In this essay the purpose is to see which ideas about development that are framed by Sida in the swedish development discourse. The method used for the study is an idea analysis. By creating two ideal types, a dominant and a critical perspective the aim is to see if any of the perspectives are more occuring in the swedish development discourse. The study focuses on development as poverty reduction

This essay is about why people participate in political parties in Sweden. The purpose of this essay is to gain more knowledge of people’s incentives for participation to help the political parties to recruit more members. I will use Panebiancos theory about the displacement of incentives for people to participate in political parties; collective incentives (idealists) such as ideology and social

Sedan 2001 är Sverige representerade i den internationella styrkan International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) som finns på plats i Afghanistan. Innan de svenska soldaterna åker ner för att stötta den fredsbevarande insatsen genomgår de träning på Livgardet i Stockholm. Där tar de del av en både teoretisk och praktisk utbildning. Invävt i den teoretiska utbildningen finns en utbildningsdel

Title: The retreat from the ambiguities of entrepreneurship: A study of Business Incubators Submission date: May 22th 2013 Course: BUSN49 Degree Project in Managing People Knowledge and Change- Master Level Authors: Rasmus Jonsson & Emilia Olandersson Supervisor: Kate Sullivan, Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Lund University & Stefan Sveningsson,

The Swiss foreign policy offers a deviant case. Most countries that were neutral during the Cold War have during the last decades become more cooperative, while Switzerland on the other hand still contains a rather stable foreign policy. Because traditional theories in International Politics offer no concrete explanation to this puzzle, I have been oriented towards decision-making theories in dome

The following bachelor thesis investigates how successful the cooperation between Försäkringskassan and Arbetsförmedlingen is at a local level. These two authorities have a joint mission since February 2012 to help people, who are about to be unqualified for compensation through their health insurance, to find a job through rehabilitation. Through the theoretical approach joined-up government, I

The purpose of this thesis was to contribute to a more holistic understanding of how youth reason around Intergenerational Transactional Relationships (ITRs) by moving beyond the customarily analysis of youths’ motivations for the engagement. Empirical data was gained through qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with youth in Windhoek. Informants’ accounts were analyz

The aim and purpose of this study has been to examine how Swedish media portrays migran-representation. This essay show my conclusion on how four Swedish newspapers – morning and evening press – portrays migrant representation. I have chosen articles from the largest newspapers and they are all chosen in the year of 2010, 2011 and 2012. I have used the critical discourse analysis by Norman Fairclo

In the book ”street-level bureaucracy dilemmas of the individual in public services” (2010) the author Michael Lipsky writes about the individual in public services. Lipsky presents a theory about street-level bureaucrats as policy makers. He argues that policy is created by the people at the bottom of the organizational hierarchy, the street-level bureaucrats. This is made possible by two interli

The European Union aims at being an ethical actor on the global arena and the EU development-policy is directed towards achieving long-term socio-economic development, with a specific focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, where development is showing little progress, and food security and agricultural development is at the top of the agenda. The EU is both the biggest market and the biggest aid-donor for

Uppsatsen behandlar internprissättning av koncerninterna lån i ljuset av den svenska rätten. Internpriset är det pris ett visst bolag, eller en viss del av ett företag, debiterar ett närstående företag i en annan jurisdiktion för varor och tjänster som köpts. Grundregeln är att sådan prissättning skall ske på en nivå som motsvarar den två oberoende parter hade enats om under liknande omständigheteThe paper deals with transfer pricing of inter-company loans with regards to the Swedish law. The transfer price is the price at a certain company or a certain part of a company, charges a related company in another jurisdiction for goods and services purchased. The fundamental rule is that such pricing shall be on a level corresponding to the one which two independent parties would have agreed up

Purpose: Management autobiographies are an important discourse in today’s management literature and we believe that they have become a great influence on management practitioners. In this study we aim to analyse how CEOs portray themselves in their autobiographies. Methodology: Our data consists of four selected autobiographies from the criteria that they should be bestsellers, written by a

The aim of this paper was to understand how adolescent girls’ approach towards sex and relationships is constructed in FRIDA, a Swedish magazine for teen girls, through a gender perspective. Furthermore the aim was also to identify how FRIDA categorizes boys and girls, and how it reproduces heteronormativity. The method used was discourse analysis, and the selection of material was all the article

Under mitten av 90-talet träffades arbetsmarknadens parter på europanivå och förhandlade angående visstidsanställningar. Resultatet av förhandlingarna blev ett ramavtal som sedan infördes i rådets direktiv 1999/70/EG om visstidsarbete. Med anledning av visstidsdirektivet tillkomst genomfördes det lagändringar i Lagen (1982:80) om anställningsskydd. När reglerna trädde i kraft anmälde TCO Sverige t

The reign of the ʿAbbāsid caliph al-Mutawakkil (847-861) is consistently presented in research literature as a milestone in the ups and downs of religious persecution in the early centuries of Islamic civilization. In this bachelor’s thesis I seek to discern what the intentions and motivations of al-Mutawakkil were in institutionalizing his particular brand of state-level discrimination. Research

Studiens syfte var att belysa hur psykoterapeuter förhåller sig till och påverkas av döden som ämne i psykoterapi med cancerpatienter. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med sex legitimerade psykoterapeuter med erfarenhet av att arbeta med patienter som diagnosticerats med cancer. Intervjumaterialet analyserades med Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), vilket resulterade i fyra huThe aim of this study was to explore how psychotherapists approach and are affected by death as a topic in psychotherapy with cancer patients. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six psychotherapists with experience in working with patients diagnosed with cancer. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyze the data, and four main themes were identified: Death come

En ökad åldrande befolkning leder till att demens påverkar allt fler människor. Merparten av personer som lider av demens kommer att uppvisa beteendemässiga och psykiska symtom. Farmakologisk behandling ska enligt riktlinjer ej vara det första behandlingsalternativet, delvis beroende på en mängd biverkningar som kan uppkomma. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att belysa medveten berörings effe

Hjärtsvikt är en vanlig sjukdom som kräver livslång behandling och ställer krav på att patienterna ändrar sin livsstil. Följsamheten till en ändrad livsstil utgör ett problem eftersom sjukdomen begränsar patienterna att utföra dagliga aktiviteter. Syftet med studien var att belysa hinder och möjligheter för egenvård hos patienter med hjärtsvikt. Studien utfördes som en litteraturöversikt inkludera

Barn som vittnen får ofta försöka identifiera gärningsmannen i olika former av line-up. Subjektiva bedömningar av vittnens korrekthet sker både av vittnet själv och av rättssystemet, vilket i olyckliga fall kan få negativa konsekvenser för offer och felaktigt misstänkta. Syftet med studien var att närmare undersöka barnens ålders påverkan på korrekthet, konfidens och kalibrering över två olika typ

I Sverige berörs 200 barn per år av att en förälder utvisas ur landet. Barn har en del rättigheter dels genom vissa bestämmelser som finns i svenska lagar som FB, SOL och UtlL men även i EKMR och barnkonventionen. Möjligheterna att utesluta utvisning i ett mål kring utvisningsfrågan på grund av brott där utlänningen har barn i riket finner man främmst i 8kap 11§ UtlL. Denna lagändring infördes eftIn Sweden there are 200 children every year which is affected by a parent will be expelled from the country. Children have some rights partly through provisions in Swedish law such as FB, SOL and UtlL but also in EKMR and the child convention. The possibilities of limiting deportation order when the alien has children in the country are found mainly in the aliens act 8 chapters 11§. This provision