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11. Att kontrollera staten : Den statliga revisionens roll i den parlamentariska demokratin : [the role of the state audit in a parliamentary democracy]
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
12. Economic Voting and Issue Ownership. An Integrative Approach
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to improve our understanding of how economic changes influence popular support for political parties. Previous studies have generally found that there is a tendency for the popular support of incumbent governments to diminish when the economic development deteriorates. LÄS MER
13. Governing Development : The Millennium Development Goals and Gender Policy Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sammanfattning : Recent decades have witnessed an upsurge in the use of different forms of global performance assessments as a means to influence the behavior of states. Within the area of international development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reinforced the practice of development governance through global performance indicators (GPIs) and gained considerable agenda-setting power among the international development community. LÄS MER
14. Essays on Social Distance, Institutions, and Economic Growth
Sammanfattning : Paper 1: Country Size and the Rule of Law: Resuscitating Montesquieu In this paper, we demonstrate that there is a robust negative relationship between the size of country territory and a measure of the rule of law for a large cross-section of countries. We outline a theoretical framework featuring two main reasons for this regularity; firstly that institutional quality often has the character of a local public good that is imperfectly spread across space from the core of the country to the hinterland, and secondly that a large territory usually is accompanied by valuable rents and a lack of openness that both tend to distort property rights institutions. LÄS MER
15. Governing the news : A study of problems and solutions in Swedish public service broadcasting news and policy between 1954 and 2015
Sammanfattning : Swedish public service journalism constitutes a comparatively well-researched subject in Swedish media and journalism studies. Previous studies have, for example, contributed with valuable knowledge about the actors, conflicts, structures and political economy of Swedish public service journalism. LÄS MER