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1. Mobilization or Abstention? : Economic Inequality and Labor Market Experiences as Foundations of Political Behavior
Sammanfattning : The distribution of economic resources has long been a central tenet of politics. In recent decades, Western democracies have experienced rising economic inequality and a structural transformation of the labor market. This dissertation studies how these broad societal changes have affected political mobilization and abstention in Sweden. LÄS MER
2. Islamic Activism in Azerbaijan : Repression and Mobilization in a Post-Soviet Context
Sammanfattning : Post-Soviet Azerbaijan is often portrayed as a very secular country. Thus the mobilization of mosque communities in the late 1990s and their conflictual relationship with the authorities came as a surprise. LÄS MER
3. 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
4. Kommunala ideal och politisk verklighet. : En jämförande fallstudie av frisinnad politisk organisering i Filipstad och Skövde, ca 1880-1920
Sammanfattning : Most studies of emerging Swedish parties and politics have mainly focused on the Swedish Social Democrats and their struggle for democracy and political power, most as a prelude to the so called ”Swedish Model”. Competing parties have received attention from historians on the national level, but their local origin remains to large extent an open field. LÄS MER
5. Civil Resistance in the Shadow of War : Explaining popular mobilization against dams in Myanmar
Sammanfattning : Why do some conflict-affected communities collectively resist dam-building while others do not? State-backed development projects such as hydropower dams have been the subject of societal resistance in countries around the world. In armed conflict areas, local populations who organize nonviolent resistance through collective action against these high-impact projects face additional challenges, such as being targeted for violence and coercion by the authorities. LÄS MER
