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Walk with me: Pastoral care for victims of sexual abuse viewed through existential psychology
(2015-01-09)Pastoral care can be described as a cleric’s presence with people in their time of need, to promote their well-being and strengthen them in their faith. One dimension of working through an overwhelming trauma, such as ... -
Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties
(2021-03)The recent increase of democratic declines around the world – “the third wave of autocratization” – has sparked a new generation of studies on the topic. Scholars agree that these days the main threat to democracy arises ... -
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 ... -
Waste tours. Narratives, infrastructures and gazes in interplay
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2018)Waste management makes life in cities possible. Paradoxically, well-functioning waste infrastructures can contribute to obscure the link between production, consumption and nature. One way to render waste infrastructures, ... -
Watershed events and changes in public order management systems: Organizational adaptation as a social movement outcome
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We are All Customers Now: Understanding the Influence of Economic Theory on Public Administration
(2009-04)Market-based administrative reform has led to a sustained argument among in the public administration field. Some applaud this development on the grounds that it makes public service cheaper and more customer-oriented. ... -
‘We are the real men’: Masculinity, poverty, health, and community development in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya
(2015-11-13)This thesis, comprising a five-chapter comprehensive summary (kappa) and four published papers, presents findings of a study that addressed Nairobi’s poor men’s (a) constructions and performance of masculinity (b); views ... -
Web-based expert surveys: The opportunities for conducting web-based elite expert surveys
(2007-11)Web-surveys are today commonly used in a wide range of areas. The interest in web-based surveys is not surprising as they offer a number of advantages compared to traditional mail or telephone interviews. Among the most ... -
What are the most harmful forms of gambling? Analyzing problem gambling prevalence surveys
(CEFOS, 2011)Eighteen national prevalence surveys of problem gambling (PG), most of them from Europe, were analyzed to assess the relative harmfulness of various forms of gambling. It was found that interactive Internet gambling, casino ... -
What Can We Know about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data?
(The Quality of Government Institute (QoG), 2023-10)More than 1100 studies have been published that examine the effects of democracy using cross-national data since 2000. This research note examines whether these analyses have sufficient statistical power to detect an effect ... -
What Do Citizens Think About Redistribution and Aid Within the EU? Description and Highlights of a Pan-European Citizen Survey on Public Support for Cohesion Policy
(2018-02)This paper introduces the main findings and methodology of a new large-scale pan European survey capturing citizens’ support for EUs efforts to reduce inequality between richer and poorer regions in Europe, cohesion policy. ... -
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 ... -
What helps improve outcomes of industrial policy? Evidence from Russia
(2023-12)In the context of most developing countries, the implementation of industrial policy faces significant challenges related to capacity, access to information, and governance limitations. This situation accounts for the ... -
What is Government Transparency? New Measures and Relevance for Quality of Government
(2012-12)As policymakers and researchers focus increasing attention on the importance of government transparency for accountability and good governance more generally, the demand for greater conceptual clarity and authoritative ... -
What is Quality of Government? A Theory of Impartial Political Institutions
(2005)The last years have seen a growth in research on “good governance” and the quality of government institutions. This development has been propelled by empirical findings that such institutions might hold the key to ... -
What is the Best Way to Recruit Public Servants?
(2012-08)What is the best way to recruit public servants? Governments all over the world have the last decades pondered that question, as parts of increasing attempts to reform civil services and public administrations. Two opposing ... -
What Is the Problem of Gender? Mainstreaming Gender in Migration and Development Policies in the European Union
(2013-01-10)This dissertation deals with the analysis of representations and discourses of gender (in)equality contained in policy texts at the EU level. The period under examination is 2005–2010. Following the academic debate, I show ... -
What Makes Experts Reliable?
(2018)Many datasets use experts to code latent quantities of interest. However, scholars have not explored either the factors affecting expert reliability or the degree to which these factors influence estimates of latent concepts. ... -
"What people tell you gets to you". Body satisfaction and peer victimization in early adolescence.
(2009-02-20)Satisfaction with one’s appearance and peer relationships, respectively, are salient components of adolescents’ everyday lives. Difficulties in either of these domains may be detrimental to individuals’ psychological ...