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The (im)possibility of being a peasant: Narratives and lived experiences of the avocado boom in Cajamarca, Colombia
(2025-03-05)Over the past decade, avocados have become a fashionable fruit with a rising demand in global markets and Colombia has emerged as a major exporter worldwide. This thesis delves into the interrelated sociocultural, economic ... -
Hur mår den svenska yrkesfiskaren 2024? Rapport om en enkätundersökning av svenska fiskelicensinnehavare
(2025)I denna rapport presenterar vi en femårig uppföljning (2024), samt en utveckling, av den ursprungliga enkäten. Nya enkäter skickades ut till svenska fiskare som har licenser kopplade till fartyg, det vill säga, ... -
Swedish Human Ecology, Political Ecology, and the Struggle for Interdisciplinarity: Bridging the Socio-Natural Divide in Research and Education
(2025)Interdisciplinary research and education on human-environment relations has a natural place in many Anglo-American geography and anthropology departments. In Sweden, however, critical scholarship across the socio-natural ... -
Uppkopplad mot världen: Om unga med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning och deras erfarenheter av sociala aktiviteter på internet
(2025-02-10)The aim of this thesis is to explore the experiences of young people with intellectual disability on social media and the internet by reviewing previous research, analysing and interpreting experiences of social activities ... -
Svenska politiker. Om de folkvalda i riksdag, landsting och kommuner
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Mellan marknad och profession: en studie av socionomkonsulter och deras professionella ideologi
(2025-01-27)The social services in Sweden have faced recruitment challenges for decades. Since the 2010s, this problem has commonly been solved by hiring consultants from private companies. The emergence and continued existence of ... -
What Are the Economic Consequences of Aligning Policies with Public Opinion?
(2025-11)What are the economic consequences of policies that follow public opinion? We combine international survey data with fiscal statistics, and find that the public generally favors increased spending on most areas and lower ... -
Children subjected to family violence: a retrospective study of life situation and trauma-focused treatment
(2025-01-22)Child maltreatment is a risk factor for developing serious psychopathology. Trauma-focused treatment is effective, but not all children benefit from it. The experiences of affected children are a vital source of knowledge ... -
Losing Your Grip: Feelings of Control and Unsubstantiated Political Beliefs
(2025-01-15)Widespread corruption has equally widespread impact on the people and functioning of that society. However, while abuses of power may be found in all societies, in many places corruption is far less common and individuals ... -
Power relations in app-based food delivery in Norway
(2025-01-14)What happens when companies that use apps and algorithms to manage a pool of workers with non-standard work arrangements enter a well-organised labour market? In this thesis, I analyse Foodora Norway as a critical case, ... -
Mass support for conserving 30% of the Earth by 2030: Experimental evidence from five continents
(2024-12)Rapid global expansion of protected areas is critical for safeguarding biodiversity but depends on political action for successful implementation. Following ratification of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, ... -
Protected Areas and Spillovers on Corruption
(2024-12)Do nature protected area (PA) establishments change local corruption levels? This article presents a theory of spatial spillovers, predicting (a) less corruption in areas inside protection, through increased government oversight ... -
Public Resources and Accountability: Experimental Evidence
(2024-12)Recent political economy research indicates that the well-known positive relationship between taxation and accountability may be driven not by the source of revenues per se but by citizens’ expectations regarding how ... -
Working Class Power: The Decline and Reconfiguration of Trade Union Power Resources in the 21st Century
(2024-12-10)This thesis comprises four studies investigating the formation, uses, and interactions of trade union power resources. By applying a longitudinal approach, the studies analyse a variety of outcomes associated with four ... -
The Causes and Consequences of Government Concessions to Protests
(2024-12-10)Political street protests are a prominent form of political participation worldwide that transcends political regimes and ideologies. When governments give in to protesters' demands and grant concessions, these concessions ... -
Beyond the Border: International pressures and state-building
(2024-12-10)States vary tremendously in their ability to effectively implement decisions. Moreover, such differences in “state capacity” exist not only between countries, but also within the territories that states claim to govern. ... -
Minnen från arbetslivet under Covid-19-pandemin utifrån funktionsrättsperspektiv
(2024)Den här boken delar minnen och berättelser från personer med olika former av funktionsnedsättningar om deras arbetsliv under pandemin. Berättelserna samlades in som en del av forskningsprojektet "Arbetsliv under ... -
Is unequal responsiveness caused by high-income earners having more informed opinions?: An empirical test.
(2024-11)Previous research has shown that the affluent see more of their preferred policies realized, which scholars of opinion—policy responsiveness attribute to unequal influence. A rival theory instead states that the reason ... -
Asymmetric Responsiveness: The Effects of Protesters’ Demographics and Policy Preferences on the Political Agenda
(2024-11)Previous research predicts that politicians are responsive to citizens with whom they share demographics or policy preferences. I argue that protests are particularly susceptible to politicians’ di!erential responsiveness. ...
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