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China has used different tools to expand their economic, political, and cultural influence in the world. One example is the establishment of Confucius Institutes, a phenomenon often viewed as a “soft power instrument” of China. In recent years, several of these Confucius Institutes have closed down in the West. This thesis explores public legitimations for closing institutes in the US and in two S

This essay studies the reasons why and how late lustration is introduced and implemented in post-communist countries. It gives possible answers to what it is that affects whether lustration is implemented or not and why it is introduced at different times. The purpose is to explain why lustrations occur in new democracies more than 20 years after initial democratisation. The study is done using a

While the schism between the Swedish Democrats and the scientific community is a well-known fact, the demand for scientific evidence in policymaking is growing ever more evident. By textual idea analysis, this thesis explores the scientific usage of the Swedish Democrats in the context of climate change and crime policy. By applying the theoretical framework, drawn mostly from Christina Boswell, t

This essay is structured as a theory test of an article written by Justin H. Kirkland (2011), his work was an application of a network theory on U.S. legislature. The theory he applied was about the importance of weak and strong ties in networks. This essay looked at the work done by Kirkland and decided to examine if his theory would give the same results if applied on a significantly different

Swedish legislation have yet to formulate a framework within which automated decisionmaking can be implemented in the municipalities. Despite this, social service delivery in Trelleborg municipality has adapted automated decision-making in the management of applications for social assistance. This is the setting for a case study of the values and ethical reasonings concerning automated decision-ma

Humanitarian aid faces increasing challenges in states who denies access to its citizens. The denial of access to humanitarian aid stems mostly from the view that aid organizations constitutes a threat to state sovereignty. However, recent studies suggest that in the case of Syria, the regime utilized humanitarian aid to instead bolster its sovereignty. To reach a better understanding of this rela

Efficiency requirements are today found in all Swedish municipalities and regions. With the care manager in lead, the home care organisations are today expected to find efficient solutions to organisational problems. The case of the care manager is studied through a thematic analysis of interview data and recruitment announcements. From 11 interviews with care managers and 23 care managers recruit

Klimatet har blivit en av dagens största frågor på den politiska agendan. Detta har lett till att nya typer aktivister har tillkommit. En av dessa klassas även som kändis – den ”vanliga” kändisen. Denna kändisen är känd på grund av sitt stora engagemang och sin stora följarskara men är tillsynes en vanlig människa och tillhör inte de som vanligtvis tillhör kändisar – artister, skådespelare, atlete

Abstract Devastating climate change, polluted oceans and biodiversity loss make up only a few of the issues facing the planet in the current man made environmental crisis. Many efforts have been made, but often failed in an attempt to mitigate the crisis. Many social scientists suggest that environmental movements have the potential of promoting change. In Spite of the impressive size of recent en

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is employed to analyse ecological discourses in the Sustainable Development Goals. The paper seeks to answer the question whether or not the United Nation has succeeded in formulating the environmental and climate related goals in Agenda 2030 given their ambitions to create an including and transparent policy document that could be implemented at all levels of soc

Denna komparativa studie bygger vidare på det arbete Frida Boräng tidigare gjort i sin artikel ”Large-scale solidarity? Effects of welfare state institutions on the admission of force immigrants”. Hennes slutsatser går emot teorier om att välfärdschauvinistiska idéer skulle vara mer dominerande i mer omfattande välfärdsstater (Boräng 2015). Detta väcker frågan huruvida liknande effekter av välfärd

This thesis investigates how the discourse of the Eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG) relating to the Irish border issue in the Brexit negotiations is constructed. The purpose is to analyse an English nationalist and populist discourse which seemingly does not make sense. This is done using Norman Fairclough’s version of critical discourse analysis. The ERG is in the paper defined as English

The thesis aims to investigate the Swedish Moderate Party in their changed migration policy during 2014-2019 based on Gunnar Sjöblom's theory of arena competition. The main material of the study consists of the party's party- and committee motions on the subject and are analyzed on the basis of a descriptive qualitative idea analysis of ideas and content. The analysis is organised on the b

This thesis examines four Israeli elections between 2015 and 2020 with the purpose of describing how populist rhetoric has been manifested within right-wing political discourse during this period. Two separate theoretical frameworks are utilized for the analysis, based on theories by Cas Mudde, Jordan Kyle and Kurt Weyland, conceptualizing populism both as an ideology and as a political strategy.

The aim of this study was to analyze the female under-representation in the Swedish Armed Forces in order to gain a deeper understanding of the organization’s underlying difficulties in recruiting and retaining women. By collecting a women’s experience of the Swedish Armed Forces via a web survey and applying a qualitative content analysis to investigate the respondents’ answers, the study wishes

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