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Local Participation within Water Projects: Empowering the Rural Poor?

The current development approach to reduce poverty is through participation which is thought to lead to empowerment. Empowerment is a state where people actively make informed choices that benefits them. The Kenya Water for Heath Organization (KWAHO) has been working extensively with participatory water management projects together with capacity building in Kenya, with the aim of empowering its pa

The European Integration perspective in Western Balkans- A case study of Serbia

The turbulence of the war in the Balkans has been an external motivation for a rapid development of the European foreign policy, to establish security and stability through various instruments. It implied intensification to initiate a foreign policy towards integration of the Western Balkans i.e. through economic and political assistance provided by the Stability Pact (SP) & the Stabilisation

The Treaty and the Union: An Assessment of Democratic Theories in a Post Lisbon EU

This paper assesses the democratic value brought to the European Union through the effect of the Lisbon Treaty. In doing so, it especially looks at how tendencies and theories presented in this Treaty can address criticism of a lacking EU democracy. The paper first details the so called democratic deficit debate, highlighting the five pillars in which the EU is often considered inadequate. Drawing

Den demokratiska processen - Plan- och beslutsprocessen kring Kristianstad Arena i jämförelse med en demokratinorm

The overall purpose of this essay has been to evaluate a local planning and decision-making process by comparing it with a norm of a democratic process. The case in question was the building of a new multi-purpose arena in Kristianstad. After the decision to build had been made the arena process was accused of being undemocratic and in the end the protesters even tried to force through a referendu

7,0 på richterskalan – en stor kommunikativ prövning?

En fallstudie på hur Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB) arbetade med extern kommunikation under jordbävningskatastrofen på Haiti 2010. Med hänsyn till att MSB är en relativt nybildad och ung myndighet finns det en grundläggande samhällsrelevans i att se om myndigheten fungerar och fullföljer sitt uppdrag. Hur arbetar kommunikationsavdelningen med att få ut information i allmänhet oc

Politiska sekreterare i svenska kommuner: en överlevnadsstrategi för kartellpartier?

A common feature within political debate is the decline of parties as organizations. Political theorists have in general, without proper empirical investigation, embraced the idea of the freezing of party systems and of the catch-all party model as the end point of party development. This essay aims to analyze and explain the emergence and increasing amount of political secretaries within Swedish

Borde OS i Peking ha bojkottats? - En analys av argumentationslandskapet kring de olympiska spelen 2008

The objective of this paper is to understand the debate around the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and find a tool to describe it. In connection with the games a great debate occurred around the world: whether the games should be boycotted or not. The reasons for the boycott threat was because of the Chinese attitude towards human rights. By following the debate in the two bigger Swedish newspap

Badrumsmöbel

Today the tradition of bathing is often reduced to a necessity rather than one of re-laxation, and the development of the bathroom has been slow compared to other as-pects of a modern home. The object of this thesis is to develop a product, designed for the bathroom, which in some way or another emphasizes the impression of recreation. The product is devel-oped in collaboration with sandellsandbe

Rysslands statliga massmedier: analys av nyhetssändningen "Vremya"

Uppsatsen handlar om den ryska nyhetssändningen ”Vremya” och bygger på en komparativstudie med Kristian Gerners artikel ”Sovjet TV News: Sobornost Secularized” som publicerades 1985. Betoningen läggs på sätten att leverera nyheterna, maktsymbolerna och deras transformation de senaste 24 åren i nyhetssändningen ”Vremya”. Även myten om det stora fosterländska kriget och den 9 maj (Segerdagen) behand

Lifetime Prediction for Wheel/Track Contact - Creation of a Practical and Theoretical Model

Objective: To limit the research time by developing a theoretical model, that can predict the lifetime of a wheel with the help of different input values. Apart from a theoretical model, also create a different type of test rig that can decrease the testing time, and still produce an accurate result similar to a real situation. Method: This Master’s Thesis was based on both an investigatory method

Kostnadseffektiv och legitim styrning för en minskad köttkonsumtion

The production of animalistic food has prooven to be environmentally harmful in several ways, and since it is hard to solve the problem through measures directed towards the production, it may be relevant as a political scientist to investigate; how we might use political instruments to lower the consumption of meat, assuming we want the instruments to be cost-effective and legitimate. I've s

Integration i all ära... -En studie om relationen mellan interna och externa värden hos Öresundsbrokonsortiet

Den här uppsatsen baseras på en jämförelse mellan de interna värden som står att finna i Öresundsbrokonsortiets styrdokument och de reklamannonser som producerats av organisationen under 2009. Som en följd av skillnaderna mellan reklamannonserna och de interna dokumenten uppstår en motsättning och spänning i vad som utgör organisationsidentiteten för Öresundsbrokonsortiets medarbetare. Den här mot