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Den internationella staden Malmö - I spänningsfältet mellan representativ demokrati och interaktiv styrning

The thesis aims at understanding local forms of governance and the relationship with representational democracy. The object of study is Malmo city and its participation in a network consisting of larger cities, called Eurocities. The theoretical base is gathered from the governance field, more particularly governance network and multilevel governance theories. The use of networks and lobbying pose

A Europeanization without Democratization: The Case Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Since the second half of the 1990s onwards the EU has started comprehensive Europeanization reform process in the Western Balkan countries in the framework of its enlargement policy. One important aspect of the ongoing Europeanization process has been a democratization reforms. However, the WB region as a whole has continuously faced serious democratic deficit. Therefore, it is highly challenging

Krig i företagets namn

How to define Private Military Companies is an issue, which due to PMC’s explosive growth during the last 30 years has become increasingly relevant. But how do you define the PMC personnel that take a direct part in combat situations? Through a singularly juridical aspect, based on interpretations of the Geneva Conventions I try to answer this problem. This essay first tries to define the PMC

Cultural collisions in social work – The case of Aboriginal clients in Australia

Problems in social work with aboriginal clients in Australia are analysed in this thesis. The cultural collision between Western social workers and aboriginal clients is interpreted as the result of poor insight into the culturally determined worldview, the value system, norms and conceptions held by many aboriginal clients. More specifically, the collision is expressed in communication problems

Dagens och morgondagens klimatflyktingar. Meningsskapande representationer i politik, nyheter och populärkultur.

During the last decade the issue of climate change refugees has emerged as one potential important consequence of climate change. The aim of this thesis is to examine the circulation of representations of climate change refugees and related depictions of responsibility between Swedish politics, Swedish news media and popular culture. This is done through a discourse analytical framework drawing fr

Viljan att erkännas och frihet bortom kategorisering

This is a study about the new supplement in the Swedish law of discrimination; Transgender identity or expression, means that someone does not identify herself or himself as a woman or a man or expresses by their manner of dressing or in some other way that they belong to another sex. The purpose with this essay is to discover different perspective to understand the new supplement. The research qu

"Jag märker att människor som kanske inte skulle pratat med mig annars gör det nu"

Titel: ” Jag märker att människor som kanske inte skulle ha pratat med mig annars gör det nu.” En kvalitativ undersökning om bloggars betydelse för individen efter dess ankomst i människors vardag Institution: Enheten för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Lunds universitet Kurs: MKVA21:4, B-uppsats Författare: Marie-Louise Nilsson och Sandra Nilsson. Handledare: Veselinka Möllerström Problemomr

By the People, For the People? The Institutional Development of Zimbabwe's Constitution from 1980 to 2010

The development of the constitution of Zimbabwe reflects many aspects of the political turmoil currently troubling the country. The constitution as an institution can therefore be analyzed in a perspective of historical institutionalism where the theory of path dependency provides an understanding of the choices made by different political actors throughout Zimbabwe’s independent history. The adop

Lön för mödan? Etiskt ansvarstagande med fokus på arbetsförhållanden inom textilindustrin i Bangladesh

The garment industry is one of the most vulnerable sectors in the world, with bad working conditions. Low wages and not allowed union organizing is every day for most workers, especially in Bangladesh. The workers are considered to living on a minimum wage, which does not cover the basic needs for workers and their family; therefore we need to talk about a living wage. This study is to examine ab

CSR och Företagsprestation – En Undersökning på Stockholmsbörsen

Titel: CSR och Företagsprestation – En Undersökning på Stockholmsbörsen Seminariedatum: 2010-01-08 Ämne: FEKK01, Examensarbete, Kandidatnivå, Finansiering, 15 poäng Författare: Kristoffer Hessedahl & Anders Molin Handledare: Måns Kjellsson Nyckelord: CSR, Stockholmsbörsen, företagsprestation, Tobins Q, Multipel regression Syfte: Undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan CSR och företagens pres