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Birth cohort differences in cognitive aging: Secular trends in cognitive functioning and decline over 30 years in three population-based Swedish samples
(2018-05-04)
The overarching aim of this thesis was to investigate birth cohort differences in level of cognitive functioning and change in later life in three population-based representative samples drawn from the Gerontological and ...
The Art of Enacting the Impossible: A Conceptual, Empirical and Methodological Exploration of Constructive Resistance by the Kurdish Movement in Turkey
(2018-09-27)
The Kurdish movement in Turkey has since 2005 been trying to establish democratic autonomy, an
overarching proposition for the reconstruction of the society from the bottom up, based on ideals of
radical democracy, women’s ...
Peace Above the Glass Ceiling: The Historial Relationship Between Female Political Empowerment and Civil Conflict
(2018)
This paper investigates whether female political empowerment is conducive to civil peace, drawing on global data on female political empowerment over a 200 year period, from the Varieties of Democracy database. We augment ...
Growing together: Participation in and outcomes of programs for parents of adolescents
(2018-05-25)
This thesis is focused on parenting during children’s adolescence and its overarching aim was to investigate universal supports offered to parents of adolescents, specifically group-based parenting programs. The thesis ...
Brott eller passion? Myndighetsdiskurser om manlig sexhandel från 1930- till 2000-tal
(2018-11-26)
Abstract
Title: Crime or Passion? Discourses about Male Sex Trade in Official Investigations from the 1930s- to the 2000s
Author: Annelie de Cabo Y Moreda
Key words: Male ”prostitution”, heterosexual ”prostitution”, ...
Can Courts be Bulwarks of Democracy?
(2018)
Independent judges are thought to promote democratic regime survival by allowing perceived violations of rules limiting arbitrary power to be challenged non-violently in a fair setting, governed by transparent rules. Yet, ...
Being in between? Exploring identity construction among Rwandophone Congolese
(2018-05-04)
This thesis is a compilation of a ‘Kappa’ (with six chapters) and four articles. It explores how civilian Rwandophone Congolese construct their identity in various settings in the North Kivu area. To achieve this aim, the ...
Electoral Violence Prevention: The Role of Brokers in Kenya's 2013 General Elections
(2018-11-12)
This research explores initiatives believed to have played a role in the prevention of electoral violence in Kenya’s 2013 general elections. Intending to contribute to ongoing debates on electoral violence prevention, the ...
Exploring Shades of Corruption Tolerance: Three Lessons from Iceland and Sweden
(2018-10)
It is sometimes argued that tolerance for corruption is universally low, i.e. that corruption is shunned among all individuals, in all societies and cultures. Against this backdrop, this paper engages in two interrelated ...
Quality of Government in EU Regions: Spatial and Temporal Patterns
(2018-02)
A wave of recent cross-national research has pointed to the positive consequences for countries with high levels of ‘quality of government’ (QoG), broadly defined, such as corruption, impartiality, and quality of public ...