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Corruption is something that can undermine both the function of the public administration and democracy itself. Furthermore, to complicate matters, the word corruption includes a variety of meanings. Consequently, this essay aims to examine corruption from the point of view of several municipal officials from three Swedish municipalities. Thus, an interview study was conducted where eleven intervi

February 2011 began with demonstrations against Muammar al-Gaddafi in Libya. It quickly escalated into a violent civil war. The actions of the UN and NATO have been widely discussed. The purpose of this essay is to examine the objectives behind the UN’s and NATO’s intervention in Libya. This will be done by applying Graham Allison’s organizational model to the case to test its explanatory power. T

The Social democrats have traditionally been against joining alliances, and specifically Nato, to retain Sweden's neutrality. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the beginning of 2022 the social democrats made a drastic turn and decided to apply for membership in Nato. This study will explore how the Social democrats opinion about Nato has changed between 2014-2022. A discourse analysis

The 2017 Catalan independence referendum on the first of October was both a transformative event for the Catalan independence movement and the beginning of Spain’s constitutional crisis. The actions by the Spanish government could be described as repressive, but did audiences online interpret it as such? Protest and resistance, on the streets and online, criticising the government’s actions are ev

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the level of conict in the media between the government and the opposition at dierent time periods, and specically regarding EU policies. Opposition towards policy is a crucial ingredient in democratic systems of government that do not only allow the people to send dierent personalities to represent them in government, but rather dierent policy agendas that

The study aims to demonstrate to what extent speeches, Instagram posts and LinkedIn posts of Gianni Infantino, as the main representative of FIFA, have been marked by elements of Postcolonialism and sportswashing to influence the acceptance of the FIFA World Cup of 2022 in Qatar. The result of this study indicates that FIFA’s rhetoric is marked by Postcolonial elements. Also, the study suggests th

In this study I will examine whether or not there are any differences in the representation of ethnic minorities and women between Hollywood movies released in the 1990’s and remakes of the movies released in the late 2010’s. The study is based on the assumption that the numerous political movements for equality in the 2010’s, such as Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite, might have led t

This study examines the extent to which the Moderate Party’s 2022 election manifesto has been implemented in the Tidö-agreement through a comparative qualitative content analysis. The study uses coalition theory to create expectations and measure how much of the Moderate Party’s politics have been implemented. The theory suggests that due to their party size and to the fact that they have received

This study presents a descriptive analysis of democratic oversight of the Swedish security police. The thesis describes the structure and functioning of the system for supervising and controlling the security police. The purpose of this description is to connect it with existing theories, in the realm of democratic oversight of intelligence agencies, to identify strengths and weaknesses in the cur

Since its establishment in 1969, external actors have been significantly involved in the implementation of nature conservation in Simien Mountains National Park (SMNP). As climate change becomes increasingly tangible, conservation activities are frequently being deployed to protect ecosystems across the globe. Albeit an emphasis on community-participation, the philosophy of exclusionary protection

The Swedish national election of 2022 paved the way for potentially witnessing European issues being more prominent and contentious than ever before among the national parties. However, as the Member State has historically been characterised by its ambivalence towards the EU, there exist reasons to question this assumption. By drawing upon the context of the election, both before and after electio

Members of the European Parliament cast votes on a great range of issues. The approach to prostitution on the European Union level is a sensitive and dividing issue, with two main approaches: the abolitionist approach and the sex work approach. Policies on this moral issue is expected to create untraditional lines of conflict. The aim of this study is to see what can explain whether a member of th

There is a trans-European transport network policy on the supranational level that aims to connect Europe with efficient, sustainable, safe and economically viable cross-national transport infrastructure. Because of this, one could expect EU funding to focus on rail infrastructure, as it has proven to be a low polluting, cost effective and an efficient mode of cross-national transport. However, as

The full-scale Russian invasion fundamentally changed the context of the Ukraine-EU relationship and moved Ukraine closer to its European partners, culminating with candidate status in June 2022. This move is addressed within this thesis by looking into how President Zelensky used his speeches to claim the role of Ukraine as a rightful EU candidate and how the EU responded to this role claim befor

This thesis aimed to determine if Euroscepticism is demonstrated to shift in the EU’s external border regions after sudden border insecurities, compared to other types of regions. This field was explored due to previous researchers claiming that the EU’s border regions are particularly susceptible to changes in Euroscepticism due to sudden border insecurity. The case of Russia’s invasion of Ukrain

War has for a long time been fought at the expense of civilians. Depleted uranium has been one such object used in war that in the end would leave its mark on the civilian population and still today is the subject of discussions regarding its use. By using just war theory I will evaluate the American and British use of depleted uranium against the civilian populations of Iraq and former Yugoslavia

In this study, the role that construction, architecture and infrastructure plays in efforts to advance within a global hierarchy of cities, as well as effects on the people behind the construction, are explored through the curious cases of Qatar and Singapore. Although drastically different in most cultural, geographical and historical aspects, these two cases demonstrate clear similarities in the

Human rights values are often mentioned politically in the interaction between the Americas and Europe, but their scholarly examination remains rare. This paper aims to contribute to the study of Latin America and Europe today by re-examining the engagement of the European Union and Mexico, extending beyond trade to encompass human rights concerns. While the Mexico-European Union relationship cont

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka och analysera vilken typ av upprättelse som skulle kunna vara adekvat för offer som skildras i barnpornografi i Sverige. Studien använder främst rättsdogmatisk metod, i vissa delar kombinerat med en barnpsykologi gällande dokumenterade sexuella övergrepp. Studien genomfördes strukturellt, det vill säga löpande i kapitlen som återfinns. Teorin som tillämpas i This study aims to investigate and analyze what remedies that could be adequate for victims depicted in child pornography in Sweden. It was conducted using legal dogmatic method, combined in certain parts with child psychology regarding documented sexual abuse. This was done throughout a structural analysis of the issue, using a chapter format. The theory used for analyzing the subject is an indiv