In September of 2018, a total of 261 concerned public servants within the Government Offices issued an internal letter to the chief of Administrative affairs. The letter voiced the concerns of the public servants regarding what would happen to their staff policy, if a known right-wing party would be elected for government that year. When this was made public knowledge, a debate sparked amongst dif

With the foreign political turbulence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world came into a change. The post-cold war environment meant that the politics of the bipolarity no longer were the case. This period leads to pressure in redefining Sweden’s foreign and security policy, resulting in an emergence of a different commitment to the countries neutrality and non-alignment. In the light of Kje

Countries differ in the volumes of their prison population. This does not seem to simply be a result of differences in levels of crime, as prison populations does not appear to correspond with available indicators of crime, neither within nor between countries. Thus, other explanatory models should be available. Previously, the importance of economic, political, and cultural aspects has been studi

The purpose of this essay is to examine and evaluate a potential change in national discourse in Sweden due to the implementation of the European 2020-strategy. Through an analytical framework based on Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis, the Swedish national reform programmes between 2011 and 2020 is analysed from a welfare regime perspective. The thesis is inspired by previous research on t

This project focuses on how a household in Malmö can manage a crisis situation with no electricity, water, heat and communication for 72 hours. This is due to the recommendation that we can take care of ourselves for 3 days in case of a crisis. This spring residents of Cape Town have been living with water restrictions of 50 litres per person per day. This can be compared to the 160 litres per per

Rising sea levels and continuous coastal development increase vulnerability to flooding in southern Sweden. National regulations try to increase local consideration of flooding in urban planning, but so far implementation is limited. The aim of this thesis is to understand the lack of implementation and explore how and why implementation failed in a Swedish municipality. In order to study the case

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur gymnasieelever upplever sin motivation till GeMu, hur deras motivation och tro på sin egen förmåga samspelar, samt hur deras värdering av deras ämneskunskaper påverkar deras motivation till ämnet. Studien genomfördes genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med sammanlagt sex elever från en gymnasieskola i södra Sverige. Intervjuerna berörde elevernas motivation tThe purpose of this study is to investigate how upper secondary school students experience their motivation to develop their musical ear and knowledge of music theory. But also, how their motivation and belief in their own ability interacts, as well as how their appreciation of their musical ear and knowledge of music theory affects their motivation to develop the concerned abilities. The study wa

It has been shown that the semi-arid environment of the Sahelian belt plays an important role in the global carbon uptake as the fluctuation of its primary productivity can be determinant for the global carbon uptake. The insect Schistocerca gregaria commonly known as the desert locust is a disturbance factor that can affect the vegetation productivity for consecutive seasons. In this study the de

Traffic accidents are extremely rare, creating the need for surrogate methods for safety analysis that makes efficient use of the information provided by traffic conflicts, which also are limited in availability. The severity measure time-to-collision (TTC) in combination with extreme value theory have so far been one of the primary measures used to infer traffic safety levels, but it relies on un

The mining industry is characterized by a hazardous working environment for its employed blue-collar workers and a general complexity of valuation for investors. By theories of behav-ioral finance, corporate social responsibility, and others outlined in the following, this makes a setting where one could plausibly expect reactions and even overreactions among investors to fatal accidents incurred

Rent dricksvatten är en mänsklig rättighet, men trots detta förlitar sig många människor i världen fortfarande på osäkra system för sin försörjning. Detta är särskilt ett problem i landsbygdsområden, som har en tendens att hamna på efterkälken när större satsningar görs inom vattenområdet. Vår studie undersöker vattenförsörjningen på landsbygden i södra Brasilien, och diskuterar utmaningarna som fAccess to clean drinking water is a human right and a necessity for life, yet many rely on precarious water sources across the world. The United Nations outlines a great aspiration in Agenda 2030 - that safe and affordable drinking water should be available for all by 2030. In Rio Grande do Sul (RS) in Brazil, more than one million residents rely on small-scale water supply solutions without conve

The purpose of this study was to explore the increased privatization that followed in the wake of New public management. The study was based on foster home business and foster home conditions, with the existence of different logics with sometimes contradictory requirements to explore how foster home experiences affect their choice to enter into agreements with municipal or consultancy-supported ac

