Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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You don’t have to love it - Exploring the mechanisms of exercise motivation using self-determination theory in a digital context
(2016-04-05)Most Western countries have developed guidelines and programs to inform and promote regular physical activity and exercise behaviours in order to gain desired health benefits for the population. Unfortunately, health ... -
Graffitins spänningsfält. En studie av graffitikultur och interventioner på en lokal arena
(2016-03-22)The overall aim of the thesis is to explore and analyse graffiti in a trans-local context, by asking questions about the actors' view on activity, meaning and interaction. The study has been located to a physical place, ... -
Bio-behavioral inquiries regarding cognitive aging and distance to death: The role of gender, APOE, grip strength and subjective memory
(2016-03-17)To better understand the nature of cognitive functioning later in life, it is important to gain further knowledge regarding factors that contribute to cognitive aging. Therefore, the overall aim of this thesis was to ... -
UN Electoral Assistance: Does it Matter for Election Management?
(2016)Between 2007 and 2014 the United Nations (UN) provided technical, financial and logistical assistance to half of all elections held outside of established democracies. Does UN Electoral Assistance (UNEA) substantially ... -
Measuring Subnational Democracy
(2016)Social scientists and practitioners have been limited in their work by the paucity of data about subnational institutions and practices. Such data could help scholars refine regime typologies, improve theories of democratization ... -
Watershed events and changes in public order management systems: Organizational adaptation as a social movement outcome
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Measuring Electoral Democracy with V-Dem Data: Introducing a New Polyarchy Index
(2016)This paper presents a new measure of electoral democracy, or "polyarchy", for a global sample of 173 countries from 1900 to the present based on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) data, enabling us to address several ... -
Social trust among non-Nordic immigrant youth – does context matter?
(2016-02)The question of whether ethnic heterogeneity impedes or enhances general trust has been studied extensively among the general population and among school-youth, but seldom among people in their 20s. This age group is however ... -
Can institutions pave the way for the young? Electoral systems and age representation in parliament
(2016-01)Middle-aged to senior men of the ethnic majority and higher income groups are generally overrepresented in parliaments. While research on group representation has examined issues of gender, economic standing and, more ... -
Taxation and Government Quality
(2016-02-11)The question of what creates government quality, or good institutions, is one of the central puzzles in modern political science. This dissertation investigates a hitherto underexplored cause: taxation. Historical research ... -
Strategies of Validation: Assessing the Varieties of Democracy Corruption Data
(2016)Social scientists face the challenge of determining whether their data are valid, yet they lack prac- tical guidance about how to do so. Existing publications on data validation provide mostly abstract information for ... -
Civil Society, Party Institutionalization, and Democratic Breakdown in the Interwar Period
(2016)The relationship between the strength of civil society and democratic survival in the interwar period has been much debated. Prominent studies have questioned the existence of a positive association, arguing that the ... -
Mellan pedagogisk professionalism och marknadsmässiga tekniker - Institutionella logiker i organiseringen av förskolan
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Eliciting human intelligence: A conceptualization and empirical testing of the Scharff technique
(2016-02-01)This thesis is on how to elicit intelligence from human sources with the principal aim being to examine the efficacy of the tactics employed by the renowned WWII interrogator Hanns Scharff. A novel experimental set-up (as ... -
The Microfundations of Flexicurity
(2016-01-21)This thesis examines the microfoundations of flexicurity, an arrangement of policies that proponents claim can deliver a ‘win-win’ situation in the labour market. These policies include lax employment protection ... -
Räkna med kvinnor Global Media Monitoring Project 2015. Nationell rapport Sverige.
(Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMG), 2015-12-18)Nyheter handlar om att välja. Fortfarande väljs kvinnor bort. Kvinnor utgör halva världens befolkning men syns bara i en knapp fjärdedel av nyhetsflödet. I Sverige går det två män på varje kvinna i nyheterna. På fem år ... -
Understanding illegality and corruption in forest management: A literature review
(2016-01)This review synthesizes the literature studying illegality and government corruption in forest man-agement. After discussing the theoretical connections between different types of corruption and illegal forest-related ... -
Generalized Trust in Surveys: From Scales to Dragons
(2015-12-21)Generalized trust has been one of the frequently researched attitudes in political and social sciences. Although this type of trust saw its real breakthrough in the theories about social capital, offered by Robert D. ...