Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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Retaining the Aging Workforce: Studies of the interplay between individual and organizational capability in the context of prolonged working lives
(2021-11-23)Amidst the realities of workforce aging and policies to prolong the working life across Europe, policymakers and researchers have emphasized the employer’s role in providing suitable working conditions for older workers ... -
Folkhälsa och ekonomi i alkoholpolitiken – Tabellbilaga
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Folkhälsa och ekonomi i alkoholpolitiken
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Om att kunna välja förkortad arbetstid: En hållbarhetsanalys av den utvidgade deltidsrätten inom Göteborgs Stad
(Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap, Göteborgs Universitet, 2021)Syftet med den här rapporten är att bidra till diskussionen om hur en utvidgad deltidsrätt påverkar möjligheterna till en hållbar livsstil och ett hållbart samhälle. År 2015 beslutade Göteborg stad att införa ”rätt till ... -
Psychology for sustainable shared mobility: An investigation of the use of private cars and carsharing services
(2021-11-17)What are people’s travel patterns – both users and non-users of carsharing and private cars in European cities? What are the main psychological aspects of and motives for making a travel mode choice? This thesis aims to ... -
Us Versus Them and the Role of the Media. The Influence of Media on Attitudes Toward Migration in Europe
(2021-11-02)During the last decade, migration has become one of the most salient and politicized issues in Europe, and even more so during and after the sharp rise in immigration in 2015. This issue appears to have consolidated a ... -
Everyday Politics of Forced Migration: Refugees, Host Community Members, and the Local Context
(2021-11-02)This dissertation adds to and broadens the literature on forced migration by explaining how everyday politics influence new social dynamics in cities of arrival. Most of the existing research focuses on the Western context ... -
Sweden and the COVID-19 Crisis
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Disappointed expectations: Does the Basque country really enjoy such a high level of quality of government -in European standards- when compared to a backward region such as Andalusia?
(2021-10)The quality of government (QoG) is a concept without an undisputed benchmark. To contribute to its clarification, we propose a novel model of analysis that incorporates formal and informal institu-tions and operationalizes ... -
Provider Ownership and Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care Homes
(2021-09)The provision of social services by private providers is widespread in OECD countries, but the jury is still out on whether marketization has improved service quality. This paper seeks to nuance existing debate by examining ... -
2 Pre-Election Tax Enforcement in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2021-06)Using the literature on the political business cycle as a point of departure, this paper investigates whether incumbent politicians manipulate the enforcement of tax collection prior to elections, in order to win votes. ... -
Religious Clientelism, A theory
(2021-05)In today’s political science scholarship, the concept of clientelism often evokes an image of voters selling their votes to the highest bidder, where a substantial focus lies on the material nature of the exchange between ... -
Sub-national Quality of Government in EU Member States: Presenting the 2021 European Quality of Government Index and its relationship with Covid-19 indicators
(2021-04)The 2021 European Quality of Government Index (the EQI) is the largest survey ever undertaken to meas-ure perceptions of quality of government, collecting the opinions of over 129,000 respondents in a total of 208 NUTS 1 ... -
Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000-2015 CE
(2021-03)Since the transition to agricultural production, property rights to land have been a key institution for economic development. Clearly defined land rights provide economic agents with increased access to credit, secure ... -
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report
(2021-03)The Quality of Government Expert Survey (QoG Expert Survey) is a research project aimed at documenting the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior in countries around the world. This report ... -
Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?
(2021-03)Rulers of weak states face a predicament. They lack capacity to monitor crime and need citizens to partake in intelligence-sharing. Yet, agents of such authorities are seldom trusted, raising doubts about whether locals ... -
Kommunen som upphandlare, entreprenör och arbetsgivare i arbetsmarknadsintegration av utrikesfödda
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2021-10)Att inkludera utrikesfödda på arbetsmarknaden är en nyckelutmaning för integrationen och samhällsutvecklingen. Under senare år har flera reformer initierats i syfte att stärka genomförandet av integrationspolitiken där en ... -
Technology-assisted child sexual abuse
(2021-10-18)Internet communication technology has created new ways for adults to sexually abuse children, and as the world becomes more and more digitalized and children are increasingly connected, reports about online child sexual ... -
Varför får förändringsarbete inte fäste? En kritisk studie av Världskulturmuseernas arbete med hållbarhet
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2021)Organisationsförändringar har beforskats sedan länge och det finns många modeller och anvisningar för framgångsrik förändring. Trots detta beräknas så många som tre fjärdedelar av alla förändringsförsök inte uppnå sina ... -
Community stress exposure: Youth externalizing behavior and parenting in cultural context
(2021-09-28)The aim of this thesis was to examine the process by which families respond to community-wide stressors in different cultural contexts. Each quantitative study within this thesis investigated the role of parenting behaviors ...