The voting behavior of the Members of the European Parliament (MEP) has been widely studied. However, little is written about the effects of crises. This thesis tries to understand how the Covid-19 pandemic affected the MEPs voting behavior in relation to their European political group (EPG) and in addition their national party. This was done using the two theories: the two principal dilemma

The study aims to uncover the discursive elements at work in Swedish public discourse on antisemitism. The study situates the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism in relation to Swedish discourse with the aim of measuring their congruence. A final aim is to uncover if the broadening of the term has led to marginalisation of those seen as problematic – constitutiv

Surveillance has throughout history been a widely discussed phenomenon and the debate over the delicate balancing of state power vis-à-vis privacy in the pursuit of national security equally so. In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA had been conducting digital surveillance globally and it represents a tipping point in the history of surveillance. By applying the normative logics deontology

This report proposes a capability assessment framework for countering disinformation, information influence, and foreign interference. At present, much emphasis is placed on the capability to counter disinformation and other associated phenomena. However, few have attempted to systematically define what those countermeasures are, and how they could be placed within a single, coherent capability as

Sammanfattning Examensarbetets titel: “Jobba för att leva eller leva för att jobba” Seminariedatum: 11 januari 2023 Kurs: FEKH49 - Examensarbete i organisation på kandidatnivå, 15 hp Författare: Jakob Burestedt, Mary Darbinyan & Fabian Zanton Handledare: Johan Jönsson Fem nyckelord: Distansarbete, Work-Life Balance, motivation, social interaktion, human relations. Forskningsfråga: Vilka möjlig

Inducible defences allow prey to increase survival chances when predators are present while avoiding unnecessary costs in their absence. Many studies report considerable inter-individual variation in inducible defence expression, yet what underlies this variation is poorly understood. A classic vertebrate example of a predator-induced morphological defence is the increased body depth in crucian ca

Ambitionen med denna studie är att utforska och förklara Qatars ändamål med arrangemanget av fotbolls-VM 2022. Tillvägagångssättet är en teorikonsumerande fallstudie. Analysen består i sin tur sedan av att förklara empiriskt bevis bestående av olika aktörers agerande och uttalanden sedan arrangemanget blev officiellt med hjälp av tre centrala teorier på internationella relationer: liberalism, kons

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The homeostatic chemokines CCL21 and CCL19 have been explored as biomarkers in cardiovascular disease prediction in patients with established cardiovascular disease, but associations between these chemokines and first-time coronary event incidence have not been investigated before. Here, we explored associations between CCL21 or CCL19 and first-time incident coronary events in

We present, for the first time, separation of three different prostate cancer cell lines from leukocyte fractions by means of continuous flow acoustophoresis. This flow-through separation approach, which utilize acoustophoretic forces to extract CTCs from blood has a significant advantage over affinity based methods in the sense that it comprises a non-contact and label free separation of CTCs fro

The protein homeostasis network ensures a proper balance between synthesis, folding, and degradation of all cellular proteins. DnaK and trigger factor (TF) are ubiquitous bacterial molecular chaperones that assist in protein folding, as well as preventing protein misfolding and aggregation. In Escherichia coli, DnaK and TF possess partially overlapping functions. Their combined depletion results i

Efter flera år av snabba lagändringar på asylområdet kommer allt fler alarmerande rapporter om att människor på flykt, inte minst barn och unga, far illa efter att ha sökt asyl i Sverige. Därför bildas nu en granskningskommission för att undersöka vad det är som hänt och hur situationen kan förbättras.

Pre-electoral coalitions affect the involved parties in a unique and yet a quite undiscovered way. The largest and most successful pre-electoral coalition in Sweden was called the Alliance and was created prior to the 2006 parliament election.. Although pre-electoral coalitions are heavily underrepresented in coalition studies, there are existing hypotheses about the connection between parties ent

India is forecast to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by 2023. Despite diligent efforts to gain independence from the British, today’s India faces new challenges: the creation of a national identity, achieving superpower status and the growth of Hindu nationalism. The aim of this essay is to investigate the use of political myths by Prime Minister Modi. Using speeches delivered

This thesis analyzes the securitization discourse of climate migration as a study on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR. It’s based on material produced by UNHCR between the years 2017 - 2022. The study is accomplished with the 'What's the problem represented to be?' (WPR) approach, in combination with the securitization theory. In total are nine documents analyze

This thesis uses an evaluative approach to analyse the European Union’s Eel Regulation Framework (ERF). By using theories on both legitimacy and posthumanism, the aim of the study is to answer the question of in which ways the ERF can be considered legitimate with both human and non-human stakeholders in mind. As environmental issues and biodiversity loss become increasingly severe, there is an ur

While the climate crisis is gaining more attention, market mechanisms and individual behaviour changes seem to remain the dominant political answer to mitigate climate change. This thesis aims to examine how blue-collar labour unions in Sweden position themselves in the climate transition. Additionally, it explores ideological frontlines and identifies interest conflicts and power relations in the