Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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The Varieties of Democracy Core Civil Society Index
(2015-10)This paper introduces the Core Civil Society Index (CCSI), a measure of the robustness of civil society, using indicators from the Varieties of Democracy battery on civil society. It begins with a discussion of the reemergence ... -
No Democratic Transition Without Women’s Rights: A Global Sequence Analysis 1900-2012
(2015-09)What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? Research has focused on socioeconomic and institutional factors, yet the assumption that political liberalization has to precede democratization has not been ... -
Mer papper, klokare barn? Hur lärares administrativa arbete kan påverka kvaliteten i skolan
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2015-09) -
Riksdagsundersökningen 2014
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Competence, Styles, and Quality in Everyday Decision Making
(2015-09-21)This thesis had three aims. First, it explored the benefits of expanding the existing cognitively-oriented definition of individual differences in decision-making competence (i.e., measured by performance on traditional ... -
Obedience troubled? Exploring meanings of obedience in the post-genocide Rwanda
(2015-09-08)This thesis explores meanings of obedience in and outside the genocide context among different groups of people in Rwanda. The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda involved an important number of perpetrators and this ... -
Party Strength and Economic Growth
(2015-09)This study argues that strong parties play a critical role in fostering economic development. The theory explores how parties broaden the constituencies to which policy makers respond and help politicians to solve coordination ... -
Does Good Auditing Generate Quality of Government?
(2015-08)Despite the large focus in research and practice on audit, inspections and oversight activities there has been few empirical studies showing the effects of auditing on public sector performance. Hence, we have little ... -
Conflict resolution in coastal management: Interdisciplinary analyses of resource use conflicts from the Swedish coast
(2015-08-27)Natural resource use conflicts at urbanized coasts and their analysis and resolution are the main themes of this thesis. Based on the analysis of four conflict cases from the Swedish coast, I explore the ways the local ... -
Distributed Leadership in Local School Organisations. Working for School Improvement?
(2015-08-27)This thesis takes its point of departure from the recent increased interest in leadership, and especially distributed leadership. Educational research states that if schools are to meet future demands, leadership must rest ... -
Electoral Democracy and Human Development
(2015)This study attempts to reconcile competing positions in the debate over whether democracy improves human development by showing that some aspects of democracy – but not others – affect human development. Specifically, we ... -
Decentralization, corruption, and the role of democracy
(2015-08)In this paper, I consider how the level of democracy moderates the relationship between decentralization and corruption. While there is an expectation within the policy community that decentralization prevents corruption, ... -
Children and Parents - Attributions, Attitudes and Agency
(2015-08-20)Children and parents are both part of children’s development and research on children and on parenting are both areas that, in some way, have changed in recent decades. These changes are related to the new way of seeing ... -
The Elders and the Hills. Animism and Cosmological Re-Creation among the Q’eqchi’ Maya in Chisec, Guatemala
(2015-08-20)This thesis is based on fieldwork conducted in the municipality of Chisec in the depart-ment of Alta Verapaz in Guatemala. Within the context of post-war Maya cultural emergence and the recent introduction of non-indigenous ... -
Svenska för invandrare – brygga eller gräns?
(2002)This thesis is intended to increase the understanding of the encounter between a group of “im-migrants with low education” and the Swedish educational system in the form of SFI, Swedish Language Courses for Immigrants. The ... -
En introduktion till logistisk regressionsanalys
(Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation, 2010) -
Kvinnor, män och nyheter i televisionen. En innehållsstudie av ämnen och källor under 45 år
(Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikation, 2009) -
Terrorattackerna i USA. Sveriges Radios rapportering om den 11 september 2001
(Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikation, 2009)