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The large-scale collective action dilemma of recycling: Exploring the role of trust
(2017-12)
Household recycling contributes to environmental sustainability goals by limiting the extraction of natural resources. Previous literature has mapped out several factors, mainly at the individual level, that tend to increase ...
Legalize It: An argument for formalizing petty corruption wen state capacity is low
(2012-03)
Corruption in the form of informal payments to bureaucrats for public services are a major problem around the world. There are however few theories of how countries can get rid of corruption. I argue that petty corruption ...
Navigating Towards Effective Fishery Management: Exploring the Impact of Imbalanced Burdens on Regime Legitimacy
(2008-04)
Despite two decades of the Common Fishery Policy (CFP), the fishery politics of the European Union (EU) is considered a failure when it comes to securing fish-stocks. This paper explores reasons to this state of affairs ...
Quality of Government and Access to Safe Water
(2011-03)
According to a conservative estimation by the World Health Organization, 1.2 billion people lack access to sufficient quantities of safe water, and 2.6 billion people are without adequate sanitation. Consequently, 80 percent ...
Elections as Levers of Democracy: A Global Inquiry
(2008-08)
In this paper we purport to test the proposition that elections have a democratizing effect, drawing on cross-sectional time-series data at best covering a global sample of 193 countries from 1919 to 2004. Two versions of ...
Formal and Informal Institutions in Groundwater Governance in Rajasthan: A Case Study of Chota Nayrana and Tilona Village
(2008-02)
This paper examines the sustainable preservation of natural resources at the community level, with an emphasis on groundwater resources in Rajasthan, India. Considering that water is one of the resources that have been ...
Demokratins svängrum. Lokalpolitikens roll i den specialreglerade verksamheten
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2012)
Verktyg för lärande: Informationssökning och informationsanvändning i kommunal vuxenutbildning
(2010-02-19)
In education today, self-directed learning is promoted as an ideal as opposed to teacher-led instruction. This approach is reflected in public inquiries, proposals, syllabi and grading criteria, as well as in schoolwork ...