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Intimate partner violence: Beliefs and psychological predictors of intentions to intervene among the Swedish general public
(2016-05-06)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is considered a global public health issue. Most people disapprove of partner-related abuse, yet are disinclined to personally intervene in order to stop the violence. Public interventions ...
Democracy, Democratization, and Civil War
(2016)
An influential body of scholarship has associated both democracy and democratization with civil war. Important findings include the so-called inverted U-shaped relationship between democracy-levels and civil war onset and ...
Politik och förvaltning på nätet
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2016)
De senaste decennierna har tekniska landvinningar skapat nya kommunikationsvägar mellan medborgare och det offentliga som i grunden förändrar de sätt på vilket vår demokrati förverkligas och förvaltningen arbetar. Den nya ...
Att bygga ett samhälle vid tidens slut: Svenska Missionsförbundets mission i Kongo 1881 till 1920-talet
(2016-10-06)
This dissertation is situated in an interdisciplinary academic discourse on missionary work in colonial states. The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden’s mission in Congo between 1881 and the 1920s was aimed at converting ...
A General Theory of Power Concentration: Demographic Influences on Political Organization
(2016)
Why is the exercise of political power highly concentrated in some polities and widely dispersed in others? We argue that one persistent causal factor is demographic. Populous polities are characterized by more concentrated ...
Suicide by Competition? Authoritarian Institutional Adaptation and Regime Fragility
(2016)
While it is clear that contemporary authoritarian incumbents use democratic emulation as a
strategy in the hopes of stabilizing and extending their tenure in power, this does not mean
it is always effective. Indeed, an ...
Bombay Going: Migration, return and anti-trafficking in the lives of Nepali migrant sex workers
(2016-09-12)
Set against the background of a critical examination of anti-trafficking organisations’ dominant discourses of sex trafficking in the Nepali context, this dissertation provides an ethnographic account of how Tamang women ...
Making a ’Home’: Internal Displacements and Resettlement Processes in Sri Lanka 2002-2006.
(2016-12-12)
Abstract Wanninayake, Shantha 2017: Making a ‘Home’: Internal Displacements and Resettlement Processes in Sri Lanka 2002-2006. PhD Dissertation in Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, University of ...