Sökning: "civilsamhälle"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade ordet civilsamhälle.

  1. 11. Mellan det förflutna och framtiden : En studie av hyresgästföreningen på 2000-talet

    Författare :Sissela Odhnoff; Johan von Essen; Kerstin Jacobsson; Torsten Svensson; Marie Cederschiöld högskola; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Civil society; Welfare state; Swedish Union of Tenants; Organisational logics; Logics of action; Hyresgästföreningen; Människan i välfärdssamhället; Social välfärd med inriktning mot civilsamhället; The Individual in the Welfare Society; Social Welfare and the Civil Society;

    Sammanfattning : The present thesis is a study of the Swedish Union of Tenants, an organisation with a long popular movement history, working in an ever-changing environment.The Swedish Union of Tenants is one of the major popular movements and has strongly influenced Swedish housing policy development including the 1978 reform concerning tenants’ right to negotiate rents collectively. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Synergies, Stalemates and Social Dilemmas : Governance in South Africa in Comparative Perspective

    Författare :Olle Frödin; Sociologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; development; the state-society relationship; public participation; political theory; governance; Eastern Cape; South Africa; apartheid; decentralisation;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on the consequences of the institutional transformations in South Africa during the 1990s with specific reference to the introduction of a mode of local governance based on the direct participation of private and civic actors in policymaking and implementation. The study also aims to contribute to theory. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Scaling sufficiency : Towards less material consumption

    Författare :Ola Persson; Karin Bradley; Mikael Klintman; Kersty Hobson; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Urban and Regional Studies; Urbana och regionala studier;

    Sammanfattning : Various researchers have pointed out that avoiding further catastrophicconsequences related to the deteriorating ecological state of the planet,brought about by unsustainable production and consumption patterns,requires not only technological innovation and efficiency in productionprocesses, but also absolute reductions in energy and material use (i.e. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Between Nature and Modernity : Agroecology as an alternative development pathway: the case of Uganda

    Författare :Ellinor Isgren; LUCSUS; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agricultural sustainability; smallholder farming; neoliberal modernization; sub-Saharan Africa; Uganda; civil society; rural social movements; emancipatory social science; political ecology; sustainability science; hållbarhetsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : Agricultural modernization has massively increased global food supply, but at a high environmental cost. Today many are calling for an agricultural ‘paradigm shift’, including several mainstream institutions. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Policy professionals in civil society organizations : Struggling for influence

    Författare :Joanna Mellquist; Adrienne Sörbom; Stefan Svallfors; Åsa Wettergren; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; civil society; policy professionals; professionalization; organization; advocacy; strategy; member; mediatization; field theory; capital; decoupling; logic of influence; organizational hypocrisy; myth; Politics; Economy and the Organization of Society; Politik; ekonomi och samhällets organisering;

    Sammanfattning : The professionalization of civil society organizations coupled with an elite-driven policy process has fostered the rise of policy professionals in civil society organizations (CSOs). This dissertation explores the role and functioning of policy professionals in CSOs, describing and analyzing how CSOs’ hiring of such expertise contributes to processes of professionalization within civil society, including what that entails from a normative perspective. LÄS MER