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The purpose of this study was to examine the globalization council in Sweden’s concluding report of Sweden in the global era. This was done through an analysis of the ideas of governance carried out with the help of an idea analysis and the use of ideal types of governance. The analytical schedule was divided into two main perspectives of governance, an economic and a political. More specifically,

In 2015 Sweden went from being the country who brought in the most asylum seekers per capita in all the EU, to introduce border and ID-checks and EU: s minimum rules. This was a paradigm shift that very few could have expected, but how can we understand it? To explore this issue, I analyzed the Swedish government parties’ manifestos and party platforms from a summative content analysis and compare

This thesis investigates accessible information to the “interested citizen” about EU-related matters in his/her city, with a theoretical method that departs from Dahl’s (1998) definition of democracy, and focuses especially on the criteria of enlightened understanding. The study consists of analyses of online information and city council debates as well as interviews and mail correspondence with l

Right-wing populism has spread across the European continent during the 21th century, this paper examines if this also is the case on the social media platform Facebook. Through the use of multivariate ordinary linear regression models the thesis seeks to answer if right-wing populist parties and leaders in 12 western European countries generate more followers on their official Facebook accounts t

Al Qaeda and the Islamic State are two of the most dangerous terrorist organizations in the world, whose terror campaigns have changed the nature of global jihadi terrorism in fundamental ways. The purpose of this thesis is to study the strategy of the Islamic State in relation to the strategy of Al Qaeda, with Martha Crenshaw’s Instrumental and Organizational Perspectives. These perspectives prov

Through a functional idea analysis, this study explores and discuss what possible strategies President Donald J. Trump has on Twitter based on a selection of Mr. Trump’s tweets. The material is based on six tweets within three policy categories (Healthcare, the U.S./Mexican Border Wall and the Media) with two tweets in each category. The tweets were selected from the highest respectively lowest am

This bachelor thesis aims to explain why the United Arab Emirates and Qatar invests so heavily in European football clubs. By doing a descriptive case study of these two countries my intentions are to illustrate this phenomenon. Hopefully this thesis can be the start of other studies regarding investments in European football clubs from countries outside Europe. Different kinds of modernization th

This essay discusses the issue of government formation and answers the question why does Finland form surplus governments? The research has been based on the notion that every government-formature should strive to form a minimal-winning government which iscontrasted by the fact that Finland has an unusual tradition of forming surplus governments. The issue in question is considered within the time

This study concerns the ways the two Swedish national parties the Moderates and the Christian Democrats differ from the European People’s Party, which is the transnational party they belong to in the European Union. The parties’ election manifestos from the European Parliament election of 2014 are compared using a qualitative text analysis and related to earlier research and theories within the fi

Since the deregulation regarding temporary agency work in the 1990s the Swedish labour market have seen a rapid increase among the agency industry that does not seem to be showing any signs of slowing down. This has according to previous research led to a dualization of the labour market. This essay aims to research what happens to the discourse at workplaces with temporary agency workers in regar

This is a paper proposing a general theory of ideology based on two theoretical components, liberty and change. Liberty is seen as a system for understanding the individual and its relation to the group, change is seen as a system for understanding our future prospects. I propose that these two components can be used to coherently describe ideology over time and space. I describe the various persp

Bakgrund: Barnmorskor står idag inför större utmaningar då nutida forskning visar att homosexuella, bisexuella, trans- och queerpersoner upplever diskriminering i vården. Bristande kunskap och därmed dåliga attityder antas kunna påverka kvalitén på vården. Syfte: Syftet med enkätstudien var att undersöka kunskap och attityder till HBTQ-personer bland barnmorskestudenter. Metod: Kvantitativ webbase

Sustainability has become a leading concept in development policy and practice. The most recognized definition of sustainable development was coined by the Brundtland Commission in 1987. It provides normative guidelines for a common sustainability agenda and sees responsibility for, and benefits from, this common effort as universal. The agenda addresses stakeholders worldwide and its all-encompas

Författare: Kristin Jung Ståhle Titel: ”Fria att spendera 900 000 på en russebuss” - En analys av hur klass gestaltas i tv-serien Skam Kandidatuppsats: SOCK04: 15 hp Handledare: Magnus Ring Lunds Universitet: Sociologiska institutionen: vårterminen 2017 Den aktuella tv-serien Skam har blivit gränslöst populär i världen och fått en otrolig genomslagskraft. Den norska serien är tätt sammanbunden med

This report analyzes fire extinguishing solutions that might cut time between fire alarm and fire extinguishing at the European Spallation Source. A special design fire with a very high peak heat release rate is used. The method used includes a literature study, meetings with supervisors and ESS representatives and participation in workshops and study visits. Some fire protection measures are alre

Recruiting 116 Swedish 5th grade students this research aimed to investigate creative classroom climate (CCC) factors by use of a newly constructed Creative Classroom Climate Questionnaire (CCCQ). Resultant CCC data was tested in association with motivational orientation and student creative ability using the Achievement Goal Questionnaire (AGQ) and the Alternative Uses Test (AUT). Results reveale

Because of increasing pressures on marine life and habitats, the overall health of the global ocean has over the latter years received attention internationally. It is therefore of relevance to analyse how the type of human-nature relationship towards the ocean is presented through what can be coined as Blue Growth. The aim of this research is to critically discuss what human-nature relationships

This paper can be seen as a light introduction to the study of Hawkes pro- cesses and their applicability in the realms of finance. In particular, this paper is concerned on the topic of modeling market activity and elaborates on how Hawkes processes are superior to non-homogeneous Poisson processes in this re- gard. After some rudimentary theory on point processes it goes more in depth into the a

Bakgrund: Våld mot kvinnor är ett globalt hälsoproblem som strider mot de mänskliga rättigheterna. Hälso- och sjukvården har ett ansvar att stödja kvinnor som utsatts för våld i nära relation och om så nödvändigt hänvisa dem till rätt instans där kompetens och resurser finns. Syfte: Denna litteraturstudies syfte var att belysa forskning om sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av mötet med kvinnor som utsa

Bakgrund: Bristning i samband med förlossning kan innebära komplikationer för kvinnan på både kort och lång sikt. Det föreligger en oklar evidens kring den effekt perinealskydd har för att förhindra bristning. Syftet: var att belysa barnmorskans erfarenhet av att utföra perinealskydd för att förhindra bristning i samband med förlossning. Metod: Tolv barnmorskor intervjuades med hjälp av en semistr