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Effects of Intensive Behavioural Treatment and a focused Imitation Intervention for young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder - One plus One means More
(2017-04-28)
Abstract
Spjut Janson, B. (2017). Effects of IBT and a focused Imitation Intervention for young
Children with ASD. One plus One means More. Department of Psychology, University of
Gothenburg, Sweden.
The general aim ...
Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities and Their Experiences of Formal Support
(2017-09-06)
The aim of this thesis was to investigate how UN conventions, national laws, regulations, and policies are manifested in everyday experiences of parents of children with disabilities. The specific aims of this thesis are ...
Easier said than done? Implementing RTI-laws in Sweden
(2017-11)
Transparency is widely recognized as a prerequisite for accountability, good governance and de-mocracy. As right to information (RTI) laws have spread, it is pressing to ask to what extent having ambitious formal legislative ...
Do City Managers Improve Government Performance?
(2017-04)
Why do some local governments perform better than others that are socioeconomically, culturally, and geographically close? This paper examines variation in local government performance across 209 Catalan municipalities ...
Mothers and fathers of children with developmental disabilities: Co-parenting, well-being and empowerment
(2017-10-18)
Parents of children with developmental disabilities (DD) generally experience more stress and poorer well-being than other parents. However, there is considerable individual variation in parental adaptation. The general ...
Women and Risk-Taking Behavior in Local Public Finance
(2017-07)
This study examines how female representation in local elected (mayor and legislature) and administrative (mid-level manager) positions influences municipal financial decision making in 764 Japanese city-level governments. ...
Constraining Governments: New indices of vertical, horizontal and diagonal accountability
(2017)
Accountability - constraints on the government’s use of political power - is one of the cornerstones of good governance. However, conceptual stretching and a lack of reliable measures have limited cross-national research ...
Procurement and Competition in Swedish Municipalities.
(2017-07)
This paper asks if low political competition is associated with manipulation of public procurement pro-cesses. Using unique Swedish municipal data from 2009 to 2015, it demonstrates that when one party dominates local ...
Cross-Sector Strategists. Dedicated Bureaucrats in Local Government Administration
(2017-11-29)
It is argued that political-administrative organizations are becoming increasingly complex with more horizontal governance required. In Swedish municipal administration, there is a group of administrators assigned the task ...
Judging question answerability
(2017-12-07)
Judging answerability