How can Swedish equality politics be understood, based upon analysis of formulations about gender and power, in the Swedish politic parties’ election manifestos from 1998, 2006 and 2014? Can any change, or trend, be identified over these years? By using a Faircloughian discourse analysis, along with a feministic theoretical perspective, is this study aiming to investigate how the nine largest poli

Many consider United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 a ground-breaking document, and as a resolution which attest to the new ambition of gender equality in the international community. However, questions remains of the actual effects of UNSCR 1325. This thesis analyses and compares the peace processes in Liberia and Rwanda in order to understand how UNSCR 1325 have affected them. The anal

This study is of qualitative nature where the problem area, domestic violence, is analyzed through feminist theory, aided by a critical discourse analysis. The study aims to reveal if the discourse of an official report from the Swedish government, named SOU 2014:49, challenges or maintains a gender power order. This structure exists in the society and maintains men’s superiority to women and rein

Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire in December 2010 in Tunisia. That was the starting point for what would then be known as the Arabic Spring where public mass protests managed to oust the leaders of countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Protests arose in virtually all arabic states during the following months. In this essay it will not be the revolution itself in focus. Instead it

This thesis explores the state of refugeehood in the political order of the nation-state system through a case study study of the Tamil refugee population in Tamil Nadu, India. How, and in what ways, does refugeehood affect peoples’ lives as political subjects? And what is the role of the refugee figure in the political order of the nation-state system? The research questions are explored through

A well-known maxim defines politics as "the art of the possible". This definition implies that the nature of politics is relative to specific circumstances and derives from an adoption of the line of action possible under given circumstances; correlated to this is a rejection of political activities whose realisation is impossible while being subjected to these circumstances. This essay

Studiens syfte var att ta reda på hur mötet med patienterna påverkas när terapeuterna är trötta på sina arbeten. Det är en kvalitativ studie med sex öppet riktade intervjuer som underlag. Informanterna var anställda på den allmänpsykiatriska mottagning där även författarna arbetar. Materialet transkriberades ordagrant och texterna granskades och analyserades. I studiens huvudsakliga slutsats framkThe thesis is a qualitative study of how therapists experience facing their patients when being tired of their work, due to the increasing workload at our job. Six therapists at a psychiatric open day care center were interviewed. The interviews were rigorously transcribed and we analysed the texts several times, approaching each interview hermeneutically (interpreting) and phenomenologically (des

Whether it is global warming or financial crisis, more and more challenges we face today are increasingly of a global or transnational character. As global governance increasingly has been perceived as having a democratic deficit however, increased forms of participation by non-state actors in global governance processes has attracted scholarly attention. This study centres on what the conditions

Since the late 1980s the Swedish educational system has been transformed through a number of market-based reforms. The purpose of the reforms was to increase efficiency and quality in Swedish schools by introducing private producers and reducing state regulation. Conversely, since the implementation of the reforms the between schools quality variation has increased which is argued to be associated

Today, there is a tendency in society to describe climate change in terms of a security threat and extreme weather, including storms and floods, is portrayed as affecting the security. This discourse can also be seen in the Swedish security policies. This thesis investigates how the climate change is described as a security threat within Swedish security policies. The aim is to investigate how t

I denna diskursanalytiska fallstudie kommer vi att undersöka kommunala dokument som berör invandring, hämtade från Malmö stad, för att ta reda på om det går att finna uttryck för idéer om assimilering respektive integration från kommunen. Vårt första mål har varit att ta reda på hur synen på invandring har förändrats över tid. Här har vi satt upp tidsramar och valt vårt material utifrån tre nedsla

Medborgarens möte med myndigheten påverkar hens förtroende för den offentliga förvaltningen som är beroende av medborgarens tillit för att behålla sin legitimitet. Tjänstepersonens bemötande kan vara såväl en tillgång för som ett hot mot demokratin vars ideal ständigt måste upprätthållas av de som har i uppgift att förvalta dem. Uppsatsen undersöker vilka maktrelationer som konstrueras i mötet mel

Intergenerational social mobility represents the ability of individuals to reach their full potential, regardless of the circumstances of their birth. But what factors influence the social mobility in a society? This study takes a comprehensive look at the role of child poverty. Through a cross-country statistical analysis it is shown that states with a high rate of child poverty have lower social

The number of people escaping from wars and conflicts to European welfare states is increasing. Many of them are children; some come as unaccompanied minors (UMs), fleeing without parents or any other responsible family member, entering and living in the country of refuge on their own. The “United Nations” (UN) and its “Convention on the Rights of the Child” from 1989 secures them special protecti

I juli 2014 föreslog Europakommissionen ett cirkulärt ekonomipaket som skulle bidra till att göra EU mer resurseffektivt genom att recirkulera resurser in i det ekonomiska systemet. En cirkulär ekonomi syftar till att tillvarata värdefulla naturresurser samtidigt som man motverkar behovet av att extrahera nya. Det föreslagna paketet innehöll bland annat ändringar i avfallsdirektiven, höjda återvinIn order to become more resource efficient and circulate resources back into the economic system, the European Commission adapted a circular economy package in 2014. This is in line with the idea of a circular economy. This study investigates how the legislative proposal to review recycling and other waste-related targets in the EU, which was a part of the proposed circular economy package, would

Some Swedish parties argue that more money to the military leads to more feminist security. Some parties are saying the opposite though, which goes together with the Standpoint Feminism Theory. This theory says that in order to be able to make the meaning of security to something that includes women we must change today’s perspective, which is based on views from men, which made a realism view dom

Sedan sekelskiftet har relationen mellan Ryssland och USA blivit frostig. Retoriken är djärvare, politiken tuffare och mediala spekulationer om det kalla krigets återvändo är inte ovanligt. En möjlig förklaring ges av Samuel P. Huntington i hans inflytelserika, men enligt somliga kontroversiella, teori om civilisationernas kamp. Enligt honom kommer framtidens konflikter i allt högre grad att äga r

This study shows the importance transatlantic relations to the development of the CSDP.

Deliberate and systematic destruction of cultural, historical and religious sites was an integral part of the ethnic cleansing policy used by the Serbian separatist forces in Bosnia and Hercegovina during the war between 1992 and 1995. In this essay I discuss deliberate and systematic destruction as a way of “killing memory” in a process of creating new Serbian national identity. In a society such

Abstract Title: Illiquidity discounts – An estimation of illiquidity discounts on the Swedish stock market Seminar date: 4-5/6 2015 Course: FEKH89, bachelor thesis in finance, 15 ECTS Authors: Viktor Gårdemyr, Jacob Källholm, Emelie Storckenfeldt och Nicholas Thurow Advisor: Sara Lundqvist Keywords: illiquidity discount, estimation, Swedish markets, industry, bid ask spread Purpose: The purpose of