Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Eliciting information in intelligence interviews through priming: An examination of underlying mechanisms
(2018-10-10)An emerging body of research in human intelligence interviewing suggests that subtle influence tactics, such as priming, could be used to increase informants’ disclosure of sensitive information. However, the mechanisms ... -
The Art of Enacting the Impossible: A Conceptual, Empirical and Methodological Exploration of Constructive Resistance by the Kurdish Movement in Turkey
(2018-09-27)The Kurdish movement in Turkey has since 2005 been trying to establish democratic autonomy, an overarching proposition for the reconstruction of the society from the bottom up, based on ideals of radical democracy, women’s ... -
Peace Above the Glass Ceiling: The Historial Relationship Between Female Political Empowerment and Civil Conflict
(2018)This paper investigates whether female political empowerment is conducive to civil peace, drawing on global data on female political empowerment over a 200 year period, from the Varieties of Democracy database. We augment ... -
Why Populism? How Parties Shape the Electoral Fortune of Populists
(2018)Much of the literature on populism restricts itself to specific regional contexts. Due to this approach, theories of populism have difficulty explaining cross-regional similarities or differences (such as the prevalence ... -
FASHIONABLE POLITICS The discursive construction of ethical consumerism in corporate communications, news media, and social media
(2018-09-14)This thesis investigates the discursive construction of ethical consumerism – a notion that encompasses both ‘conscious’ consumption choices and responsible’ corporate activities – in mediated discourses about fashion and ... -
Normer som skaver - Hbtq-personers sociala arbetsmiljö i Göteborgs Stad
(2018)På uppdrag av Göteborgs Stad har denna studie genomförts med syfte att få en överblick över hur hbtq-personer som arbetar i kommunen upplever sin sociala arbetsmiljö, samt vilka konsekvenser arbetsmiljön får för hbtq-personers ... -
Finanspolitiska åtgärder. En keynesiansk ansats
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Balancing mobility and solidarity: Multilevel Governance Challenges of East-West EU Mobility in Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden
(2018-08-31)Each year, millions of Europeans exercise their right to move freely between EU member states – particularly so since the eastern enlargements in the 2000s. Mobility from eastern and central Europe (CEE) affects host ... -
Folkets främsta företrädare
(Göteborgs universitet: Förvaltningshögskolan och Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018)I denna antologi presenterar 13 forskare studier om svenska riksdagsledamöter. Vi får bland annat veta hur väl riksdagsledamöternas åsikter överensstämmer med väljarnas – både när det gäller politiska sakfrågor och hur ... -
Democracy for All?
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Democracy at Dusk?
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Revisionskvalitet i svenska kommuner. En studie om följsamhet mot redovisningsregler
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2018)Tidigare studier av följsamhet mot redovisningsreglering i såväl svensk kommunal sektor som kommunal sektor i andra länder har försökt förklara redovisningsval utifrån olika ställföreträdande mått på revisionskvalitet, det ... -
Keeping the Democratic Façade: Contemporary Autocratization as a Game of Deception
(2018)Less than thirty years after Fukuyama and others declared liberal democracy’s eternal dominance, a third wave of autocratization is manifest. Gradual declines of democratic regime attributes characterize contemporary ... -
A matter of human-sea relations: Insights from leisure boating in Bohuslän, Sweden
(2018-08-16)Global environmental governance increasingly seeks to establish sustainable use of the oceans. This PhD thesis asks what we can learn about this issue by exploring leisure boating in Bohuslän, Sweden, as both a perceived ... -
Electoral Contestation: A Comprehensive Polity-Level Analysis
(2018)The study of electoral contestation generally focuses on districts or regions rather than polities. We present a new dataset that measures electoral contestation through historical records of elections in sovereign and ... -
Stairways to Denmark: Does the Sequence of State-building and Democratization Matter for Economic Development?
(2018)Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. We discuss the assumptions that this prominent "stateness-first" argument rests upon and how ... -
Not Even for Merriment - Economic Concentration and Institutions
(2018-08-13)Institutional design is often argued to be an expression and an instrument of the will of powerful interests. In this dissertation, I examine the impact of diversification and changes in the economy on institutional ... -
Can Courts be Bulwarks of Democracy?
(2018)Independent judges are thought to promote democratic regime survival by allowing perceived violations of rules limiting arbitrary power to be challenged non-violently in a fair setting, governed by transparent rules. Yet, ... -
Harbors and Democracy
(2018)Although geography is widely viewed as an important factor in long-term development, little attention has been paid to its role in democratization. This study focuses on the possible impact of a feature of littoral geography: ... -
Patterns of Regime Breakdown since the French Revolution
(2018)We present a new dataset comprising more than 1900 regimes in 197 polities over the time period 1789-2016. We use this dataset to describe dierent historical patterns of regime duration globally, leveraging ne-grained ...