In this thesis I investigate the recent changes in abortion legislation in Colombia (liberalization) and Nicaragua (criminalization). By making a comparative case study I intend to find the factor(s) that could explain the different directions in legislation, given that both countries are of great similarity (location, religion, history, and political culture). The analysis made is based on John K

This thesis examines political consumerism as a political tool for change. Consumers' attitudes and behaviour towards political consumerism is of special interest. The method used is a questionnaire with 59 participating students. Their answers are analysed both quantitatively and, to a lesser degree, qualitatively. The theoretical framework consists of Fishbein and Ajzen's theory of reaso

Det som idag är Bosnien och Hercegovinas konstitution är en del av Daytonavtalet, fredsavtalet för kriget 1992-1995. I den här uppsatsen granskar vi konstitutionen utifrån hur den påverkar de etniska gruppernas interaktion. Bosnien och Hercegovinas politiska uppbyggnad har många likheter med consociational democracy. Därför kommer vi använda Donald L Horowitzs kritik av consociational democracy i

Between the years 1998 and 2008 four contenders battled for the home video game industry's 6th generation. First out were SEGA with their Dreamcast, followed by Sony's PlayStation 2, Nintendo's GameCube and Microsoft's Xbox. Pretty soon the PlayStation 2 executed their first opponent from SEGA and after that it was practically a solo race. What did Sony do to control two thirds of

The purpose of this paper was to increase understanding of how foreign professionals within the diplomatic sector, working with foreign relations to Japan, feel, perceive and relate to Japanese nationalism. The concept of banal nationalism and semiology was used as a theoretical base for the study, as well as theories of Japanese cultural or racial uniqueness (Nihonjinron). A phenomenological meth

This thesis examines organisations as mediators and how different kinds of organisations have different prerequisites to act as mediators. Global, regional and subregional organisations are often asked to mediate in conflicts, but considering the circumstances, who should mediate? In a mediating process the mediator should be considered as important an actor as the disputing parties and should he

The Swedish society woke up Boxing Day 2004 to the greatest disaster in modern times. As a result of a strong earthquake in the Indian Ocean tsunamis occurred that devastated resorts where thousands of Swedes were. In the disasters tracks were uncovered government paralysis and shortcomings of the systems control. The purpose of this study is to examine the capacity and means to demand accountabil

Colombia är ett land med en över 40 årig lång internkonflikt vilket har bidragit till att en avsevärd del av landets befolkning tvingats fly och lämna sina hem. De allra flesta flyr inte över Colombias gränser till andra länder, utan stannar i landet och blir internflyktingar. Tanken bakom denna uppsats är att undersöka problematiken kring dessa internflyktingar och om de omfattas av principerna o

The aim of this study is to examine Turkish nationalism in order to find what factors that play a part in Turkey's inability to confess and discuss such events as the Armenian Genocide, which took place between the years of 1915.-1923, by the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The factors found and examined closely are collective memory and the use of history. The paper is a case study of Turkey with

The success of a company increasingly depends on the efficiency and effectiveness on its activities along the product life cycle. In the effort of optimizing its activities, companies must integrate themselves. Due to the significance packaging has within many of these activities, it is of utmost importance to integrate product and packaging development activities in order to optimize processes.

Protracted social conflicts, as those in Cyprus and Northern Ireland, are based on deep rooted perceptions of identity and definitions of "the other". According to the theory of discursive conflict transformation, war is primarily a social phenomenon, which is legitimated by a discourse of identity defined in terms of exclusionist boundaries and structural ideas of the social relations i

In May 2004 the European Union enlarged from 15 to 25 member states and it was the biggest enlargement since the foundation. Two years earlier Poland, as one of the new member states, finished four years of accession negotiations with the EU. This study focus on the case of Poland and how the accession negotiations with EU were conducted. According to the theoretical framework of asymmetric negot

In this thesis I have used post-colonial theory to analyze the Uyghurs, a Muslim minority group located in Xinjiang province in the Northwest of China, and their identity shaping process in relation to the dominating Han Chinese. I have analyzed the possibilities to use the power perspectives in post-colonial theory, especially Edward Said's Orientalism and the creation of the Other in a new c

In scientific investigations on how organizations can learn from their mistakes the perspective is usually that of the social engineer; the object is to prevent human errors through modeling the system in a certain way. The aim of this paper is to explore the learning process from a different standpoint than those usually applied in organizational learning and error theory. By studying the learnin

Postcolonial feminist theory says that ones identity is constructed by several factor, not only gender but even culture, ethnicity and class imbedded in the social context. This paper examines what happens to women's identities if the social context changes. Does an identity shift occur? By interviewing five women from Bosnia-Herzegovina I try to understand the affects migration has on wom

In 1994 it was decided that a new network based organizational model was to be initiated to face the problems of some of the gender inequalities in Sweden. The organisation structure was named Resource Centre for Women (ResursCentrum för kvinnor). This essay constitutes a qualitative case study of governing, with this organisation structure as my field of inquiry. My ambition has been to outline

The aim of this master thesis is to investigate if WTO members' shifting behaviour in the Dispute Settlement Mechanism may be explained using a game theoretic approach. To do this, the author uses a three step process: First, a thorough quantitative analysis of how the DSM works and how the members behave in it is carried out. Second, with the result from the first part in mind, a game theore

This thesis is a theory-testing analysis of the free-market commercial neo-liberal welfare-regime convergence hypothesis, stating that welfare regimes in a globalized international economy will converge towards the liberal welfare regime. Given the structural settings of the EU context, the cases of Denmark, Finland and Sweden, i.e. the social-democratic welfare regime within EU, constitute ?most

Syftet med detta arbete har varit att analysera effekterna av ett styrkort och dess samverkande system och hur styrkortet påverkar organisationen. Slutsatsen är att styrkortet inom fallföretaget Skandia Marknadsstöd Spar AB skapar engagemang och delaktighet i företagets samtliga processer genom sin fokusering på rätt saker och aktivitetsbaserade styrning. Det är företagets huvudstyrsystem som ger

Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att diskutera kapitaltäckningsreglernas betydelse för kreditgivning. Detta uppnås genom följande delsyften: 1) Redogöra för de nuvarande och kommande reglerna i samband med Baselkonventionens förslag och dettas genomförande i Sverige. 2) Beskriva och analysera kapitaltäckningsreglernas betydelse i de fyra största svenska bankerna före och efter den kommande förändringen.