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Forskning om Europafrågor nr 21
(2009-05-06)
Corruption Kills
(2009-06)
Various international organizations have documented the existence of corruption and
similar practices in many different areas of the health care sector. Empirical studies
show that in many poor countries over 80 percent ...
Political Appointments in 18 Democracies, 1975-2007
(2009-06)
Scholarly literature holds a clear expectation of a growing politicization of the bureaucracy in mature democracies. It is also common for these students to warn against the negative effects produced by merging the roles ...
Svenska folkets åsikter om olika energikällor 1999–2008
(SOM-institutet, 2009)
Media Literacy Education - A discussion about Media education in the Western countries, Europe and Sweden
(2009)
Media Education is perhaps even more important today as more and more students have practical
access to a variety of media both at home and in school. There is a need to develop new skills and
competencies that allow ...
Scenkonstens publik 2008
(SOM-institutet, 2009)
Scandal Fatigue: Scandal Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy in Western Europe 1977-2007
(2009-07)
We combine Eurobarometer surveys with contextual data from 19 countries and three
decades, and find that elections are increasingly associated with major scandals. In the
late 1970s few elections were associated with ...
Understanding the Polarization of Responses to Genocidal Violence in Rwanda
(2009-11-25)
This doctoral dissertation is concerned with identifying factors that are important in explaining popular support for genocidal violence in Rwanda. It focuses on former communes, Giti and Murambi, to investigate why Giti ...
Förtroendet för Arbetsförmedlingen 1997–2008
(SOM-institutet, 2009)
Does Democracy Produce Quality of Government?
(2009-01)
This paper analyzes the effects of political regimes over state capacity or the
quality of government (QoG): do democratic states perform better than authoritarian
ones? Previous studies on this puzzle point to a nonlinear ...