Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Handbok för systematiska litteratur- och dokumentstudier inom samhällsvetenskapen
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2021)Denna rapport syftar till att inspirera studenter (och forskare) att pröva på att använda systematiska litteratur- och dokumentstudier i sina uppsatser. Rapportens struktur följer en generell arbetsprocess för en uppsats ... -
Under the influence? Understanding media’s coverage of opinion polls and their effects on citizens and politicians
(2021-01-14)News media’s use of horse race polls is a defining feature of contemporary political reporting. This thesis investigates how the news media use these opinion polls and how this coverage can influence two of the most central ... -
Hits close to home: Shootings and support for the Sweden Democrats
(2020-12)Do instances of public gun violence increase support for Radical Right Parties? Using a pseudo-experimental design, this study investigates the impact of shootings in Sweden 2011-2018 on support for the Sweden Democrats. ... -
The Roots of Female Emancipation: The Initializing Role of Cool Water
(2020-12)Reviewing the literature on the deep historic roots of gender inequality, we theorize and provide evidence for a trajectory that (1) originates in a climatic configuration called the “Cool Water” (CW-) ... -
Institutional Quality Causes Social Trust: Evidence from Survey and Experimental Data on Trusting Under the Shadow of Doubt
(2020-12)Social trust is a crucial ingredient for successful collective action. What causes social trust to develop, however, remains poorly understood. The quality of political institutions has been proposed as a candidate driver ... -
Media Echo Chambers: Selective Exposure and Confirmation Bias in Media Use, and its Consequences for Political Polarization
(2020-12-17)The new digital media landscape has created a high-choice media environment that has made it easier for people to find news and information that support their political beliefs and attitudes, and avoid news and information ... -
Governing the European Asylum System at the Greek Border Islands
(2020-12-17)This thesis provides an understanding of the governance of the European asylum regime at the Greek border islands from a multi-level governance perspective. Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Kos, and Leros are the islands which, over ... -
Uncooperative Society, Uncooperative Politics or Both? How Trust, Polarization and Populism Explain Excess Mortality for COVID-19 across European regions
(2020-12)Why have some territories performed better than others in the fight against COVID-19? This paper uses a novel dataset on excess mortality, trust and political polarization for 153 European regions to explore the role of ... -
Who votes for Anti-Corruption Parties? The Emergence of a New Party Family
(2020-12)Corruption and issues related to quality of government are becoming increasingly salient to both voters and parties all around the globe. One indication of that is the steady increase in the number of electoral campaigns ... -
Taxation as a Social Contract: Public goods and collective action in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2020-12)Increasing tax revenue is an important aspect of development policy as it is associated with sustainable economic development. This requires tax compliance, and to increase tax compliance it is vital to understand ... -
Ordning och samordning – en utvärdering av 3 § LOV ordningsvakter i Gamlestaden, Göteborg
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Beslutsanalys och prognosmodeller. Simulering och fallstudier
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Patientcentrerad vård. EN systematisk litteraturstudie om konceptets förverkligande
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THE INITIATION OF A NORM FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH Rwanda’s Gacaca, Pioneering the “Traditional” Transitional Justice Norm
(2020-11-27)This thesis investigates the pre-emergence phase of an internationalized norm by focusing on Rwanda’s creation of Gacaca. It argues that the Gacaca pioneered the “traditional” transitional justice norm. It thus, addresses ... -
Interviewing preschoolers: Facilitators and barriers to young children's legal testimony
(2020-11-19)Children’s testimonies are often vital during criminal investigations of alleged maltreatment. The aim of this thesis was to improve our understanding of forensic interviews with preschool-aged children (aged 3 to 6 years). ... -
The Right Kind of Queer: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Constructions of Swedishness
(2020-11-12)Recent years have seen an increased mobilisation of LGBT rights in nationalist projects of (non-)belonging. This thesis provides new insights into the role played by race, sexuality, and gender in these projects by examining ... -
Sleep and cognition in old age: Birth cohort differences, dementia, and biomarkers of Alzheimer´s disease
(2020-11-12)The focus for this thesis is on two major determinants of health and wellbeing in older people, namely subjective sleep disturbance and cognition. Data were drawn from the H70 Birth Cohort Studies, comprising representative ... -
Developing into early adulthood: The role of identity and personality
(2020-11-05)The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the development into early adulthood, focusing on identity and personality. The aim of Study I was to explore the developmental course and implications of the two meta-traits ... -
Violence in Close Relationships, Sexual Risk- taking, and Help-seeking among Young Men
(2020-10-29)In close relationships and through sexual intimacy, most adolescents and young adults have opportunities to develop the ability to experience emo-tional intimacy and trust. This thesis focuses on problematic phenomena that ... -
Ghostlines: Movements, Anticipations, and Drawings of the LAPSSET Development Corridor in Kenya
(2020-10-15)The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) corridor is a partly completed development corridor in Kenya that will connect the eponymous places via roads, pipelines and railway lines, if completed. This thesis ...