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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade ordet governors.
1. The Frequency of the Frequency : On Hydropower and Grid Frequency Control
Sammanfattning : Variations in the electricity consumption and production connected to the power system have to be balanced by active control. Hydropower is the most important balancing resource in the Nordic system, and will become even more important as the share of variable renewable energy sources increases. LÄS MER
2. De norrländska landshövdingarna och statsbildningen 1634-1769
Sammanfattning : The thesis studies the county governors of northern Sweden during the period 1634–1769, altogether 41 men, and their part in the ongoing state formation process during the early modern period. The office of county governor was established in the constitution of 1634 and played an integral part in the modernisation of the local and regional administration of the Swedish realm. LÄS MER
3. Makten över regionen : En idékritisk studie av svensk regiondebatt 1963–1996
Sammanfattning : Who should exercise power over the region? A governor appointed by the central state, a directly elected regional assembly or municipalities in co-operation? For almost four decades this has been a highly contested issue in Swedish decision-making bodies as well as in editorial pages. Not least in the 1990s, as Sweden has got closer to the intensified process of European integration, has the regional question been an important subject on the political agenda. LÄS MER
4. Fruars makt och omakt : Kön, klass och kulturarv 1900-1940
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the space for action available to women of the regional elite. The interaction of such categories as gender and class are discussed. The overall purpose is to describe and analyze the role of the county governor’s wife during the period 1900- 1940. LÄS MER
5. Antiken som ideal : Det antikiserande inredningsmåleriet och dess sociala funktioner i högreståndsmiljöer i Dalarna och Gästrikland 1791-1818
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on classical style wall painting in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The study specifically involves the governor's official residence in Falun and nine manor houses in the Swedish provinces of Dalarna and Gästrikland, all of which were decorated in the classical style by local artist Johan Nils Asplind between 1791 and 1818. LÄS MER