Johanna Söderström
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Johanna Söderström
@jsoderstrom.bsky.social
Senior lecturer, Department of Government, Uppsala University. Post-war politics, relational peace, state-building, taxation, veterans, focus groups, life history interviews, supervision, solidarity, Liberia, Namibia, Colombia, USA +++
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Studying the tax system in #Namibia, @jsoderstrom.bsky.social and Marcus Wangel show how state-citizen encounters in the case of taxation are conditioned by five interacting factors.

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Public Channels of Access and State-Citizen Encounters in the Namibian Tax System - Johanna Söderström, Marcus Wangel, 2023
The ability to access the state as a taxpaying citizen is important for the purposes of building trust and reciprocity, voicing grievances and disseminating kno...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Camille Pellerin and @jsoderstrom.bsky.social explore the everyday practices of taxpaying in Addis Ababa to find that #taxation practices are governed by either a business logic or an emotional response.
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‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s’? Making sense of tax non-compliance among small business owners in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Taxation practices are embedded in a complex web of institutional and social factors, norms and values, some of which encourage, some of which depress tax compliance. Rather than simply constitutin...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reposted by Johanna Söderström
In this article, @jsoderstrom.bsky.social studies how the second experience with #elections has changed #Liberian ex-combatants' relation with democracy and experience of legitimacy.

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Second time around: Ex-combatants at the polls in Liberia* | The Journal of Modern African Studies | Cambridge Core
Second time around: Ex-combatants at the polls in Liberia* - Volume 51 Issue 3
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November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
October 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Thank you, inspiring couple of days!
June 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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You can access the thesis here:

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Co-nationals under construction: Poland’s diaspora policy 1989–2023
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June 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM