Sökning: "nation-building"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 47 avhandlingar innehållade ordet nation-building.

  1. 21. Societal Impacts of Modern Conscription : Human Capital, Social Capital and Criminal Behaviour

    Författare :Daniel Almén; Heléne Berg; Mårten Palme; Yann Algan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Conscription; Military; Human Capital; Social Capital; Civic Engagement; Crime; Criminal Behaviour; Labour Market; Election Participation; Nation-building; School for the Nation; Opportunity Cost; Welfare State; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Opportunity Costs and Conscription: An Unintended Progressive Tax?Throughout history to present days, policymakers, social commentators and others have oftentimes viewed conscription as a natural extension of secondary education, and an important institution for vocational training. This paper uses Swedish administrative data and exploits a reform in 2004, implying a sudden downsizing of the military, to identify the causal effects of peacetime conscription on later labour market outcomes and education. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Kampen om befolkningen : Den svenska nationsformeringens utveckling och sociopolitiska förutsättningar ca 1780–1860

    Författare :Anne Berg; Torkel Jansson; Henrik Edgren; David Sjögren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Sweden; The Age of Revolution; nationalism; national ideological project; national identity; nation formation; nation building; social class; intellectuals; social history; hegemony; intellectuals; liberal class society; Western European states; History; Historia; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to problematize the western type of nation formation by characterizing and explaining the Swedish process of national identity construction during the Age of Revolution. Thus, the thesis sets out to investigate the political-hegemonic process of identity formation, redefinition and struggle between different political forces. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Dissenting Democrats : Nation and Democracy in the Republic of Moldova

    Författare :Andreas Johansson; Elfar Loftsson; Lars Lindström; Bo Petersson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Moldova; Moldavia; MSSR; transition; ethnic group; nation; national division; nation-building; democracy; democratization; polyarchy; political support; correspondence analysis; Moldovanism; Romanianism; Gagauz Yeri; Transnistria; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The Republic of Moldova was one of fifteen states to emerge from the dissolution of the Soviet Union. With weak historical legacy of statehood, deteriorating economy and serious national divisions, the young state lacked many of the prerequisites deemed necessary for successful democratization. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Saga och verklighet : Barnboksproduktion i det postsovjetiska Lettland

    Författare :Makiko Kanematsu; Mats Lindqvist; Oscar Pripp; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; field of cultural production; children’s book production; post-socialist studies; post-Soviet transformation; Latvia; nation-building; globalization; Ethnology; Etnologi; Ethnology; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the dissertation is to examine the production of children’s books for the Latvian-speaking population in Latvia and attempt to illustrate how the post-Soviet transformation has affected the conditions surrounding its development. To this end, the study investigates how the economic, political, and cultural aspects of the transformation are perceived and dealt with by actors active in children’s book production. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Democratisation, Traditional Leadership and Reform Politics in South Africa

    Författare :Annika Mokvist Uggla; Axel Hadenius; Lars Rudebeck; Stein Sundstol Eriksen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Political science; Democratisation; traditional leadership; local government reform; South Africa; state efficiency; nation-building; Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act 2003 ; Communal Land Rights Act 2004 ; Statsvetenskap; statskunskap; statskunskap;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study of democratisation and traditional leadership in South Africa is to understand why government efforts to democratise areas under traditional leadership surprisingly resulted in the maintenance of certain aspects of hereditary rule in official governance. Theory suggests that the answer is found in a dilemma faced by politicians, as they have to undertake reform with a view to advance four potentially contradictory political goals: democracy, state efficiency, state unity and, finally, re-election. LÄS MER