators reveals that problems of conceptualization and measurement are major reasons why current research fails to draw compelling conclusions that foster cumulative knowledge. ... -
Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities and Their Experiences of Formal Support
(2017-09-06)The aim of this thesis was to investigate how UN conventions, national laws, regulations, and policies are manifested in everyday experiences of parents of children with disabilities. The specific aims of this thesis are ... -
(In)Consistencies as Cues to Deception
(2017-08-21)The aim of this thesis was to examine statement consistency types (between-statement consistency, within-statement consistency, within-group consistency, and statement-evidence consistency) within various contexts of ...