Sökning: "formative moment"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden formative moment.
1. Politik och stadsbyggande : Modernismen och byggnadslagstiftningen
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this dissertation is to describe, understand and explain the role of modernism in Swedish urban planning, and analyze if modernist urban planning ideas influenced building legislation in ways that can explain the structural changes of our cities during post-war period. Earlier epochs were characterized by intense construction of working-class housing in garden cities and large courtyard housing blocks with double-sided lighting in residences. LÄS MER
2. Does Anybody Care? : Public and Private Responsibilities in Swedish Eldercare 1940-2000
Sammanfattning : Since the 1980s, practically all of the western welfare states have developed social policies, which aim at shifting the responsibilities for welfare services from the state to the family, the civil society or to the market. In Sweden, this political transformation has particularly hit the public eldercare. LÄS MER
3. Allianser och Illusioner : Socialdemokratin och konsumtionsbeskattningen
Sammanfattning : From 1960 and onwards the Swedish tax system has gradually changed from mostly progressive to mostly proportional and heavily dependent on taxation on consumer goods. This dissertation aims to describe and explain the role of Social Democracy in this process by studying the forming and further development of the omsättningsskatt, later transformed to a proper value added tax mervärdesskatt (VAT), from an historical institutional perspective. LÄS MER
4. The implementation of international regimes : The case of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty
Sammanfattning : The dissertation seeks to discern the political and administrative factors that determine the results of international environment and development policies. On the one hand, it makes a contribution to the broader theoretical debate on international regimes by combining regime theory and theories on domestic policy results into an integrated framework for the analysis of international policy results (theoretical objective). LÄS MER
5. Analysing synergies between urbanization and sustainable development : Developing a draft theory through historical pilot studies
Sammanfattning : Urbanization is an ongoing process all over the globe. People moving from rural to urban areas are the primary cause of urbanization, and history indicates that this movement of people is very hard to influence. LÄS MER