Search for dissertations about: "new historical institutionalism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words new historical institutionalism.
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1. Stakeholder Influence in Higher Education : Old Ideas in New Bottles?
Abstract : This dissertation deals with how national higher education policy affects stakeholder influence in practice, i.e. how two selected higher education institutions, the University of Oslo and Telemark University College, have interpreted and adapted to national policy reforms. The aim of this dissertation is threefold. READ MORE
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2. Constitutional rules and party goals in coalition formation : an analysis of winning minority governments in Sweden
Abstract : This study starts with two theoretical puzzles within the rational choice oriented literature on government formation in parliamentary democracies: the relative importance of constitutional rules and the existence of multiple party goals. From these puzzles stem the research questions that guide the study: First, what is the theoretical and empirical link between constitutional arrangements (including rules) and party goals? Second, what are the goals of political parties and how can these be studied? Third, relative to the goals of political parties and other constitutional arrangements, what is the importance of government formation rules for the empirical record of minority and majority governments?Coalition theory provides the theoretical starting point from which the research questions stem. READ MORE
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3. Desirable Victims: Systems of Refugee Selection in Swedish and Canadian Migration Governing
Abstract : This thesis explores how states try to govern refugee migration by classifying and ordering its subjects. It argues that a unifying construct of state migration control is selection: to maintain a system that offers protection to wanted people and keeps out unwanted people. READ MORE
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4. Transformative Power Challenged : EU Membership Conditionality in the Western Balkans Revisited
Abstract : The EU is assumed to have a strong top-down transformative power over the states applying for membership. But despite intensive research on the EU membership conditionality, the transformative power of the EU in itself has been left curiously understudied. READ MORE
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5. Rethinking Russian Federalism : The Politics of Intergovernmental Relations and Federal Reforms
Abstract : In Russia federalism and the design of federal institutions have been greatly debated topics ever since the beginning of the 1990s. When the newly elected Russian president Vladimir Putin introduced a number of federal reforms in May 2000 it represented the culmination of a debate on federalism that had been triggered by the political and economic crisis of 1998. READ MORE
