Search for dissertations about: "voluntary associations"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words voluntary associations.

  2. 1. Voluntary Associations and Nordic Party Systems : a study of overlapping memberships and cross-pressures in Finland, Norway and Sweden

    Author : Victor Pestoff; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Frivilligorganisationer; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

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  4. 2. Political parties and welfare associations

    Author : Ingrid Grosse; Jonas Edlund; Apostolis Papakostas; Jonas Hinnfors; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : Sweden; Norway; Scandinavia; Third sector; Voluntary organisations; Non-profit organisations; Cooperatives; Welfare policies; Childcare; Housing; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : Scandinavian countries are usually assumed to be less disposed than other countries to involve associations as welfare producers. They are assumed to be so disinclined due to their strong statutory welfare involvement, which “crowds-out” associational welfare production; their ethnic, cultural and religious homogeneity, which leads to a lack of minority interests in associational welfare production; and to their strong working-class organisations, which are supposed to prefer statutory welfare solutions. READ MORE

  5. 3. Online Sexual Behaviours Among Swedish Youth : Characteristics, Associations and Consequences

    Author : Linda S. Jonsson; Carl Göran Svedin; Margareta Hydén; Cathrine Hamilton-­Giachritsis; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Online; Internet; sexual behaviour; selling sex; sexting; youth; adolescents;

    Abstract : Online sexual behaviours refer to sexual activities where the Internet and/or mobile phone are used. The aims of this thesis were to investigate young people and their experiences of different online sexual behaviours with regard to characteristics, associations and consequences, by using data from a representative sample of 3,503 Swedish youth (m= 18. READ MORE

  6. 4. Advocates and Voices. Swedish patient associations, their importance to individuals with cancer and collaboration with health care

    Author : Christina Carlsson; Bröstcancer-genetik; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; support; Patient associations; voluntary action perspective; cancer; membership; contact person; network; Cytologi; cancerology; oncology; Cytology; experiential knowledge; advocates; consumers involvement; voice of medicine; onkologi; voice of lifeworld;

    Abstract : Patient associations (PAs) have an increasing impact for their members and for the health care system. This thesis studies PAs for cancer patients (PACPs) ? currently with over 20 000 members in Sweden ? regarding coverage, activities, and collaboration with the health care system with specific reference to the members? experiences. READ MORE

  7. 5. Shared practices : social networks and fertility decline during the Swedish demographic transition, 1850-1950

    Author : Johan Junkka; Sören Edvinsson; Angélique Janssens; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical demography; fertility transition; social interaction; social network; voluntary associations; historia; History;

    Abstract : This thesis studies how social interactions influenced the fertility decline during the Swedish demographic transition between 1850 and 1950. This, to gain insights into how and why norms and values affected married couples' birth control practices, and how this shaped the fertility decline. READ MORE