Sökning: "membership decline"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden membership decline.
1. Party membership and state subsidies : a comparative study
Sammanfattning : This thesis tests the hypothesis that increasing state subsidies to political parties cause a declined party membership. The theory that predicted this development was constructed by Epstein in 1967 and presented in his book Political Parties in Western Democracies. LÄS MER
2. From Pioneers to Target Group : Social Change, Ethnicity and Memory in a Lithuanian Nuclear Power Plant Community
Sammanfattning : This thesis focused on an examination of human agency and strategies for responding to rapid social and economic change. Fieldwork was carried out in the community of Visaginas town that was built during the Soviet period in Lithuania. The town is situated next to the Ignalina nuclear power plant. LÄS MER
3. Konsten att bli och förbli folklig : Svenska kyrkans och IOGT:s strategier och omvandling i kampen på offentlighetens arena 1880–1945
Sammanfattning : The theoretical discussion of how to define the public sphere relies on Jürgen Habermas’ analysis of the bourgeois public sphere. I the thesis I use two generalized models of both the bourgeois and the representative public sphere. I consider how well the two actors’ engagement in the public sphere fits the two models. LÄS MER
4. There is power in a union : Trade union organization, union membership and union activity in Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates what factors affect union organization and, to some degree, union activity in the face of declining union density in the majority of Western countries. Union structures have been changing in recent decades, not only in terms of declining membership but also because women and white-collar workers are becoming a more stable part of the membership base, whereas previously highly organized groups, such as blue-collar workers, are in decline. LÄS MER
5. Oral health and olfactory function : what can they tell us about cognitive ageing?
Sammanfattning : The objective of this thesis was to advance our understanding of whether oral health and olfactory function may predict accelerated cognitive ageing. Data from two Swedish study populations and one from the United States were applied to investigate the relationship of oral health and olfactory function with cognitive decline and brain ageing in late life. LÄS MER
