Search for dissertations about: "Modern state"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 482 swedish dissertations containing the words Modern state.

  2. 1. Grasping the Peripheral State : A Historical Sociology of Nicaraguan State Formation

    Author : Anders Neergaard; Sociologiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; national arena; international arena; integrative capacity; repressive capacity; extractive capacity; international system of states; world capitalist economy; colonial legacy; peripheral state; nation-state; state formation; Historical political sociology; state forms; state arena; infrastructural power; despotic power.; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : The thesis has two aims. The first one is to contribute to the field of political and historical sociology through an understanding of the processes of state formation in a Third World country. The second aim is to describe and analyze the development of the Nicaraguan state from independence to 1990. READ MORE

  4. 2. Modern Media, Modern Audiences : Mass Media and Social Engineering in the 1930s Swedish Welfare State

    Author : Ylva Habel; Soveig Julich; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Visuell kultur; urbanitet; kvinnor; mediehistoria; reception; välfärdsstaten; Film; Filmvetenskap; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Abstract : The dissertation straddles the interface of mass media, social engineering and advertising in 1930s Stockholm. Its twofold objective is firstly to outline their cultural output, targeting predominantly feminine audiences. READ MORE

  5. 3. The An-Archical State : Logics of Legitimacy in the Social Contract Tradition

    Author : Sofia Näsström; Bo Lindensjö; Stephen K White; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; legitimacy; social contract; state; responsivity; anarchy; dissent; subjectivity; freedom; action; Levinas; Arendt; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : The modern state is today under great pressure. In the face of globalization, many theorists seek to rethink the boundaries of the state. They call for a transformation of the state from the national to the global level. But there is a deeper theoretical question at stake. READ MORE

  6. 4. The state of statistics : conceptual change and statistical reasoning in the modern state 1870-1940

    Author : Claes Wahl; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Statistik-- historia -- 1870-1940;

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  7. 5. In the Shadows of Poland and Russia : The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden in the European Crisis of the mid-17th century

    Author : Andrej Kotljarchuk; David Gaunt; Robert I Frost; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish-Lithuanian Relations; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Second Northern War; Swedish-Ukrainian Diplomacy; Swedish-Russian Diplomacy; Protestantism in Lithuania and Belarus; History; Historia;

    Abstract : This book examines and analyses the Union between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden signed in 1655 at Kėdainiai and the political crisis that followed. The union was a result of strong separatist dreams among the Lithuanian-Ruthenian Protestant elite led by the Radziwiłł family, and if implemented it would radically change the balance of power in the Baltic Sea region. READ MORE