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Sex, crime and politics. How organized crime influences and adapts to political institutions, with a particular focus on sex trafficking
(2018-12-19)The trafficking in women and girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation worldwide has startled policy makers. Despite efforts to tackle this crime, the magnitude of victims remains. Simultaneously, the dimension of sex ... -
Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: Threat, Mobilization and Gender Norms
(2019-05-13)Sexual violence is a highly gendered violence. It disproportionately – albeit not exclusively – affects women and girls, and it asserts gendered hierarchies between perpetrators and victims. The widespread rape of women ... -
Självskapelseetik bortom Foucault: En rättviseteori för ett mångkulturellt, liberalt och demokratiskt samhälle
(2013-06-10)I Självskapelseetik bortom Foucault utvecklas en rättviseteori för ett mångkulturellt, liberalt och demokratiskt samhälle. Utgångspunkt tas i Foucaults arbeten om etik och då framförallt i begreppet subjektivation. ... -
Taxation and Government Quality
(2016-02-11)The question of what creates government quality, or good institutions, is one of the central puzzles in modern political science. This dissertation investigates a hitherto underexplored cause: taxation. Historical research ... -
Technocracy within Representative Democracy. Technocratic Reasoning and Justification among Bureaucrats and Politicians
(2013-04-19)The terms ‘technocracy’ and ‘technocrat’ are becoming part of common usage and it is frequently argued that technocratic decision-making is increasing due to the growing complexity of political matters. However, there is ... -
The Causes and Consequences of Government Concessions to Protests
(2024-12-10)Political street protests are a prominent form of political participation worldwide that transcends political regimes and ideologies. When governments give in to protesters' demands and grant concessions, these concessions ... -
The Decline of Class Voting in Sweden 1968–2014: Reconsiderations, Explanations and the Role of the New Middle Class
(2019-05-13)Class voting has been one of the most wide-spread and persistent patterns of voting behavior in Western democracies throughout the 20th century. Understanding its decline is an important part of understanding the current ... -
The Multiple Dilemmas of Environmental Protection: The Effects of Generalized and Political Trust on the Acceptance of Environmental Policy Instruments
(2014-09-04)With different environmental policy instruments (EPIs) that target individual citizens, the state can change activities or behaviors that have negative environmental consequences. However, EPIs are not likely to be implemented ... -
The Political Participation of the Poor: Local Social Context and the Impact of Social Ties on the Political Engagement of Poor Individuals
(2021-05-18)Research on political participation finds that poor citizens engage less in politics than wealthy citizens. Yet, recent survey evidence also suggests that there is crucial variation in the poor’s level of engagement within ... -
Towards Legitimacy as Congruence: Regimes' Menus of Legitimation and Citizens’ Appetites
(2022-05-23)Legitimacy is one of the most crucial concepts in political science. It concerns how authority can be exercised in ways that those subjected to it willingly accept, something that all rulers desire. It is also one of the ... -
Uncertainty and Persuasion. Essays on Behavioral Political Economy
(2022-01-13)When voters form their political opinions and decide whom to vote for, they are confronted with at least two types of uncertainty. First, voters cannot be sure what reforms a political party will pursue once in office. ... -
Understanding Governmental Legislative Capacity. Harmonization of EU legislation in Lithuania and Romania
(2008-11-13)Governmental legislative capacity is a crucial ability for any government that wishes to fulfil intended goals. Without this capacity, there is a great risk that the decision making system will be paralyzed. This study ... -
Understanding the Conditions and Consequences of Women’s Political Representation
(2021-12-17)In recent decades, women’s ability to engage in politics and civil society has risen dramatically across the globe. What has the increase in the number of women in politics, their “descriptive representation”, meant in ... -
Voices from the Welfare State. Dissatisfaction and Political Action in Sweden
(2009-09-24)The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between citizens’ dissatisfaction with the welfare state and political action on welfare state issues, and to what extent institutional arrangements affects this ... -
Voters' Perceptions of Party Politics - A Multilevel Approach
(2009-04-30)Modern representative democracies are often described as government by the consent of the governed rather than government by the people. Elections play a central role in this context and several theorists of modern democracy ... -
WAR AND UNREASON. Bounded Learning Theory and War Duration
(2010-02-15)Why are some wars longer than others? Offense-defense theorists have assumed that wars are shorter and it is more difficult for states to create security when military technology favors the offense and attacking is easier ... -
What explains the credit ratings in economically advanced democracies? Unpacking the role of political stability through ideology, corruption, and transparency
(2021-05-06)Credit rating agencies (CRAs) are often referred to in the literature as the “gatekeepers” of the international credit market. Their assessments may determine a government’s ability to finance its budget since good credit ... -
Who Should Intervene? – Distributing the Duties of Humanitarian Intervention.
(2017-05-11)Many theorists argue that there can be a duty to intervene militarily in order to halt massive violations of basic human rights in other countries. But less is known about how this duty should be assigned to particular ...