Search for dissertations about: "political bias"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 42 swedish dissertations containing the words political bias.

2. 11. Towards Legitimacy as Congruence: Regimes' Menus of Legitimation and Citizens’ Appetites

   Author : Marcus Tannenberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Legitimacy; Legitimation; Self-censorship; Preference falsification;

   Abstract : Legitimacy is one of the most crucial concepts in political science. It concerns how authority can be exercised in ways that those subjected to it willingly accept, something that all rulers desire. It is also one of the most contested concepts in the field, largely due to the difficulty of measurement. READ MORE

4. 12. Generalized Trust in Surveys: From Scales to Dragons

   Author : Sebastian Lundmark; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Generalized Trust; Survey Methodology; Survey Experiments; Panel Studies;

   Abstract : Generalized trust has been one of the frequently researched attitudes in political and social sciences. Although this type of trust saw its real breakthrough in the theories about social capital, offered by Robert D. Putnam in 1993, the survey measurement was created in the 1940s. READ MORE

5. 13. Military intelligence analysis : institutional influence

   Author : Martin Bang; Juha-Matti Lehtonen; Gunnar Hult; Martin Norsell; Philip Davies; Försvarshögskolan; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; intelligence analysis; military intelligence; institutions and threat assessments; Försvarssystem; Military Technology;

   Abstract : Intelligence is vital for the outcome of battles. As long as humans wage war, there will be a need for decision support to military and civilian leaders regarding adversaries or potential adversaries. However, the production of intelligence is neither easy nor without pitfalls. READ MORE

6. 14. Drugs and the Convention on the Rights of the Child : Fragmentation, Contention and Structural Bias

   Author : Damon Barrett; Pål Wrange; Allyn Taylor; Manfred Nowak; Rebecca Stern; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; child rights; drug control; Convention on the Rights of the Child; structural bias; critical child rights studies; internationell rätt; International Law;

   Abstract : Responding to the harms caused by drug use and the drug trade is one of the most pressing and interdisciplinary challenges of our time, within which the protection of children has become central. But there has been relatively little academic attention to the international legal dimensions of drug policy, despite the existence of a dedicated international legal framework on the issue and a range of other treaties that include drugs in some way. READ MORE

7. 15. Essays on Growth, Political Economy and Development

   Author : Abdulaziz B. Shifa; Per Krusell; Jakob Svensson; Kjetil Storesletten; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Growth; human capital transfer; productivity; catch-up; Urban bias; rural poverty; dictatorship; Agricultural growth; manufacturing growth; instrumental variable; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This thesis has three self-contained articles.Economic growth and trade in human capital: A salient empirical pattern in the East Asian “miracle” is a large increase in output and factor accumulation despite  only a modest increase in TFP. I develop and calibrate a model of growth and catch-up to provide a possible explanation. READ MORE