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POLITICAL INTEGRATION OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS IN SWEDEN… DO DOCUMENTS AFFECT INTEGRATION? Case study of Arab refugees and asylum seekers who arrived in Sweden during the period between 2013 and 2017.
(2022-11-07)Political integration of refugees and asylum seekers in host countries is an area of research that has interested political scientists for a long time. However, little attention has been given to how the type of documents ... -
Political Participation of Young People: A Comparison between Swedish Students and International Students in Gothenburg
(2014-09-11)A vast amount of literature has been dedicated to political participation of young people. How do young people perceive the political participation? Some argue that the decreasing participation of young people is balanced ... -
Political Trust and Covid- 19 Vaccine Hesitancy
(2022-06-20)As vaccines against Covid-19 are being distributed globally the goal is to limit the impact of the disease by achieving herd immunity, and to accomplish this most people need to get vaccinated. Vaccine hesitancy is a ... -
POLITICAL WILL, NO FREE WILL? A Quantitative Analysis of the Influence of Contextual Factors on Leaders’ Political Will to Fight HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018-02-20)Political will has become a ‘silver bullet’ in political science to explain the outcomes of public policy reforms. While success is seen as proof of its existence, failure is regularly attributed to a lack of political ... -
Polling accuracy of vote intentions in Sweden using different weighting and sampling strategies
(2018-03-16)Over and over again, vote intention polls have been reported to fail their forecasts of votes such as the UK “Brexit” referendum and the US presidential election of 2016. The trustworthiness of opinion polls are called ... -
POPULISM AND POLITICIZATION OF THE BUREACRACY An empirical analysis of the effect of populist rule in Europe and Latin America
(2020-07-03)Do populist rule lead to more politicization? As populists have had electoral success in many countries in recent years, populism has received much attention both in the public debate an in political science. One aspect ... -
POST-TRUTH IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN EUROPE: A Content Analysis of User-Driven Comments on COVID-19 Vaccination on Facebook
(2021-06-28)This thesis aims to analyse the presence of post-truth characteristics in the public sphere, using the case study of the highly debated COVID-19 vaccines in Europe. Since 2016, the concept of post-truth has received increased ... -
POWERLESS OPPOSITION Opposition’s Legislative Chances in Autocratizing Regimes: The Case of Ukraine
(2020-07-02)The assumption permeating this thesis is that, in the consensus democracy, the government should respond to the minority interests, which are operationalized as bills sponsored by the opposition. The research pays attention ... -
A PRESENT STATE State capacity through state presence and the COVID-19 pandemic
(2023-01-23)Why have some states been successful in controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and preventing deaths caused by it, while others failed to do so? So far, research has largely overlooked the role of state capacity in explaining ... -
Pride and Prejudice A comparative case study on party response to LGBT-rights in Serbia and Croatia
(2013-09-26)Substantial research has been devoted to the party systems in Eastern Europe since the demise of the communism, concerning how political parties respond to liberal reform and what competitive patterns it produce. The ... -
THE PROMISE OF CHANGE. Key Aspects of Democracy and Quality of Government Against Infant Mortality
(2022-06-17)This thesis investigates which aspects of democracy and quality of government (QoG) drive the inverse relationship democracy and the quality of government has with infant mortality. Though studies exist on democracy as ... -
PROMOTING ELECTORAL TURNOUT THROUGH VOTING ADVICE APPLICATIONS? A comparative approach between the Swedish parliamentary election 2018 and the European Parliament election 2019
(2020-11-25)As the only directly elected institution within the European Union (EU), the European Parliament (EP) elections aim to function as the clear link between the citizens and the EU. However, the EP elections are characterized ... -
PROTECTIVE MASCULINITY’ AND THE POPULIST RADICAL RIGHT
(2022-10-03)Although the gender gap in populist radical right electoral support has been examined extensively over the last decades, little scholarly attention has been paid to the role that gender – as opposed to sex – plays in shaping ... -
PROTESTING DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC - Motivations and choices made in the abortion law protests in Poland 2020
(2021-06-28)This thesis analyses the motivations and choices made by participants and organisers of the 2020 Abortion Law protests in Poland. It is a qualitative study where the data was collected through interviews. The thesis ... -
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IMPACT ON EMPOWERMENT - A Minor Field Study of How Public-Private Partnerships in Development Can Facilitate Empowerment of Poor People by Interviewing Coffee Farmers in Tanzania
(2015-06-23)Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and Empowerment are two approaches that are becoming more important and acknowledged in development efforts. Despite the recognition of these approaches, there is not much literature on ... -
PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS? A qualitative study investigating attitudes toward policy aimed at reducing meat consumption, especially a meat tax
(2018-03-07)In order to curb negative externalities from meat production and meat consumption policy measures have been investigated and were elaborated on by the Swedish board of agriculture in 2013. Due to subsequent inaction despite ... -
QUALITY OF GOVERMENT AND INTERNAL CONFLICT A large N study of developing countries
(2018-09-14)This thesis examines the effect of quality of government on low-intensity internal conflict, and how this relationship could be conditioned by the extent of ethnic division, in a context of developing and newly industrialised ... -
QUALITY OF GOVERNMENT AS THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT AND DURABLE PEACE?
(2021-07-20)In 2000, United Nations Security Council passed resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, which recognised the different roles women play during and after an armed conflict had ended. This recognition led to a dramatic ... -
“QUALITY OF GOVERNMENT- FOR ALL?” QoG & Migrants' equal access to social rights
(2023-01-23)The extent to which migrants can enjoy equal social rights as citizens vary between liberal democracies. Quality of government has been at the center of recent decades´ debates on states´ non-partial treatment of citizens. ... -
QUESTIONING THE POPULIST RADICAL RIGHT PARTY FAMILY - Exclusion based on culture – more than rhetoric?
(2015-07-09)The so called party family of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) have primarily been lumped together based on similarities in ideology (nativism) and immigration policy. While PRRPs’ immigration policy has attracted ...