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11. Transformative Power Challenged : EU Membership Conditionality in the Western Balkans Revisited
Sammanfattning : The EU is assumed to have a strong top-down transformative power over the states applying for membership. But despite intensive research on the EU membership conditionality, the transformative power of the EU in itself has been left curiously understudied. LÄS MER
12. Symbols and emotions in Swedish crime policy discourse
Sammanfattning : The general public has assumed an increasingly prominent position in crime policy discourse, both in Sweden and internationally. Nowadays crime policy initiatives often acknowledge and respond to the presumed concerns of the general public, for instance through the promise of safety. LÄS MER
13. Institutions, Inequality and Societal Transformations
Sammanfattning : Institutions matter for economic development. This thesis consists of three self-contained articles which provide different contributions to institutional economics.The first article studies short-run changes in gender norms. It takes advantage of recent developments in machine learning algorithms to study changes in norms in Swedish tweets. LÄS MER
14. Power and Political Culture: The Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) and the Decline of the New Order (1986-98)
Sammanfattning : Under Indonesia's authoritarian New Order regime of President Suharto, the role envisaged for the small nationalist-Christian coalition the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) was that of a pliant state corporatist party, the existence of which was meant to demonstrate the ostensibly democratic character of the regime. From the second half of the 1980s, however, the party began to develop in a critical and oppositional direction and came to stand out as the major proponent of reform within the formal political system. LÄS MER
15. Studying the Interplay of Immigration and Welfare States
Sammanfattning : A comparative study of net transfers for different immigrant groups: Evidence from GermanyThis paper analyzes determinants of net transfers for immigrants living in Germany in 2002, coming from five different countries. Net transfers refer to the net amount of costs and tax payments in the public budget account. LÄS MER