Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Democracy Aid Effectiveness: Variation Across Regime Types
(2017)Large-N studies suggest that democracy aid is effective, while multiple small-N investigations call such findings into question. This paper accounts for this contradiction and significantly improves our understanding of ... -
Internet, Censorship, and Corruption. The impact of online censorship on the internet’s potential to reduce corruption
(2016-12)Since the advent of the internet, the world has witnessed the explosive growth and development of technologies that provide us with ever-increasing means of accessing information and connecting with one another. This ... -
Partisan Politics and Institutional Choice in Public Bureaucracies
(2016-12-20)Political leaders can indirectly control policy implementation by strategically manipulating administrative institutions. In this dissertation, Mikael Holmgren argues that, precisely because administrative institutions are ... -
Making a ’Home’: Internal Displacements and Resettlement Processes in Sri Lanka 2002-2006.
(2016-12-12)Abstract Wanninayake, Shantha 2017: Making a ‘Home’: Internal Displacements and Resettlement Processes in Sri Lanka 2002-2006. PhD Dissertation in Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, University of ... -
Locked-in collaboration
(2016-12-05)Collaboration, employed in defining a problem, finding a solution, and implementing it, has been proposed as a solution to a range of problems framed as wicked or complex. Collaboration can be justified based on instrumental, ... -
Kommunpartiet i Sveriges riksdag
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Local Democracy and Economic Growth
(2016)Theoretical work on the institutional sources of economic growth regards decentralization and democracy in a positive light. Despite this, empirical work shows that neither fiscal decentralization nor national democracy ... -
Going Historical: Measuring Democraticness before the Age of Mass Democracy
(2016)Most studies of democratic developments are limited to the period after World War II. However, political regimes varied according to different aspects of democracy long before the establishment of modern liberal mass ... -
Attributes Modulating Affective Profiles in Psychiatric Patients
(2016-11-18)DOCTORAL DISSERTATION Abstract Zöller, M. E. T. (2016). Attributes Modulating Affective Profiles in Psychiatric Patients. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Psychiatrically disabled ... -
Implementing a program for parents with intellectual disability in Sweden: A feasibility study
(2016-11-17)This thesis examines implementation of an evidence-informed parent education program for parents with intellectual disability, called Parenting Young Children (PYC), in the Swedish social services. The empirical studies ... -
The Making of an Expert Detective. Thinking and Deciding in Criminal Investigations
(2016-11-11)Drawing on theoretical frameworks developed in social and cognitive psychology, this thesis examines the degree to which individual and systemic factors may compensate for inherent biases in criminal detectives’ judgments ... -
Does Party Politicization of Corruption Affect Voter Turnout?
(2016-11)In this paper, we argue that the effects of corruption on voter turnout not necessarily have to be negative. We argue that voters’ willingness to participate in elections will increase when parties po-liticize the issue ... -
How Policy Legitimacy affects Policy Support Throughout the Policy Cycle
(2016-11)We analyze the importance of legitimacy and compare how drivers of public policy attitudes evolve across the policy process consisting of the input (i.e., the processes forgoing acquisition of power and the procedures ... -
Politik och förvaltning på nätet
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2016)De senaste decennierna har tekniska landvinningar skapat nya kommunikationsvägar mellan medborgare och det offentliga som i grunden förändrar de sätt på vilket vår demokrati förverkligas och förvaltningen arbetar. Den nya ... -
How corruption shapes the relationship between democracy and electrification
(2016-11)One of the central questions in research on the drivers behind public good provision is how political regimes and institutions impact the provision of public goods. Previous research within this field has shown that ... -
Minoritarian Activism – Judicial Politics in the European Union
(2016-11-07)Abstract Is the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) best described as a run-away agent, free to influence the EU according to its own preferences, or as an obedient servant of EU member state governments? In this ... -
Graffiti – For Joy and Confirmation. Motivational aspects, triggering and inhibiting factors, and emotional satisfactions in graffiti: The creative-interactive dimension of vandalism
(2016-11-03)The purpose of the present dissertation is to achieve a deeper understanding about what motivates young people to commit vandalism in general and scrawl-graffiti in particular, and what this propensity provides in the form ... -
Making Sense of Corruption Perceptions: Who to Ask (and About What?) - Evidence from Iceland
(2016-10)The extent of corruption in Iceland is highly contested. International corruption measures indicate a relatively small amount of corruption, while domestic public opinion suggest a serious corruption problem. Thus, uncertainty ... -
ROLES OF WOMEN DURING ARMED CONFLICT
(2016-10-28)Sri Lanka has been ravaged by the long-running civil war held between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE. The conflict cost thousands of lives, internal displacements and property damage. The results of the war thus ... -
Parents, Power, Poverty. On choice and responsibility on two parental communities
(2016-10-20)This dissertation explores discourses about parenthood and subject ideals as they manifest in two Swedish parental web communities. The aim is to examine the perceived division of responsibility between the parents themselves ...