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In a speech at the demonstration for refugees at Medborgarplatsen in Stockholm on September 6, 2015, the Social Democrats’ party leader and Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven made it clear that his Europe does not build walls when the need is great. However, the autumn that followed the number of refugees seeking asylum in Sweden reached record highs. Shortly after Löfven’s speech, the governin
The aim of the study is to examine how young women conceive their empowerment processes through access to ICTs, provided by the non-governmental organization IT for Children. The thesis is a qualitative case study of young women’s empowerment. Accordingly, a minor field study was conducted in the village Dixcove in the south of the western region of Ghana. Material was gathered through semi-struct
This qualitative study aims to explain the electoral success of the Christian Democrats in Sweden. The electoral success of the Christian Democrats raises a question about what the possible, underlying causes of the electoral results could be. The question that this study aims to answer is therefore “How can the electoral success of the Christian Democrats in the election of 2018 be explained?” To
Contrary to popular belief, countries rich in natural resources are often poorer than their resource-poor neighbors. The phenomenon «the resource curse” is defined as “the perverse effects of a country’s natural resource wealth on its economic, social, or political wellbeing”. Resource cursed countries experience poor living conditions, poor economic development and poor levels of democracy with e
Lay judges are used in the Swedish courts to attain a democratic representation of judges, but the system has received criticism for giving weight to political affiliation in a role that ought to be unpolitical. The aim of this study is to investigate politicization of the laymen system through lay judges’ own perspectives of their roles, and their views of the structure of the lay judge system. H
This essay poses the question: To what extent does accession to the European Union lead to an improvement of media freedom and media plurality, and to what extent does a Europeanization of media occur? The essay focuses on the developments of the Central and Eastern European countries and focuses on Croatia and Czechia as the analyzed cases. In answering this question, the various theories of Euro
Recently there has been a rise of populism within Venezuela and Poland. Simultaneously, both countries have seen a de-democratization as a result of legal and political changes carried out by their governments. This study consists of a comparative analysis of two case studies on left-wing populism in Venezuela and right-wing populism in Poland, and aims at investigating the relationship populism a
This thesis aims to provide a ”local” perspective on Montenegros own understanding of the country’s economic cooperation with China, within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. With a lack of discourse analysis and no case study with Montenegro as a case within the research on Belt and Road Initiative, this thesis also intends to cover this specific gap. Based on the purpose of the thesi
Least Developed Countries (LDC) är en förhandlingsgrupp inom klimatramverket som består av de minst utvecklade länderna i världen. Det är en grupp som historiskt haft lite inflytande på klimatpolitiken men som blivit mer aktiva det senaste decenniet. Studien behandlar LDC:s roll och påverkan inom det relativt nya politikområdet Loss and Damage (L&D) utifrån frågeställningen: Hur har Least Deve
The importance of descriptive representation within politics, for example an adequate female descriptive representation, is a debated issue. The argument is supported by Phillips’ theory about Politics of presence, assuming that an increased number of women in parliament would lead to an increased female substantive representation. The purpose of this study is to investigate if there is a clear re
During the summer of 2018, Sweden’s crisis management experienced a massive challenge due to widespread forest fires. After the fires the Swedish public authority, Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB), got an expanded mandate and therefore ability to operate the Swedish crisis management system. This essay aims to find the answer to why MSB got this mandate and what was the reason beh
Several countries have seen elections postponed during 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This has generated an ethical conflict between political security and health security. By applying a general theoretical framwork that draws upon Rita Floyd’s normative securitization theory as well as democracy theory, this study examines the normative conflict that many world leaders have faced. However, th
This essay explores the discourse on youth-unemployment post the covid-19-pandemic labour market crisis in the EU from a post-structural theoretical perspective. Combining a Foucauldian governmentality-approach with Carol Bacchi’s methodological framework “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” this essay identifies and analyses the problematisations of unemployability among European youth in rece
The purpose of this study is to further our knowledge on how civil servants act when faced with conflicts in relation to the political governance. The study was carried out through a qualitative analysis on semi-structured interviews with municipal officials, who have either left their employment after conflicted situations, or who still remain within the organisation. The theoretical framework co
The Swedish school system is highly influenced by the extensive school reforms that took place in the beginning of 1990s. Through the free school reform, a market was created where schools compete with other schools, the main aim being higher quality and lower costs. The recent debate regarding free schools is mainly driven by ideological narratives where questions about free schools’ impact on co
In order to successfully identify as well as solve a certain societal problem, an adequate causal idea is crucial. Stern has shown how sociological research is characterized by theoretical blinders, which has made the biological perspective on understanding humans and society, despite its status as somewhat of a scientific consensus in natural sciences, close to invisible. This study follows in St
This article analyses why Singapore compared to Iceland, has received greater amount of FDIs during the time from year: 1977-2007. FDIs have often been proven to increase a state’s economy since it is used as a tool for states to establish a long term relationship and trade with each other. Moreover, New Economic Geography (NEG), a theory written by Paul Krugman will be used to prove that the geog
Lay judges within court systems are often proclaimed to be ‘representatives of the people’. Using Hanna Pitkins theoretical discussion of the concept of representation the present thesis examines what is and was meant by this proclamation in the case of Swedish lay judges (nämndemän). For this purpose, the thesis analyses the representative functions of lay judges as they are presented in governme
Since 1992 the European Union has been granting certificates attesting the veracity and legitimacy of products in all of the EU. Such certificates are a symbol of the importance given by the European Union to the protection of regional products against falsifications of unique foodstuff products and the maintenance of good reputation of rural producers and rural areas. There is, however, a great
This essay studies the relationship between democracy and journalism in Sweden during the corona crisis. The research question is “How have swedish newspapers met democracy’s demands during the corona crisis?” and is answered through a qualitative text analysis of six articles from the swedish newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Svenska dagbladet, with ideal type as an analysis tool. The normative theor
