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Navigating Emerging Adulthood with the Experience of Being Bullied in School
(2023-03-08)The overall aim of this thesis is to broaden the understanding of long-term outcomes of experiencing bullying victimization in school, related to the developmental period of emerging adulthood as well as how it can be ... -
Political Will for Anti-Corruption Reform: Communicative pathways to collective action in Ukraine
(2023-03)The importance of political will to bring about institutional reform to reduce corruption is universally rec-ognized, but little is known about when and how it emerges. This paper examines six local settings which exhibit ... -
Who gains access to public services? Social Bargaining, Corruption and Street-level Service Provision
(2023-02)Despite massive global investments in public services, sizeable discrepancies remain in terms of people’s needs being met once they are in contact with service providers — what we term effective access. This study investigates ... -
Un-learning to labour? Activating the unemployed in a former industrial community
(2023-02-20)In the aftermath of automation and globalisation of production, the Western welfare states have come to leave industrial society behind in favour of an increasingly competitive and service-oriented economy. Nevertheless, ... -
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 ... -
Vem får stanna? Om politiska problemrepresentationer av rätten att stanna i Sverige 1936–1989
(2023-02-02)In 2015, the Swedish government restricted the right to stay in Sweden, to reduce the number of asylum seekers seeking protection in the country. Since then, it has established a restrictive migration policy that only ... -
Pre-suffrage impartiality, democratic experience and clientelism: How sequencing matters
(2023-01)It has been asserted that clientelism today is weaker in countries that were endowed with impartial public administrations prior to the extension of suffrage because the presence of bureaucratic checks undermines clientelism ... -
Introducing Uncertainty: Community Driven Development and Local Collective Action Capacity
(2022-12)In areas with entrenched poverty and weak state presence, community driven development (CDD) initia-tives aim to secure the provision of services such as water, waste water and electricity, while engaging the community as ... -
Danger all Along. How foreign military threats and domestic power-sharing shape autocratic state-building.
(2022-12)Standard international relations accounts hold that military buildup by neighboring states leads to increased state-building efforts by authoritarian rulers. In contrast, this study shows that only some dictators will ... -
Rekrytera och behålla: Om möjligheter att uppnå en hållbar personalförsörjning i försvarsmakten
(2022-11-04)Projektet har inriktats på anställda soldater och sjömän (GSS/K) och specialistofficerare (SO) med avseende på vilka faktorer som påverkade dem att söka anställning i Försvarsmakten, att fortsätta att vara anställda, eller ... -
Lokalisering av offentlig service som politikområde – partipolitiska åsiktskonflikter i svenska kommuner
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2023-01-09)I papperet ”Lokalisering av offentlig service som politikområde – partipolitiska åsiktskonflikter i svenska kommuner” möts perspektiv från två pågående projekt: Projektet Konkurrensdemokrati i svenska kommuner fokuserar ... -
Playing the Enemy: Information, Deception, and Dictatorial Survival
What strategies do autocrats use to maintain power? Across three papers, I examine puzzling aspects of autocratic rule. These range from personalist dictators publicizing failed conspiracies to opposition involvement in ... -
Gamlestaden 2021. En medborgarundersökning i Gamlestaden, Göteborg
(School of Public Administration/Förvaltningshögskolan, 2022-12-19)I denna rapport redovisas resultaten av den medborgarundersökning som år 2021 genomfördes i stadsdelen Gamlestaden i Göte-borg. Detta var den sjätte undersökning som genomförts under de senaste två decennierna, och i och ... -
Att balansera mellan omställning och kontinuitet i arbetet med hållbarhet. En etnografisk fallstudie om att införliva samhälleliga krav och förväntningar på en hållbar utveckling inom kommunal verksamhet
(2022)The aim of this dissertation is to increase knowledge of how municipal services incorporate political demands and expectations from stakeholders in society to contribute to sustainable development. The study investigates ... -
Forest Governance: Gendered Institutions, Practices, and Resource Struggles in Burkina Faso
(2022-12-08)This thesis explores the gendered dynamics of forest governance and practices in rural Burkina Faso. Approximately, three billion people worldwide rely on trees for their everyday life. In West Africa, women, are often ... -
Human stature, health and workplace design. An ethical dilemma
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Security Controversies along the LAPSSET Infrastructure Corridor in Kenya
(2022-11-23)This Ph.D. thesis accounts for the changing political relations between different actors in northern Kenya through a focus on controversies emerging from the securing of the LAPS-SET mega project. Through the controversies, ... -
Hantering av hemlöshet. En kartläggning och analys av organiseringen av lokala hemlöshetsystem i Sveriges kommuner.
(2022-11-17)The general aim of this thesis is to study the organization of housing services for persons living in homelessness in Sweden. Three areas are in focus. The first concerns how the right to housing assistance is interpreted ... -
Förändring och kontinuitet: Giftermål, släktskap, identitet och generationsskiften i den assyriska diasporan
(2022-11-16)Denna avhandling undersöker uppfattningar om släktskap och giftermål bland assyrier i Sverige, i relation till gruppens diasporaidentitet. Den tar sitt avstamp i historiska processer under mitten av 1970- talet vilka ...
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