We present a new dataset comprising more than 1900 regimes in 197 polities over the time period 1789-2016. We use this dataset to describe dierent historical patterns of regime duration globally, leveraging ne-grained ...

Rapporten Utveckling av medborgardialog är en berättelse om ett utvecklingsarbete i Ale kommun i samverkan med Ales internationella partnerskapskommun Ghanzi i Botswana. I Botswana finns en gammal tradition av att fatta ...

Since the post-war period, the Swedish welfare state has largely been based on the principles of emancipation and economic security for individuals. Some refer to this as the idea of progressive individualism. However, ...

Democracies do not take up arms against each other. This axiom has attained the status of a mantra in the field of international relations. As previous research has shown, however, the truth of this statement is highly ...

This thesis investigates the discursive construction of ethical consumerism – a notion that encompasses both ‘conscious’ consumption choices and responsible’ corporate activities – in mediated discourses about fashion and ...

New Public Management (NPM) reforms have been adopted worldwide since the mid-1970s to improve government effectiveness and efficiency. The basic premise of NPM reforms is that market orientation and management focus in ...

Much of the literature on populism restricts itself to specific regional contexts. Due to this approach, theories of populism have difficulty explaining cross-regional similarities or differences (such as the prevalence ...

På uppdrag av Göteborgs Stad har denna studie genomförts med syfte att få en överblick över hur hbtq-personer som arbetar i kommunen upplever sin sociala arbetsmiljö, samt vilka konsekvenser arbetsmiljön får för hbtq-personers ...

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 ...

Environmental taxes are argued to be the key to more effective environmental protection in developing countries. This paper investigates whether such taxes have the necessary public support to be successfully implemented ...