Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Exactly in the Right Place. Ways of Making and Maintaining a Crow Indian Landscape
(2015-11-24)‘Exactly in the Right Place’ refers to how Crow people identify themselves within a collective narrative as a chosen people in a chosen place, centered in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming and Montana in the United States. ... -
Food (in)security in rural Rwanda: women’s understanding, experiences and coping strategies
(2015-11-24)The aim of this thesis is to probe further into the manifestations and dynamics of food insecurity in Rwanda by attending to women’s voices and experiences. By interviewing women from Nyabihu, a rural district in the ... -
Ändamålsenlig organisering. Stadsdelsförvaltning, målkomplexitet och förändrad omvärld
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Socialt hållbar stadsutveckling? Stadsdelsnämnderna, stadsutvecklarrollen och sociala konsekvensanalyser i planeringen av Göteborgs stad
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Measuring Political Participation in Southern Europe: The Varieties of Democracy Approach
(2015)Most schools of democratic theory consider political participation to have a positive impact in deepening democracy. Political participation makes democracies more accountable and freer, as well as creating more engaged, ... -
O Brasil na perspectiva do Projeto Variedades da Democracia
(2015)In this article we present results for Brazil collected by the Varieties of Democracy project. We describe the historical evolution of democracy in Brazil from 1900 to 2012, focusing on its five main components (electoral, ... -
Corruption in Governance of the Commons: Consequences and Reform Challenges
(2015-11-13)Research on governance of common-pool resources (CPRs) has discussed the design of regulations that govern the usage of CPRs and the need to enforce such rules. However, the focus on self-management in this literature may ... -
An Inquiry into Satisfaction and Variations in User-Oriented Elderly Care
(2015-11-13)The foundation for this thesis is an ongoing discussion about quality in Swedish elderly care: Which are the most important factors that contribute to elderly care in terms of satisfaction among older persons, and what are ... -
‘We are the real men’: Masculinity, poverty, health, and community development in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya
(2015-11-13)This thesis, comprising a five-chapter comprehensive summary (kappa) and four published papers, presents findings of a study that addressed Nairobi’s poor men’s (a) constructions and performance of masculinity (b); views ... -
Caste and Nation-Building: Constructing Vellalah Identity in Jaffna
(2015-11-13)This doctoral thesis explores the meanings and practices associated with Vellalah identity in the context of the Tamil nationalist project in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Given that caste is a culturally sensitive identity and ... -
Den goda medborgaren i det västerländska samhället
(2015-11-09)This thesis is about the good citizen in a typical Western society. This type of society is characterized by some kind of representative democracy, some kind of market economy, and a relatively large amount of personal ... -
Barnevernets stemmer. En diskurs og profesjonsteoretisk orientert analyse av fenomenet barnevernfaglig kompetanse
(2015-11-09)The superior aim of the thesis is to study which professional arguments various participants in the child welfare area have employed in order to explain, influence and legitimize their understanding of the phenomenon ... -
Internet-based Treatment of Depression in Primary Care: Effectiveness and Feasibility
(2015-11-09)Internet-delivered psychological treatments emanate from a long tradition of psychological methods and should be seen as a natural effect of the evolution within psychology, society, and technology. Psychological treatments ... -
Child Psychiatric Patients Affected by Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse – Disclosure, Prevalence and Consequences
(2015-10-27)The overall aims of this thesis were (1) to document the prevalence of child abuse and exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) among child and adolescent mental health care (CAM) patients, (2) to study the clinicians’ ... -
The Role of Emotions in Judgments of Crime Victims
(2015-10-26)A growing body of evidence shows that crime victims’ emotional expressions can influence legal judgments, such as credibility assessments. However, the role of emotions in judgments of crime victims in interpersonal settings ... -
Medskapardemokrati. Interaktiva styrningsprocesser och medskapande dialogarbetssätt
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2015-10)I takt med ett allt större behov av att öka, bredda och stärka medborgares deltagande och inflytande växer nya krav på interaktiv samhällsstyrning och idéer om att komplettera den representativa demokratin med ett medskapande. ... -
On the mechanisms of social inequality Studies of young people's educational outcomes, social participation and well-being
(2015-10-15)The present thesis seeks to explore the bases of social inequality, particularly how it is reproduced and can potentially be counteracted. The aim is to describe and explain how structural factors – first and foremost class ...