The fashion systems flat contours : a study of the digital society’s impact on the development of the fashion system. Through the digitalization process social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and blogs have emerged. These social media's function is to act as arenas of human interaction and social life. This thesis aims to analyze how the social media impacts the fashion system. Today&#

Global external imbalances are commonly labelled as one of the main reasons for the Global Financial Crisis. This paper investigates these imbalances and determines current account equilibria for 21 OECD countries. Subsequently, we measure the speed of adjustment to the calculated equilibrium values and test for asymmetric adjustment effects. We extend the approach of Gossé and Serranito (2014) in

Minorities falling under the Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil, Cultural and Political rights, that is, individuals belonging to national, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities possess characteristics that form part of their identity and differ from the characteristics possessed by the majority population of the state. Because of these particularities, minorities can be often

The 2008 Global Financial Crisis has come and gone. Since then, worldwide interest rates remain at an all-time low, yet economic growth remains sluggish. Theories have been put forward to explain the phenomena, two of which take a secular perspective, detached from the recent crisis. This paper employs an explorative style of examining two historical datasets with the staging point of the real int

Problem/ background: Since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 and the free mobility directive there has been growing concern of homelessness and destituteness among EU migrants in several European countries, Sweden being one of them. This is an important welfare and policy issue. Previous research on this matter has tended to focus on challenges faced by, as well as strategies adopted by, NGOs and

Ternary semiconductor alloys like $In_xGa_{1-x}As$ have lured competing attention in connection to sub-50 nm high performance, low power, planar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor technology. This compound semiconductor owes its popularity to excellent bulk carrier mobility, minority carrier diffusion constant, small bandgap, high electron injection velocity and its capability to take Moore&#

Det fanns två huvudsyften med examensarbetet. Det första huvudsyftet var att kartlägga energianvändningen för varje idrottsförening i Eslövs kommun. Det andra huvudsyftet var att genom fallstudier hitta energieffektiviseringsåtgärder som är typiska för idrottsföreningar, vilket inkluderade att visa på möjlig besparingspotential och lönsamhet i åtgärderna. I examensarbetet har även en studie gjorts

Environmental problems commonly occur in the aftermath of natural disasters. If not managed properly, they jeopardise the success of the entire recovery process. The humanitarian sector has realised this threat and is looking for ways to properly mitigate environmental problems while maintaining their necessary flexibility. The conventional industry broadly uses environmental management systems (E

None of us are immune to the ongoing identity-processes. Identity formation is something that we are engaged in every day, both in our consciousness and our subconsciousness, from the society levels down to personal levels. This study examines how individuals with Assyrian background form their identities in Sweden. Questions on ”homeland” and ”home”, and statelessness are asked to contribute to t

Örups almskog has been described several times over the past 300 years. The forest has been a protected area since 1928, and when the aggressive strain of Dutch elm disease struck the region in 1979, it affected the forest in Örup for decades to come. Elms was the dominant tree species in the forest, and Dutch elm disease resulted in a high mortality for the elms. In Sweden Dutch elm disease was f

This paper explores how effective the Danish Greencard opt-out is in impeding the process of Europeanization. It investigates the cases of the Danish Greencard scheme and the German EU Blue Card directive in order to determine if national Danish sovereignty has been preserved through this opt-out. Opt-outs and high-skill migration are some of the most under evaluated topics within the field of Eur

This essay is a study of the debate surrounding the proposal of total incorporation of the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child into Swedish law, examining official documents and articles from the past 26 years regarding the Swedish strategy for implementing the convention. We will argue that the current political effort to incorporate the convention in its entirety as Swedish law

Tidigare forskning har visat att buzzwords tas upp av organisationer så att begreppets betydelse förändras. Detta kan leda till en urvattning av begreppen och en avväpning av de perspektiv som från början använt sig av begreppen. Begreppet agency har tagits upp av Världsbanken som ett buzzword och används frekvent i deras rapport för ökad jämställdhet från 2014. Begreppet är betydande inom feminis

Den västerländska byråkratiska modellen prisades länge som en effektiv och legitim metod för att förvalta den offentliga sektorn. I samband med västvärldens ekonomiska stagnation under 1970-talet höjdes dock allt fler röster, främst ifrån nyliberala kretsar, mot det man såg som en alltför kostsam och dyr förvaltningsmodell. Införandet av New Public Management-reformer i Sverige, såsom privatiserin

Detta examenarbete behandlar tillämpningen av den nya regeln om strafflindring vid medverkan i utredningen av sin egen brottslighet i 29 kap 5 § 5 p BrB. För att förstå dess tillämpning har de bakomliggande rättspolitiska motiven till bestämmelsen undersökts. Uppsatsen fokuserar på eventuella skillnader i motiven vid införandet av billighetsskälen genom 1989 år reform och de motiv som anförts vid This final thesis is about the application of the new rule regarding reduction of sentence if the accused participate in the investigation of his own crime in chapter 29 article 5 number 5 of the Swedish Penal Code. This new provision makes it possible for the accused to affect the outcome of the sentence. It is therefore important to understand what level of participation is required for the rule

Kommunalägda bostadsbolag har en unik position på bostadsmarknaden, eftersom de parallellt med sitt allmännyttiga uppdrag även måste förhålla sig till krav på affärsmässighet och vinstintresse. Genom intervjuer med tjänstemän inom avdelningarna för CSR och sociala investeringar på MKB Fastighets AB görs en analys för att se hur motiveringarna och rättfärdigandet för MKB:s omfattande sociala projek

Mödrar i samhällen där könsstympning förekommer står inför ett svårt val. Ska deras döttrar könsstympas, vilket inte har någon medicinsk fördel och som medför omfattande skador, eller riskera att hon hamnar i utanförskap, utan varken en social eller ekonomiskt trygg framtid? Könsstympning symboliserar många sociala strukturer som genomsyrar i princip hela samhället - normer, roller, makt, ekonomi

The aim of this study is to investigate the Arctic Council and its commitments. Basic elements of that contains of which values it represents in the council’s practices of work. This explicitly by examine the possibilities to protect the Arctic. The study starts with a review of applied theories, containing of the discourse developed by Norman Fairclough, Cultural political economy and its foundat

Since the municipalization of primary school in the early 1990s, has a fair education within and between muncipalities been discussed. The purpose of this case study is to examine Frasers (2011) equitable theory of economic redistribution, cultural recognition and political representation against the effects on fairness of municipalization. The aim is to see if the municipalities are responsible t

Under 2006 antog regeringen fyra jämställdhetspolitiska mål vilka syftade till att utjämna skillnaderna i kvinnors och mäns makt att forma samhället. I propositionen som antogs var en av de föreslagna strategierna för att uppnå målen att jämställdhetsintegrera alla verksamheter. En av dessa verksamheter är vård och omsorgsförvaltningen i Malmö Stad som har arbetat med jämställd biståndsbedömning i