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At the End of the Rainbow - Post-winning life among Swedish lottery winners
(2011-02-17)
This thesis is based upon empirical data from a quantitative survey among 420 Swedish lottery winners and from qualitative interviews with fourteen individual lottery winners. By examining how winners of large lottery ...
Keeping the Democratic Façade: Contemporary Autocratization as a Game of Deception
(2018)
Less than thirty years after Fukuyama and others declared liberal democracy’s eternal dominance, a third wave of autocratization is manifest. Gradual declines of democratic regime attributes characterize contemporary ...
Public Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Russia’s Region
(2018-12)
The paper examines government-business relationships by focusing on the effect of the organizational design of public bureaucracies on entrepreneurship in Russia. Using novel data from an expert survey on bureaucratic ...
Ljusare bild av samhällets institutioner
(SOM-institutet, 2010)
Is the quality of the outsourced public services contingent on the quality of bureaucracy?
(2016-07)
Outsourced public services make up about half of the total public service delivery in OECD countries
today and have increased dramatically over time. Reformers expected that outsourcing would
both cut costs and increase ...
Imagined Independence. Institutional Conditions and Individual Opportunities in European Labour Markets
(2018-11-06)
The studies presented in this thesis examine perceived labour market opportunities and conditions for labour market mobility for European employees. The European labour market strategy has created an opportunity-oriented ...
Läsning av Regionmagasinet 2003–2009
(SOM-institutet, 2010)
The Importance of Electoral and Judicial Trust For Regime Support
(2015-04)
What kind of institutions is most essential to be trustworthy in order for a society to function well? To the extent that previous research has addressed the problem, trust in electoral, judicial, public administration and ...
The Wicked Nature of Social Systems – A Complexity Approach to Sociology
(2017-02-15)
This thesis investigates how the interdisciplinary field of Complexity Science can inform both sociological theory and methodological practice. Non-linearity and complexity dynamics such as emergence and positive/negative ...