Ambitionen är att förstå hur det praktiska förhållningssättet till korruption inom kommuner kan se ut; och hur detta kan tänkas påverka hur riskerna för att tjänstemän skall agera felaktigt. Utifrån detta används därför de olika indikationer som tidigare forskning resulterat i och jämförs med vad som framkommer utifrån de intervjuades utlåtanden. För att kunna bilda denna förståelse används en ana

The first European macro-regional strategy, the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) was launched in 2009. The EUSBSR has been a role model for other macro-regions in the EU, which makes it relevant to study from a governance perspective. This thesis adopts a case study design with the aim of examining how the EUSBSR governance system can be characterised and in what ways the

The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the meaning and knowledge production on labor immigration in a Swedish governmental context. This examination is done through a post-structural policy analysis focusing on understanding the discoursive construction of labor immigration and the labor immigrant is the thesis done with Carol Bacchi’s method of analysis named ”What’s the problem represented

A postcolonial critic has been articulated towards the failed state literature saying that it places failed states in the third world in a position of deviancy from western states. This thesis examines if the criticism against that literature also has any empirical relevance by studying in which way Zimbabwe, seen as a failed state, is portrayed by the media in Great Britain. This is done by a dis

Lean has become a popular organization model during the late 21st century, and it is widely spread through healthcare with high expectations of improvement and reorganization. The implementation of a certain policy is in the literature seen as a crucial step in policy realization. To better understand Lean and its adaptation to healthcare, this study examines how Lean is being implemented into Swe

In the spring of 2010, the Swedish government published an action plan for Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE). The submitted paper examines and analyzes the formation of the policy document and its sources of inspiration. Swedish policy formation on social enterprises and work integration social enterprises is analyzed on the bases of both Dolowitz and Marsh's theoretical framework as

Denna studie resonerar kring neorealismen och neoliberalismens syn på problematiken i relationen mellan Turkiet, Syrien och Irak gällande vattnet i Tigris-Eufrat deltat. Syftet är att studera likheter och skillnader de teoretiska perspektivens sätt att se på samarbeten och konflikter. De jämställs ibland till tvillingar genom deras utgångspunkt i det anarkiska strukturen men också som två absoluta

Asyl- och migrationspolitik har under en lång tid varit en nationell angelägenhet för de europeiska staterna, medlemsländerna har under senare tid försökt harmonisera denna till ett mer överstatligt projekt. Den senaste ledstjärnan för samarbetet och för hantering av asylströmmar är Stockholmsprogrammet där solidaritet mellan medlemsländerna spelar en betydande roll. I programmet slogs det fast at

This paper examined the language and content of the U.S. Forest Service's Serious Accident Investigation Guide (SAIG), which is used to investigate what the organization terms 'serious wildland fire accidents'. The purpose of research was to identify whether the language in the guide was objective, or if it biased the accident analysis process and conclusions of the accident report. Qu

Several founding democratic norms of the European Union (EU) may nowadays be found in their emerging stage in the post-Soviet countries outside of the Union’s borders. This is an indication that norms may get diffused, float around the continent and find a fertile soil in a new environment. Thus Georgia, located thousands of kilometers away from the EU, is highlighted as a success story of its coo

This paper explores Europeanization of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs by looking at the impact of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) on the Ministry. Despite being intergovernmental, voluntary, governed by treaties and not laws previous studies suggest that CFSP has an impact on the domestic arena. The analysis is based on the conceptual framework developed by Smith (2000) in whi

This thesis explores the state of regional cooperation, particularly in the field of security, among Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden (Norden). The author examines correlation between a set of socially constructed factors and the creation of a common Nordic profile in a regional security organization, the OSCE. Formally, Norden is divided in the EU and the non-EU members, but unofficia

Depletion of the indigenous energy resources of the EU, growing dependence on the external energy supplies, volatile prices of the global energy resources, increasing global rivalry for hydrocarbon reserves and recent Russian-Ukrainian disputes over natural gas prices which as a consequence has resulted in gas supply disruptions to several EU member states escalated the significance of the Europea

In this case study the author first investigates how environmental and social considerations are being implemented in the Swedish public procurement process. After that the author tries to explain these descriptions using theories on public policy implementation. A distinction is made to the food procurement process in Sweden’s three largest primary municipalities. Through the study of local polic

“A dagger through the skull and nothing to the wallet“ is a common expression for the situation in the squatter societies of Rio de Janeiro. It is used equally amongst the residents of the slums or “favelas” as they are called, as well as used by the recently implemented pacifying police force that work there. In Rio de Janeiro there are 17 murders committed everyday. The majority of those murders

Kvinnor tjänar forfarande mindre än vad män gör i Sverige. 2011 var löneskillnaden 85.9%, hela arbetsmarknaden inkluderad. I den här uppsatsen visar jag att löneskillnaderna har sin orsak i den socialt konstruerade genusstrukturen som påverkar samhällets statussammansättningsprocesser och till exempel arbetsfördelningen inom hemmet. Förekomsten av direkt diskriminering, fördelningsdiskriminering o

The thesis examines the perception of change within organizations in the private and public sectors. Using qualitative interview the thesis presents a study of two interviews, one in an anonymous private company and the other in the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, Försäkringskassan. Both informants function within human resources within their organizations and the thesis ambition is to map these

This thesis deals with how the Swedish EU membership has been regulated constitutionally. Although the EU membership arguably has had profound effects on Swedish public policymaking very little about this is mentioned in the constitution. How can that be? The inquiry is made more relevant by the fact it has been described as an “elephant in the room” – an obvious problem that no one wants to discu

This paper intends to investigate the impact of the two-sided market effect with nearby theories, the importance of customer loyalty and customer relationship management in the newspaper industry. It takes its theoretical references from academic research literature and interviews with the focus on customer loyalty and customer relationship management in the two-sided market environment. The resu

There ́s an empirical evidence that childhood trauma affect the occurrence of mental health problems later in life. The aim of this descriptive study is to out of psychosocial background and personality structure illuminate a group of young men (18-24 years) convicted for violence- and sexual crimes and to identify systematic differences in occurrence of traumatizing experiences during growth betw