Sökning: "Institutional Context"
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16. From institutional life to community participation : Ideas and realities concerning support to persons with intellectual disability
Sammanfattning : The right for everyone with an intellectual disability in Sweden to participate in community life has led to the closure of residential institutions. To understand this issue three questions were formulated: 1) why did this occur, 2) which services provide the alternatives and 3) has this transition led to community participation? The origin of this transition was found in the normalization principle of 1946. LÄS MER
17. The political economy of adaptation pathways to climate change : An historical institutional approach
Sammanfattning : While there is a growing recognition of the need for societies to adapt to climate change, adaptation governance often falls short and can even worsen existing vulnerabilities. This problem is exacerbated by the deep connection between climate change and economic system governance. LÄS MER
18. Forces of Destruction and Construction : Local Conflict Dynamics, Institutional Trust and Postwar Crime
Sammanfattning : In 2017 alone, an estimated 68,851 people lost their lives as a consequence of civil wars, that is, armed conflicts that take place within the borders of a state. Such violent conflicts not only lead to immense human suffering, but also leave social, economic and political imprints on the societies that experience them. LÄS MER
19. Essays on the interaction between regulation and technology : Understanding agency and context through multiple levels of inquiry
Sammanfattning : A key challenge for implementing pioneering regulatory and technological change includes overcoming regulatory constraints and resistance from vested interest groups in favor of the status quo. This is a compilation dissertation comprising five papers and one covering paper that aims to describe and explain the interaction between agency and context under conditions of combined technological and regulatory change through multiple levels of inquiry. LÄS MER
20. Categorization Work in the Swedish Welfare State : Doctors and social insurance officers on persons with mental ill-health
Sammanfattning : This dissertation contributes to the debate on street-level bureaucracy, which highlights how the decisions made by workers in public bureaucracies effectively become public policy. This debate has paid relatively little attention to the study of how professionals carry out their work by means of institutional categorization, a knowledge gap that this study helps to close. LÄS MER
