Search for dissertations about: "Legitimacy"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 292 swedish dissertations containing the word Legitimacy.

2. 21. Magic Wand or Pandoras Box? How transparency in decision making affects public perceptions of legitimacy

   Author : Jenny De Fine Licht; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transparency; Legitimacy; Trust; Healthcare priority-setting;

   Abstract : According to conventional wisdom and political rhetoric, increased transparency in political decision making is a powerful tool to increase public acceptance of decisions and trust in decision makers. The question of why transparency would generate legitimacy in the eyes of the public remains, however, largely under-theorized, and the empirical evidence supporting the assumption remains scant. READ MORE

4. 22. Liberty Revisited. A Historical and Systematic Account of an Egalitarian Conception of Liberty and Legitimacy

   Author : Lena Halldenius; Praktisk filosofi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of philosophy; welfare state; discrimination; subordination; socioeconomics; power; gender; Pettit; Wollstonecraft; Mill; Locke; Kant; equality; non-domination; liberty; legitimacy; history of ideas; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria; Political history; Politisk historia;

   Abstract : This dissertation argues for an interpretation of liberty in terms of non-domination rather than non-interference, that non-domination can work as an independent criterion of political legitimacy, and that non-domination includes an approximation of equality in socioeconomic goods. In the first part, four theories of liberty and power – those of Kant, Locke, J. READ MORE

5. 23. Legitimized Refugees : A Critical Investigation of Legitimacy Claims within the Precedents of Swedish Asylum Law

   Author : Martin Joormann; Rättssociologiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Refugee law; legitimacy; power and uncertainty; Sweden; Migration Court of Appeal; judges; precedents; critical discourse analysis; collective case study; institutionalized power imbalance;

   Abstract : This study focuses on asylum cases decided at Sweden’s migration courts. More precisely, it analyses how the highest legal instance, the Migration Court of Appeal (hereafter MCA), legitimizes decisions that concern asylum seekers. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), the study makes power relations visible. READ MORE

6. 24. Exploring public policy legitimacy : a study of belief-system correspondence in Swedish environmental policy

   Author : Simon Matti; Neil Carter; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political Science; Statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : As environmental problems today are understood as being problems of collective action, they also depend on the broad engagement of individual citizens for their successful solution. Policymakers are thereby faced with the challenge of designing policy and constructing policy tools, which contribute to an increase in individual environmental responsibility and voluntarily behavioural change. READ MORE

7. 25. Global Adaptation Governance and Indigenous Peoples : Legitimacy, Justice and Participation

   Author : Suanne M. Segovia-Tzompa; Lisa Maria Dellmuth; Maria-Therese Gustafsson; Simon Hollis; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Global Governance; Climate Change Adaptation; Environmental Justice; Indigenous Peoples; Participation; Gobernanza Global; Adaptación al Cambio Climático; Justicia Ambiental; Pueblos Indígenas; Participación; International Relations; internationella relationer;

   Abstract : Indigenous people have participated in United Nations climate change conferences for over 30 years under informal conditions. Their formal opportunity to voice concerns and share traditional knowledge emerged  when the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform became operational in 2018 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. READ MORE