Essays about: "critical junctures"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 20 essays containing the words critical junctures.

  1. 11. Homeownership, the production of urban sprawl and an unexpected Nightingale

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Marvin Sommer; [2020]
    Keywords : housing studies; path dependency; critical junctures; historical institutionalism; gradual change; urbanisation; suburbanisation; Australia; Melbourne; Nightingale Housing;

    Abstract : Homeownership and suburbanisation are two sides of the same coin in the context of Australia. This thesis explores the housing system that facilitates homeownership under a framework of institutional path dependence and how that has facilitated spatial patterns of suburbanization in contemporary Melbourne. READ MORE

  3. 12. Three Postmodern Detectives Teetering on the Brink of Madness in Paul Auster´s New York Trilogy : A Comparison of the Detectives from a Postmodernist and an Autobiographical Perspective

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Björn Sondén; [2020]
    Keywords : Keywords: postmodernity; chance; identity; solitude and the metaphysical detective story;

    Abstract : As the title suggests, this essay is a postmodern and autobiographical analysis of the three detectives in Paul Auster´s widely acclaimed 1987 novel The New York Trilogy. The focus of this study is centred on a comparison between the three detectives, but also on tracking when and why the detectives devolve into madness. READ MORE

  4. 13. "Fully Acceptable" : Policies on Homosexuality in the Swedish Parliament between 1933-2010

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Markus Sjölén Gustafsson; [2020]
    Keywords : LGBT-rights; Swedish Parliament; homosexuality; frame analysis; path-dependency; critical junctures; policy; harmonization; HBTQ-rättigheter; Riksdagen; homosexualitet; ramanalys; stigberoende; critical junctures; policy; harmonisering;

    Abstract : This study looks at the development in policy towards homosexuals in Sweden from criminalization to constitutional protection. A study on the ideational development in parliament has yet to be conducted. READ MORE

  5. 14. Classification Tree Based Algorithms in Studying Predictors for Long-Term Unemployment in Early Adulthood : An Exploratory Analysis Combining Supervised Machine Learning and Administrative Register Data

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Sanni Kuikka; [2020]
    Keywords : long-term unemployment; life course research; register data; cohort study; supervised machine learning; CART; random forest;

    Abstract : Unemployment at young age is a negative life event that has been found to have scarring effects for future life outcomes, especially when continuing long-term. Understanding precursors for long-term unemployment in early adulthood is important to be able to target policy interventions in critical junctures in the life course. READ MORE

  6. 15. Sustainable innovation in nature-based tourism from the perspective of dynamic capabilities

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

    Author : Shuangqi Liu; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainable Innovatioin; Nature-based Tourism; Dynamic capabilities;

    Abstract : While traveling brings economic opportunities while climate change, resource depletion and the rapid growth of tourist numbers threaten the communities and ecology in the destination. Concerns about these threats require the sustainability of tourism in the destination, where local enterprises as the major players are encouraged to lead change by adopting sustainable innovation. READ MORE