To defend a market, the acting firms need defence strategies. The eight Arctic States have all published their own national strategic document for the Arctic region. In the Strategies they describe how they will act in this Arctic market. The Arctic is an area undergoing a change. With the last decades of melting ices as a result of the increased global warming, the Arctic is a more available regi

This thesis investigate the European Union’s ’Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM) in the Mediterranean Sea. The core of GAMM is it to create partnerships with the countries of the southern Mediterranean Sea for the purpose of a secure environment for regular migration and mobility. This thesis analyse the core ideas of security in GAMM through a comparison of ideal types of national s

Current research shows that the number of workless people living in social housing is disproportionately high in comparison to other housing tenures. The aim of the Thesis is to examine the pathways into work available to social housing tenants, to better understand the phenomena of worklessness. Our object of study is that of residents within a social housing neighbourhood in Pennywell. A case st

In the last few decades, researchers have identified many systematic errors – cognitive biases – in the human mind. The predominant notion of human beings as rational have gradually been flawed, in one context after another. In the last few years scholars have approached the question of what policy implications should be derived from these findings and what solutions there might be. Three main phi

I denna uppsats undersöks i vilken mån den svenska regeringsformen från 1809 respektive den norska grundlagen från 1814 överensstämmer med Montesquieus maktdelningslära. Frågeställningen besvaras med hjälp av en idéanalys genom att de båda grundlagarna jämförs med en av oss konstruerad idealtyp av Montesquieus maktdelningslära. Vår undersökning visar att den verkställande makten i de båda grundlag

Etableringsreformen infördes 1 december 2010. Då övergick ansvaret för nyanlända i Sverige från kommuner till staten, med Arbetsförmedlingen som beslutande myndighet. Etableringsreformens syfte var att underlätta och effektivisera nyanländas etablering i arbets- och samhällslivet. En rad förändringar och tillägg infördes, bland annat introducerades den nya privata aktören etableringslotsen. Etable

This work analyses mostly the role of the headmaster in the public and private school, and the balance of democratic and economical values – the public ethos. It also analyzes how governance affects the work of the headmaster and the space for acting between the laws within the institutions. Before the presentation of the used theories, the idea about New Public Management as ideal and background

År 1991-1992 upphörde Svenska Arbetsgivareföreningens (SAF) och Landsorganisationens (LO) representation i ett flertal myndighets- och verksstyrelser. Denna förändring befäste en långvarig trend av avkorporativisering i Sverige. I en kvalitativ intervjustudie med ett flertal arbetsmarknadsjournalister undersöks hur LO och Svenskt Näringsliv försöker få politiskt inflytande genom massmedia och hur

Several studies have shown that development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) poses risks of impoverishment to both ecological and societal sustainability. Loss of homes, productive lands, income-earning assets, resources, social structures and cultural identity are some of the risks that occur as a result of displacement. This is the first study analysing a displaced community in Turke

Danish development policy is increasingly orienting towards the private sector and development through economic growth. Development programs are heavily influenced by a neo-liberal discourse, and they alter power-relations, identities and practices where they intervene in local contexts. The purpose of this thesis is to denaturalize the taken-for-granted truth established in the development discou

This thesis is a study of women in Belfast in two working-class ethno-national communities: Falls (Catholic/Nationalist/Republican) and Shankill (Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist). Theories of gendered nationalism and transversalism are used to analyze the material from a qualitative interview study. The study focuses on intersections of gender and nation: women’s identity as biological, cultural and

A global trend of decentralisation has been present in the last decades. Since the 1980s, most countries have transferred power and resources from the centre to subnational levels of government. This trend has also been present in the developing world where it has been encouraged by international organisations as a way of promoting citizen participation and democracy. The purpose of this thesis is

This study focuses on the part of the policy process called implementation. Theorists like Lipsky (1980) and Rice (2012) assign the street-level bureaucrats a major role in this process. The street-level bureaucrats of object in this study are personnel on group homes for unaccompanied minors. Since the children do not have anyone else to look after them, it is the welfare states responsibility to

As part of the 2013 foreign proposal Sweden’s foreign minister Carl Bildt announced that the Swedish embassies were to be obliged to be present on Facebook and Twitter. Today you can find all the Swedish embassies on social media and one of the aims is to engage directly with citizens by posting updates regarding Sweden. The Internet is enabling new approaches to diplomatic communication. This cas

The aim of this master´s thesis is to identify the implied problem behind the activation policy jobb- och utvecklingsgarantin as well as uncover the discourses that make this problem thinkable. The thesis relies on an understanding that policies imply an understanding of a problem that needs to be solved. According to this thesis theoretical approach, the understanding of a problem doesn’t reflect

This paper will deal with why party funding regimes in established democracies differ. It examines the variation of funding in two ways: the new trend towards more public funding and the growing tendency for state intervention in party finance regulations. By using new, comprehensive data, it is hoped to contribute to the field of political finance. The data set is used with a large-n research str

According to Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau’s discourse theory, language is a social practise that constructs knowledge. Thus, how we name a political problem in society defines it’s actual content and how we are able to define a solution to the problem. The purpose of this paper is to examine how we may use logics from the discourse theory to destabilise the gender order in Swedish gender equa

This thesis explores the diversionary use of force in the context of The United Kingdom. Building on theory that suggests that diversionary tactics are most likely when domestic turmoil affects the core constituents of the incumbent party, I operationalize domestic turmoil as macroeconomic conditions that disfavor the core constituents of the incumbent party and test its effects on the initiation,

There is an urbanization process going on all over the world and even if the process has a slower pace in Sweden now than during the industrialization period, the rural areas has experienced a general population decline the last two decades, despite a population growth nationally. This population decline has negative consequences for the Swedish rural municipalities and most of them uses, beside t

An increased regional trade in Africa is often defined as a key tool for a continued development of the continent, but although a numerous of policies aiming at increasing the trade have been adopted, the intra-regional trade remains stubbornly low. Why is that so? In this thesis some of the factors that potentially are affecting the trade are studied in a qualitative design. By conducting case st