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The Three Worlds of Governance: Arguments for a Parsimonious Theory of Quality of Government
(2013-08)
It is necessary to conceptualize and provide better measures of good governance because in contrast to democratization, empirical studies show that it has strong positive effects on measures of human well-being, social ...
Credible Enforcement Before Credible Commitment: Exploring the Importance of Sequencing
(2013-03)
States that are both strong and democratic are the most capable of delivering human development. Existing rational choice accounts of collective action and credible commitment have provided us with the answer as to why ...
Civil Society Regionalization in Southern Africa – the Cases of Trade and HIV/AIDS
(2013-04-10)
This dissertation investigates civil society regionalization, that is, the transnational regional process where people engage in co-operation within diverse types of regionalist civil society frameworks. The point of ...
Educational choices of the future. A sociological inquiry into micro-politics in education
(2013-05-24)
This thesis investigates how students’ practical considerations for future choices in education and occupations correspond to policy objectives of socially productive educational choices. This is conveyed through the primary ...
Democratic Consolidation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Can the variation be attributed to the level of corruption at early stategs of democratization?
(2013-01)
Despite the fact that almost all of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa introduced multiparty elec-tions during the 1990’s and that the region has seen democratic progress over the years, only nine out of the regions ...
Examining Gender Differences in Environmental Concern Across Four Levels of the Swedish Polity
(2013-06)
While numerous studies find modest, consistent gender differences in environmental concern with-in the general publics of North American and European countries, such a pattern has not been studied much among elected ...
Vanor och attityder i förändring : samhälle, opinion och medier i Skåne
(SOM-institutetet, 2013-01)
I Vanor och attityder i förändring redovisas huvudresultaten från de medborgarundersökningar som SOM-institutet sedan 2001 genomfört i Skåne. Fokus ligger på den senaste undersökningen, som genomfördes under hösten 2011. ...
Från miljonprogram till högskoleprogram - plats, agentskap och villkorad valfrihet.
(2013-05-16)
This is a dissertation about young people’s experiences of their journeys from a socially marginalized suburb to higher education. Many students from these areas do not continue to higher education, but some do. There is ...
Where did all the women go? Representation of women and men in the Standing Comittees of the European Parliament
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2013)
Crash in Economy, Crash in Confidence: Perceptions of corruption and political support in Iceland before and after the financial crisis
(2013-11)
In the mid 00’s Iceland was ranked as the least corrupt country in the world by Transparency Inter-national and enjoyed top positions in most comparative indices of governance and development. In 2008 the banking system ...