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Our purpose with this essay is to examine how staff that works with drugaddicts in compulsory-treatment institutions for women and men uses gender in their work. We are trying to get knowledge and understand how the staff is using their own and the client's gender in the work that they are doing. We have chosen to take focus within women's care in institutions and compare if the work is do
The purpose of this essay was to examine teenager's views on violence among young people. Our main questions were: What kind of views on violence among young people do teenager's have? What do teenager's think about what causes violence among young people? In what way does scientific knowledge confirm young people's views about what causes violence among young people? To answer t
In 1978 China initiated its policy of "reform and opening", and began thetransition from a planned to a market economy. Since then, the government has recognized the need for a private and voluntary sector to help deal with the socialconsequences of the market reforms. The government has consequently beentransferring some of its functions to an increasing number of so callednongovernment
Agrarian reform is a long standing issue in the Philippines and has seen a number of peasant uprisings, revolts and rebellions ever since colonial times. In the wake of the Marcos era, the new constitution came with new promises of agrarian reform and set up the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) to implement (re-)distribution of lands. However, efficient implementation is held back by p
The overall objective of this study is to identify the normative contents of the legal rules shaping the status of self-employed workers in the Swedish social security system and how these contents change when underlying condition governing employment change. In order to achieve this objective it is first of all necessary to put social security and self-employment into their societal context. Seco
In the early years of EC merger control, the Commission generally concluded that conglomerate mergers would not cause competitive harm. In recent years, however, the Commission has increasingly developed theories of competitive harm which are applicable to mergers which lack appreciable horizontal and vertical effects. The leveraging theory is typically applied in conglomerate mergers, where the m
This thesis identifies and studies the effects of the natural resource curse on Equatorial Guinea by applying three typical theoretical phenomena to the Equatoguinean context: Dutch Disease, volatility of prices and institutional effects. The results show that Equatorial Guinea has very weak institutions and suffers from symptoms of Dutch Disease, but that the country so far has managed to avoid t
This paper examines in the context of their history and their impetus the implementation of structural adjustment programs in Peru, Argentina and Bolivia. The failure of the SAPs to meet their desired result is determined to be an extension of insufficient social welfare institutions, which were not initially considered to be important for a smooth transition towards market oriented reforms an
This study examines the effect that macroeconomic instability has had on the integration process of the Common Market of the Southern Cone (Mercosur) after 1999. The thesis concludes that while the member benefited from the creation of Mercosur up until 1998 through growth in intra-regional trade and the creation of static welfare effects, macroeconomic instability has eradicated most of these ben
Growing Russian oil export and an overall growing trade made the Baltic Sea one of the busiest shipping areas in the world, but the marine environment has suffered greatly from this development. Although not solely responsible for this unfortunate development, the International Maritime Organization has addressed this issue by designating the Baltic as a particularly sensitive sea area (PSSA) and
The rise of the FZL (feizhuliu) subculture was one of the most eye-catching cultural phenomena in the Chinese cyberspace between 2007 and 2008. It has been considered as vulgar, destructive and problematic by the masses. The purpose of this research was to offer a fresh perspective and insightful view into the FZL subculture. It also was aimed to contribute to the studies of the intersection of su
This paper compares credit pricing on the bond market and the credit default swap market with focus on countries of the Euro zone and in particular on Greece. For the period 2006 to 2008 we find that the two markets are closely related and that the CDS market is the main forum of price discovery. After 2008 the relationship loosened, however we find evidence that the bond market still is affected
This thesis aims to develop a theory on the role of water in an intrastate peacebuilding process, which is an area of research that has not yet been explored. The notion presented and which drives the following argumentation is that water with its practical, essential, local and cooperative characteristics could be an important factor in a peacebuilding context. The theoretical discussions take as
The paper intends to shed some light on the means that are in force for taxpayer protection since many developments have taken place recently that created uncertainty in this context. Further it seeks to draw more attention to the deficiencies in legislation that taxpayers face when their data is exchanged beyond borders. It is aimed at determining whether current (and accordingly the emerging aut
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the relationship between economic variables and sovereign risk premiums in the eurozone between the years 1988 and 2013. By using a Markov regime switching model it is possible to prove a nonlinear relationship. The result supports previous research, arguing that the market is observing economic variables to a larger degree during periods of financial i
This thesis shows how globalization creates disenfranchisment. Through a world-system perspective and an alternate view on globalization as social reproduction, it explores how people get disenfranchised by exposing the relationship between psychosocial expression and politico-economic structures. Disenfranchisment is regarded on a deeper ontological level than mere loss of the possiblity to affec
