As empowerment retains its status as a buzzword among international development agencies, it has lost its essential element – power – intended to highlight the unequal structures and relations allowing disempowerment. Nonetheless, it has proliferated in the discourse and practice of women’s empowerment, as gender equity has become an important cross-cutting issue for many organizations and governm

Implementation in public organizations is a complicated process. Previous research has shown that neither a top-down or bottom-up perspective is sufficient to explain why certain implementations succeed and others fail. Alternative models that take the complexity of implementation processes into account by among other things allowing for the interaction between both horizontal and vertical levels

Implementation is a complex matter that has changed its foci within research over time. It has moved from being a subject standing by itself to something present in all parts on an organisation. However, we must ask; How is implementation created? This thesis aims to understand how managerial and political influence impacts implementation. It does so by focusing on the implementation of project PR

To address the problems that had sprung from the detail management of the welfare sector, a result of control in the vein of New Public Management (NPM), the Swedish government commissioned the Trust Delegation (Tillitsdelegationen) to develop a trust-based steering and launched the Trust Reform (Tillitsreformen). As this new reform seeks to remedy the failures of the previous system, this thesis

The phenomenon of gender-based violence (GBV) and the magnitude it takes in Argentina is raising great concerns within the country, intergovernmental organisations and women’s movements. Since 2015 a women’s movement named Ni Una Menos was established to create visibility and fight for the eradication of gender-based violence in the country. Building upon the Integrative Ecological Framework, usin

The issue addressed in this study is the consequences of China’s investments in Serbia. The purpose of this topic is to examine the development of Serbia’s alignment to the European Union (EU) association reforms. The theoretical framework comes from the diffusion and the dependency theory, which both build on previous research. The data is gathered primarily through official documents, news artic

During the first quarter of the year of 2019 a non-profit organization, Djurrättsalliansen, exposed Gothenburg University of researching on Labradors. Six dogs were subjects in a study of dental implants with a new type of experimental surface modification. Though experimentations on dogs have been done frequently since 1996, and at least 200 dogs have been used, this case of animal testing create

The violent clashes between farmers and herders in Nigeria have sharply intensified over the last couple of years. Not only has the number of clashes and casualties increased but the violence has also dramatically evolved, from spontaneous reactions and minor disputes to carefully planned attacks where militias eradicate whole villages. The predominant explanation is that the violence is caused by

This thesis examines what content contemporary national Swedish media attributes to the subject “immigrant”. Through a social constructivist perspective, the various conflicting and taken for granted perceptions articulated in the portraying of immigrants are outlined. With consideration to the current right-wing populist ethnonationalism that is sweeping across Europe and Sweden, the identified p

Democratic peace theory, or DPT, has in recent academic studies had its explanatory power and validity questioned and examined. One of the contenders against DPT is civil-military relations. This paper aimed to examine whether democratic peace and civil-military relations could explain conflict behavior and conflict escalation in militarized interstate disputes, as opposed to the common method of

This essay will handle the subject of how the municipality of Malmö along with its real estate company MKB construct a discourse on how the neighborhood of Augustenborg should be understood. The essay uses critical discourse analysis to understand how the discourse is constructed, and what social consequences this has. The structure of the discourse has been mapped out with the concepts of the voi

Social movements are a way for individuals to engage in environmental policy issues. In today's political climate, a great variety of movements have risen in as a result of great technological advantages. Social movements have adapted to societies technical advantages and started recruiting new members via viral movements instead. Viral movements have great power given its ability to reach out

This study has two purposes. The first one is to explain in what consists the originality of the Gilets jaunes movement. This is done by comparing it to four earlier French protest movements. It is found that the original feature of the movement is its lack of organization and refusal to take political sides. The second purpose of the study is to explain which societal factors acted as prerequisit

Since the introduction of the co-decision procedure in the European Union (EU), the Council of the EU and the European Parliament have become more interdependent in order to reach an agreement on a legislative file. The interdependence has led to a significant increase in the number of trilogues, which is problematic as these informal meetings are secluded and have no references to the treaties. D

Despite a relatively highly institutionalized and developed policy field, the EU environmental legislation suffers from a persistent implementation deficit. Although the challenges concern the supranational actors of the EU as well, the academic focus has been on the Member State level and in attempts explaining the challenges the national authorities face while implementing the EU environmental l

The phenomenon of political parties that fluctuate on various issues is nothing new in either Swedish or other countris’ politics. Why do parties change stance on different issues and how can we understand this? The aim of this paper is to create an understanding of why the Center party's leadership acted as they did during the government negotiations of 2018/2019. The purpose of this essay is

This thesis aims to address the military’s role in democratization studies by identifying the variable that determines whether the military’s role in the transition is successful or unsuccessful. The study has been done through a comparative study by most similar case design, by studying Benin and Nigeria. By looking at previous literature and thus structuring the thesis around their theories, the

Energy transition towards renewable energy resources is seen as a major way of tackling the challenges of climate change and limited fossil fuel resources. And while developed countries are advancing on this path, the importance of such transition is growing in developing countries, as these countries are largely expanding their greenhouse gas contributions due to the increasing demand on energy s

Twitter's open network structure enables us to quickly and easily share our political thoughts and views. But how well does social media provide an arena for a rich political conversation? The aim of this thesis is to provide knowledge about the digitized political dialogue, citizens' abilities to influence through public discussion and the conditions Twitter as a platform provides for an

Since the 1990s a great deal of literature has been written predicting the behaviour of right-wing populists, explaining their policies and ideology but until Brexit, there had been no such clear victory for right-wing populist policies. Drawing from the current state of the art, data from the national and European electoral party manifestos as well as Eurobarometer survey data from France, German