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Navigating "the local". Municipal Engagement in Lebanese Local Peacebuilding
(2019-03-13)
The last decade or so, there has been an increasing disappointment in and critique towards the way peace is built. As peacebuilding is critiqued for being too shallow, too centralised and neglecting local contexts, “the ...
Democracy and Populism: Testing a Contentious Relationship
(2019)
The phenomenon of populism and its relationship with modern democracy has gained considerable attention in recent years. This paper aims at advancing our understanding of how populism affects different models of democracy ...
Mot en visare organisering av äldreomsorgen - Rapport från ett följeforskningsprojekt
(2019)
Det sker idag många olika satsningar för att utveckla former för organisering av äldreomsorgen men flera av dessa har haft stora svårigheter att genomföra förändringar i praktiken. Den visa organisationen är ett ESF-
finansierat ...
2The effect of gender on corruption: Sorting out explanations for gender differences with new exper-imental research
(2019-12)
An extensive literature demonstrates a relationship between gender and corruption, with women be-ing less involved in corrupt transactions than men. There are two major ways of explaining this cor-relation; one emphasizes ...
Skador och riskgrupper i hem - och boendemiljöer
(Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap, 2019)
Skadehändelser
som
inträffar
i hem
-
och boendemiljöer är ett utbrett
fenomen i vårt
samhälle
och drabbar alla åldersgrupper. M
e
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nya utmaningar i vår
samtid
, som en
åldrande befolkning
och
förändringar ...
Taxation and Turnout in Swedish Municipalities
(2019-12)
The link between taxation and representation is considered foundational to the emergence of demo-cratic governance. Nevertheless, the empirical relationship between taxation and the extent to which citizens actually exert ...
The Link between Ethnic Fractionalization and Corruption Revised: Ethnic Voting in Africa
(2019-12)
This paper revisits the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and corruption. Earlier literature argues that ethnic fractionalization leads to corruption via mechanisms involving ethnic in-groupfavoritism. ...
Is impartiality enough? Government impartiality and citizen’s perceptions of public service quality
(2019-05)
Government impartiality is considered a core feature of government quality that leads to favorable macro-level outcomes. We still have limited knowledge, however, of how impartiality affects citizens’ perceptions of public ...
(Re)Inventing the Armed Forces: A Governmentality Analysis of Swedish Military Marketing and Outreach in the Era of Voluntarism
(2019-10-03)
In 2010, Sweden abandoned its century-old military conscription in favour of an All-Volunteer Force (AVF). The Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) was now exposed to competition over labour, and soldiering was no longer a duty ...
Child maltreatment among young adolescents: Effects on mental health, academic functioning and substance use
(2019-12-11)
The main aim of this doctoral thesis was to investigate how experiences of childhood maltreatment affected three developmentally salient areas of functioning in adolescent development. Participants were recruited through ...