Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Constructive Conflict in Classrooms and Beyond
(2021-05-12)Conflict has exercised the minds of scholars since the establishment of the academy. Yet, those studying conflict continue to struggle over what, precisely, it is, and how and why it occurs. While theorists have made ... -
Pledge-based accountability: Voter responses to fulfilled and broken election pledges
(2021-05-12)Political parties communicate their plans to voters via promises made during election campaigns. While it has been found that governments generally take these promises they make seriously, it has also been established ... -
Opposition Parties and Elite Co-optation in Electoral Autocracies
(2021-05)Autocratic incumbents often attempt to co-opt select opposition party leaders to minimize threats to their rule. While the literature identifies co-optation of opposition party leaders as an important survival strategy of ... -
What explains the credit ratings in economically advanced democracies? Unpacking the role of political stability through ideology, corruption, and transparency
(2021-05-06)Credit rating agencies (CRAs) are often referred to in the literature as the “gatekeepers” of the international credit market. Their assessments may determine a government’s ability to finance its budget since good credit ... -
International Influence: The Hidden Dimension
(2021-05)In this paper we develop and test hypotheses about possible influences that lie outside national borders. A major reason for studying international influences is Galton’s Problem, which cautions that domestic determinants ... -
Unaccompanied minors (un-)made in Sweden. Ungrievable lives and access to rights produced through policy
(2021-05-04)On 24 November 2015, the Swedish prime minister announced a new, restrictive asylum policy with the explicit aim of placing Sweden at the EU minimum level in terms of refugee reception. A temporary Aliens Act minimized ... -
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report
(2021)The Quality of Government Expert Survey (QoG Expert Survey) is a research project aimed at documenting the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior in countries around the world. This report ... -
Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000-2015 CE
(2021)Since the transition to agricultural production, property rights to land have been a key institution for economic development. Clearly defined land rights provide economic agents with increased access to credit, secure ... -
Normkreativ krisberedskap – Ett forskningsprojekt med syftet att utveckla metoder som stärker allmänhetens beredskap inför och hantering av samhällskriser såsom pandemier
(2021-03-30)Målet med rapporten är presentera resultatet av genomförd förstudie samt skapa underlag till nästa steg i projektet som går ut på att utveckla lösningar för några av de utmaningar som identifierats. Delresultat av ... -
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties
(2021-03)The recent increase of democratic declines around the world – “the third wave of autocratization” – has sparked a new generation of studies on the topic. Scholars agree that these days the main threat to democracy arises ... -
Environmental commitments in different types of democracies: The role of liberal, social-liberal, and deliberative politics
(2021-03)Ever since the recognition of ongoing, human-induced, large-scale environmental degradation, from the early 1960s onwards, the scholarly community has looked at democracy with mixed feelings. Some assert, quite openly, ... -
Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?
(2021-03)Rulers of weak states face a predicament. They lack capacity to monitor crime and need citizens to partake in intelligence-sharing. Yet, agents of such authorities are seldom trusted, raising doubts about whether locals ... -
Measuring Politically-relevant Ientity, With and Without Groups
(2021-03)Quantitative scholarship on civil conflict still largely relies upon the ethnic group as the foundation for measures of politically-relevant diversity and, in particular, identity-based political inclusion. However, ethnicity ... -
The V–Dem Measurement Model: Latent Variable Analysis for Cross-National and Cross-Temporal Expert-Coded Data
(2022-03)The Varieties of Democracy (V–Dem) project relies on country experts who code a host of ordinal variables, providing subjective ratings of latent—that is, not directly observable—regime characteristics over time. Sets of ... -
Att stanna kvar: arbete, plats och mobilitet i småstaden
(2021-03-04)The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to a deeper understanding of how young adults in an industrial small town in Sweden perceive and negotiate their work opportunities and their position in the local labour market. ... -
Crime, punishment, and counselling – a study of the local judicial and social work application of prostitution policy in Sweden
(2021-02-18)This thesis explores the social construction of a purchase of a sexual service within the implementation of prostitution policy in Sweden and seeks to contribute to the current knowledge about how a purchase of a sexual ... -
Democracy Doesn’t Always Happen Over Night: Regime Change in Stages and Economic Growth
(V-Dem Institute, 2021-02)We motivate and empirically analyse the idea that democratic regime change is not a dis-crete event but a two-stage process: in the first stage, autocracies enter into an ‘episode’ of political liberalization which can last ... -
A Framework for Understanding Regime Transformation: Introducing the ERT Dataset
(V-Dem Institute, 2021-02)Gradual processes of democratization and autocratization have gained increased attention in the literature. Assessing such processes in a comparative framework remains a challenge, however, due to their under-conceptualization ... -
Public Discourse and Autocratization: Infringing on Autonomy, Sabotaging Accountability
(V-Dem Institute, 2021-02)Ever since its existence, democracy is periodically diagnosed to be in crisis. When such crises are analyzed, reference has usually been made to the malfunctioning of core democratic institutions and the behavior of actors. ... -
Towards an everyday peace? Exploring the political significance of everyday life in post-war Nepal
(2021-02-04)This thesis aims to further our understanding of the political significance of everyday life in post-war Nepal. Building on the ethnographic turn of the everyday peace literature, I treat everyday life as a site of political ...