Search for dissertations about: "swedish king"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words swedish king.

2. 1. Papers on the macroeconomics of fiscal policy

   Author : Paul Klein; Robert G King; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of six independent papers, which are summarized as follows."Stochastic Fiscal Policy and the Swedish Business Cycle" shows that fluctuations in distortive taxes can account for some of the key features of the Swedish post-war business cycle. READ MORE

4. 2. Dutch experts in the early modern Swedish state : Employment strategies and knowledge building, 1560–1670

   Author : Håkan Jakobsson; Leif Runefelt; Mats Hallenberg; Peter Lindström; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; administration; change agents; commerce; competence; diplomacy; Dutch; early modern state; expertise; fishing; institutional memory; knowledge; shipbuilding; the Dutch Republic; trade; History; historia;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the role played by Dutch experts in various enterprises and organisations managed or administered by the early modern Swedish state. The work demonstrates how and why Dutch experts were introduced to Sweden, in what manner they were employed by the Swedish state and how their knowledge was utilised in state-controlled organisations. READ MORE

5. 3. Servants of Fortune. The Swedish court between 1598 and 1721

   Author : Fabian Persson; Eva Österberg; MJ Rodriguez-Salgado; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern history up to circa 1800 ; aristocracy; informal power; patronage; prosopography; Court; royal household; Tidig modern historia till ca. 1800 ; History; Historia;

   Abstract : In what has been seen as an age of increasing bureaucratisation, did it matter who was close to the monarch? Since the monarch embodied supreme wordly power, the way in which daily life at court was organised was of great importance. One function of the early modern court was, in the words of Geoffrey Elton, to act as a point of contact between monarch and élite. READ MORE

6. 4. Performing Power : The Political Masks of King Gustav III of Sweden (1771-1792)

   Author : Maria Berlova; Willmar Sauter; Roland Lysell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gustav III; theatricality; theatrical playing; staging; pageant; performative communication; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

   Abstract : King Gustav III founded the Swedish National Theater and Opera, participated in the court theater as playwright, director and actor and he was rightly called the Theater King. The King’s passion for acting was perceived in the past as a psychological weakness, which won him the appellation of wimp (fjant). READ MORE

7. 5. 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