The Swedish power grid is experiencing an ever-growing challenge to efficiently balance the grid. An increasing share of intermittent generation, decreased system inertia, continued electrification and more distributed energy resources result in an increasing need for flexibility. Smart grid technologies have, amongst other applications, shown to be a possible solution to this increased need for f

Det finns många svårigheter med att tillverka livsmedelsprodukter som är emulsioner. Syftet med detta projekt var att utveckla en emulsion enligt krav som beställaren av produkten hade satt upp. En första utveckling av produkten skedde ungefär ett år tidigare, och den fortsatta utvecklingen baserades alltså på denna produkt. Det som hade blivit ett problem med den första utvecklade produkten var aIt is a difficult process to create a drinkable food product that is an emulsion. The aim with this project was to create one, containing ingredients on levels described by a customer. A product had been developed before, but resulted in a product that had viscosity that was too high, and the aim with this further development project was to keep the levels of the ingredients on a level according t

Skattetillägget är en administrativ sanktion införd år 1972 i syfte att verka för att skattskyldiga fullgör sin uppgiftsskyldighet på ett korrekt sätt. Skattetillägg utgår bland annat då oriktig uppgift lämnats i skatteförfarandet eller då deklaration inte lämnats, enligt 49 kap 4 § och 6 § skatteförfarandelagen. Strikt ansvar med en presumtion om oursäktligt handlande föreligger för oriktiga uppgThe Swedish tax surcharge is an administrative sanction. Introduced in 1972, its purpose is to encourage taxpayers to provide the tax authorities with the required tax information and to fullfil the duty to file a tax return. Thus, tax surcharges are imposed, for example, when incorrect information is furnished to the authorities, or in the case of failure to file a tax return, see chapter 49, sec

En betydande del av alla offentliga upphandlingar leder till upprättande av ramavtal. Ramavtal är avtal som fastställer villkoren för kontrakt som senare ska tilldelas. EU-domstolen har i en dom från 2018 behandlat ett för upphandlingsområdet nytt fenomen. Domen rör takvolymer i ramavtal vilket avser en bestämd gräns för hur mycket som är tillåtet att avropa. Eftersom 2014 års direktiv och sedermA significant part of all public procurements leads to the conclusion of framework agreements. Framework agreements are agreements that define the terms of contracts to be awarded later. In a 2018 judgment, the European Court of Justice dealt with a new phenomenon for the procurement area. The judgment concerns determined volumes in framework agreements, which refer to a specific limit on how muc

Bilden av den traditionella kärnfamiljen som enbart ett heterosexuellt gift par med barn ifrågasätts allt mer och andra familjekonstellationer blir allt vanligare. I detta kan vi se att homosexuella personers relationer och familjer har lyfts fram mer och mer och tidigare fördomar om dessa tolereras i mindre grad. Denna förändring i attityd sker dock i olika takt runtom i Europa, vilket gör EuropaThe traditional family as a heterosexual married couple with children is a norm that is increasingly being questioned and other family constellations are getting more common. In this context the relations and families of homosexual persons are being highlighted and prejudices against them are less tolerated. This change of attitude is occurring at different rates around Europe, which renders the t

En av takeoverreglernas mest centrala bestämmelser är att budgivaren blir bunden av det lämnade erbjudandet. Budgivaren tillåts dock att uppställa fullföljandevillkor, som i vissa situationer kan användas för att återkalla takeovererbjudandet. Det finns formella krav på fullföljandevillkors utformning, men inga materiella begränsningar. Takeoverreglernas bestämmelser om fullföljandevillkor är relaThe Swedish Takeover Code is based on the offeror being bound by its offer. Consequently, the offeror may not withdraw an offer which has been submitted. However, the offeror may stipulate completion conditions. If a completion condition has not been, or cannot be, fulfilled, the offeror is entitled to withdraw the offer. There are formal requirements on the structure of completion conditions, but

The cooperation between the bridge team members onboard merchant vessel has been given considerable attention since the mid 90´s when the focus on non-technical skills (NTS) was adopted from the aviation industry. In the maritime industry NTS training is called Bridge Resource Management (BRM) training and was introduced to avoid single person errors resulting in accidents. Initially the focus on