Sökning: "Political Elites"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 79 avhandlingar innehållade orden Political Elites.
1. Styrning bakom kulisserna : Regeringskansliets politiska staber och regeringens styrningskapacitet
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses one of the less explored areas of Swedish politics: the political appointees in the ministerial staffs of the Swedish core executive. The study draws attention to the everyday life of the ministerial staff in order to give an idea of their function: What do the political appointees do? How is the work of the ministerial staffs organized? How is policy coordinated at the political level? The main empirical focus of this thesis is the 2002-2006 term of office. LÄS MER
2. En kompispappa och en ytlig djuping : Partieliters ambivalenta partiledarideal
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies political elites’ beliefs about the ideal party leader. This ideal, like other human ideals, is characterized by ambivalence. The thesis explores the ambivalence expressed in party elites’ leadership ideal and how it can be understood. LÄS MER
3. Conditions for Corruption : Institutions, Executive Power, and Privatization in Argentina and Chile in the 1990s
Sammanfattning : The question posed in this dissertation is why high-level corruption has been less widespread in Chile than in Argentina. It explores the hypothesis that political-institutional conditions have made Chile less vulnerable to high-level corruption than its neighbor. LÄS MER
4. Leetocracy : Political participation, social network sites and inequality
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about whether social network sites have the potential to bring about more equal participation. It deals with a phenomenon that has changed the underlying infrastructure of how millions of people communicate. LÄS MER
5. Gatekeepers of democracy? : a comparative study of elite support for democracy in Russia and the Baltic States
Sammanfattning : This study deals with the consolidation of democracy in general and with political support for democracy, in particular. The theoretical reason for observing support for democracy rests on the assumption that this kind of support is a vital factor that will foster (or its absence will obstruct) the development of democracy in the countries analysed in this study, i. LÄS MER