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A matter of human-sea relations: Insights from leisure boating in Bohuslän, Sweden
(2018-08-16)
Global environmental governance increasingly seeks to establish sustainable use
of the oceans. This PhD thesis asks what we can learn about this issue by
exploring leisure boating in Bohuslän, Sweden, as both a perceived ...
How to Make Causal Inferences with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data under Selection on Observables
(2018)
Repeated measurements of the same countries, people, or groups over time are vital to many fields of political science. These measurements, sometimes called time-series cross-sectional (TSCS) data, allow researchers to ...
Democracy, Quality of Government, and Public Goods Provision: The Case of Water Management
(2018)
A large strand of research has argued that democracy with its broad representation and electoral accountability is beneficial for the provision of public goods to the general population. However, there is a large variation ...
"Everybody gets a little bit loco”: Interactions between psychotic experiences and substance use as dimensional phenomena
(2018-02-02)
A large amount of persons with psychosis experience problems related to substance use; and many persons with substance use disorders develop psychiatric symptoms, including psychotic experiences (PEs). The co-existence of ...
Harbors and Democracy
(2018)
Although geography is widely viewed as an important factor in long-term development, little attention has been paid to its role in democratization. This study focuses on the possible impact of a feature of littoral geography: ...
Revisionskvalitet i svenska kommuner. En studie om följsamhet mot redovisningsregler
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2018)
Tidigare studier av följsamhet mot redovisningsreglering i såväl svensk kommunal sektor som kommunal sektor i andra länder har försökt förklara redovisningsval utifrån olika ställföreträdande mått på revisionskvalitet, det ...
Marketization and the Quality of Residential Elderly Care in Sweden
(2018-11)
Against a backdrop of increased levels of marketization of welfare services in OECD countries, this article aims to shed light on the separate effects of private ownership and competition on service quality. Using residential ...
Necessary but not Sustainable? The Limits of Democracy in Achieving Environmental Sustainability
(2018-05-02)
The world today faces a number of environmental problems that are both severe and urgent. Finding effective solutions is one of the top priorities for the international community, with at least half of the United Nations ...
“THE STORY ABOUT ME” Psychological perspectives on young men who sexually offended in adolescence
(2018-02-21)
In this thesis I aimed to study, from a psychological viewpoint, what adult life is like for young men who sexually offended in adolescence. Data had previously been gathered from a group of 45 adolescents who had sexually ...
Rethinking Consensus vs. Majoritarian Democracy
(2018)
Arend Lijphart's distinction between two dimensions of consensus and majoritarian democracy has been an influential concept. However, several scholars have reported that the distinction does not travel well to other regions ...