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Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?
(2021-03)
Rulers of weak states face a predicament. They lack capacity to monitor crime and need citizens to partake in intelligence-sharing. Yet, agents of such authorities are seldom trusted, raising doubts about whether locals ...
State building in post conflict Rwanda: Citizen participation in local conflict mitigation
(2014-11-13)
The aim of this PhD dissertation is to understand state building at the local-level by focusing on citizen participation in local conflict mitigation. The involvement of ordinary people in conflict mitigation is motivated ...
Dimensions of Bureaucracy: A Cross-National Dataset on the Structure and Behavior of Public Administration
(2010-06)
Scholars have emphasized the importance of having a “Weberian bureaucracy” for the
socio-economic development of a country, but few attempts have been made to
measure public administrations according to their degree of ...
Sharing & Caring. Division of parental leave from a psychological perspective
(2020-09-17)
Parents’ preconditions for early parenting vary depending on social and cultural contexts. This thesis
provides a psychological perspective on parenting and family life within the context of parental leave in
Sweden, ...
Governing migrants through the Norwegian Introduction Programme
(2021-08-26)
This thesis focuses on the Norwegian Introduction Programme for newly arrived immigrants and refugees. With its implementation in 2004, the Introduction Programme represents one of the most significant policy measures ...
Crossing to the Mainstream : Information Challenges and Possibilities for Female Legislators in the Ugandan Parliament
(2009-09-15)
Just like in other national legislatures in recent years, women have increased in numbers in Uganda, owing mostly to the introduction of affirmative action policies. These measures are regarded as fast track approaches to ...
About Child Poverty – A Bangladesh's Perspective
(2012-05-11)
Taking child poverty into account as an enormous concern on the pathway to human development, the
present dissertation aims to examine child poverty’s extent and characteristics, poor children’s views
on this issue and ...
Graffiti – For Joy and Confirmation. Motivational aspects, triggering and inhibiting factors, and emotional satisfactions in graffiti: The creative-interactive dimension of vandalism
(2016-11-03)
The purpose of the present dissertation is to achieve a deeper understanding about what motivates young people to commit vandalism in general and scrawl-graffiti in particular, and what this propensity provides in the form ...
Förtroendet för Säpo 2002–2009
(SOM-institutet, 2010)