Search for dissertations about: "supreme audit institutions"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words supreme audit institutions.

  2. 1. Essays on Institutions, Inequality and Development

    Author : Ann-Sofie Isaksson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Africa; Afrobarometer; capacity constraints; fairness; institutions; institution building; political participation; property rights; parameter heterogeneity; redistribution preferences; resources; social divisions; supreme audit institution; Rwanda.;

    Abstract : The thesis consists of four self-contained papers. Paper 1: Social divisions and institutions: Assessing institutional parameter variation This paper investigates the hypothesis that the association between property rights institutions and income is weaker in countries with high social divisions. READ MORE

  4. 2. The voice of the people? : Supplications submitted to the Swedish Diet in the Age of Liberty, 1719–1772

    Author : Martin Almbjär; Svante Norrhem; Peter Lindström; Nils Erik Villstrand; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Age of Liberty; audit; Diet of Estates; early modern state formation; eighteenth century; institutions; national debt; parliamentary committees; petitions; political participation; public office; supplications; taxes; trade privileges; Supreme Court; welfare; historia; History;

    Abstract : This dissertation is devoted to the study of who used the formal channels of interaction in the early modern era and why. It examines the full range of the political conversation in early modern Sweden, as seen in the supplications to the Diet in the Age of Liberty (1719–1772), and more specifically the supplications submitted to the parliamentary committee tasked with handling them, the Screening Deputation. READ MORE

  5. 3. Auditing the African State. International Standards and Local Adjustments

    Author : Maria Gustavson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; accountability; audit; public administration; development; Africa; organizations; profession;

    Abstract : Norms for how to create accountability within the public sector have long historic roots in organizing the democratic society, where auditors are particular public servants controlling the rest of the public sector performance. Significant divergent understandings of the establishment and development of such accountability mechanisms within states in Sub-Saharan African countries however exists within two different bodies of literature. READ MORE