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State Capacity, Incumbent Turnover and Democratic Change in Authoritarian Elections
(2017)
Under what conditions do elections lead to democratization or conversely, sustain authoritarianism? State capacity may be a crucial intervening variable affecting the democratizing power of elections in authoritarian ...
What Do Citizens Think About Redistribution and Aid Within the EU? Description and Highlights of a Pan-European Citizen Survey on Public Support for Cohesion Policy
(2018-02)
This paper introduces the main findings and methodology of a new large-scale pan European survey capturing citizens’ support for EUs efforts to reduce inequality between richer and poorer regions in Europe, cohesion policy. ...
Correlates of Electoral Democracy
(2019-05)
Autocracy and Variation in Economic Development Outcomes
(2018)
I discuss and analyze the vast variation in development outcomes among autocracies, focusing on economic growth. I highlight plausible explanations of this variation pertaining to features of the leader, institutions, or ...
Labor Force Decisions to Migrate
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2011-10-28)
This paper works on the idea that migration is explained as the result of an imitation process. So, we develop a suitable model for the study of migration driven by imitative behavior, i.e. migrate if the others are doing. ...
The virtuous circle of representation
(Elsevier, 2016)
Theoretical and empirical research shows that political representation is a dynamic process repeatedly connecting citizens and political elites. However, less is known about how citizens alone experience the process of ...
Clientelism, conditional cash transfers, and cross-class coalitions: why governments expand pro-poor redistribution.
(2019-08-16)
Conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) allow poor households and individuals access to income support in return for investments in health and education. Originally adopted in Brazil and Mexico in the late 1990s, CCTs ...
Human stature, health and workplace design. An ethical dilemma
(Springer, 2010)
Graffitins spänningsfält. En studie av graffitikultur och interventioner på en lokal arena
(2016-03-22)
The overall aim of the thesis is to explore and analyse graffiti in a trans-local context, by asking questions about the actors' view on activity, meaning and interaction. The study has been located to a physical place, ...
Alkoholideologi och alkoholopinion
(SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet, 2016)