Sökning: "public-private relations"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden public-private relations.
1. Learning within and between public-private partnerships
Sammanfattning : Local and national governments face increasing demands for modern, high-quality public services. To meet these challenges, a growing number of public organisations has, in the past few decades, ventured into public-private partnerships (PPP), a novel approach to improving public services by using the expertise accumulated in the private sector. LÄS MER
2. Smartphone security : The smartphone as a security device and the public/private production of security
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the smartphone as a security device through a comprehensive summary and four independent papers. The thesis starts from the observation that a central and yet underexplored characteristic of contemporary security politics is that the smartphone, as one especially important piece of consumer technology, is increasingly being transformed into a security device. LÄS MER
3. Exploring Responsibility : Public and Private in Human Rights Protection
Sammanfattning : The theory and practice of international relations are replete with dilemmas related to the distribution of responsibility for human rights protection. Institutionalized notions of public and private empower and shape knowledge of what the spheres of responsibility signify for different kinds of actors. LÄS MER
4. Shifting Shadows : Private Tutoring and the Formation of Education in Imperial, Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims to provide a genealogy of the relations between the public and the private in education. It does so by the exploring how public education and private tutoring form and transform each other and why they are seen as legitimate or problematic in different historical and cultural contexts. LÄS MER
5. Participation and Legitimacy : Actor Involvement for Nature Conservation
Sammanfattning : This PhD thesis in environmental science aims to contribute to the theoretical and empirical understanding of the relation between participation and legitimacy in multi-level environmental governance.It is widely assumed that actor involvement has great potential to improve the legitimacy of nature conservation through long-term acceptance and target achievement. LÄS MER