Search for dissertations about: "coercive power"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words coercive power.

2. 1. Resistance to Reforms: settlement and agricultural reforms in post-genocide Rwanda

   Author : Gumira Joseph Hahirwa; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Resistance; power; reform s ; implementation; settlement; agriculture; genocide; Rwanda;

   Abstract : In this thesis I explore the phenomenon of resistance to settlement and agricultural reforms in post-genocide Rwanda. The aim of the thesis is to understand how farmers experience the implementation of settlement and agricultural reforms and how they react to and resist them. READ MORE

4. 2. Contradicting Management Control Ideologies – A study of integration processes following cross-border acquisitions of large multinationals

   Author : Peter Beusch; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Management control; mergers and acquisitions; cross-border; ideology; rhetoric; coercive power;

   Abstract : The 1990s and early 2000s witnessed some of the largest cross-border acquisitions in business history. This thesis studies how key management control actors experienced the integration processes following two cross-border acquisitions. READ MORE

5. 3. Negotiated knowledge positions : communication in trauma teams

   Author : Maria Härgestam; Maritha Jacobsson; Christine Brulin; Magnus Hultin; Eric Carlström; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; communication; discourse psychology; ideological dilemma; interpretative repertoires; leadership; non-verbal communication; position; power; team work; time; trauma team; trauma team training; silence;

   Abstract : Background Within trauma teams, effective communication is necessary to ensure safe and secure care of the patient. Deficiencies in communication are one of the most important factors leading to patient harm. Time is an essential factor for rapid and efficient disposal of trauma teams to increase patients’ survival and prevent morbidity. READ MORE

6. 4. An object in need of protection but not a subject of rights? : A study on rights of children involuntarily placed in care in the Swedish welfare state

   Author : Jonna Rennerskog; Magnus Hörnqvist; Johan Edman; Anna Lundberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; children s rights; coercive care; crime policy; neoliberalism; welfare state; rechtsstaat; regulation; UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; kriminologi; Criminology;

   Abstract : The practice of locked coercive care of children occupies a unique position in the Swedish welfare state. It is one of the most intrusive interventions into private life the State can practise, and the only welfare intervention that involves the use of coercion: firstly, through the involuntary placement of a child in a locked institution, and secondly, through the use of coercive measures, such as placement in isolation cells, body searches and restrictions on the use of mobile phones or internet. READ MORE

7. 5. The Political Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions : A Justice-Based Account

   Author : Martin Westergren; Jonas Tallberg; Hans Agné; Simon Birnbaum; Thomas Christiano; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : One of the most prominent political developments in recent decades is the expansion and strengthening of global governance institutions (GGIs). Our lives are increasingly governed by rules for trade, fiscal and monetary standards, intellectual property law, and norms of good governance, developed and overseen by global institutions. READ MORE