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In 2016, the Swedish government released a comprehensive report stating that since 2012, the presence of beggars had become a common sight in towns and cities throughout Sweden. Furthermore, most of the beggars came from Romania and Bulgaria, where they faced discrimination and had few opportunities to support themselves and their families Later, in 2018, the administrative court made a ruling w
In this thesis I examine how two variables: closeness and the TP-share (two-party-share) of votes impact turnout in elections. I use data from the 2016 Georgian parliamentary election and its two-rounds of election in the majoritarian districts. This field of research poses a wide variety of methodological approaches. One concerns the definition of the dependent variable, turnout. Instead of only
Folkhögskolesystemet är Sveriges största kulturarena, och får sitt existensberättigande från sitt demokratifrämjande uppdrag. Stöd till folkbildningen är Sveriges största kulturpolitiska budgetpost, och tillgången till kultur som en demokratisk rättighet har fastslagits av Riksdagen. Ändå präglas folkhögskolornas kulturlinjer av social snedrekrytering. Denna studie adresserar snedrekrytering till
Natten mellan den 25 och 26 september 1983, varnade de sovjetiska luftvärnsdatorerna för att De Förenta Staterna hade lanserat en kärnvapenattack. Satelliterna och datorerna menade att fem amerikanska missiler var på väg mot Sovjetunionen, och rekommenderade att utlösa en motattack. Löjtnant Stanislav Petrov bedömde att varningen var felaktig, och tack vare hans misstro till den artificiella intel
At this pivotal point in history where we must drastically cut global green house gas emissions to curb the brunt of the climate crisis, fossil fuel infrastructure expansion continues to be prioritized by industry and governing institutions. This study examines one such initiative, namely the Baltic Pipe Project, which will transport natural gas from Norway, through Denmark to Poland. Situated in
The extensive use of protest art has come to characterize the 2019 protests in Hong Kong. Furthermore, due to its unique history, the region has long been characterized by its search for a collective identity. This thesis examines how protest posters are used to create and represent a collective identity in the 2019 Hong Kong protests. The thesis combines the art historical method ”iconography” wi
This thesis raises the question of the political system of Iraq, reformed post-2003 invasion. It will further examine what political structure is applied, clientelist, or programmatic. An illustration of the significance of Iraqi clans in society and how that leads to Clannism is presented. The main objective is to get a profound understanding of how the Iraqi political system is vulnerable to Cla
Denmark and the Netherlands both have higher than EU-average turnout for national parliamentary elections. However, for European Parliament elections, Denmark’s turnout is consistently above EU-average, while the Dutch turnout is consistently under the EU-average. In 2019, Danish turnout was 66%, Dutch 41,9%, where the overall turnout in the EU was 50,6%. What explains this difference in otherwise
In a time when environmental changes increase dramatically and get more and more devastating, the question about what creates support for environmental policies which can mitigate these is highly relevant. Can education be a part of the solution? Some studies show that statistically, the support for environmental policies increase significantly with education in social sciences at a higher level.
On the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, two countries share the same environmental and climatic pre-conditions, but show monumental differences in current forest-cover. While tropical forests are covering almost half of the Dominican Republic, Haiti is down to just a few percent. In this thesis, political ecology and earlier research is combined to formulate four hypotheses: colonial history, human
Digitalization has grasped almost every aspect of work in Norway in similarity to the developed world. Although many advantages are followed with the implementation of digital tools to bolster the work effort, there is a widespread downside, technostress. This phenomenon engulfs large parts of the workforce and poses a challenge for any foreseeable future, and there is a general lack of research a
This thesis studies how Sweden’s state identity is constructed within the discourse on Swedish Migration Policy following the European refugee crisis in 2015. Identity is studied by seeing the constructions of identity and policy as discursively interlinked and by using the notion of processes of linking and differentiation. The material analyzed are statements made by the Swedish government in or
The development of policy instruments with the aim to support production of electricity from renewable sources is, and has been for the last decades,an important factor when working with global environmental challenges. Compared with other countries in the EU, Sweden ranks very high when referring to the development of renewable energy production. This thesis aims to examine the policy processes t
In 2015 the Swedish government declared itself to be feminist as the first government in the world. Margot Wallström, foreign minister at the time, said: ”It’s time to become a little braver in foreign policy. I think feminism is a good term. It is about standing against the systematic and global subordination of women” (Nordberg 2015). The declaration of a feminist foreign policy is remarkable in
As climate change intensifies, more voices are being raised in favor of re-conceptualization and transformative systems change, where actions are taken on a social, political and economic level. Environmentally engaged art and its artists are brought forward as potential instigators of change, as both researchers and as civil actors in society. Through semi-structured interviews and discourse an
This thesis takes on a case study approach and investigates the populist radical right party Alternative für Deutschland’s opposition towards the coal phase-out in Germany. The party is known for its contrarian position towards (human-made) climate change. Drawing on literature that investigates the populist radical right as well as climate change denial (also referred to as ‘scepticism’), a frami
In this study a landscape is interpreted from an analytical and binary theoretical framework in order to contrast and extract different social formations that have been conducive to its creation. The landscape in question is a contemporary park found in Lund, Sweden, in the province of Skåne. Lurking beneath the spatial scenery of the park, histories of transgressed and repressed social formations
This thesis contributes to growing critical scholarship investigating co-operative housing projects in relation to their wider socio-political and institutional contexts. It goes beyond normative questions of whether co-operative housing projects are sustainable, or not. Instead, it proposes to utilize an empirical case study on an emerging co-operative housing sector in Finland, as a tool to prob
Food is a fundamental human need – a physical requirement for survival. At the current historical juncture, the global food system is entangled in a web of neoliberal capitalist exchange relations and suffers from heavy dependence on fossil energy inputs. Today’s agro-industrial complex, which has evolved jointly with fossil capitalism and is organized according to its principles, is firmly entren
