Search for dissertations about: "common good"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 1142 swedish dissertations containing the words common good.
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1. Democracy and the Common Good : A Study of the Weighted Majority Rule
Abstract : In this study I analyse the performance of a democratic decision-making rule: the weighted majority rule. It assigns to each voter a number of votes that is proportional to her stakes in the decision. READ MORE
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2. Good Guys : A Cultural Semiotic Study of the Print Advertising of the Oil Industry (1900-2000)
Abstract : Oil is central to our lives and is the source of many of the conveniences that we take for granted. It can bring wealth and prosperity to individuals and to nations, but is also a source of political conflict and the consequences of its impact on the environment are only now beginning to be fully recognised. READ MORE
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3. Inner strength among the oldest old : a good aging
Abstract : The overall purpose of this thesis is to describe, explore and illuminate inner strength among the oldest old. The thesis has a salutogenic perspective where strengths and health are in the foreground instead of weakness and ill health. The thesis is part of The Umeå 85+ study and comprises four studies with both quantitative and qualitative data. READ MORE
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4. The Common Good in Common Goods - The Decommodification of Fundamental Resources through Law
Abstract : This dissertation is divided into three parts. Part I analyzes the Commons as a post-capitalist strategy accomplished through law by developing an alternative social theory of the market as a social institution. READ MORE
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5. Common-Mode Aided Wireline Communications
Abstract : Wireline communication is the Internet access technology with the largest number of subscribers worldwide. On physical-layer level, the traditional way to transmit signals at one end of a wire pair and to extract receive signals at the other end is to apply differential-mode signalling: transmit and receive signals correspond to voltage differences between the two wires. READ MORE