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Dimensions of Bureaucracy: A Cross-National Dataset on the Structure and Behavior of Public Administration
(2010-06)
Scholars have emphasized the importance of having a “Weberian bureaucracy” for the
socio-economic development of a country, but few attempts have been made to
measure public administrations according to their degree of ...
About Child Poverty – A Bangladesh's Perspective
(2012-05-11)
Taking child poverty into account as an enormous concern on the pathway to human development, the
present dissertation aims to examine child poverty’s extent and characteristics, poor children’s views
on this issue and ...
Graffiti – For Joy and Confirmation. Motivational aspects, triggering and inhibiting factors, and emotional satisfactions in graffiti: The creative-interactive dimension of vandalism
(2016-11-03)
The purpose of the present dissertation is to achieve a deeper understanding about what motivates young people to commit vandalism in general and scrawl-graffiti in particular, and what this propensity provides in the form ...
Förtroendet för Säpo 2002–2009
(SOM-institutet, 2010)
Which Dictators Produce Quality of Government?
(2010-05)
This study deals with the effects of authoritarian regimes on state capacity or the
quality of government (QoG): do some types of dictatorship (military, monarchy,
single-party or personalist) perform better than others? ...
Institutional Subsystems and the Survival of Democracy: Do Political and Civil Society Matter?
(2015)
How do two central institutional subsystems of democracy – party systems and civil society – affect the persistence of democratic regimes? Despite the ability of each of these institutions to provide sources of countervailing ...
Monte Carlo simulation of treatment machine Varian Clinac iX
(2010-08-12)
This report presents methods and results from the development of a Monte Carlo
model of a Varian Clinac iX linear accelerator of nominal energy 6 MV . The simulations
are made by the BEAMnrc/EGSnrc Monte Carlo code package ...
Dissatisfied Democrats: A Matter of Representation or Performance?
(2013-04)
Research on political support around the world has demonstrated massive support for democracy as the underlying principle of governance. At the same time many citizens express dissatisfaction with the way democracy works ...
Therapists and their patients: Similarities and differences in attitudes between four psychotherapy orientations in Sweden
(2010-04-30)
The aim of this thesis was to illuminate the possibilities and obstacles for therapists of different orientations to communicate and cooperate better with each other. Data was collected by a questionnaire named VEP-Q. ...