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V-Dem Comparisons and Contrasts with Other Measurement Projects
(2017)
For policymakers, activists, academics, and citizens around the world the conceptualization and measurement of democracy matters. The needs of democracy promoters and social scientists are convergent. We all need better ...
Samverkan i demokratins försvar. EN studie om den offentliga sektorn, civilsamhället och arbetet mot våldsbejakande extremism
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2017)
Det förebyggande arbetet mot våldsbejakande extremism är en av de mest debatterade och prioriterade politiska frågorna på nationell och lokal nivå i Sverige. I styrande policydokument som behandlar det nationella förebyggande ...
The V-Dem Party Institutionalization Index: a new global indicator (1900-2015)
(2017)
Because levels of party institutionalization may affect the availability of good data, existing datasets have limited reliability and coverage. To overcome these problems, we introduce the V-Dem Party Institutionalization ...
Interviewing to assess and manage threats of violence
(2017-08-15)
Persons who pose threats of violence can be rich sources of information for professionals charged with ensuring safety and security. The interviewing of threateners is thus considered important among such professionals, ...
A comparative study of psycho-social rehabilitation programmes of war-affected children in war-torn Sri Lanka, 2004-2006
(2017-02-23)
This research explores psycho-social rehabilitation for war-affected children with special reference to the Sri Lankan civil war during the period of 2004-2006. The main purpose of this study is to examine the role that ...
First teachers – stratification in Swedish schools
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2017)
This article is about professions in transformation and the empirical case is the teaching profession. More specifically, it is about an attempt to strengthen the profession by introducing a new career step, first teachers ...
Using social norms in energy conservation interventions
(2017-12-07)
When designing interventions to promote pro-environmental behaviors, practitioners may
choose between techniques based on, for example, education, incentives, or social norms.
These intervention techniques may, however, ...
The Link between Appointments and Appropriations in the Politics of Administrative Design.
(2017-04)
In this paper, we analyze the relationship between political control of agency decision-making and
the size of agency budgets. Scholars of bureaucratic and distributive politics have respectively highlighted
how political ...
Let’s play: Bribery Games in the U.S. and Germany
(2017-12)
This article focuses on behavioral differences across cultures in an experimental bribery game that contributes to cross-country comparisons. To answer the question “What affects an individual’s propensity to engage in and ...
Kommun- och landstingsfullmäktigeundersökningen
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2017)