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Social trust - The Nordic Gold?
(2020-01)
Interpersonal trust is among the highest in the world in Scandinavia. Since everything in a society functions better with high trust lowering all transaction costs trustful Scandinavi-ans is truly a Nordic Gold. However, ...
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report
(2021-03)
The Quality of Government Expert Survey (QoG Expert Survey) is a research project aimed at documenting the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior in countries around the world. This report ...
On Retirement and Cognitive Aging from a Life-Span Perspective
(2021-11-24)
Retirement is a major life event potentially affecting domains such as cognitive functioning
and well-being. The main aim of this thesis was to assess whether retirement influences
cognitive functioning and how inter- ...
Democratic Legacies: Using Democratic Stock to Assess Norms, Growth, and Regime Trajectories
(2020-05)
While social scientists often theorize about the enduring effects of past regime characteristics, conceptual issues and data limitations pose real challenges for assessing these legacies empirically. This paper introduces ...
A Framework for Understanding Regime Transformation: Introducing the ERT Dataset
(V-Dem Institute, 2021-02)
Gradual processes of democratization and autocratization have gained increased attention in the literature. Assessing such processes in a comparative framework remains a challenge, however, due to their under-conceptualization ...
Folkhälsa och ekonomi i alkoholpolitiken
(SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet, 2021)
Governing citizens in the age of financialization: A study of Swedish financial education
(2021-12-06)
In contemporary Western capitalist societies, the state has increasingly withdrawn from its role as welfare provider, while financial institutions, actors, products, and narratives play an increasingly important part not ...
Standardiseringsarbetets kollektiva praktik. En studie om att kvalitetssäkra integrationssatsningen Samhällsorientering för nyanlända.
(2020-02-27)
Societal efforts to support the integration of newly arrived immigrants have been repeatedly highlighted in the political debate in Sweden and they are described as inadequate and ineffective. Demands have been made for ...
Female Empowerment and Economic Growth
(2020-06)
We discuss how inclusive institutions enhance technological change, the main driver of long-term economic growth. Specifically, institutions that promote female political empowerment advance technological change through ...
Varför får förändringsarbete inte fäste? En kritisk studie av Världskulturmuseernas arbete med hållbarhet
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2021)
Organisationsförändringar har beforskats sedan länge och det finns många modeller och anvisningar för framgångsrik förändring. Trots detta beräknas så många som tre fjärdedelar av alla förändringsförsök inte uppnå sina ...