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A comparative study of psycho-social rehabilitation programmes of war-affected children in war-torn Sri Lanka, 2004-2006
(2017-02-23)This research explores psycho-social rehabilitation for war-affected children with special reference to the Sri Lankan civil war during the period of 2004-2006. The main purpose of this study is to examine the role that ... -
A Deadly Mismatch? The Problem of HIV/AIDS in Research and Policy
(2010-03)According to research, HIV/AIDS is not a disease among others but displays a number of specific characteristics. To begin with, it is primarily a sexually transmitted disease and hence involves a large number of taboos ... -
A Drawn-Out Retreat from Corporatism: The Reluctant Restructuring of the Swedish Capital Market
(2006)An important case of economical internationalisation is the deregulation of the formerly nationally organised credit markets. Governments performed this process of deregulation all over the industrialised world during the ... -
A Framework for Understanding Regime Transformation: Introducing the ERT Dataset
(V-Dem Institute, 2021-02)Gradual processes of democratization and autocratization have gained increased attention in the literature. Assessing such processes in a comparative framework remains a challenge, however, due to their under-conceptualization ... -
A General Theory of Power Concentration: Demographic Influences on Political Organization
(2016)Why is the exercise of political power highly concentrated in some polities and widely dispersed in others? We argue that one persistent causal factor is demographic. Populous polities are characterized by more concentrated ... -
A matter of human-sea relations: Insights from leisure boating in Bohuslän, Sweden
(2018-08-16)Global environmental governance increasingly seeks to establish sustainable use of the oceans. This PhD thesis asks what we can learn about this issue by exploring leisure boating in Bohuslän, Sweden, as both a perceived ... -
A Mechanism Approach to the Sociology of Teachers’ and Students’ Actions: Teaching Practice, Student Disengagement and Instructional Materials
(2017-04-21)The overall purpose of this dissertation is to describe and explain teachers’ and students’ actions related to instruction in compulsory education classrooms in Sweden. In order to approach these issues, I will focus on ... -
A Network Model of Decision Making Applied to the European Union
(2009-03)Network structures constrain and enable political actors. Nonetheless, few models of decision making in international politics take network relations into account. We formulate and test a network model of decision making ... -
A Quality of Government Peace? Bringing the State Back Into the Study of Inter-State Armed Conflict
(2010-09)Domestically, democracy or democratization has not proved as successful in bringing about preferred economic and social consequences as has “good governance” and quality of government. Within the field of international ... -
A Short History of Contestation and Participation
(2022-01)Contestation and participation are commonly viewed as the two constituent dimensions of electoral democracy. How exactly have these two dimensions been conceptualized and measured in the literature? Are they empirically ... -
A-press med borgerliga ägare
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About Child Poverty – A Bangladesh's Perspective
(2012-05-11)Taking child poverty into account as an enormous concern on the pathway to human development, the present dissertation aims to examine child poverty’s extent and characteristics, poor children’s views on this issue and ... -
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Accepting the Inevitable or Resisting Quietly? Responses to Corruption and Competence in Highly Corrupt Environments
(2018-11)The literature studying citizen responses to exposed political corruption is rapidly growing. While some studies explore how information credibility and group identities can reduce the electoral impact of the exposure of ... -
Accountability in Swedish Political Parties? Survey evidence of misconduct and whistleblowing
(The Quality of Government Institute (QoG), 2023-10) -
Accounting, Professions, and Performativity: Exploring the limits of accountingisation in professional organisations
(2022-08-18)This thesis explores the practice of calculations and their consequences in different professional contexts. Specifically, it aims to extend the discussion on the relationship between accounting and public sector professionals ... -
Activating benefit claimants of working age in the UK
(Göteborg: Centre for European Research, University of Gothenburg, 2008-12) -
Activation Through Law - National Security Law from an European Perspective
(Göteborg: Centre for European Research, University of Gothenburg, 2008-12)