Search for dissertations about: "Moral science"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 77 swedish dissertations containing the words Moral science.

2. 16. Essays on the collective action dilemma of vaccination

   Author : Rafael Ahlskog; Sven Oskarsson; Vernby Kåre; Michael Bang Petersen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; vaccines; collective action; democracy; rationality; altruism; Statskunskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : Vaccines famously possess positive externalities that make them susceptible to the collective action dilemma: when I get vaccinated, I protect not only myself, but also those who I might otherwise have infected. Thus, some people will have an incentive to free ride on the immunity of others. READ MORE

4. 17. Your Treatment, My Treat? : On Lifestyle-Related Ill Health and Reasonable Responsibilitarianism

   Author : Max Fonseca; Ludvig Beckman; Jouni Reinikainen; Kristin Voigt; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; responsibilitarianism; lifestyle; health; distributive justice; contractualism; Thomas Scanlon; luck-egalitarianism; the harshness objection; free will; accountability responsibility; sin-taxes; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : How should the costs of unhealthy lifestyles be distributed between individual citizens and the state? This study approaches this question by investigating the justifiability of the responsibilitarian idea that people who are responsible for their lifestyle-choices should also be held responsible for the costs that these lifestyle-choices generate.Two main conclusions come out of this investigation. READ MORE

5. 18. Traits & Talks : Lessons about Personality and Deliberation from the Negotiations between Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk

   Author : Julia Jennstål; Bo Bengtsson; Per-Ola Öberg; Jakob Elster; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Personality; five-factor model; big five; traits; facets; interactionalism; deliberation; collective decision-making; negotiations; South Africa; Nelson Mandela; FW de Klerk; Statskunskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : Compelling research in political psychology and personality psychology points to the significance of personality as a determinant of political behavior. Within a comprehensive framework for the study of personality in politics, the so-called Five-level Model (FLM), this thesis primarily focuses on the level of personality traits, where the well-established Five-factor model (the ‘Big Five’) is applied. READ MORE

6. 19. The intellectuals and the idea of the nation in slavophile thought

   Author : Susanna Rabow-Edling; John Hutchinson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Nationalism; historia; Ryssland; 1800-talet; Slavofilism; statsvetenskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : This dissertation analyses the first expression of Russian nationalism, formulated by the Slavophiles in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Against the common view of the Slavophiles as reactionary dreamers, indifferent to politics, it argues that Slavophilism was a conscious project for social change. READ MORE

7. 20. Desirable Victims: Systems of Refugee Selection in Swedish and Canadian Migration Governing

   Author : Andreas Lundstedt; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; state capacity; migration; refugees; classification; categorization; historical institutionalism; judicialization; administrative courts; target populations; people processing;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how states try to govern refugee migration by classifying and ordering its subjects. It argues that a unifying construct of state migration control is selection: to maintain a system that offers protection to wanted people and keeps out unwanted people. READ MORE