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Consolations of a New Earth
(LIR. journal, 2015)In a marginalized group, personal suffering is inescapably united to excluding social and political structures and situations. To provide consolation to an individual then also involves showing a way of how the group ... -
Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter
(2009-04-21)Previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure comparisons. This paper considers a two-type optimal nonlinear income tax model where people care both about their ... -
Constant
(2012-01-16)Purpose of my work is to understand a shape that I discovered in my working process: why do I find it so attractive and how far can I go with it. I researched the form in size, complexity, repetition, movement and ... -
CONSTANT PREDICTIVE VALUE OF AN ALARM
(University of Gothenburg, 1994-06-01)One main purpose of statistical surveillance is to detect a change in a process, often expressed as a shift from one level to another. When a sequence of decisions is made, measures, like the number of decisions that have ... -
Constraining Governments: New indices of vertical, horizontal and diagonal accountability
(2017)Accountability - constraints on the government’s use of political power - is one of the cornerstones of good governance. However, conceptual stretching and a lack of reliable measures have limited cross-national research ... -
Constraints of Digital Transformation
(2022-01-07)Digital transformation is viewed as instrumental in coping with organizational and societal challenges. In the public sector, these challenges include diverse issues, such as demographic changes, constrained financial ... -
Constructing a civilized wilderness. An intersectional discourse analysis of the Sierra Club 1893-1910
(2023-10-05)This study investigates if and how the Sierra Club adapted complex and contradictory rationalizations to legitimize their authority in wilderness and civilization. The study aims thereby to enhance our understanding of the ... -
Constructing a Game Modelled After Logic and Proofs - Tenjin: A Smartphone Game
(2020-10-29)Logical reasoning plays an important role in human behaviour and is widely used in everyday life. It is incorporated in contexts such as natural languages, mathematics and programming. However, the general knowledge in ... -
Constructing a Modular System for Storing and Serving Data from Quantum Computers
(2023-03-03)Quantum computers are computing devices with the potential to advance multiple scientific and industrial fields. One of the actors working on the advancement of quantum computers is theWallenberg Centre for Quantum ... -
Constructing an Explorative Approach for a New Reality: Ambidexterity in a Real Estate Context - A qualitative study at Castellum
(2020-06-22)The real estate industry in Sweden has historically performed well with similar actors and behaviours on the market. This has resulted in a slack change of adapting the industry to the society’s new trends and behaviours, ... -
CONSTRUCTING GENDER IN THE EFL CLASSROOM How Swedish Upper Secondary School Students Perform Gender in Oral Communication
(2015-09-30)The aim of this study is to examine if, and in that case how, Swedish upper secondary school students perform gender in power-related ways in oral communication in a foreign language in a classroom setting. The material ... -
Constructing music culture
(2013-06-19)This essay explores the creative possibilities of worldbuilding applied to music. It presents anthropological approaches to analysing music culture, and settles upon four main factors (meaning – situation – performance – ... -
Constructing Openness on Open Innovation Platforms in the Life Science Industry -Creation of a toolbox for designing an open innovation platform
(2010-06-22)The post-genomic era has lead to a paradigm shift in the Life Science Industry, driven by technological advances and increased upstream patenting, resulting in Open Innovation initiatives to sustain growth in an increasingly ... -
Constructing patient safety. Exploring unsafe care events in hospital settings as reported by patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals
(2023-11-15)The conditions of hospital care are continuously transformed with advances in medicine and technology, and with organizational alterations influenced by the changing needs of the population. As these conditions affect ... -
Constructing Rural Identities – A Diverse Narrative
(2016-07-05)So far, rural people and communities have not received much consideration within the field of gender studies while urban individuals and their lifestyles have been normalised. I argue that the rural space inhabits a huge ... -
CONSTRUCTING SAFE SPACES The potential of performing feminist critical utopia analyzed through zine-making
(2019-10-10)Safe spaces are constructed to offer a space of acceptance to an otherwise marginalized or vulnerable group. This thesis explores the connections between safe spaces and feminist (critical) utopianism through their inherent ... -
Constructing Social Europe through the open-method of Co-ordination?
(2011-01-05)The Open Method of Coordination has since its inauguration in 2000 rocketed into the high politics of EU-policy making and has been embraced by both politicians and scholars for its potential to further Europe into a more ... -
Constructing Spaces of Intervention in Gothenburg's Urban Periphery; The production of “vulnerable areas” in the City’s official documents
(2024-01-26)This study explores the construction of the “vulnerable area” by critically analyzing the assumptions, representations, and discourses that inform official documents targeting such neighborhoods. By conducting a qualitative ... -
Constructing ‘The People’, ‘The Other’ and ‘The Elite’ in populist right-wing discourse; A qualitative case study on the Sweden Democrats
(2022-11-03)The research is designed as a qualitative case study, where theoretical concepts of populism and identity are employed to investigate how the Sweden Democrats construct identities in their populist right-wing discourse. ...