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Organized crime is generally associated with men. Women in organized crime have long lived under the radar, and it is only in recent years that their participation has begun to be noticed. The aim of this qualitative study (based on feminist IR theory) is to provide understanding on how women in Sweden are involved in organized crime, what roles they play, and how they are discursively represented
This study analyzes the conservative swedish party “The swedish democrats” and their Youtube-channel “Riks” different portrayal of two party leaders that belong to two different genders, one man and one female. The selected party leaders are Annie Lööf and Stefan Löfven. The investigation studies the different portrayal of two party leaders with a basis in gender theory. Through a qualitative cont
Although the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the importance of easily accessible medicines, a reactive pharmaceutical industry and the effects of how the same industry sector is regulated, the EU’s pharmaceutical regulations still have apparent flaws. Therefore, this WPR study intends to visualize how EC, EFPIA, and CEO have tried to maintain or undermine these regulations over time. To enabl
This study exams the governmental press conferences between 1993 and 2019. It aims to understand the fluctuations and increase of press conferences over the whole period as well as during term of office and discusses possible explanations for these changes. For the analytical discussion, tools like coalition theory and more recent theoretical frameworks such as Sagarzazu and Klüvers research are u
This thesis concerns the research area of International visual relations. It also concerns the media platform Instagram, and how it has come to be used by Swedish politics between 2014 and 2022. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the way Swedish political parties express visual political communication has changed. This is done through a quantitative approach. Content analysis is
Revisionism is a widespread phenomenon in international relations – it questions why and how states grow dissatisfied with the international order and seek to pursue their broader interests. Since Adalet ve Kalknma Partisi (AKP) took power in 2002, Türkiye has gained significant self-confidence. Building upon that notion, questions concerning Türkiye’s revisionist tendencies have been raised. On t
The rise of radical right-wing populism in Western Europe has severely altered the political landscape during the last decade, and mainstream parties, from left to right, are struggling to employ strategies preventing voters from deserting to the radical right. In this thesis, I examine two mainstream parties in the context of Sweden, the Social Democratic party (S), and the Moderate party (M), to
De senaste decennierna har användningen av extern kvalitetssäkring av högre utbildning ökat i Sverige och Europa. Policyn för kvalitetssäkring formas i ett komplext samspel mellan nationell och internationell politik, där Bolognasamarbetet varit centralt. l uppsatsen kartläggs metoderna för den statliga externa kvalitetssäkringen av högre utbildning i Sverige mellan 1995 och 2020. Genom en analys
This study aims to analyze how politicians from different municipalities in the Christen democratic party of Sweden, view questions regarding the right to abortion. Furthermore, it compares the individuals’ views with both each other and the party’s official stand. The material consists of interviews and the party program from year 2015. The method of the study is based on a qualitative idea analy
This thesis investigates the reasons behind the continuation of legitimisation for the ruling party in Singapore, despite its undemocratic practices. The main hypothesis is that the ruling party has effectively utilised competitive authoritarianism, which involves the use of manipulation and repression to maintain control over the public and convince or pressure them to vote for the party. Through
Central Asia has for a long time been called Russia’s backyard and for a good reason. The Russian influence has been an integral part of everyday life in the Central Asian region as Russia provide employment for millions of people from the region which depend heavily on remittance. Over the last three decades Russia has established several regional organizations and has been keen to integrate the
This thesis provides a qualitative text analysis of the Islamic State’s statehood claims in order to examine how they challenge the conventionally accepted Western notion of statehood. The thesis focuses on the Islamic State’s own claims of statehood as it identifies itself and sculpts its alternative definition of state, as illustrated in primary material including speeches, videos, articles, and
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between energy vulnerability and the growing need for demand flexibility from the Swedish residential sector. Controlling for income, this supposed relationship was approached from the perspective of multifamily households. A bottom-up approach was further applied linking households' flexibility capital, that is - the ability to adjust
This paper analyses the prevalence of populist rhetoric within the South African ruling ANC party by evaluating the speeches of five presidents through an ideational theoretical framework. The grading criteria applied was developed by Hawkins et al. 2019, widely regarded as a pioneers in the field of populism studies. All the evaluated speeches in this paper were State Nation Addresses (SONAs) and
I Sverige finns ett antal webbplatser som samlar in offentliga handlingar och tillgängliggör dessa genom en söktjänst. Internetanvändare kan genom en sådan söktjänst, ofta efter erlagd betalning, till exempel se om någon förekommer i en fällande brottmålsdom. Webbplatserna är grundlagsskyddade genom utgivningsbevis. Möjligheten att ansöka om utgivningsbevis finns sedan 2003 genom en bestämmelse i In Sweden, there are a number of websites that collect public documents and make them available through a search service. Internet users can use such a search service, often after paying a fee, to find out, for example, whether someone appears in a criminal conviction. The websites are protected by a publishing license, a possibility that has been included in the Swedish Freedom of Expression Act
Under 2022 hade värdepappersinstitutet Avanza över 1.7 miljoner kunder, och ökade antalet kunde med 100 000 det året. För att försäkra sig om att alla aktörer som handlar med finansiella instrument vill fortsätta handla på marknaden, krävs det att de har förtroende för marknaden. För att aktörerna ska ha förtroende för marknaden är det viktigt alla har tillgång till korrekt information så att de iIn 2022, the securities institute Avanza had over 1.7 million customers, which was an increase by over 100,000 customers that year. To ensure that all actors who trade with financial instruments want to continue to trade, it is crucial that they have confidence in the market. For the parties to have confidence in the market, it is important that everyone have access to correct information so that
I det här arbetet beskriver jag min användning av grafiska partitur som verktyg för komposition och hur det har påverkat mig som kompositör och musiker. Jag har med utgångspunkt i olika typer av grafiska partitur komponerat stycken för olika typer av ensembler och musikaliska kontexter. Texten beskriver hur dessa olika metoder har påverkat mig i min skapande-process och vilka olika verktyg jag har
Inom Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, vid Institutionen för kommunikation och medier, på Lunds universitet finns det möjlighet att göra flertalet studier av kommunikativa processer. I uppsatsen “Efemär media och algoritmers påverkan på TikTok: en analys av TikToks For You-algoritm utifrån ett tidsbegränsat gränssnitt” analyserar Sara Al-Juburri och Johanna Laos huruvida ett relativt nytt fenome
The space of open source supply chain attacks is ever evolving and growing. There is extensive previous work identifying and collecting open source supply chain attacks, as well as identifying patterns in these attacks and proving that machine learning models may be able to detect these patterns. The aim of this thesis is to develop such a system and study its efficacy in detecting attacks. To ac
Utdelning på Stockholmsbörsen- sedelpress i dubbel bemärkelse? En studie som undersöker om valet av utdelningsnivå påverkar företagsvärdet för bolag i Sverige
