Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Seven dimensions of consumption
(2017-05-02)This thesis presents the development of the integrative, context-sensitive, and multi-dimensional Consumer Motivation Scale (CMS). The CMS is based on the three higher-order master goals of goal-framing theory: the gain ... -
Drivers of Climate Change? Political and Economic Explanations of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
(2017-04-28)This PhD dissertation examines if social scientific theories can explain historical trajectories of greenhouse gas emissions. The manuscript includes an introductory chapter and four articles that consider annual emissions ... -
Effects of Intensive Behavioural Treatment and a focused Imitation Intervention for young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder - One plus One means More
(2017-04-28)Abstract Spjut Janson, B. (2017). Effects of IBT and a focused Imitation Intervention for young Children with ASD. One plus One means More. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The general aim ... -
“It is better to have tried, no matter what” : Psychological perspectives on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)
(2017-04-24)Couples with the risk of transmitting a genetic disease face different diagnostic options when they wish to become parents. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) combines in vitro fertilization (IVF) with biopsy of the ... -
Constraining Governments: New indices of vertical, horizontal and diagonal accountability
(2017)Accountability - constraints on the government’s use of political power - is one of the cornerstones of good governance. However, conceptual stretching and a lack of reliable measures have limited cross-national research ... -
A Mechanism Approach to the Sociology of Teachers’ and Students’ Actions: Teaching Practice, Student Disengagement and Instructional Materials
(2017-04-21)The overall purpose of this dissertation is to describe and explain teachers’ and students’ actions related to instruction in compulsory education classrooms in Sweden. In order to approach these issues, I will focus on ... -
Do City Managers Improve Government Performance?
(2017-04)Why do some local governments perform better than others that are socioeconomically, culturally, and geographically close? This paper examines variation in local government performance across 209 Catalan municipalities ... -
Institution building in challenging contexts – energy for development in Tanzania
(2017-04)The Sustainable Development Goal 7 includes achieving universal electricity access, which will require the deployment of renewable energy sources for small-scale and decentralized electricity provision. However, rural ... -
V-Dem Comparisons and Contrasts with Other Measurement Projects
(2017)For policymakers, activists, academics, and citizens around the world the conceptualization and measurement of democracy matters. The needs of democracy promoters and social scientists are convergent. We all need better ... -
Autocrats and Skyscrapers: Modern White Elephants in Dictatorships
(2017)Political leaders often have private incentives to pursue expensive and socially wasteful "white elephant" projects. Our argument highlights that weak accountability mechanisms allow autocratic leaders to more easily realize ... -
The Link between Appointments and Appropriations in the Politics of Administrative Design.
(2017-04)In this paper, we analyze the relationship between political control of agency decision-making and the size of agency budgets. Scholars of bureaucratic and distributive politics have respectively highlighted how political ... -
Politik på hemmaplan. Tiotusen fullmäktigeledamöter tycker om politik och demokrati
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Democracy and Corruption: A Global Time-Series Analysis with V-Dem Data
(2017)Theory predicts democracy should reduce corruption. Yet, numerous scholars have found empirically that corruption decreases at high levels of democracy but actually increases at low levels. A key weaknesses of studies ... -
School shootings in seven countries: Testingand developing the theory of five necessary conditions
(Égalité, 2017)To test and further develop Newman and collaborators’ 2004 theory of the five necessary conditions for school shootings to occur, this chapter investigates 14 school shootings in seven countries. Using case-based comparison ... -
Samverkan i demokratins försvar. EN studie om den offentliga sektorn, civilsamhället och arbetet mot våldsbejakande extremism
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2017)Det förebyggande arbetet mot våldsbejakande extremism är en av de mest debatterade och prioriterade politiska frågorna på nationell och lokal nivå i Sverige. I styrande policydokument som behandlar det nationella förebyggande ... -
Kunskapsstaden Göteborg - varför och för vem? Tre organisationers syn på kunskap och Göteborg som kunskapsstad 2000-2016
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2017)Allt fler städer, i och utanför Sverige, kallar sig för kunskapsstäder. Men vilken sorts kunskap syftar man egentligen på? Och vad är det tänkt att en inriktning på kunskapsutveckling ska bidra med? Tidigare forskning har ... -
Explaining the Erosion of Democracy: Can Economic Growth Hinder Democracy?
(2017)Economic growth has become one of the leitmotivs academicians and pundits ask once and again to assess democratic endurance over time. While large portion of the literature posits that economic growth is positive for ... -
A comparative study of psycho-social rehabilitation programmes of war-affected children in war-torn Sri Lanka, 2004-2006
(2017-02-23)This research explores psycho-social rehabilitation for war-affected children with special reference to the Sri Lankan civil war during the period of 2004-2006. The main purpose of this study is to examine the role that ... -
The Wicked Nature of Social Systems – A Complexity Approach to Sociology
(2017-02-15)This thesis investigates how the interdisciplinary field of Complexity Science can inform both sociological theory and methodological practice. Non-linearity and complexity dynamics such as emergence and positive/negative ... -
IRT models for expert-coded panel data
(2017)Data sets quantifying phenomena of social-scientific interest often use multiple experts to code latent concepts. While it remains standard practice to report the average score across experts, experts likely vary in both ...