Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Så nära får ingen gå? En studie om sexualitet, funktionshinder och personlig assistans
(2016-06-23)The general aim of the thesis is to explore how sexuality is understood, described, responded to and organized in Swedish personal assistance services (PAS); that is services to people with impaired mobility. Previous ... -
Sequential Requisites Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Sequential Relationships in Ordinal Data
(2016)This paper presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outcome variables across numerous combinations of ordinal variables in social ... -
Varieties of Democratic Diffusion: Colonial and Neighbor Networks
(2016)Numerous studies have reported that countries tend to become more similar to their immediate geographic neighbors with respect to democracy. We show that a similar process of mutual adjustment can be found within very ... -
Beyond First Elections: The Importance of Consistency in the Timing of Recurrent Elections
(2016)Is the regularity of elections a requisite for political stability? Scholars have empirically examined a number of features regarding elections in new democracies, including frequency, alternation, and orderliness, but ... -
Democratization in Conflict Studies: How Conceptualization Affects Operationalization and Testing Outcomes
(2016)Using the debate over democratization and conflict, we demonstrate how the connec- tion between conceptualization and operationalization can play a decisive role in the testing of falsifiable hypotheses. We discuss seven ... -
Choosing from the Menu of Manipulation: Explaining Incumbents’ Choices of Electoral Manipulation Tactics
(2016)How do political actors choose between different tactics of electoral manipulation, and how does the context in which elections take place shape those decisions? In this paper we argue that choices for specific manipulative ... -
Fetal Alcohol syndrome in adulthood - Psychological, psychosocial, and neuropsychological aspects of life in individuals who were prenatally exposed to alcohol
(2016-05-26)Alcohol’s teratogenic effect on the developing fetal brain is devastating, resulting in, for instance, structural abnormalities as well as behavioral and neuropsychological impairments in the child. The umbrella term Fetal ... -
Towards a theory of true and false intentions
(2016-05-13)An ability to discriminate between statements of true and false intent is critical for many legal professionals. However, it is only in recent years that psycho-legal researchers have turned to this topic. The current ... -
Counting on the details: Inquiring into past events of cooperative interviewees
(2016-05-13)Amount and quality of detail in recollections of past events are often studied in legal psychology. What, how much, and how accurate does a witness typically recall? How can we facilitate witnesses' recollections in police ... -
Children at risk? Hospital social workers’ and their colleagues’ assessment and reporting experiences
(2016-05-09)This thesis explores factors that influence professional discretion in Swedish hospital professionals’ assessment of children who may be at risk of harm. It is based on two data samplings, interviews with fourteen hospital ... -
Intimate partner violence: Beliefs and psychological predictors of intentions to intervene among the Swedish general public
(2016-05-06)Intimate partner violence (IPV) is considered a global public health issue. Most people disapprove of partner-related abuse, yet are disinclined to personally intervene in order to stop the violence. Public interventions ... -
Sovjetologi: Läran om Sovjetunionen
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A General Theory of Power Concentration: Demographic Influences on Political Organization
(2016)Why is the exercise of political power highly concentrated in some polities and widely dispersed in others? We argue that one persistent causal factor is demographic. Populous polities are characterized by more concentrated ... -
Europas borgmästare
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2016-04) -
Företagare eller politiker?
(2016-04-14)Today municipally owned companies are an established part of the Swedish local organisation. Municipally owned companies are situated in the boundary between the public and private sectors and that leads us to ask what ... -
Job Demands, Job Resources, and Consequences for Managerial Sustainability in the Public Sector – A Contextual Approach
(2016-04-11)ABSTRACT The aims of this thesis were threefold: to explore and increase knowledge of managerial working conditions in Swedish municipalities, to extend the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, and to provide information ... -
Att förstå EBP – Översättningar av idén om en evidensbaserad praktik i den svenska socialtjänsten
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Samordnad samverkan - En utvärdering av Samordningsförbundet Vänersborg/Mellerud
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2016)