Search for dissertations about: "legislators"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the word legislators.
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1. Crossing to the Mainstream: Information Challenges and Possibilities for Female Legislators in the Ugandan Parliament
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2. Drawing the limits : Unaccompanied minors in Swedish asylum policy and procedure
Abstract : The overall aim of the thesis is to explore legislators’ perceptions of unaccompanied children in the development of migration law, and how case-officers transform the policy in arguments for and against residency in asylum-cases.More specifically, this thesis explores how Swedish legislators experienced parliamentary work when putting in place the 2005 Aliens Act and the new system for appeals and procedures. READ MORE
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3. Death Penalty in Decline : Brakes and Accelerators in U.S. State Legislatures
Abstract : After reaching a peak during the 1990s, death sentences and executions havedeclined throughout the states. During this time, a steady stream of states havetaken the step to join a growing group of abolitionist states, or alternatively, have a moratorium on executions in place. In a parallel development, supportfor the death penalty among the U.S. READ MORE
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4. Essays on Female Policymakers and Policy Outcomes
Abstract : The thesis consists of three papers, summarized as follows. "Female Policymakers and Educational Expenditures: Cross-Country Evidence" This paper investigates the influence of women in politics on decision-making using public educational expenditures as the outcome of interest. READ MORE
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5. Incumbent Renomination : Accountability and Gender Bias
Abstract : Party recruiters in proportional-representation (PR) systems are forced to do what their majoritarian counterparts are not: they need to rank-order all their candidates on the party ballots based on whom they most wish to get elected. Consequently, new candidates and incumbents alike compete for a limited number of electable ballot slots. READ MORE