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Säker ledare – ett samverkansprojekt för att förbättra säkerhetsledarskap och säkerhetskultur i bygg- och anläggningsindustrin
(2023)Syftet med forskningsprojektet Säker ledare var att undersöka hur byggplatschefer påverkas av, och själva påverkar, säkerhetskulturen i svensk bygg- och anläggningsindustri, samt hur platschefers ledarskap kan utvecklas ... -
Electoral Clientelism and Redistribution: How Vote Buying Undermines Citizen Demand for Public Services
(2023-09)Does electoral clientelism limit public demand for programmatic redistribution? While recent studies suggest that distribution of pre-electoral clientelist transfers can divert resources from post-electoral programmatic ... -
News Publishers’ Innovation of Practices Amid Platform Dominance
(2023-08-30)To news publishers, digital platform companies (or “platforms”) such as Google and Meta present both benefits and risks. Platforms offer publishers certain functionalities and services that may be beneficial, but they have ... -
Säker ledare: En handbok för individualiserad träning i beteendebaserat säkerhetsledarskap
(Psykologiska institutionen / Göteborgs universitet, 2023)Denna handbok har som syfte att bidra till säkrare beteenden på byggarbetsplatser. Den riktar sig till platschefer, arbetsledare och andra personer i ledande positioner inom byggsektorn. Handboken utgör ett praktiskt ... -
Aid by Democratic Versus Autocratic Donors: Democratization Processes and Citizens’ Perceptions in Recipient Countries
(2023-08-21)OECD countries are no longer the sole major providers of financial flows abroad. Authoritarian countries such as China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, with their distinct practices and implementation processes, are ... -
Political Trust – More Personal Than We Thought? Explaining How and When Personality Traits Affect Political Trust.
(2023-08-16)Political trust is crucial for a well-functioning society. Yet few countries enjoy the benefits of high political trust. This makes people wonder how trust in institutions is built. While trust in political institutions ... -
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
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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’ ...
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