Search for dissertations about: "förvaltningskunskap"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the word förvaltningskunskap.

2. 6. Crafting Democracy : Civil Society in Post-Transition Honduras

   Author : Caroline Boussard; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Central America; Honduras; development assistance; transition; civil society; democracy; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

   Abstract : Civil society is frequently singled out as one of the most important factors in the democratization process, but existing research is often imprecise with regard to civil society’s relation to democratic development. This study analyzes how, and under what circumstances, civil society can contribute to democratic development in newly established democracies. READ MORE

4. 7. What Can Nature Withstand? : Science, Politics and Discourses in Transboundary Air Pollution Diplomacy

   Author : Karin Bäckstrand; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political and administrative sciences; discourse analysis; constructivism; science–policy interface; critical loads; international environmental politics; transboundary air pollution; Environmental law; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Miljörätt;

   Abstract : Long-range transboundary air pollution generates pressing environmental problems such as the acidification of lakes and soils, forest decline and loss of biodiversity as well as threats to human health across Europe. The overall aim of this study is to explore the role of scientific expertise in environmental diplomacy by analyzing recent international agreements in the transboundary air pollution (LRTAP) regime. READ MORE

5. 8. L'Etat, c'est pas moi : Reframing citizenship(s) in the Baltic republics

   Author : Olivier Danjoux; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; consensus; language; ethnicity; culture; urbanity; time; exogamy; post-communism; communism; totalitarianism; Soviet Union; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Baltic; citizenship; nation; conflict; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

   Abstract : This book speaks to readers with a particular interest in the Baltic states as well as to those with a broader interest in post-communist democratization and citizenship. The notion of citizenship has not been prominent in academic perspectives on post-communism. This study aims at bringing citizenship back into these perspectives. READ MORE

6. 9. A Realist Stable Peace : Power, Threat and the Development of a Shared Norwegian-Swedish Democratic Security Identity 1905-1940

   Author : Magnus Ericson; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political and administrative sciences; theory; International Relations; Scandinavia; History; Realism; Stable Peace; Democratic Peace; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

   Abstract : This study concerns the development of Stable Peace between states in the modern anarchical international system. As a starting point for the inquiry the author argues that the prevalence of this type of interstate relationships—characterized by the mutual expectations that neither military violence nor threats thereof will be employed—may be seen as a fundamental challenge to the validity of prevailing Realist perpectives on contemporary IR. READ MORE

7. 10. Foreign Intervention in Internal Wars : The Case of the Nigerian Civil War 1967-70

   Author : Ted Gogote Badom; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; internal wars; Intervention; civil war; Statsvetenskap; Political and administrative sciences; Nigeria; förvaltningskunskap;

   Abstract : Scholars of widely diverging persuasions have recognized the implications of the world constellation in which the discourse on foreign intervention with all its manifestations in a civil war has an explanatory value. How-ever, a number of long-standing theoretical, methodological and epistemological challenges still resist clearcut solution. READ MORE