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How Policy Legitimacy affects Policy Support Throughout the Policy Cycle
(2016-11)
We analyze the importance of legitimacy and compare how drivers of public policy attitudes evolve across the policy process consisting of the input (i.e., the processes forgoing acquisition of power and the procedures ...
Att förstå EBP – Översättningar av idén om en evidensbaserad praktik i den svenska socialtjänsten
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2016)
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 ...
Bio-behavioral inquiries regarding cognitive aging and distance to death: The role of gender, APOE, grip strength and subjective memory
(2016-03-17)
To better understand the nature of cognitive functioning later in life, it is important to gain further knowledge regarding factors that contribute to cognitive aging. Therefore, the overall aim of this thesis was to ...
Fetal Alcohol syndrome in adulthood - Psychological, psychosocial, and neuropsychological aspects of life in individuals who were prenatally exposed to alcohol
(2016-05-26)
Alcohol’s teratogenic effect on the developing fetal brain is devastating, resulting in, for instance, structural abnormalities as well as behavioral and neuropsychological impairments in the child. The umbrella term Fetal ...
Choosing from the Menu of Manipulation: Explaining Incumbents’ Choices of Electoral Manipulation Tactics
(2016)
How do political actors choose between different tactics of electoral manipulation, and how does the context in which elections take place shape those decisions? In this paper we argue that choices for specific manipulative ...
Public Trust in Elections: The Role of Election Administration Autonomy and Media Freedom
(2016)
As multiparty elections have become a global norm, scholars and policy experts regard public
trust in elections as vital for regime legitimacy. However, very few cross-national studies have
examined the consequences of ...
UN Electoral Assistance: Does it Matter for Election Management?
(2016)
Between 2007 and 2014 the United Nations (UN) provided technical, financial and logistical assistance to half of all elections held outside of established democracies. Does UN Electoral Assistance (UNEA) substantially ...
Democratic advantages in corruption control. New Evidence from Anti-Corruption Cases across 154 Countries
(2016-03)
Does democracy reduce corruption? While much recent research has focused on the ability of citizens
in democracies to hold politicians accountable through regular elections, other institutional
features of democracy such ...
Going Historical: Measuring Democraticness before the Age of Mass Democracy
(2016)
Most studies of democratic developments are limited to the period after World War II. However, political regimes varied according to different aspects of democracy long before the establishment of modern liberal mass ...