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Understanding illegality and corruption in forest management: A literature review
(2016-01)
This review synthesizes the literature studying illegality and government corruption in forest man-agement. After discussing the theoretical connections between different types of corruption and illegal forest-related ...
The Making of an Expert Detective. Thinking and Deciding in Criminal Investigations
(2016-11-11)
Drawing on theoretical frameworks developed in social and cognitive psychology, this thesis examines the degree to which individual and systemic factors may compensate for inherent biases in criminal detectives’ judgments ...
Beyond First Elections: The Importance of Consistency in the Timing of Recurrent Elections
(2016)
Is the regularity of elections a requisite for political stability? Scholars have empirically examined a number of features regarding elections in new democracies, including frequency, alternation, and orderliness, but ...
The State in Democratic Breakdowns: Who, How, and Why
(2016-04)
It is often invoked that in modern times the state is a prerequisite for democracy to endure. How-ever, cross-national research typically applies this as a static assumption rather than a dynamic caus-al proposition. ...
“Gimme Shelter”: The Role of Democracy and Institutional Quality in Disaster Preparedness
(2016)
Natural disasters cause suffering for millions of people around the globe every year and as climate change unfolds the likelihood of natural catastrophes is increasing. While weather shocks, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, ...
Democratization in Conflict Studies: How Conceptualization Affects Operationalization and Testing Outcomes
(2016)
Using the debate over democratization and conflict, we demonstrate how the connec- tion between conceptualization and operationalization can play a decisive role in the testing of falsifiable hypotheses. We discuss seven ...
Job Demands, Job Resources, and Consequences for Managerial Sustainability in the Public Sector – A Contextual Approach
(2016-04-11)
ABSTRACT
The aims of this thesis were threefold: to explore and increase knowledge of managerial working conditions in Swedish municipalities, to extend the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, and to provide information ...
Eliciting human intelligence: A conceptualization and empirical testing of the Scharff technique
(2016-02-01)
This thesis is on how to elicit intelligence from human sources with the principal aim being to examine the efficacy of the tactics employed by the renowned WWII interrogator Hanns Scharff. A novel experimental set-up (as ...
Measuring Subnational Democracy
(2016)
Social scientists and practitioners have been limited in their work by the paucity of data about subnational institutions and practices. Such data could help scholars refine regime typologies, improve theories of democratization ...
Attributes Modulating Affective Profiles in Psychiatric Patients
(2016-11-18)
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Abstract
Zöller, M. E. T. (2016). Attributes Modulating Affective Profiles in Psychiatric
Patients. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Psychiatrically disabled ...