Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten
Senast tillagda publikationer
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Pre-suffrage impartiality, democratic experience and clientelism: How sequencing matters
(2023-01)It has been asserted that clientelism today is weaker in countries that were endowed with impartial public administrations prior to the extension of suffrage because the presence of bureaucratic checks undermines clientelism ... -
Introducing Uncertainty: Community Driven Development and Local Collective Action Capacity
(2022-12)In areas with entrenched poverty and weak state presence, community driven development (CDD) initia-tives aim to secure the provision of services such as water, waste water and electricity, while engaging the community as ... -
Danger all Along. How foreign military threats and domestic power-sharing shape autocratic state-building.
(2022-12)Standard international relations accounts hold that military buildup by neighboring states leads to increased state-building efforts by authoritarian rulers. In contrast, this study shows that only some dictators will ... -
Rekrytera och behålla: Om möjligheter att uppnå en hållbar personalförsörjning i försvarsmakten
(2022-11-04)Projektet har inriktats på anställda soldater och sjömän (GSS/K) och specialistofficerare (SO) med avseende på vilka faktorer som påverkade dem att söka anställning i Försvarsmakten, att fortsätta att vara anställda, eller ... -
Lokalisering av offentlig service som politikområde – partipolitiska åsiktskonflikter i svenska kommuner
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2023-01-09)I papperet ”Lokalisering av offentlig service som politikområde – partipolitiska åsiktskonflikter i svenska kommuner” möts perspektiv från två pågående projekt: Projektet Konkurrensdemokrati i svenska kommuner fokuserar ... -
Playing the Enemy: Information, Deception, and Dictatorial Survival
What strategies do autocrats use to maintain power? Across three papers, I examine puzzling aspects of autocratic rule. These range from personalist dictators publicizing failed conspiracies to opposition involvement in ... -
Gamlestaden 2021. En medborgarundersökning i Gamlestaden, Göteborg
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2022-12-19)I denna rapport redovisas resultaten av den medborgarundersökning som år 2021 genomfördes i stadsdelen Gamlestaden i Göte-borg. Detta var den sjätte undersökning som genomförts under de senaste två decennierna, och i och ... -
Att balansera mellan omställning och kontinuitet i arbetet med hållbarhet. En etnografisk fallstudie om att införliva samhälleliga krav och förväntningar på en hållbar utveckling inom kommunal verksamhet
(2022)The aim of this dissertation is to increase knowledge of how municipal services incorporate political demands and expectations from stakeholders in society to contribute to sustainable development. The study investigates ... -
Forest Governance: Gendered Institutions, Practices, and Resource Struggles in Burkina Faso
(2022-12-08)This thesis explores the gendered dynamics of forest governance and practices in rural Burkina Faso. Approximately, three billion people worldwide rely on trees for their everyday life. In West Africa, women, are often ... -
Human stature, health and workplace design. An ethical dilemma
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Security Controversies along the LAPSSET Infrastructure Corridor in Kenya
(2022-11-23)This Ph.D. thesis accounts for the changing political relations between different actors in northern Kenya through a focus on controversies emerging from the securing of the LAPS-SET mega project. Through the controversies, ... -
Hantering av hemlöshet. En kartläggning och analys av organiseringen av lokala hemlöshetsystem i Sveriges kommuner.
(2022-11-17)The general aim of this thesis is to study the organization of housing services for persons living in homelessness in Sweden. Three areas are in focus. The first concerns how the right to housing assistance is interpreted ... -
Förändring och kontinuitet: Giftermål, släktskap, identitet och generationsskiften i den assyriska diasporan
(2022-11-16)Denna avhandling undersöker uppfattningar om släktskap och giftermål bland assyrier i Sverige, i relation till gruppens diasporaidentitet. Den tar sitt avstamp i historiska processer under mitten av 1970- talet vilka ... -
The Greatest Scam: Network Marketing and the Economization of Everyday Life in the United States
(2022-10-26)This thesis examines how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, leading to new forms of living and new collective understandings of the capitalist economic order. In order to understand ... -
Come lie with me: On deception by groups and the concept of statement consistency
(2022-10-13)Research on the topic of group deception has primarily focused on cooffenders. The aim of this thesis was to further our understanding of group deception by examining the context of honest and deceptive alibis corroborated by ... -
Institutional Order in Episodes of Autocratization
(V-Dem Working Paper, 2022-10)Are there patterns in the sequences of institutional change when democracies autocratize? If so, are such patterns distinct for democracies that transition to authoritarianism versus those that avert democratic breakdown? ... -
School’s out! Information Cues and Retrospective Voting in the Case of School Closures in Sweden
(2022-09)While researchprovidesevidencethatvoters’considergovernments’ past performance,littleisknownaboutwhichinformationvoterspay attentionto.Wesuggesttwocompetingtheoriesofretrospective voting:Outcome-orientedvotersonlyreac ... -
Legal Pluralism and Fragmented Sovereignty in Iraq
(2022-06)In post-con ictsettings,thestate'sauthorityhasbeenunderminedanditsinsti- tutions arestrugglingtoreestablishlegitimacy.Suchsettingscreateapowervacuum that alternativeorderscan ll.Wherestateandnon-statelegalorderscoexis ... -
Responsiveness and models of representation
(2022-06)Researchontheopinion-policylinkhasshownthatthereisaconnectionbetween public preferencesandimplementedpolicy,albeitbiasedtowardsthepreferencesof the a uent.Wearguethatweneedtolooknotonlytheincomebias,butalsoatthe polit ...
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