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Investigating Sequences in Ordinal Data: A New Approach with Adapted Evolutionary Models
(2015)
This paper presents a new approach for studying sequences across combinations of binary and ordinal variables. The approach involves three novel methodologies (frequency analysis, graphical mapping of changes between ...
Strategists in the intersection of logics. A study of job advertisements in the Swedish municipal administration
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2015-04)
This report is a study of how public administrators responsible for horizontal perspectives in Swedish local government are handling their role as bureaucrats and political promoters. Gender equality, public health, human ...
Institutional Subsystems and the Survival of Democracy: Do Political and Civil Society Matter?
(2015)
How do two central institutional subsystems of democracy – party systems and civil society – affect the persistence of democratic regimes? Despite the ability of each of these institutions to provide sources of countervailing ...
Trust and Capabilities: Experiences from Rwanda’s Informal Financial Institutions
(2015-12-10)
This thesis examines the role of informal financial institutions in the construction of trust between Rwandans as well as their influence on their livelihood. For many years Rwandans have suffered from ethnic conflict 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 ...
Decentralization, corruption, and the role of democracy
(2015-08)
In this paper, I consider how the level of democracy moderates the relationship between decentralization and corruption. While there is an expectation within the policy community that decentralization prevents corruption, ...
Endogenous Bureaucracy
(2015-02)
By manipulating administrative institutions, political leaders can indirectly control the policy preferences
that are carried out and enforced within a polity. In this paper, I suggest that precisely for this reason, ...
Styrmedlens outtalade politik. En studie av New Orleans kulturekonomiska landskap
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2015)
New Orleans har länge varit en av den nordamerikanska kontinentens stora kulturmetropoler. Det är också en stad där kulturpolitiken länge utformats för att det rika kulturarvet – bland annat i form av musik, mat, arkitektur ...