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The Migration Industry in Managed Migration: Authority, Control and Guestworkers in the United States
(2019-01-16)
This thesis is an investigation into the private migration actors, also known as the migration industry, that have become ubiquitous within managed migration programs in the United States. From employers and visa agents ...
True and False Intentions: A Mental Representational Approach
(2019-04-25)
The study of true and false intentions is a specific case of deception-detection research. The focus
is on how to discriminate between lies and truths about future behavior, as opposed to previous
deception research that ...
The New Portuguese Presence in Angola: Traces, Emplacements and Interactions of a Postcolonial Encounter
(2019-08-30)
Propelled by the impact of the Euro-crisis in the Portuguese economy and job market and the booming economy in Angola, during the last decade a great number of Portuguese workers migrated to the former colony. At the same ...
Transparency and the Quality of Local Public Service Provision: Street-Level Discretion in Education, Health and Infrastructure.
(2019-05)
Transparency has been widely promoted as a tool for improving public service
delivery; however, empirical evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that the effects of
transparency on service provision are ...
Elite Survival First, Then Meritocratization Implications of Elite Survival on the Meritocratization of Bureaucracies: A Panel Data Study from 1820 to 2010
(2019-05)
Previous research has shown that meritocratic recruitment increases bureaucratic performance and decreases corruption (Evans and Rauch, 1999, 2000). However, less emphasis has been made on why meritocratic practices take ...
Retirement and Life Satisfaction: A Resource-Based Dynamic Perspective
(2019-08-29)
Retirement from work is a major life event requiring adjustment to new life circumstances. The impact of retirement on well-being has been shown to vary, not only between individuals, but also within individuals over time. ...
Inequity in Mind. On the Social and Genetic Risk Factors of Dementia and Their Interactions
(2019-09-20)
The present thesis seeks to further explain the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias by studying the long-term impact of class- and gender-based inequities as well as the extent to which they potentially ...
Med avstegen som arbetsplats – En etnografisk studie av hälso- och sjukvårdskuratorns arbete
(2019-05-06)
ABSTRACT
Title: Out of line as workplace – An ethnographic study of health social work
Author: Elisabet Sernbo
Keywords: health social work, ethnography, queer phenomenology, reorienting work, jurisdictional work, ...
Gendered Accountability: When and Why Do Women's Policy Priorities Get Implemented?
(2019)
The past two decades have seen dramatic increases in women occupying positions of political power. Such developments have been welcomed as a means of achieving better outcomes for women in their everyday lives. We interrogate ...
Regime Legitimation Strategies (RLS) 1900 to 2018
(2019)
In this paper we introduce new expert-coded measures of regime legitimation strategies for 179 countries in the world from 1900 up until 2018 that are comparable across time and space. Country experts have rated the extent ...