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As is common in African states, the former liberation movement, ZANU (PF) still retains power in Zimbabwe. This essay analyses how Robert Mugabe and his party has managed to remain in power despite an economic and political crisis. Central to the study is the concept of neopatrimonialism which is argued to have been institutionalised in Zimbabwe much due to the nature of the liberation struggle, h

This essay is the result of fieldwork conducted in the Buduburam refugee settlement outside of Accra, Ghana, in the spring of 2008. The aim of the study has been to examine whether local integration could be a viable solution to the plight of the Liberian refugees in Ghana in the aftermath of the repatriation programme terminated at the end of June 2007. The concepts of local integration and self-

On the 17th of January 2002 the Swedish government presented a bill to the Swedish parliament, proposing ways of strengthening the Swedish democracy through reforms for increased elements of participatory democracy. A public report on the state of the Swedish democracy had been released two years earlier with similar enthusiasm for participatory democracy. However, the participatory ideals of

Is accountability possible in global environmental governance? The purpose of this thesis is to examine if accountability is possible in global environmental governance. From an accountability perspective the thesis tries to illuminate global environmental governance. An investigation about the concept accountability is made and the thesis also illuminates the possible problems that exist in glo

This thesis uses the ?What's the problem?-approach developed by Carol Lee Bacchi. This approach studies how the problem that a certain policy is supposed to take care of is represented. Each representation will rest upon certain assumptions and will accordingly support certain solutions while other solutions will be considered less suitable to the problem as it is represented. The thesis

This essay in historical archaeology deals with cultural-historical values of buildings and in this case the old train- and ferrystation in Helsingborg. The building has from the day of its opening in 1898 been exposed to threats of demolition since its original purpose was as a temporary building with intension of being replaced within a couple of years. After having seen two World Wars, even

This essay contains an analysis of the motives behind the French no to Turkish membership in the EU. By examining different analytical approaches to European integration and by establishing motives, the study seeks to explain why France is against the membership. Two categories of motives are explored, the first relating to domestic constraints, and the second dealing with structural ideational co

This essay tries, in different levels, to explain and create a deeper understanding for the phenomena ?private security companies?. By using Mary Kaldors theory about new wars, I will come to the conclusion that the insecurity that these wars create is an important part in understanding the emergence of a security need that these private security companies can provide. Later I investigate and expl

This study investigates the Colombian transitional justice process from an intersectional perspective in order to uncover potentials and problems of the reparation process to meet the needs of female victims. A theoretical framework on reparation that highlights the importance of the dimensions of recognition and redistribution, as well as the collective and individual dimensions, is used in order

The topic of this thesis interest is the relation between branding as a place making/marketing technology and the process of regionalization. The main proposition advocated is that the officially communicated image of the Øresund Region, as a cohesive place and community, is a space that has been configured with branding and can be described as a territorial simulation. The concept of territorial

During the last few years the countries in the African continent have experienced an enormous increase in female politicians on a national level. Rwanda is even the country with the highest number of female politicians in its parliament in the world. Despite this development in Africa, the quantitative research on women's political representation in the world has not yet paid attention to the

The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate and develop a useful theory of human behavior that recognizes the importance of our emotions. The new framework, called the theory of emotional choice, is developed by a holistic method in which results from the fields of psychology, sociology and (neuro-) biology are used to mutually support the conclusions. The theory is distilled into six preliminary po

The Swedish society and welfare model are under constant changes and development. One of the core areas in this welfare model is the social policy. By analysing the changing role of the organizations in the civil society on a local level with a theoretical typology changes in the roles can be noted. These changes can with a model for ideal types raice questions about bigger changes concerning iss

The purpose of the paper is to look at what role businesses play in the next stage of the Kyoto Protocol. More specifically I look at the role of the oil and gas industry in the politics of climate change. I present a counter-intuitive argument. Conventional wisdom says that one would assume that the largest polluters are actually the ones who are resisting climate change regulations but I want to

This essay captures the process toward a democratic transition in South Africa and tempts on analyzing the efforts made by civil society before the negotiation with the government in the beginning of the 90´s. The method used is a case study. By applying the theory of Elisabeth Jean Wood about the importance of continued mobilization, I try to answer the question: to what extend did civil society

Uppsatsens syfte är att besvara vad som föranleder våldsamma yttringar, likt upploppen i Paris 2005 och Rosengård 2005. Jämförelsen mellan Paris och Rosengård medför en följdfråga om det finns liknande tendenser i Rosengård att fullskaliga upplopp likt de i Paris kan äga rum. Vi använder oss av en teori som bygger på att det saknas tillit mellan etniska grupper och majoritetsbefolkningen som komb

Title: Silence please: Silent students' thoughts on shyness and nervousness in the classroom. This thesis deals with silent students' thoughts on shyness and nervousness in the classroom. During this study I have been talking to silent students about their experiences of being silent. After a look at the literature on the subject of shyness I have found that there the perspective of the st

During the past decades, an increasing amount of support and attention has been paid to the status of local civil society in developing countries. At the same time, a transnational civil society has emerged, a complex web of organizations within which professional and institutional INGOs take centre stage. This thesis investigates the role of INGOs in the evolvement of local civil society in auth

Denna studie behandlar den mediala debatt som följde dåvarande vice statsministern Margareta Winbergs uttalande i SvD i november 2002 om att könskvotering skulle kunna komma att bli aktuell såvida det inte skedde en naturlig ökning av andelen kvinnor i publika och privata börsnoterade bolagsstyrelser. I studien analyseras hur hotet om könskvotering möttes och en jämförelse görs mellan de idéer som

In this thesis a study of modernization theory and China is conducted. Why has China, despite socioeconomic modernization, not started to democratize? China has opened up during the three most recent decades and modernized rapidly. Poverty has decreased, urbanization has occurred, the agricultural literacy has increased and income has raised. Still, China is a country where political freedom is ve