This study is about citizen participation in regional visionary development and focuses on what makes the democratic system legitimate. The primary purpose of the study is to evaluate the regional visionary plan in aspect to normative ideas about democracy. This democratic norm is borrowed from K. Sjövik and focuses on citizen participation in all aspects of democracy. The primary material for thi

Since the mid 90s more focus has been put on the problems surrounding hooliganism, especially in the media. This began when football referee Anders Frisk was injured during a football game. Nowadays, the police use more and more resources to prevent the problems with hooliganism and new laws have been instituted to handle the problem. More and more politicians, football players, coaches, and club

Through discourse analysis I investigate how the Swedish liberal party, Folkpartiet, constructs two opposing identities in their discourse of alienation (in Swedish utanförskap). I draw from Torben Bech Dyrbergs theory on how identities are constructed through the logics of difference and equivalence (1997). Laclau and Mouffe are the main inspirations for analyzing the organization of the discours

That democracy brings peace has been long known. That war may, in certain cases, bring democracy has not. However, the essay begins by exploring the history of humanitarian and liberal interventions, as well as the history of ideas behind them. I have found that the first cases appeared in the 19th-century, though they were rare until the second half of the 20th. I have also discussed legal and et

The use of walls as divider between countries has, since the fall of the Berlin wall, been thought of as a dead tradition. With the common thinking of globalization as an opening and integration force, walls between countries could be seen as a paradox. They symbolises closed borders and cold relations. Since 1991 no more than 26 walls between countries has been built. This thesis examines why wal

This study adds to the extensive body of research concerning different aspects of the Securitization Theory formulated by Buzan, Waever and de Wilde in Security: A New Framework for Analysis (1998) and focus on the theoretically underdeveloped relationship between the securitizing actor and the audience. The case studied is the securitization of homosexuality in Uganda with the proposal of the “An

Vårt syfte med arbetet är att bidra med en större förståelse av de olika konflikter och dilemman socialsekreterare kan hamna i, genom att se närmare på hur etik och lojalitet tas in i deras arbeten. Vi ser även på detta utifrån olika värde perspektiv: demokrativärden och ekonomivärden. Vårt huvudsakliga material består av åtta samtalsintervjuer med socialsekreterare från Malmö och Lund. Vi har ana

This comparative case study tries to answer the question why the budget consolidation process began earlier in Latvia then in Greece after the 2008 financial crisis. The established theories predict one-party majority governments to be more decisive than coalition governments, but in this essay the opposite is the case. Theories regarding the impact of protests on budget consolidations are also te

I denna uppsats undersöker vi problemrepresentationen av migration i EU:s gemensamma migrationspolitik. Analysen har gjorts med hjälp av Carol Bacchis metod för policyanalys ”What’s the problem represented to be?”. Policyn som analyseras är Stockholmsprogrammet. Undersökningen mynnar ut i att migration representeras främst på tre olika sätt, som frihetsproblem, rätteviseproblem och säkerhetsproble

För drygt tio år sedan infördes sluten ungdomsvård som ersättning av fängelsestraffet för lagöverträdare mellan 15 och 17 år. Tidigare var fängelse enda påföljden som fanns att tillgå för unga som gjort sig skyldiga till mycket allvarlig brottslighet. Lagstiftaren fann situationen otillfredsställande, eftersom fängelsemiljön ansågs olämplig för unga personer. Istället skulle de unga nu beredas indOver ten years ago closed institutional youth care was introduced as a substitute of the prison sentence for offenders between the ages of 15 and 17. Previously, imprisonment was the only sanction for young people who have committed serious delinquency. The legislature found the situation unsatisfactory as the prison environment was considered harmful and inappropriate for young people. The respon

Gender mainstreaming has since the mid-1990s been the strategy adopted in order to incorporate the gender perspective in all decision making. Although the strategy existed for almost 18 years, research shows that the implementation of gender mainstreaming still suffers from shortcomings. Many municipalities mention the lack of methodological support, knowledge and specific Equality strategists as

In this essay I have examined the factors that may be underlying the fact that the co-operation between the Trade Union Confederation, LO, and the Social Democratic Workers Party, SAP, in Sweden is still strong. In Norway and Denmark this collaboration broke a few years ago and so I made an account of various factors that may have contributed to this break in Norway and Denmark, which I then compa

Economic growth has for a long time been the policy goal for Western cities. Since the decline of the Keynesian economic model, cities have to compete against others – on a global arena – to attract citizens and corporations to their cities. To reach the policy goal of economic growth cities develops growth oriented strategies. In a Swedish context, local politics have often been understood as the

This thesis analyzes the legitimacy of lay judge’s participation in Swedish courts, addressed as ‘nämndemän’. The Swedish lay judges are assigned in accordance to the proportional share that the political parties receive in the municipal elections. Lay judges therefore represent a political party in court, though sworn by oath not to be affected by it in their judging. The question stated is wheth

Institutet fusioner är en typ av sammanslagningar av företag. Den här uppsatsen tar sikte på den typen av sammanslagningar som definieras som fusioner enligt svensk inkomstskatterätt. Fusioner är enligt Inkomstskattelag (1999:1229) IL ombildningar där samtliga tillgångar och skulder och andra förpliktelser hos ett företag ska tas över av ett annat företag och det överlåtande företaget ska upplösasThe institute of mergers is a certain way of restructuring companies. This thesis aims to discuss mergers that are captured by the State Income Tax Act (SITA). Mergers are according to SITA restructurings, where all assets and liabilities and other obligations, belonging to one company are being transferred to another company and the transferring company is dissolved without liquidation. The frame

While the European Union´s accession process for Central European countries continues and Gender Equality develops to a controversially discussed topic in society, the influence of the European Union on present and potential member states remains unclear. New Institutionalism theory provides a framework based on Institutions, Interests and Ideas highlighting tools and channels of the European Unio

Uppsats är ett fall av transition vilken syftar till att förklara varför Vitryssland inte demokratiserats utan idag är Europas sista diktatur. För att kunna förklara fallet har jag valt att göra en empirisk förklarande enfallsstudie. Uppsatsen är av teorikonsumerande karaktär vilken ämnar analysera hur Vitrysslands icke-demokratiska situation, under åren 1991-2010, kan förklaras. Studien har sin t

The decision making process in the European Union is an ongoing machine that sippers through all the political levels and subject areas. Which actors that possesses the ability to affect these processes and have power in these different matters is an question debated for a long time and will continued to be. This essay will try to bring some answers to the matter, if the selected actors have had a

In late 2007 and early 2008, the price of food on international commodity markets rose rapidly to unprecedented levels. This period of time has since been known as the global food crisis; a time characterised by growing poverty, malnutrition and political unrest. Food prices have since settled, though at a higher level than before, but during and directly after the crisis governments around the wo