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De granskade. Om hur offentliga verksamheter görs granskningsbara
(2012-10-09)
During recent decades audits have taken on a more prominent role in governance, in Sweden and in the Western world as a whole. Audit is used in this context as an umbrella designation for control methods such as inspection, ...
Småbarnsföräldrars vardagsliv. Omsorg, moral och socialt kapital.
(2012-09-28)
This thesis is a study about the everyday lives of Swedish parents of small children. The
empirical data comprises individual interviews, couple interviews and focus groups with 30
parents, as well as focus group interviews ...
Criminal Records in Sweden. Regulation of Access to Criminal Records and the use of Criminal Background Checks by Employers.
(2012-03-05)
This thesis examines the regulation of access to criminal records in Sweden and the actual and potential use of criminal background checks by employers in hiring processes. In recent years, more and more Swedish employers ...
Unleashing Science Popularisation: Studies on Science as Popular Culture
(2012-03-30)
This thesis aims to broaden the concept of science popularisation. It argues that the conventional view of popularisation as the
public communication of appropriately simplified versions of established facts to lay audiences ...
The Wealth of Regions: Government Quality and Entrepreneurship in Europe
(2012-10)
This paper argues that government quality – operationalized as the ability of government to treat all their citizens in an impartial way – levels the ‘playing field’ for economic agents with and without connections to ...
Västsvensk vardag
(SOM-institutetet, 2012-02)
Västsvensk vardag bygger på data från 2010 års västsvenska SOM-undersökning. I en tid när regionfrågan är högaktuell visar SOM-institutets undersökningar att etableringen av den västsvenska regionen är en pågående process. ...
Good Government in Mexico: The Relevance of the Gender Perspective
(2012-10)
A number of studies explore the link between gender and good government, and confirm the cor-relation first observed by Dollar et al (2001): the number of women in elected office is related to levels of corruption. These ...
The Kolkata Intellectuals and Bengali Modernity
(2012-01-10)
The aim with this thesis is to explore and enhance the understanding of methodological questions in anthropological analysis. I focus my main argument on topics taken up in antiorientalist and postcolonial approaches. ...
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 ...