Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Suicide by Competition? Authoritarian Institutional Adaptation and Regime Fragility
(2016)While it is clear that contemporary authoritarian incumbents use democratic emulation as a strategy in the hopes of stabilizing and extending their tenure in power, this does not mean it is always effective. Indeed, an ... -
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Primary Care
(2016-10-06)The overall objective of this thesis is to analyse the concept of mindfulness as measured by the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) and its clinical usefulness in primary care through group Mindfulness-Based ... -
Att bygga ett samhälle vid tidens slut: Svenska Missionsförbundets mission i Kongo 1881 till 1920-talet
(2016-10-06)This dissertation is situated in an interdisciplinary academic discourse on missionary work in colonial states. The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden’s mission in Congo between 1881 and the 1920s was aimed at converting ... -
Public Trust in Elections: The Role of Election Administration Autonomy and Media Freedom
(2016)As multiparty elections have become a global norm, scholars and policy experts regard public trust in elections as vital for regime legitimacy. However, very few cross-national studies have examined the consequences of ... -
Organisering av standarder, certifiering och ackreditering som en global styrregim
(2016-09-26)En studie över hur standarder, certifiering och ackreditering används som verktyg för att styra organisationer och hur dessa verktyg skapar en global styrregim där alla är styrda men ingen styr alla. -
The Abandoned Trustees. Explaining Corruption in Local Government
(2016-09)This paper engages in the debate about how different ways of organizing relations between politicians and bureaucrats affect corruption. Research has established robust correlations between the political autonomy of ... -
Does Chief Executive’s Experience Moderate Consolidation’s Impact on Municipal Performance
(2016-09)A profound structural change is municipal merger. This come about through absorption of small units or merge of units to create a new entity. Both are intended to improve efficiency by taking advantage of economies of scale ... -
Bombay Going: Migration, return and anti-trafficking in the lives of Nepali migrant sex workers
(2016-09-12)Set against the background of a critical examination of anti-trafficking organisations’ dominant discourses of sex trafficking in the Nepali context, this dissertation provides an ethnographic account of how Tamang women ... -
Bruised by the Invisible Hand. A critical examination of journalistic representations and the naturalization of neoliberal ideology in times of Industrial crisis.
(2016-09-12)Abstract This dissertation revolves around questions that are central to the field of media and journalism research, questions about journalism and ideology, about journalistic agency and autonomy, and the room for maneuver ... -
Om befrielseteologins uppkomst i Latinamerika. En sociologisk analys av religiös förändring.
(2016-08-23)The overall purpose of the present study is to contribute to our understanding of religious change and to an explanation of the phenomenon. The emergence of the theology of liberation is an important case of religious ... -
Is the quality of the outsourced public services contingent on the quality of bureaucracy?
(2016-07)Outsourced public services make up about half of the total public service delivery in OECD countries today and have increased dramatically over time. Reformers expected that outsourcing would both cut costs and increase ... -
Corruption, Gender Equality and Feminist Strategies.
(2016-07)The following arguments are presented. 1) Corruption in its various forms is a serious social ill. 2) Democracy is not a safe cure against corruption. 3) Increased gender equality seems to be one im-portant factor behind ... -
“Gimme Shelter”: The Role of Democracy and Institutional Quality in Disaster Preparedness
(2016)Natural disasters cause suffering for millions of people around the globe every year and as climate change unfolds the likelihood of natural catastrophes is increasing. While weather shocks, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, ... -
Democracy, Democratization, and Civil War
(2016)An influential body of scholarship has associated both democracy and democratization with civil war. Important findings include the so-called inverted U-shaped relationship between democracy-levels and civil war onset and ... -
Eliciting admissions from suspects in criminal investigations
(2016-08-12)The psycho-legal literature is scarce with respect to specific interviewing tactics aimed at eliciting new and critical information (admissions) from suspects in criminal cases. The first major aim of this thesis was to ... -
Cooperation or Punishment. The Effects of Trust on Government Regulation and Taxation.
(2016-05)For many economists government intervention is linked to low levels of interpersonal trust and corruption, while, on the contrary, for many political scientists, government intervention is associ-ated to high trust and low ... -
The State in Democratic Breakdowns: Who, How, and Why
(2016-04)It is often invoked that in modern times the state is a prerequisite for democracy to endure. How-ever, cross-national research typically applies this as a static assumption rather than a dynamic caus-al proposition. ... -
The Early Modern Origins of Contemporary European Tax Systems
(2016-03)What explains variation in tax outcomes? Many studies emphasize the role played by institutions, focusing on those of relatively recent times. We argue that contemporary tax systems have deeper institutional origins in the ... -
Democratic advantages in corruption control. New Evidence from Anti-Corruption Cases across 154 Countries
(2016-03)Does democracy reduce corruption? While much recent research has focused on the ability of citizens in democracies to hold politicians accountable through regular elections, other institutional features of democracy such ... -
Nordiska perspektiv på transnationellt fackligt samarbete i Europa – former, hinder, utmaningar och strategier
(2016)Denna rapport utgör en delstudie av ett forskningsprojekt som studerar transnationellt fackligt samarbete och nätverksbyggande på sektorsnivå i Europa. Projektets över-gripande syfte är att förklara vilka faktorer som ...