Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Introducing the Worldwide Age Representation in Parliaments (WARP) Dataset
(2022-04)Research increasingly highlights the social group composition of decision-making bodies in politics. Beyond issues of gender and ethnicity, an emerging literature focuses on age groups. The absence of young adults in elected ... -
The intergovernmental epistemologies of soil and land degradation
(2022-09-28)The role of science and scientific advice is crucial in global environmental governance. This thesis investigates this role by focusing on the practices and framings of the relationship between scientific advice and policy ... -
Even flows and deferred lives: The logistification of migrant settlement in Sweden
(2022-09-14)In 2016, rebuilt containers and barracks accommodating so-called ‘newly arrived immigrants’ started to appear in Stockholm, Sweden. People who had been on the move for an extensive time, staying in refugee camps, and ... -
Negotiating Memories: Survivor Narratives of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Cambodia
(2022-08-30)This thesis seeks to deepen our understanding of the complexity of victimhood as constructed in narratives. To this end, it explores how people who have been socially and politically ascribed as perpetrators construct and ... -
Under Construction: Making Meaning of Social Sustainability in Strategic Planning Practice
(2022-08-21)While social sustainability is attracting attention in both policy and academia, there are still challenges when turning social sustainability policy into practice. Instead of making cities more socially sustainable, the ... -
Kan likvärdighet (vad det nu är) styras fram? Utvärdering av förskolans och grundskolans organisering i Göteborgs stad
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2022)Denna rapport handlar om hur kvalitet, likvärdighet och ansvar i Göteborgs kommunala förskolor och grundskolor förändrats mellan åren 2018 och 2021, och undersöker hur en centralisering av styrningen av skolförvaltningen ... -
Utbildningspliktens praktik – Västra Götaland
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2022-08)I den här rapporten undersöks utbildningspliktens praktik i Västra Götaland – hur utbildningsplikten fungerar och har fungerat sedan införandet 2018. Utmaningar och framgångsfaktorer lyfts fram och förbättringsförslag ... -
Accounting, Professions, and Performativity: Exploring the limits of accountingisation in professional organisations
(2022-08-18)This thesis explores the practice of calculations and their consequences in different professional contexts. Specifically, it aims to extend the discussion on the relationship between accounting and public sector professionals ... -
Remissvar gällande promemorian Barnets bästa vid fortsatt vård enligt LVU
(University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs universitet, 2022) -
Åsikter om alkoholpolitikens effektivitet – Tabellbilaga
(SOM-institutetet, 2022)Bilaga till kapitlet ”Karlsson, David, Holmberg, Sören & Weibull, Lennart (2022) ”Effektivitetsbedömningar påverkar alkoholopinionen” publicerad i Ulrika Andersson, Henrik Oscarsson, Björn Rönnerstrand & Nora Theorin (red) ... -
COMMERCIAL SUGARCANE FARMING AND RURAL YOUTH LIVELIHOODS IN EASTERN UGANDA
(2022-06-23)Commercial farming is a pathway for pro-poor growth because of its economic linkages such as jobs and incomes. However, most of the available studies of commercial farming are largely generic, leaving a dearth of evidence ... -
Svenska politikers syn på kommunalt självstyre, likvärdighet och decentralisering av service
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Risker, säkerhet och inkluderande spårvagnar ur ett funktionshinderperspektiv - rapport från ett forskningsprojekt
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Menstrual dirt - An exploration of contemporary menstrual hygiene practices in Sweden
(2022-05-30)Menstrual Dirt is a sociological study of how some aspects of menstruation come into being as dirty phenomenon, both in material and symbolic terms. Through engaging with a variety of empirical material Persdotter explores ... -
Long-Term Outcomes of Bullying Victimization With a Specific Focus on Emerging Adulthood and Resilience
(University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs universitet, 2022)Bullying victimization in school is not only an experience at the time of victimization; the impact of these experiences has been found to be connected to long-term outcomes well into adulthood. The overall aim of this ... -
Towards Legitimacy as Congruence: Regimes' Menus of Legitimation and Citizens’ Appetites
(2022-05-23)Legitimacy is one of the most crucial concepts in political science. It concerns how authority can be exercised in ways that those subjected to it willingly accept, something that all rulers desire. It is also one of the ... -
Interpreting the Haitian Revolution: From the Rights of Man to Human Rights
(2022-05-19)In recent decades, a ‘Haitian Turn’ has emerged as both academic and public readerships in the anglophone sphere have been flooded by a wave of essays, articles, and monographs on the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). At the ... -
Party Organizations and the Dynamics of Autocratic Rule: Co-optation, Repression, and Regime Change
(2022-05-12)This dissertation is about political parties in autocracies. The recent institutionalist turn in comparative authoritarianism has renewed attention to the role of political parties by highlighting the strategic value of ... -
Parents´ experience of living with a child displaying oppositional defiant disorder. Top-down and bottom-up approaches to gain a deeper understanding of the complexity
(2022-05-11)Clinical levels of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) during childhood are considered a significant marker of risk to develop mental illness later in life. If serious behavior problems begin as early as preschool years ...