Sveriges representativa demokrati behöver understödjas av kompletterande deltagarformer, hävdar flera politiker och forskare idag. Demokratiutredningen från år 2000 argumenterar för att den deliberativa demokratin bör fungera som ett sådant komplement. Denna uppsats undersöker, genom två fallstudier, om de av landsting eller region initierade aktiviteterna för medborgardialog har innehållit delibe

In the present-day world, a state is only one of a number of social actors, each of which has its own identity, functions and structure. The successful functioning and even existential survival of the state is dependent on various factors, including its capacity to face the challenges of the processes of globalisation, including new threats which emerge from the development of communication techno

Over 2400 years ago, Plato discussed who is the most suitable to rule the society. The debate is still alive and some mean that experts are gaining stronger power over the democracies. NGO:s can be seen as important democratic actors, carrying the citizens’ voices. This thesis studies and describes experts influence over the creation of two NGO:s’ policies, i.e., working guidelines. Experts are be

Enligt Lennart Lundquist, professor i statsvetenskap, har förvaltningsreformer under de senaste decennierna gjort att tjänstemän blivit mindre benägna att rapportera om oegentligheter. I vår uppsats prövar vi detta påstående som är en del av ekonomismen. Detta gör vi genom att intervjua tjänstemän inom den offentliga förvaltningen för att undersöka huruvida de skulle rapportera oegentligheter elle

The purpose with this essay was to investigate the characteristics of the organizational culture within the Police in a specific department in Skåne, Sweden. I also examined if this organizational culture had any impact on how to perform organizational changes within the Police. The study is based on interviews that I have made with two officers. Theories about organizational culture and organizat

The North Korean policy of nuclear weapons has always constituted a puzzle for political scientists, media analysts and politicians. The inconsistency permeating this policy area makes it particularly hard to grasp. The aim of this case study is to enhance the cumulative knowledge of the North Korean policy of nuclear weapons by applying three theories of international relations: Realism, construc

This thesis is about Swedish integration policy. The thesis suggests that integration policy inexorably leads to the question of who is to be integrated into what and in that way it holds an immanent categorizing practice. The theoretical points of departure in this thesis proposes that Swedish integration policy, through this categorizing practice, has a productive function as it articulates a di

This paper aims to discover viable ways in which the Global South can effectively challenge the primacy of the Global North, in order to create a more equitable global order. This thesis is premised on a dependency approach to international relations which stipulates that the Global South, or Third World, is underdeveloped because of actions by the Global North, or the First World. The legacy left

With the Lisbon Treaty in place, the EU has the legal basis to accede to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The aim of the accession is to strengthen the protection of human rights in Europe, and give European citizens the same protection vis-à-vis acts of the Union as they presently enjoy from member states. EU’s accession to the ECHR is welcomed, but as great as it is in theory as c

Social ideell sektor utgör en allt mer betydelsefull garant av välfärd för utsatta grupper. Forskning om sociala ideella organisationers roll på integrationsområdet saknas, en lucka som vi har tagit avstamp i. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med företrädare från ideell och kommunal sektor som verkar på integrationsområdet i Lunds kommun har fyra ideella organisationers roll samt relation till kommune

In 2008 the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1820, where sexual violence in armed conflicts where classified as a crime against humanity and as a war crime. This resolution indicates a norm change, from the idea about sexual vio-lence as a by-product of war, to a serious widespread issue. But what has this change, up to resolution 1820, been and looked like? By dividing the change into three

Switzerland has a tradition of holding a political resistance to international governmental organizations. Under the last decades there has been three referendums regarding whether Switzerland should enter the EU or not, with a view of this I will examine those years. The aim of this essay is to explore if there is a discourse regarding national identity in the Swiss media concerning the EU member

This study aims to explore media representations of political processes in countries that are situated in the geo-political periphery. More specifically, this study examines through a discourse analytical edge articles published by Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), New York Times (US) and Clarín (Argentina), about the political upheavals that threatened the democratic system in Ecuador 2010, Honduras 2009

Social capital is a concept that has gained widespread use and recognition in many academic disciplines. This interest stems from an idea that the social capital produced in the organisations and associations of civil society can be beneficial in the creation and furthering of democratic processes and economic development among many other things. Using normative methods of consequentiality I will

In ”Mapping the Policy Space II”, the CMP created a database of the policy positions of all political parties in the EU, OECD, and Eastern Europe. This paper means to use the information of the nordic conservative parties from a hypothesis that the conservative parties has moved towards the midst of the right-left scale. The dataset stretches from 1990 to 2003. Each country's conservative part

In this thesis I try to find out the motives behind the former king of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck decision to democratize Bhutan. I do also try to find out and which motive that has actually been the crucial one behind the democratization. To do this, I have used a method based on Axel Hadenius models for the discretion of motives and rationalistic decision-making. The result of the essay proc

This thesis attempts to develop the understanding of the relation between the concepts of power, communication and cognitive effects. In his analysis, theorist Steven Lukes suggests a “third dimension of power” focusing on power as a means of alterning the ideas and wishes of individuals through influencing perception and cognitive effects – in his view, the most powerful concept of power. This re

Using the protection for exporters theory the thesis analyzes the EU’s quest for world markets in the case of trade negotiations with Singapore. The protection for exporters theory assumes governments to shift bias from the import competing sector to the export competing sector when exporters are exposed to potential losses. The thesis concludes three main findings of why the EU shifted policy tow

There are currently only six countries in Africa that can be considered as free. However, none of them are yet democratically consolidated. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine what issues remains to be dealt with for these countries to become democratically consolidated. The method used is a case study on Namibia that is based on the theory by Linz and Stepan. The findings are that Namib

This paper intends to present a picture of how the employees at three factories in Sri Lanka percieve themselves in terms of influence and power in their workplace. The three factories are all under swedish ownership; Dem Collective, Tailor Store and Trelleborg. The three companies have been chosen because of their ambition to be good employers, but they have all chosen different paths to achieve