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Conflict resolution in coastal management: Interdisciplinary analyses of resource use conflicts from the Swedish coast
(2015-08-27)
Natural resource use conflicts at urbanized coasts and their analysis and resolution are the main themes of this thesis. Based on the analysis of four conflict cases from the Swedish coast, I explore the ways the local ...
Passionerad politik. Om motstånd mot heteronormativ könsmakt
(2010-03-18)
Abstract
Title: Passionate Politics. Resistance to Heteronormative Gender Power
Written in Swedish, summary in English, 350 pages.
Author: Cathrin Wasshede
Doctoral Dissertation at the Department of Sociology, ...
Municipalities, Regions and County Councils in Sweden: Actors and Institutions
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2014)
Infrastructures, Lock-in, and Sustainable Urban Development – The Case of Waste Incineration in the Göteborg Metropolitan Areas
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2013-05)
This article explains how infrastructures with a sustainability record may evolve over time into a lock-in that slows the emergence of more sustainable urban infrastructures. A study of waste incineration in the Göteborg ...
A matter of human-sea relations: Insights from leisure boating in Bohuslän, Sweden
(2018-08-16)
Global environmental governance increasingly seeks to establish sustainable use
of the oceans. This PhD thesis asks what we can learn about this issue by
exploring leisure boating in Bohuslän, Sweden, as both a perceived ...
Does NPM Increase the Politicization of the Civil Service
(2013-02)
This paper studies the relationship between New Public Management (NPM) and the political re-cruitment of civil servants. Some claim that NPM has had the unintended effect of muddling the politico-administrational divide, ...
Offentlighetens gränser: Fem kultursociologiska studier av kontroverser kring litterära självframställningar i Sverige, 1976-2008
(2012-02-16)
This dissertation deals with normative boundaries in the Swedish literary public sphere between 1976 and 2008. One aim of the study is to map changes and continuities in the boundary between public and private as defined, ...
Ideals and Interests in Swedish Foreign Policy: Explaining the South African Gripen Deal
(2018-05-18)
This dissertation explores ideals and interests (and their interrelation) in foreign policy. An in-depth case study of this issue examines Sweden’s 1999 JAS-39 Gripen fighter aircraft deal with South Africa.
Theoretically, ...
Between hierarchy, market and networks. The case of public utility and care for the elderly in Sweden
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2014)
Public Administration and Corruption – How To Get the Institutions That Work
(2015-05-07)
Corruption is a global problem, impacting on both economic and human development. The last few decades, social science research has paid increasing attention to the problem, but rit emains limited in many aspects, not least ...