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The Political Background of Agency Heads in Sweden: Trends and Explanations, 1960-2010
(2012-02)
Previous research has described both theoretically and empirically, the negative consequences of having a politicized civil service, recruited on political instead of professional merits. However, we know fairly little ...
The Personalisation of Swedish Politics. Party Leaders in the Election Coverage 1979-2010.
(2012-11-22)
In The Personalisation of Swedish Politics: Party Leaders in the Election Coverage 1979-2010, the question of whether Swedish news media focus increasingly on the party leaders is thoroughly examined. All in all, five ...
Swedish Regional Reform: Party Interest at Stake
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2012)
In this paper we conduct a contra-factual thought experiment, applying the practice of gerrymandering to the regionalisation process of Sweden. By applying the actual election data from 1998 to 2010, we discuss the various ...
Offentlighetens gränser: Fem kultursociologiska studier av kontroverser kring litterära självframställningar i Sverige, 1976-2008
(2012-02-16)
This dissertation deals with normative boundaries in the Swedish literary public sphere between 1976 and 2008. One aim of the study is to map changes and continuities in the boundary between public and private as defined, ...
The Practice of Newspaper Ownership: Fifty Years of Control and Influence in the Swedish Local Press
(2012-05-28)
This dissertation deals with a perennial theme in both public and academic debate: how ownership is exercised in the news media. It does so by exploring the main agency through which ownership control is expected to be ...