Faculty of Social Science / Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten: Recent submissions
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The impact of organized crime on decent jobs for youth. Evidence from Italy
(2023-08)Young people face enormous difficulties in finding decent jobs both in developed and developing countries. The estimates indicate that 68 million young people globally are looking for a job; 123 million are working but ... -
Public Attitudes Towards Environmental Taxation: The Interplay Between Values, Trust, and Quality of Government
(2023-06-16)Environmental problems are commonly understood to be rooted in collective action dilemmas where the rational course of action for individuals is to engage in polluting activities to receive short-term benefits, while the ... -
Här, där eller överallt? – Tabellbilaga
(Göteborgs universitet och Umeå universitet, 2023) -
Voices in the arena: A Participation-Centred Study of Multivocal Risk and Crisis Communication
(2023-06-12)Contemporary risk and crisis communication take place in a complex multiplatform and multivocal environment, where numerous social media foster and facilitate online participation. Lay social media users are thus able to ... -
The martial politics of biodiversity protection: Wildlife conservation practices in northern Kenya
(2023-06-08)Wildlife conservation is entangled with broader conflict dynamics in pastoral and semi-arid northern Kenya and tackles livestock theft, road banditry and inter-communal conflict. The thesis aims to better understand this ... -
Contested Feminism: Backlash and the Radical Right
(2023-06-02)During the past decade, various societies have observed feminist mobilizations and antifeminist counter-mobilizations, the latter being partly driven by radical right parties. Even in societies marked by institutions and ... -
Handbook for Systematic Literature Reviews and Document Studies in the Social Sciences
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2023-06-01)This report aims to inspire students (and researchers) to explore the use of systematic literature reviews and document studies in their essays. The structure of the report follows a general work process for an essay ... -
Building futures through Refugee Education: Aspirations, Navigation, and (Non- )citizenship
(2023-05-23)This study explores how Somali secondary school and graduate-level youth in Kenya’s Dadaab camps attempt to build their futures through education, despite challenges posed by their non-citizen status. Using ethnographic ... -
Svenska folket tycker om Systembolaget – tabellbilaga
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Projects as interaction in context: Managing public health issues within public sector organisations
(2023-05-15)The increasing use of projects has been one of the most important developments in the public sector over the past decades. In tandem with the proliferation of projects, the traditional view of projects as demarcated from ... -
När ett yttrande inte räcker. Hur kommuner hanterar ett utmanat självstyre
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2023-05-14)Kommunal självstyrelse innebär att Sveriges kommuner ansvarar för lokala angelägenheter av allmänt intresse, och ett exempel på det är grundskolan. Grundskolan administreras dock inom ett flernivåsystem där även den ... -
Conditional Progress: Technical Rationality and Wicked Problems in Nuclear Waste Management
(2023-05-09)While various states and enterprises have produced nuclear power for decades, that is, demonstrated the functionality of the nuclear fuel cycle from uranium mining to power production, the waste that is simultaneously ... -
Working towards Modernity. Migration and Skills Development at the Frontiers of Racial Capitalism in Tunisia
(2023-05-02)In the wake of the political salience of migration, projects that target employability and/or entrepreneurial thinking have become important components of European development interventions that address ‘irregular’ ... -
The family and the patient An investigation of mental health problems, risk factors, and support for members of the families of psychiatric patients
(2023-04-28)The aim of this thesis was to improve knowledge of the members of the families of patients in contact with psychiatry by investigating mental health problems, risk factors, and support received. The thesis is based on three ... -
Planering på gränsen och gränsen för planering - En studie av gränsöverskridande samhällsplanering
(2023-04-27)This exploratory thesis aims to describe and analyze how boundaries emerge, affect planning practices, and how boundaries are managed over time in order to achieve integrated planning processes. This thesis is particularly ... -
The intergenerational transfer of public sector jobs: Nepotism or social reproduction?
(2023-04)Do kinship ties affect one’s chances of acquiring a public sector job and do they, in such cases, trump formal qualifications? These questions have been subject to scrutiny by both scholars and policymakers, but to date, ... -
Drought and Trust
(2023-04)Droughts can affect people’s political trust positively, through rallying effects, or negatively, through blame attribution. We examine how drought conditions affect political trust in the context of Africa. We link ... -
Regional citizenship regimes: Comparing ECOWAS and ASEAN
(2023-03-28)This thesis investigates the relationship between citizenship and regional organisations in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Specifically, it ... -
ExecutiveAppointmentsunderLegislativeOversight
(2023-03)A largeliteraturearguesthattheexecutive’sappointmentpowersmaybestowthem with asignificantpolicyadvantageagainstthelegislature.Inpractice,however,the legislature mayalsodeployavarietyofinstrumentstostrikebackatopportuni ...