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The Swedish government has presented a welfare reform, set to be implemented in 2026-2027. The reform includes an activation requirement with a clearly defined target group and a dual set of obligations imposed on both municipalities and individuals. This intends to address the long-term “welfare dependency” that recipients of welfare benefits are perceived to be trapped in. We situate this policy

The thesis examines how United Nations child marriage prevention strategies are translated from global policy frameworks into local practice in post-2011 Syria. While global frameworks developed by UNFPA and UNICEF assume the existence of stable legal systems, functioning institutions and predictable social environments, the Syrian conflict has produced conditions that fundamentally alter how prev

This study examines the Swedish church election and why the electoral participation is low while the Swedish parliamentary election has one of the best electoral participation in the world. The study was conducted partly through a statistical analysis based on data from the national SOM-survey and partly through interviews with five young individuals, two of whom had voted and three who had not. T

Swedish political party subsidies are a cornerstone of the country's political system, yet they remain a rarely debated and largely accepted practice. Unlike many other democracies,Sweden allocates significant public funds to political parties with little public scrutiny. Despite its democratic significance, the debate on the topic is surprisingly absent from extensive Swedish political discus

The idea of a just war is as old as war itself. This paper examines the ongoing conflict between the United States and Venezuela, as well as the Gulf War, and analyzes how they relate to just war theory, with a particular focus on jus ad bellum. The purpose of this thesis is to provide an empirical study of an otherwise theoretical subject in order to assess the viability of the theory in modern w

This study investigates the relationship between standard of living and environmental performance by analyzing the components of standard of living: income per capita, educational level, and life expectancy across both high- and low-income countries. The study finds a positive correlation between standard of living and environmental performance in all countries. However, this relationship is only

This qualitative study examines the organisation and risk-management practices of the Northern Civil Area and its County Administrative Boards. After a prolonged latent period, Sweden resumed its work on total defence in 2015, requiring authorities to adapt to new forms of security challenges including hybrid threats that blur the boundary between peace and conflict. A major administrative reform

This thesis examines Swedish national role conceptions and the extent of role contestation in the Swedish Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (Utrikesutskottet) in the context of Sweden’s recent changes in security and foreign policy. Drawing on role theory, particularly the concepts of national role conception and domestic role contestation, the study investigates (1) which national self-im

In recent years, research on European politics has increasingly examined a perceived turn toward nationalism, focusing largely on why this shift occurs and how it manifests. However, fewer studies address Swedish party politics and whether such nationalist tendencies can be identified in mainstream parties. Against this background, this thesis investigates whether nationalist ideas can be traced i

This study examines how repressive measures targeting minors have been legitimised in the political discourse during the Tidö Agreement period 2022–2025, with a particular focus on the introduction of youth detention facilities and proposals to lower the age of criminal responsibility. The study analyses how youth crime is constructed as a political problem and how these constructions shape unders

Elderly care constitutes a central part of the Swedish welfare system and is characterised by high job demands, limited resources, and relationally intensive work. The social work environment therefore plays a significant role in how everyday work is experienced. The aim of this study is to explore how the social work environment and experiences of participation are shaped in daily work within an

Den svenska arbetsmarknaden har under de senaste decennierna präglats av en ökad andel tidsbegränsade och flexibla anställningsformer. Bemanningsanställningar har blivit en vanlig väg in i arbetslivet för unga vuxna, men denna anställningsform innebär särskilda villkor som kan påverka upplevelsen av trygghet, social tillhörighet och integration på arbetsplatsen. Unga vuxna befinner sig i ett formb

Rapid urbanisation has intensified socio-spatial inequalities in cities of the Global South, leading to the growth of informal settlements that remain excluded from formal planning systems. In India, this condition is increasingly evident in rapidly urbanising cities such as Coimbatore. This thesis investigates how sustainable urban design strategies can be employed to rehabilitate informal settle

This analytical essay critically examines how social sustainability is constructed within Lund’s municipality district development program for Norra Fäladen. The existing research widely acknowledges that sustainable development and social sustainability are characterized by conceptual ambiguity and a lack of consensus regarding definition and measurement. Despite this, they are leading concepts f

Bernhard Oelreich (1626-1686) blev 1647 magister vid universitetet i Köpenhamn och var sedan lärare i grekiska vid Sorö akademi. Han prästvigdes 1651 till kyrkoherde i Norra Åsum och Skepparslöv och blev – sedan Skåne hade blivit svenskt – 1664 hovpredikant hos änkedrottning Hedvig Eleonora. Han bidrog till att Lunds universitet inrättades, och efter att ha blivit teologie doktor vid universitetetBernhard Oelreich’s (1626-1686) autograph book (album amicorum) with entries from the period 1644-1649 is preserved in the Peabody Library in Baltimore. Some pages have been removed by autograph collectors, and one of these pages is in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek in Hanover. This essay analyses the entries that remain in the autograph book and the entry found in Hanover. The entries w

Hybrid detectors, consisting of semiconductor sensors bonded to a readout Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), are widely used for single-photon detection in photon science and high-energy physics. The Timepix3 readout chip provides precise Time-over-Threshold (ToT) and Time-of-Arrival (ToA) measurements, making it a valuable tool for sensor characterization. This thesis presents the

Journalistbranschen är präglad av prekära anställningar där bland annat arbetsgivarna anställer systematiskt enligt Lagen om anställningsskydd genom så kallade in-och utlasningar. Dessa används genom skapandet av korttidskontrakt i syfte att undvika tillsvidareanställningar. Sämre allmänhälsa, oförmågan att planera en framtid och en instabil ekonomi är några aspekter som framkommit som konsekvenseThe journalism industry is characterized by precarious forms of employment, and employers systematically hire in accordance with the Employment Protection Law (Lagen om anställningsskydd) through so-called “in-och utlasning” a practice by which employers, with the aim of avoiding permanent employment, create short-term contracts. Bad general health, difficulties in planning the future and economic

Climate change poses significant challenges, demonstrated by climate threats that are becoming increasingly severe and frequent. This creates a higher need for uncertainty communication that considers risk-based decision-making. Global climate research, synthesised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is a starting point for regional climate assessments, for which the Swedish M

Med Gareth Morgans organisationsmetaforer som utgångspunkt undersöker denna uppsats medarbetares beskrivningar av en organisationskultur genom att via de metaforer de använder försöka fånga deras djupaste tankar om organisationen och dess natur. Familje- och hemmametaforen samt dikotomin mellan den organiska och mekaniska organisationsmetaforen står i centrum när metaforers betydelser utforskas.

Lipsky’s concept of street level bureaucracy has been a central part of political science theory for many years but has been used more for certain professions than others. One of these understudied professions is the judge. The judge was, by Lipsky, included in the group from the very beginning but it seems the field itself has not fully accepted this inclusion. Often the reasoning for this has be