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This essay examines the political discussion surrounding the proposal to relinquish the Swedish central bank and monetary policy from democratic control from the vantage point of democratic theory. The reform was proposed in late 1997 and debated twice in 1998. Through the lens of ideal types pertaining to different schools of democratic thought, the discussion is combed for different democratic i

Since the emergence of new public management in the public sector there has been a questioning of which values has come to characterize the political decision-making. In 2009 the Swedish Parliament approved a policy reform which created conditions for competition in health care. The policy reform aimed to increase patients' ability to freedom of choice, and the quality of the health care. The

No state can do very well without perceived as legitimate. While the state’s efforts to legitimate its power is well covered in the literature, the ordinary people’s role in legitimacy is less investigated. This study is informed by the notion that legitimacy is a relational concept. Legitimacy is created in the interaction between ruler and ruled. The power structure is dependent on the people’s

This thesis aims to investigate how the parties represented in the Swedish parliament justify the ban for Swedish citizens to wage war for any army except the Swedish. The analyzed material has been collected through personal interviews with each party’s legislative spokesmen. The method used to analyze the material is an analysis of ideas inspired by Torbjörn Aronson’s morphological content analy

This study’s main purpose is to, through discourse analysis, reveal how and to what extent New Public Management is reflected within the Swedish international development assistance and related politics during the period 2005-2015. The study also aims to explore whether there are other visible steering concepts, in order to discuss ”what comes after New Public Management”. With the help of a the

This study aims to determine the current discourses related to the portrayal of the female gender and femininity in the yearly activity reports of Swedish organizations providing humanitarian aid to developing countries. The study identifies and outlines the current discourses related to femininity and determines which discourses are more prevalent in the material than others. The study also utili

I Europa har en debatt uppstått kring huruvida antidemokratiska partiers rätt till politiskt utrymme ska rättfärdigas eller inte. Argumenten från förespråkare på båda sidor hämtar sitt stöd från rådande mänskliga rättigheter, friheter och demokratiska värden. Problemet som uppstår i debatten är att parterna grundar sina argument i olika definitioner av demokratiska- och frihetliga värden, utan att

Since the 2000s, several healthcare reforms have been conducted within the healthcare system in Germany. These reforms aimed at decreasing healthcare costs by introducing market processes into public services, among other means. This paper examines the policy preferences and the discourse concerning the reforms of the two dominant parties in German politics, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and t

This study examines Nestlé and their CSR engagement from an environmental aspect, focusing on deforestation and their use of palm oil. Being the world’s largest producer of food and beverages they are a target for public scrutiny when engaging in CSR initiatives. Using Archie B. Carroll’s pyramid of CSR and Lyon & Maxwell’s theory of corporate environmentalism will localise the predominant fac

The positive relationship between welfare states benefit generosity and acceptance of refugees are often proved through cross-sectional studies. However, cross-sectional studies rarely give an answer to why welfare states differ from expected levels of each variable. This essay delves into two divergent cases: Switzerland and Denmark, to find out how the relationship between the welfare state bene

This thesis aims to explore and provide answer to how local municipalities in Skåne mobilise towards EU opportunities following a reorganisation of the state which has shifted responsibilities closer to an empowered subnational level, honouring the EU principles of subsidiarity and partnership. Using a case study design and a method of semi-structured interviews the thesis identifies that internal

In this thesis we analyze the concepts of dependability and dependable systems. We investigate methods of designing and implementing dependable systems, in general, and on the Android operating system. A literature review was carried out with two main goals. Firstly, to gain and be able to spread knowledge of dependability according to both its qualitative and quantitative definitions. Secondly, t

Hur förhåller sig humanitära interventioner till ländernas suveränitet? Har säkerhetsrådets argumentation inför interventioner förändrats något över tiden? Denna uppsats behandlar de två humanitära interventionerna i Somalia och Libyen, där säkerhetsrådets mötesprotokoll och resolutioner ligger som grund för undersökningen. Där det tillämpas i analysen ett postkolonialt perspektiv på argumenten soHow does humanitarian interventions relate to state sovereignty? Has the Security Council argumentation towards interventions changed over time? This paper will deal with the two humanitarian interventions in Somalia and Libya, where the minutes of the Council and resolutions will form the basis of the analysis. Where a postcolonial perspective will be applied on the arguments with the help of uni

The topic of this thesis is public religion, and it is a study of the public debate on abortion and to what extent religious actors participate in it. The study is researched by analyzing debate articles that are debating abortion in four large Swedish newspapers. The theories of Habermas and Casanova concerning ideal models of religious participation in the public sphere is the foundation for the

Title: Do banks affect real estate prices when they change their terms and conditions? Seminar date: 08/26/2010 Course: Master thesis in business administration, major in finance, 15 University Credit Points (15 ECTS) Authors: Jakob Paulsson and Rickard Claeson Advisors: Jens Forssbaeck and Måns Kjellsson Five key words: Real estate prices, Credit standards, Commercial real estate, Real estate val

In the last couple of years there have been a lot of debate and discussion in the media and academia concerning Iran ́s nuclear program and the possibility that they want to develop nuclear weapons. This paper will seek to explain why a state may take the important decision to develop nuclear weapons and why some states never make that choice. By using Iran as an example the paper seeks to present

A receptor upregulated on regulatory T cells, in this work referred to as receptor X, is a candidate target for cancer treatment. An antibody targeting this receptor could potentially suppress and/or deplete regulatory T cells and hereby lead to activation of effector T cells and tumor regression. In this work fully human scFv fragments targeting receptor X were isolated from a phage display libra

The purpose of this thesis is to understand the importance of crisis preparation for disaster management in New Orleans before hurricane Katrina, and why New Orleans was so badly prepared despite knowing for several years that a disaster of Katrina’s magnitude was much likely to struck at this time. The study is based on secondary literature in the form of articles, web documentaries and investiga

This thesis is an attempt to identify possible changes in the operational code of the former Swedish minister for foreign affairs Carl Bildt following the Georgian war of August 2008. The analysis uses the VICS (Verbs In Context System) coding scheme developed by Stephen G. Walker, Mark Schafer and Michael D. Young to quantitively analyze public speeches made by Bildt from before and after the war

In Rio de Janeiro 1992 the first UN Conference on Environment and Development was held. Where governments and leaders from the private sector addressed guidelines for the environment and sustainable development. Since the media has a great power over how information is portrayed, the aim of this thesis is to examine how Swedish media portrayed the concept of sustainable development during the UN C