This work is meant to provide theoretical and empirical elements in order to understand the current situation of Norway which given the chance to be part of the European Union (EU) has rejected it twice. However it does not mean that this European country is totally isolated from the integration process. Since 1960 they are part of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) organisation founded by

This study departs from the constructivist approach to research the Manners` concept of the European Union as a "normative power" or norm exporter. The focus is diffusion of the regional co-operation model that EU has been promoting as a foreign policy goal. Study presents motives and policies behind that objective. Conditionality of regional co-operation is also the distinctive feature

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Thousands of associations with a variety of social, economical and political goals have been in recent years emerging in China, Burma and Vietnam, in spite of, or rather by authority of, the authoritarian regime. The existence of numerous associations under authoritarian rule is rather a new phenomenon which aroused contradictory views among the observers - hopes on the formation of civil society

In the rural districts of Sweden, especially in Skåne, the political party Sverigedemokraterna is gaining more and more territory. The aim of this thesis is to examine if the presence of Sverigedemokraterna has had an effect on the other political parties in Kävlinge and Svedala municipality, with focus on images and collective identity. The aim is also to examine what influence Sverigedemokratern

"Race" is often used as a marker to exclude people from a society. What is interesting is not so much what terms that are used to describe people, but by what meaning they are associated with. For this thesis articles published in daily magazines have been the material used. An argument driven in the essay is that identity and oppression is not constituted from one subject position, but

On the third of August 2002, in the middle of the ongoing Swedish election campaign, Lars Leijonborg beeing the leader of Folkpartiet (the Peoples Party) presented the partys new intergration programme for foreign nationals. One of the proposals was to instigate a language test for all immigrants seeking to obtain Swedish citizenship. This thesis addresses the medial debate that followed the propo

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur vissa gemensamma faktorer upplevs i en terapi samt hur de förhåller sig till varandra och upplevelsen av utfallet. Följande faktorer ingick i undersökningen: den terapeutiska alliansen, terapeutens kompetens, förväntningar på påfrestning, förväntningar på utfall inför terapin och klientens problematik. En frågeställning inför studien var även huruvida klien

Nyutexaminerade arbetsterapeuter saknar ofta självförtroende och är osäkra på sin kompetens då de ska arbeta i team och med patienter. Intresset för kliniska utbildningsavdelningar har därför på senare tid väckts på många håll. På dessa avdelningar får studenterna öva upp sina kunskaper samt öka förståelsen för teamarbete. AKVA-U på Universitetssjukhuset MAS är en sådan avdelning. Syftet med studi

The purpose with this essay is to describe how the principal, social worker and the teacher work to prevent bullying at school. The following questions have been discussed: Does the school have an action plan for bullying, and if so, what does it say? Who has the practical responsibility for making sure that the plan is followed, and how does that responsibility work? How is the responsibility di

Syftet med den här analysen är att ta reda på hur konstruktivistisk teori förklarar skapandet av israelisk identitet. För att utföra studien använder vi oss av en narrativ metod, där vi analyserar en bok skriven av en judisk, israelisk kvinna - Susan Nathan - och en intervju med en judisk, israelisk man. Vi undersöker deras tankar angående deras identitet med utgångspunkt i teori om nationalitet,

Japanese model was viewed as an exemplary capitalism model of successful long-term economic growth. However, after 1990s, Japanese ?bubble economy? burst and Japan turned into the phase of economy winter. Under the new international conditions, the Anglo-American model seems more suitable for globalization and liberalized market, whereas the Japanese model was becoming more problematic and the fea

In this theses I discuss and analyse how nationalism effects local conflict reporting with a field study in Israel and the occupuied territories. Since 2000 Israelis and Palestinians have not been able to meet each other. The Israelis do not enter the occupied palestinian territories because of fear and Palestinians are not allowed to enter Israel without a special permitt. Instead they met throug

Abstract Environmental communication is more complex and challenging today compared to ten years ago. Moreover, it is experienced that many companies fail in their environmental communication. If companies want to succeed in their environmental communication, they must have a clear understanding of their environmental communication process. The impact from individuals and organisational condition

Bakgrund: Tidigare forskningen visar på ett lärande som pågår hela tiden och att det på varje arbetsplats finns specifika lärprocesser. Hemtjänsten bör i detta avseende också kunnas ses som en lärande arbetsmiljö. När man talar om lärande, talar man underförstått om kunskap. Vårdpersonal har i tidigare studier, uttryckt att de är stolta över sina kunskaper, men att de samtidigt är bekymrade över a

Extant work on the European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) argues that it is unique as a ?soft power? in the international system, especially in comparison to the United States. The term's recent attachment to gender, through Robert Kagan's ?Mars vs. Venus? analogy in his popular work on Power and Weakness, is an important development in research that seeks to b

Normativa studier om ledarskap är begränsade när det kommer till utövandet av ledarskap. Denna uppsats undersöker vad en ledare i offentlig förvaltning gör i praktiken och inriktar sig på vad själva utövandet av ledarskap kan bestå utav. I studien deltar två kommunchefer som studeras på nära håll i deras vardagliga arbete genom observationer, intervjuer och samtal. Ur materialet konstrueras två id

Institutionell teori förklarar socialt liv genom att undersöka institutioners påverkan på sociala relationer. Institutionella föreställningar ses som närvarande i alla sociala relationer genom kulturella, kognitiva och normativa institutionella element, som ges stor betydelse i denna teoribildning. Denna uppsats syftar till att problematisera institutionell teori genom att införa maktaspekter i te

I dagens informationssamhälle är Internet och användande av hemsidor för att sprida information vanligt förekommande. Den senaste tiden har politikens fokus riktats mot en mer deliberativ inställning, detta på bekostnad av den traditionella konkurrensdemokratin. Detta är en komparativ analys med syfte att kartlägga svenska och amerikanska partiers hemsidor utifrån demokratiteoriaspekten. Metoden s

The aim with this paper is to investigate how the Social Democratic Party (SAP) deals with the question of economic migrants, or more specifically how the problem is represented by the Social Democratic Party, and how this representation has developed over time. The SAP's theory became recently contested by a competing theory that was caused by the predicted future demographic development in S