Search for dissertations about: "coercive power"

Showing result 11 - 14 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words coercive power.

  2. 11. Social Adjustment of Kenyan Orphaned Grandchildren

    Author : Paul Odhiambo Oburu; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; caregiving stress; child adjustment; physical discipline; grandmothers; orphans;

    Abstract : Oburu, P.O. (2004). READ MORE

  4. 12. Voluntary Coercion. Collective Action and the Social Contract

    Author : Magnus Jiborn; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; convention.; evolutionary stability; equilibrium; Assurance game; Prisoner s Dilemma; evolutionary game theory; game theory; collective action; Social contract; Systematic philosophy; ethics; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Praktisk filosofi; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi;

    Abstract : This work provides a game theoretical analysis of the classical idea of a social contract. According to what we might call the Hobbesian justification of the state, coercion is necessary in order to provide people with basic security and to enable them to successfully engage in mutually beneficial cooperation. READ MORE

  5. 13. Forests, farmers and the state : environmentalism and resistance in northeastern Thailand

    Author : Amare Tegbaru; Hans-Dieter Evers; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social anthropology ethnography; Socialantrolopologi etnografi; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

    Abstract : The Isan farmers in Ubonratchatani province of Northeast Thailand employ Buddhist as well as modernist environmental arguments to resist the spread of commercial eucalyptus plantations carried out by the state. Villagers affected by the consequences of commercial forestry have made a metaphorical link between eucalyptus, destructive exploitation and coercive power. READ MORE

  6. 14. Nanosecond optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers based on periodically poled KTiOPO4

    Author : Jonas Hellström; KTH; []
    Keywords : optical parametric oscillators; optica parametric amplifiers; quasi-phasematching; KTiOPO4; nonlinear optics; frequency conversion; periodic electric field poling; ferroelectrics; high-order second harmonic generation; electro-optic effect;

    Abstract : Optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) and optical parametricamplifiers (OPAs) constitute a class of optical frequencyconverting devices that have many possible applications, e.g.in range finding, molecular spectroscopy and medicine. READ MORE