Search for dissertations about: "democratization"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 53 swedish dissertations containing the word democratization.

2. 21. Essays on Social Conflict and Reform

   Author : Anders Bornefalk; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : "Essays on Social Conflict and Reform" consists of four essays that study the political economy of policy reform. Social Conflict with Passive Groups examines conflicts over the distribution of income where groups that engage in appropriative activities as well as groups that are passive in this respect participate. READ MORE

4. 22. Organizing for Social Change : Worker Cooperatives as Resistance to Capitalism

   Author : Kristin Wiksell; Satu Heikkinen; Andreas Henriksson; Åsa Wettergren; Roland Paulsen; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Worker cooperatives; Capitalism; Resistance; Constructive resistance; Power; Social change; Organizing; Timebanks; Work relations; Temporality; Knowledge; Discourse; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : When people around the globe are increasingly confronted with the challenges of rising economic inequalities and declining democratization, often associated with the spread of globalized capitalism, it becomes difficult to defend a position of business as usual. Worker co-ops are economic associations equally owned and democratically governed by workers with the potential to contribute to economic democracy and social change. READ MORE

5. 23. What’s the Use of A Free Media? The Role of Media in Curbing Corruption and Promoting Quality of Government

   Author : Mathias A. Färdigh; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Free media have traditionally been seen as vital to democratization and economic development. International actors, such as UN, the World Bank, the EU, Transparency International, the OECD and the research field in its entirety regard free media as one of the main means of curbing corruption. READ MORE

6. 24. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the innovator after all? : An explorative study of a management-initiated employee innovation process

   Author : Izabelle Bäckström; Innovationsteknik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Critical discourse analysis; Digitalization; Employee-driven innovation; Innovation management; Power relations; Roles; Web-based tools; Critical discourse analysis; Digitalization; Innovation management; Employee-driven innovation; Power relations; Roles; Web-based tools;

   Abstract : Today, the innovation arena is open to a wider range of participants than previously acknowledged. One specifically neglected group of innovators in traditional innovation studies is non-R&D and non-managerial employees, also referred to as ‘ordinary’ employees by the existing body of literature on employee-driven innovation (EDI). READ MORE

7. 25. Who knows what tomorrow will bring? : Four papers on the prediction of contentious politics

   Author : David Randahl; Håvard Hegre; Espen Geelmuyden Rød; Måns Thulin; Bear Braumoeller; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Peace and Conflict Research; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : In the last decade advances in statistics, computing power, and data collection has led to an increased interest in forecasting within the field of peace and conflict research and to the adoption of a wide range of methodological approaches for making such forecasts. By making use of these more powerful forecasting methods researchers have been able to produce accurate predictions, as well as better inferences, of many different types of contentious politics events and to create operational early warning systems for such events. READ MORE