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UN Electoral Assistance: Does it Matter for Election Management?
(2016)Between 2007 and 2014 the United Nations (UN) provided technical, financial and logistical assistance to half of all elections held outside of established democracies. Does UN Electoral Assistance (UNEA) substantially ... -
Un-learning to labour? Activating the unemployed in a former industrial community
(2023-02-20)In the aftermath of automation and globalisation of production, the Western welfare states have come to leave industrial society behind in favour of an increasingly competitive and service-oriented economy. Nevertheless, ... -
Unaccompanied minors (un-)made in Sweden. Ungrievable lives and access to rights produced through policy
(2021-05-04)On 24 November 2015, the Swedish prime minister announced a new, restrictive asylum policy with the explicit aim of placing Sweden at the EU minimum level in terms of refugee reception. A temporary Aliens Act minimized ... -
Unbundling secure property rights
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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. ... -
Uncooperative Society, Uncooperative Politics or Both? How Trust, Polarization and Populism Explain Excess Mortality for COVID-19 across European regions
(2020-12)Why have some territories performed better than others in the fight against COVID-19? This paper uses a novel dataset on excess mortality, trust and political polarization for 153 European regions to explore the role of ... -
Under Construction: Making Meaning of Social Sustainability in Strategic Planning Practice
(2022-08-21)While social sustainability is attracting attention in both policy and academia, there are still challenges when turning social sustainability policy into practice. Instead of making cities more socially sustainable, the ... -
Under the influence? Understanding media’s coverage of opinion polls and their effects on citizens and politicians
(2021-01-14)News media’s use of horse race polls is a defining feature of contemporary political reporting. This thesis investigates how the news media use these opinion polls and how this coverage can influence two of the most central ... -
Under the Same Shade - Popular Perceptions of Political Change and the Challenges of Consolidating Multiparty Democracy in Tanzania
(2009-11-06)This thesis deals with the question of how people in rural areas have perceived the change of political system from one-party to multi-party during the 1990s in Tanzania. Tanzania has to this date performed three general ... -
Understanding Constraints. An analysis of the determinants of success and failure in the East European reform process
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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 illegality and corruption in forest management: A literature review
(2016-01)This review synthesizes the literature studying illegality and government corruption in forest man-agement. After discussing the theoretical connections between different types of corruption and illegal forest-related ... -
Understanding Satisfaction with the Way Democracy Works: Democracy versus Bureaucracy
(2012-08)The present study is focusing on system factors related to the input side of the democratic system, i.e. the electoral dimension, as well as factors related to the out-put side, i.e. the quality of government. Hence, we ... -
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 ... -
Understanding the East Asian Peace: Informal and Formal Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in the Taiwan Strait, the Korean Peninsula, and the South China Sea 1990 - 2008
(2009-11-27)The overall purpose of this dissertation is to provide an empirical study of the post-Cold War East Asian security setting, with the aim of understanding why there is an East Asian peace. The East Asian peace exists in a ... -
Understanding the Polarization of Responses to Genocidal Violence in Rwanda
(2009-11-25)This doctoral dissertation is concerned with identifying factors that are important in explaining popular support for genocidal violence in Rwanda. It focuses on former communes, Giti and Murambi, to investigate why Giti ... -
Understanding the Quality of Government in China: The Cadre Administration Hypothesis
(2012-12)China’s remarkable development poses a problem for theories that have stressed the importance of institutions producing “good governance” and minimizing corruption. As a possible solution to this problem, the following ten ...