Sökning: "patronage"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 31 avhandlingar innehållade ordet patronage.
1. Parties, Power and Patronage : Papers in Political Economy
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three empirical essays in political economics."Shades of Brown and Green: Party Effects in Proportional Election Systems" is the first paper to develop a method for estimating the causal effect of party representation in proportional election systems. This method is applied to Swedish municipalities. LÄS MER
2. Patronage, Politics and Pollution : precarious NGO-state relationships : urban environmental issues in south India
Sammanfattning : Rapid urban population growth is a striking feature for most cities in developing countries. Such demographic change, compounded by political power structures, industrialisation and culture, pose big institutional challenges in coping with urban environments. LÄS MER
3. Material Worlds : Queen Hedwig Eleonora as Collector and Patron of the arts
Sammanfattning : The thesis portrays the role of Hedwig Eleonora (1636-1715) dowager queen of Sweden, born princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, as a patron and collector. Her role is analysed as to have played a great part in the Swedish cultural political visual production before and during the age of absolutism in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century. LÄS MER
4. Muses and Patrons : Cultures of Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth Century Scandinavia
Sammanfattning : This study analyses the development of natural philosophy in Scandinavia in the 16th and 17th century. Rather than dealing with individual natural philosophers and ideas, it evolves around groups of natural philsophers - the Bartholin family and the former assistants of Tycho Brahe in Denmark, the Rudbeck family in Sweden. LÄS MER
5. Frihetstidens politiska praktik : Nätverk och offentlighet 1746–1766
Sammanfattning : The dissertation deals with the organization of political practice in Sweden 1746–1766. It focuses on the clergy and how they mobilized political activities before and during the meetings of the Diet. LÄS MER