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Taken for Granted – The Construction of Order in the Process of Library Management System Decision Making
(2010-09-14)This thesis is an empirically based, theoretical discussion of the process of decision making in relation to Library Management Systems (LMS). Although the conceptualization of the LMS decision process in rational terms, ... -
Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and Its Implications for Contemporary Debates
(2020-09)Endemic corruption in developing countries often seems intractable. Yet most countries that cur-rently have relatively high public integrity were, at an earlier point in their history, afflicted with sim-ilarly pervasive ... -
Tax Toleration and Tax Evasion: Why Firms Enter the Unofficial Economy
(2005)In this paper we propose a model of how institutional benefits, taxation and government regulations affect the propensity of private firms to enter the unofficial economy. A central implication of the model is that ... -
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 ... -
Taxation and Government Quality: The Size, the Shape, or Just Europe 300 Years Ago?
(2011-12)Based on historical research, focusing mainly on early-modern Europe, it is assumed that taxation functions as a booster of state capacity and Quality of Government (QoG). The presence of this relationship for modern-day ... -
Taxation and Turnout in Swedish Municipalities
(2019-12)The link between taxation and representation is considered foundational to the emergence of demo-cratic governance. Nevertheless, the empirical relationship between taxation and the extent to which citizens actually exert ... -
Taxation as a Social Contract: Public goods and collective action in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2020-12)Increasing tax revenue is an important aspect of development policy as it is associated with sustainable economic development. This requires tax compliance, and to increase tax compliance it is vital to understand ... -
Taxation, Democracy and State-Building: How Does Sequencing Matter?
(2012-05)What is the relationship between democracy and taxation, under conditions of ‘reverse’ sequencing? Existing theories about taxation and democracy have presumed this relationship to be positive, but they have largely been ... -
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 ... -
Technology-assisted child sexual abuse
(2021-10-18)Internet communication technology has created new ways for adults to sexually abuse children, and as the world becomes more and more digitalized and children are increasingly connected, reports about online child sexual ... -
Teenage Kicks – The Differential Development of Drug Use, Drunkenness, and Criminal Behaviour in Early to Mid-Adolescence
(2020-05-12)This thesis studies the development of drug use, drunkenness, and criminal behaviour in early to mid-adolescence. Its main aims are to improve knowledge about how and why these three behaviours develop and to contribute ... -
Teknisk rapport för publicistiska bokslut. Medarbetare - Innehåll - Läsare
(Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikation, 2003) -
Temperament - a psychobiological approach to harm avoidance and novelty seeking
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2006)This thesis explores if rats can be said to have a temperament, and if that is the case, how it changes with age and how it is related to brain neurochemistry. Using the hole board and canopy tests (considered to measure ... -
Temporal Dispossession: The Politics of Asylum and the Remaking of Racial Capitalism in and Beyond the Borders of the Swedish Welfare State
(2024-04-10)This thesis sets out from the post-2015 Swedish asylum legislation, which made Sweden’s asylum policy among the most restrictive in the EU. The most decisive changes were the shift from permanent to temporary residence ... -
Temporality and joint commitment in railway planning
(CEFOS, 2010)Decisions are seen from a phenomenological lens focusing on their characteristic temporal and flexible structure of meaning. In a bureaucratic social setting emphasizing procedural rules, legal constraints and formal ... -
Temporary safety. Contextual factors behind job quality in using temporary agency work.
(2021-08-19)The aim of this thesis is to explore and explain how job quality in organizations using temporary agency work (TAW) is shaped by national regulatory regimes and how organizational practices and employee experiences in ... -
Terrorattackerna i USA. Sveriges Radios rapportering om den 11 september 2001
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That's how people grow up: Identity formation in emerging adulthood
(2013-03-27)The overall aim of this thesis was to study emerging adults’ identity formation and its relationship to other aspects of their psychosocial development and living situations. The three studies of this thesis examined how ... -
The 2010 Midterm Election for the US House of Representatives
(CEFOS, 2010)The number of House seats won by the president’s party at midterm elections is well explained by three pre-determined or exogenous variables: (1) the number of House seats won by the in-party at the previous on-year election, ... -
The Abandoned Trustees. Explaining Corruption in Local Government
(2016-09)This paper engages in the debate about how different ways of organizing relations between politicians and bureaucrats affect corruption. Research has established robust correlations between the political autonomy of ...