Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Röster från svenskt yrkesfiske. Rapport om uppföljningsintervjuer
(University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs universitet, 2021) -
Governing migrants through the Norwegian Introduction Programme
(2021-08-26)This thesis focuses on the Norwegian Introduction Programme for newly arrived immigrants and refugees. With its implementation in 2004, the Introduction Programme represents one of the most significant policy measures ... -
New Public Professional Organisationalism Towards new professional, managerial and cliental roles as exemplified in Swedish schools
(2021-08-26)This thesis aims to deepen our understanding of public professional organisationalism. Whereas new professionalism is an established concept used to describe changes in the roles of professionals, there is a lack of studies ... -
Politisering av omsorg. En kvalitativ studie om kollektivt motstånd bland feminiserade välfärdsprofessionella yrkesgrupper i Sverige.
(2021-08-26)This thesis is about collective mobilisation and new forms of resistance among feminised welfare professional groups in contemporary Sweden. The research focus is placed on what these struggles are about, the different ... -
Experiences and Perceptions of Default Nudges
(2021-08-19)Of the many challenges we face as individuals and as a society, several of the most important and hardest ones are behavioral. We often know what needs to be done to solve an issue, but struggle to put this knowledge into ... -
Temporary safety. Contextual factors behind job quality in using temporary agency work.
(2021-08-19)The aim of this thesis is to explore and explain how job quality in organizations using temporary agency work (TAW) is shaped by national regulatory regimes and how organizational practices and employee experiences in ... -
Democratic Regimes and Epidemic Deaths
(2021-08)To what extent do particular regime types provide tangible benefits? During this era of declining faith in democracy globally and assertive alternatives to democracy, identifying democracy’s tangible benefits is particularly ... -
Clientelism, Public Goods Provision, and Governance
(2021-07)It is widely believed that clientelism—the giving of material goods in return for electoral support—is associated with poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of ... -
Pre-Election Tax Enforcement in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2021-06)Using the literature on the political business cycle as a point of departure, this paper investigates whether incumbent politicians manipulate the enforcement of tax collection prior to elections, in order to win votes. ... -
Party Organizations Around the Globe. Introducing the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization Dataset (V-Party)
(2021-07)Although party organization plays a key role in a range of theories from democratic accountability and representation to democratic breakdown or the electoral success and persistence of parties, data on party organizational ... -
Prioriteringar i stadsbyggandet. En studie om Angereds Närsjukhus och den entreprenöriella stadsutvecklingens gränser
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2021-06-18)I samhällsdebatten händer ibland att medborgare och debattörer anklagar politiker för att strunta i de fysiska miljöerna i de fattigare stadsdelarna, och prioritera utvecklandet av de rikare stadsdelarna. Den tidigare ... -
How to Build Democracy after Authoritarian Breakdown: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach
(2021-05)Mass movements that are able to overthrow a dictator do not always lead to democracy. Transition periods present narrow windows of opportunity in which activists face difficult decisions to build democracy and prevent ... -
Varieties of Measurement: A Comparative Assessment of Relatively New Democracy Ratings based on Original Data
(2021-05)A series of new democracy measures have been introduced in recent years, many based on previous measures, but some offering original data. This chapter provides critical discussion of three new measures based on original ... -
Religious Clientelism A theory
(2021)In today’s political science scholarship, the concept of clientelism often evokes an image of voters selling their votes to the highest bidder, where a substantial focus lies on the material nature of the exchange between ... -
Investeringskalkyl och beslutsteori. Verktyg för beslutsfattande under osäkerhet
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2014) -
Populism and COVID-19: How Populist Governments (Mis)Handle the Pandemic
(2021-05)Populist parties and actors now govern various countries around the world. Often elected by the public in times of economic crises and over the perceived failure of the elites, the question stands as to how populist ... -
IMPACTS OF EVIDENCE ON DECISION-MAKING IN POLICE INVESTIGATION
(2021-05-19)When conducting an investigation, police officers collect evidence from various sources (e.g., humans, objects, areas). The type of evidence (i.e., physical vs. personal) can affect the investigators’ beliefs about the ... -
The Political Participation of the Poor: Local Social Context and the Impact of Social Ties on the Political Engagement of Poor Individuals
(2021-05-18)Research on political participation finds that poor citizens engage less in politics than wealthy citizens. Yet, recent survey evidence also suggests that there is crucial variation in the poor’s level of engagement within ... -
Sub-national Quality of Government in EU Member States: Presenting the 2021 European Quality of Government Index and its relationship with Covid-19 indicators
(2021-04)The 2021 European Quality of Government Index (the EQI) is the largest survey ever undertaken to measure perceptions of quality of government, collecting the opinions of over 129,000 respondents in a total of 208 NUTS 1 ...