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Making Room for Complexity in Group Collaborations: The Roles of Scaffolding and Facilitation
(2018-11-09)
This thesis has a dual objective: the theoretical aim is to analyse how developmental scaffolding influences the
way that group participants’ conceptions about societal issues of concern, appropriate goals and courses of ...
On Revolutions
(2018)
Sometimes the normal course of events is disrupted by a particularly swift and profound change. Historians have often referred to such changes as "revolutions" and, though they have identied many of them, they have rarely ...
MONITORING HANDBOOK - Methods and tools for monitoring developed in the GenderTime project
(Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap, 2018)
This Monitoring Handbook offers guidelines and recommendations concerning
monitoring which were developed and applied during four years of monitoring
activities in the GenderTime project. It also includes detailed ...
Stairways to Denmark: Does the Sequence of State-building and Democratization Matter for Economic Development?
(2018)
Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. We discuss the assumptions that this prominent "stateness-first" argument rests upon and how ...
Self-Censorship in Authoritarian States: Response bias in measures of popular support in China
(2018)
The study of popular support for authoritarian regimes, and the comparative study of political attitudes, has long relied on the assumption that survey respondents provide truthful answers on surveys. However, when measuring ...
Waste tours. Narratives, infrastructures and gazes in interplay
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2018)
Waste management makes life in cities possible. Paradoxically, well-functioning waste
infrastructures can contribute to obscure the link between production, consumption and nature. One way to render waste infrastructures, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Democracy for All?
(2018)