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Unique Biometric IDs: Governmentality and Appropriation in a Digital India
(2015-04-30)
On a global scale, the usage of a variety of digital ID and surveillance technologies in both civic and security governance is increasingly taking place, leading to standardised forms and practices. India is implementing ...
Corruption and violations of conservation rules: A survey experiment with resource users
(2015)
Small-scale corruption in government administrations that govern natural resources is believed to have a negative impact on conservation management. Yet, while corruption is said to obstruct the implementation of conservation ...
Perfil de los autores
(2015)
Electoral Democracy and Human Development
(2015)
This study attempts to reconcile competing positions in the debate over whether democracy improves human development by showing that some aspects of democracy – but not others – affect human development. Specifically, we ...
Den svenska polisens yrkeskultur. En studie av polisstudenters utbildningslitteratur
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2015)
Polisväsendet innehar en särställning i det svenska samhället. Det utgör det främsta redskapet för att bekämpa och förhindra brottslighet, och det förfogar över monopol på laglig våldsutövning. I likhet med de flesta ...
Mer papper, klokare barn? Hur lärares administrativa arbete kan påverka kvaliteten i skolan
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2015-09)
Measuring the Potential of Direct Democracy Around the World (1900-2014)
(2015)
To what extent is direct democracy achieved in current polities? To answer this question, I develop an index, Direct Democracy Practice Potential (DDPP), which is applied to 200 polities worldwide. This index results from ...
Does Democracy or Good Governance Enhance Health? New Empirical Evidence 1900-2012
(2015)
It has been long debated whether regime types have impacts on human development. More specifically, compared to authoritarianism, are democracies more likely to provide public goods, including infrastructure that improve ...
Trust as a strategy for handling uncertainty in private savings choices
(2015-05-11)
This thesis examines trust in banks and financial expertise as a way of coping with the uncertainty involved in financial decision making. Trust is considered to be beneficial in general and uncertainty is assumed to induce ...