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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 49 avhandlingar innehållade orden SOCIAL SCIENCES Social sciences Political science Research on Europe.

1. 21. Getting Tough on Unemployment : Essays on the politics of unemployment benefit reform in affluent democracies

   Författare :Carlo Michael Knotz; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Welfare state reform; Unemployment benefits; Conditionality; Attitudes; Coalitions;

   Sammanfattning : The advanced democracies of Europe, North America, and Australasia have gotten tough on unemployment. Since the mid- to late-1970s, they started to put greater pressure on the unemployed by reducing the time for which unemployment benefits were paid, by imposing stricter job-search requirements, by extending the range of jobs considered suitable for claimants, and by tightening the penalties for non-compliance with these rules. LÄS MER

3. 22. Liberalt partisamarbete i Europa : ELDR en ny typ av parti?

   Författare :Camilla Sandström; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political parties; European parties; network parties; multi-level governance; European integration; organisational and ideological cohesion; party manifestos; national liberal parties; ELDR;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to map and assess the organisational and ideological development of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform party, the ELDR. More specifically, it seeks to analyse the degree of integration between the members of the ELDR over time, to identify factors that may or may not generate integration, to relate the development of the ELDR to earlier research about European parties, and finally to contribute to the ongoing debate about whether or not the traditional national party families are about to establish parties at the European level. LÄS MER

4. 23. Crisis-induced learning in public sector organizations

   Författare :Edward Deverell; Paul ´t Hart; Försvarshögskolan; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; crisis-induced learning; crisis management; organizational learning; public organizations; case studies; flexibility; centralization; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan; Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan;

   Sammanfattning : How do public organizations manage crises? How do public organizations learnfrom crises? These seemingly basic questions still pose virtual puzzles for crisismanagement researchers. Yet, the interest of the academic and practitionerrealms in crisis management has grown in recent years. LÄS MER

5. 24. Conflicting Logics? : Implementing Capacity and EU Adaptation in a Postcommunist Context

   Författare :Ulrika Jerre; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; child protection reform; Romania; East Central Europe; postcommunism; conditionality; EU adaptation; islands of efficiency; implementing capacity; state transformation; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

   Sammanfattning : It is generally recognized that the EU accession process has profound effects on state transformation in the postcommunist applicant countries. A key problem of postcommunism has been a weak ability to implement public policy. This study explores how efforts to fulfill EU conditionality may influence implementing capacity. LÄS MER

7. 25. Partition and redemption : a Machiavellian analysis of Sami and Basque patriotism

   Författare :Johan Eriksson; Janerik Gidlund; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Partition; redemption; Machiavelli; Sami; Basque; patriotism; irredentism; polity; Samer; Basker folk ; Patriotism; Politics; Economy and the Organization of Society;

   Sammanfattning : Since the end of the Second World War, the location of most interstate borders has been fixed.This suggests that the common phenomenon of ethnic groups partitioned by internationallyrecognized state borders is permanent. Nevertheless, a recurrent dream of 'redemption' (i.e. LÄS MER