Search for dissertations about: "legacies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 51 swedish dissertations containing the word legacies.

  2. 1. The Establishment of Semi-Presidential Regimes : A Mixed Methods Approach to How and Why

    Author : Jenny Åberg; Thomas Sedelius; Joachim Åström; Thomas Denk; Petra Schleiter; Högskolan Dalarna; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Semi-presidentialism; regime type; constitutional choice; diffusion; legacies; transitional bargaining; Intercultural Studies; Interkulturella studier;

    Abstract : One of the crucial constitutional choices made in a democratizing or recently independent state is the structure of executive-legislative relations that forms into a parliamentary, presidential, or semi-presidential regime. Even so, only a few studies have sought the reasons for the establishment and least of all is known when it comes to the most recent of them: the semi-presidential one. READ MORE

  4. 2. Japan and Germany after 1945 : Parties, Politicians and World War Two Legacies

    Author : Ivo Plsek; USA Berkeley University of California; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Japan and Germany after 1945; memory politics; reconciliation; political elites and memory; Historia; History; Statskunskap; Political Science;

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  5. 3. The Land of the Magical Maya : Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism

    Author : Claudia Fonseca Alfaro; Stefan Kipfer; Malmö universitet; []
    Keywords : Postcolonial Studies; Lefebvre; Global South; Critical Urban Theory; Maquiladoras; Coloniality;

    Abstract : The land of the Magical Maya is a mythical region in the south of Mexico where there are enigmatic creatures such as cosmic Indios, vultures, ghosts, white elephants, pineapples, swallows, and flamingos; and wondrous places like cenotes, pyramids, blue moons, old frontiers, new frontiers, and paradise-Zones. In the 1980s, henequen, the agro-based industry that had sustained Yucatán since the 19th century, was close to collapsing. READ MORE

  6. 4. Fair Trading Law in Flux? : National Legacies, Institutional Choice and the Process of Europeanisation

    Author : Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt; Josef Drexl; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; European law; EU-rätt; Comparative law; Komparativ rätt; Competition law; Marknads- och konkurrensrätt; Legal Science; rättsvetenskap;

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  7. 5. Long-lasting ecological legacies of reindeer on tundra vegetation

    Author : Dagmar D. Egelkraut; Johan Olofsson; Bruce Forbes; Hans Tømmervik; René van der Wal; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Alternative stable state; Herbivory; Historical contingency; Nutrient cycling; Plant-herbivore interactions; Plant-soil feedbacks; Rangifer tarandus; Reindeer herding; Traditional land use; Tundra vegetation;

    Abstract : Reindeer can have strong effects on the plant species composition and functioning of tundra ecosystems, and often promote a transition towards a graminoid-dominated vegetation type. As a result, they influence many ecological processes, such as nutrient dynamics, soil biotic composition and functioning, and carbon storage. READ MORE