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Balancing mobility and solidarity: Multilevel Governance Challenges of East-West EU Mobility in Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden
(2018-08-31)Each year, millions of Europeans exercise their right to move freely between EU member states – particularly so since the eastern enlargements in the 2000s. Mobility from eastern and central Europe (CEE) affects host ... -
Bedroom Politics. How family policies affect women’s fertility and union formation decisions.
(2011-08-25)Most studies on policies’ effect on fertility depart from the assumption that fertility decisions are taken within unions, by partners who behave altruistically towards each other. This study argues that such a focus misses ... -
Beyond the Border: International pressures and state-building
(2024-12-10)States vary tremendously in their ability to effectively implement decisions. Moreover, such differences in “state capacity” exist not only between countries, but also within the territories that states claim to govern. ... -
Beyond the Party’s Realm - The Consequences of Variation in Candidate Selection
(2023-11-10)In the last two decades, Western European parties have introduced various methods to select candidates for executive public office. A process that before was mainly the privilege of a narrow elite was opened to party members ... -
Bugs and Bureaucracies: Institutions, Administrative Autonomy, and the Governance of Antibiotic Resistance
(2024-05-20)This dissertation investigates how variations in civil service arrangements among European states impact concerted governance over antibiotic resistance. Through four standalone research papers, it demonstrates that different ... -
Campaigning in Poetry, Governing in Prose: Pre- and Post-Election Effects of Election Pledge Rhetoric
(2017-12-18)In election campaigns, parties often use value-laden words such as freedom and competitiveness, to reach out to voters with their election pledges and policy proposals. While it is well known that the presence of such words ... -
Chasing Gold, Overlooking Welfare: Exposure to Wealth in Everyday Life and Support for Social Spending.
(2024-10-25)According to conventional wisdom, exposure to wealth in everyday life decreases subjective economic status, resulting in higher support for redistribution and social spending among less-affluent citizens. However, sociological ... -
Clientelism, conditional cash transfers, and cross-class coalitions: why governments expand pro-poor redistribution.
(2019-08-16)Conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) allow poor households and individuals access to income support in return for investments in health and education. Originally adopted in Brazil and Mexico in the late 1990s, CCTs ... -
Clients of God - Exploring how hierarchical religious bonds shape political behaviour
(2024-08-19)One of the perennial questions of political science is how people decide which candidate to vote for. In the context of developing democracies one dominant explanation is clientelism, where clients sell their votes in ... -
Climate Policy as a Window of Opportunity. Sweden and Global Climate Change
(2009-12-18)Because of their social dilemma character, global environmental problems are difficult to successfully manage. States have few incentives to contribute to the common good because doing so would imply costs but not guarantee ... -
Contested Feminism: Backlash and the Radical Right
(2023-06-02)During the past decade, various societies have observed feminist mobilizations and antifeminist counter-mobilizations, the latter being partly driven by radical right parties. Even in societies marked by institutions and ... -
Corruption in Governance of the Commons: Consequences and Reform Challenges
(2015-11-13)Research on governance of common-pool resources (CPRs) has discussed the design of regulations that govern the usage of CPRs and the need to enforce such rules. However, the focus on self-management in this literature may ... -
Deliberativ undervisning – en empirisk studie
(2012-11-16)Since the early 2000s, the deliberative turn in democratic theory has influenced the debate on teaching. The proponents of deliberation in education have argued that deliberative teaching both enhances subject knowledge ... -
Democrats Without Borders. A Critique of Transnational Democracy
(2008-11-07)Some scholars claim that globalisation compels us to radically rethink democracy both in theory and practice. This dissertation disputes such claims by arguing against two suggested normative models of transnational ... -
Demokratisk kompetens : om gymnasiet som demokratiskola
(2007)Aktivt medborgarskap är ett ledord i svensk demokratipolitik. Jämlikt deltagande i politiken är ett annat. Skolan anförtros en viktig politisk roll i detta avseende. Läroplanen påbjuder att alla ungdomar på ett likvärdigt ... -
Does education cause participation in politics?
(2013-11-22)In most studies of political behavior in Western countries, it is found that individuals with higher education participate to a greater extent in political activities than individuals with lower levels of education. ... -
Drivers of Climate Change? Political and Economic Explanations of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
(2017-04-28)This PhD dissertation examines if social scientific theories can explain historical trajectories of greenhouse gas emissions. The manuscript includes an introductory chapter and four articles that consider annual emissions ... -
Economic Voting and Issue Ownership. An Integrative Approach
(2009-05-08)The aim of this dissertation is to improve our understanding of how economic changes influence popular support for political parties. Previous studies have generally found that there is a tendency for the popular support ... -
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 ... -
Den förhandlade makten. Kulturella värdekonflikter i den svenska skolan.
(2011-10-26)Sjögren, Fredrik Negotiated Power. Cultural Value Conflicts in Swedish Compulsory Schools (Swedish title: Den förhandlade makten. Värdekonflikter i den svenska skolan). Swedish text. English summary. Göteborg Studies in ...