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Violence and the Costs of Honesty: Rethinking bureaucrats’ choice to take bribes
(2015-02)
Explanations for bureaucrats’ decisions to take bribes have evolved from accounts of incentives to focusing on expectations of others’ behavior. However, there are plausibly more considerations when making such choices in ...
On the mechanisms of social inequality Studies of young people's educational outcomes, social participation and well-being
(2015-10-15)
The present thesis seeks to explore the bases of social inequality, particularly how it is reproduced and can potentially be counteracted. The aim is to describe and explain how structural factors – first and foremost class ...
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(2015)
The Role of Emotions in Judgments of Crime Victims
(2015-10-26)
A growing body of evidence shows that crime victims’ emotional expressions can influence legal judgments, such as credibility assessments. However, the role of emotions in judgments of crime victims in interpersonal settings ...
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Democracy, Bureaucratic Capacity and Environmental Quality
(2015)
This paper explores the link between democracy, bureaucratic capacity and environmental quality. While many previous empirical studies traditionally have focused on either the democracy or bureaucratic capacity ...
The Biopolitics of Water: Technology, Subjectivity and Lifestyle in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa
(2015-01-19)
Water issues have for a long time been of central political concern in South Africa due to the scarcity of the resource. During the apartheid era, the distribution of water was deeply intertwined with a nationalist and ...