Sökning: "National Audit Office"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden National Audit Office.

  1. 1. Att kontrollera staten : Den statliga revisionens roll i den parlamentariska demokratin : [the role of the state audit in a parliamentary democracy]

    Författare :Shirin Ahlbäck; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; Audit; accountability; responsibility; Parliamentary Auditors; National Audit Office; democratic theory; performance audit; public administration; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : The theoretical point of departure in this dissertation is that even though a main thread in classical and modem democratic theory deals with the idea of accountable government, this discussion suffers from two inadequacies. Firstly, in addition to the requisites of accessible knowledge about who is responsible, and the presence of institutional mechanisms for holding someone accountable (e. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The voice of the people? : Supplications submitted to the Swedish Diet in the Age of Liberty, 1719–1772

    Författare :Martin Almbjär; Svante Norrhem; Peter Lindström; Nils Erik Villstrand; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Age of Liberty; audit; Diet of Estates; early modern state formation; eighteenth century; institutions; national debt; parliamentary committees; petitions; political participation; public office; supplications; taxes; trade privileges; Supreme Court; welfare; historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is devoted to the study of who used the formal channels of interaction in the early modern era and why. It examines the full range of the political conversation in early modern Sweden, as seen in the supplications to the Diet in the Age of Liberty (1719–1772), and more specifically the supplications submitted to the parliamentary committee tasked with handling them, the Screening Deputation. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Församlingen i granskningssamhället

    Författare :Stig Linde; Socialhögskolan; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; accountability; quality assessment; organizational theory; new institutionalism; audit society; translation; congregation; Church of Sweden; social work; parish; Diaconal work; Diakonalt arbete; socialt arbete; nyinstitutionalism; församling; granskningssamhälle; Svenska kyrkan; översättning; organisationsteori;

    Sammanfattning : The empirical aim of the thesis is to investigate what happens when global market-oriented models for auditing and quality assessment are taken up by local parishes. Particular attention is paid to the diaconal work of the parishes. The study is based on case studies where a number of parishes and auditing models provide the object of study. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Sick-listing - attitudes and doctors' practice : With special emphasis on sick-listing practice in primary health care

    Författare :Lars Englund; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Medical sciences; Sick-listing; sick leave; consultation; medical audit; gender; physician s speciality; physician s sex; administration; natural experiment; MEDICIN OCH VÅRD; MEDICINE; MEDICIN; Medicine; medicin;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study was to describe attitudes and doctors' practice regarding the sick-listing process. Using a questionnaire distributed among newly sick-listed patients, their doctors,employers and officials at the National Health Insurance office it was found that the patients held a more positive view on the beneficial effects of sick-listing. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Essays on total factor productivity (TFP)

    Författare :Pontus Mattsson; Jonas Månsson; Lars Behrenz; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conditional difference-in-difference cDID ; Data Envelopment Analysis DEA ; District courts; Malmquist index; subsidized employment; Total factor productivity TFP ; Törnqvist TFP index; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of two self-contained empirical essays. Essay I investigates the impact of labor subsidies on TFP, and profit per employee is included as a second outcome. Coarsened exact matching (CEM) is performed on the key variables. After matching, a difference-in-difference (DID) model is applied. LÄS MER