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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur svenska riksdagspartier använder sig av interaktivitet på sina webbsidor under våren 2012. Genom deltagande observationer och kvalitativa intervjuer utforskar jag besökarnas möjlighet till deltagande och förhållandet mellan partiernas interaktivitet och besökarnas deltagande. Först utförs en övergripande redogörelse för webbsidornas upplägg, därefter e

Title: The important role of the consultant Problematization: In today’s competitive markets it is important to maintain a competitive advantage. One opportunity to do this is by implementing an ERP system to the organization. Many organisations have implemented an ERP system, but a lot have been unsuccessful. Studies have been done to identify the main success factors connected with the impleme

This study will provide an investigation of the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms in children and the efficiency of child psychiatric treatments at an open children’s and adolescent’s psychiatric clinic in Sweden. Quantative analysis of 1190 semi structured, normed interviews were conducted which make this sample including every intake patient at the clinic during a given time. 206 follow-up inte

Visual discourses on ‘African women’ in the fundraising campaigns of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) hold the potential for stereotype creation. Previous research has shown that Africans are often portrayed with deficiencies (e.g. lack of water, education and productivity). By using Stuarts Hall´s theory of encoding and decoding, which highlights the active role of the audience in interpreti

Taking environmental procedural justice as a standard of assessment, this thesis sought to examine to what extent participation of all affected communities was achieved in the context of collaborative watershed management (CWM) in the upper-most part of the Mea Cheam watershed, Northern Thailand. Based on political ecology theory and discourse analysis method, the thesis first examines what charac

Media får allt en större roll i hur vi ser på oss själva och andra i vår sociala miljö (Gripsrud 2002:16). Därför har vi valt att utföra en studie på bloggar och hur dess skribenter porträtterar sina identiteter genom konsumtion, stil och smak. Då detta är ett väldigt brett ämne har vi valt att begränsa oss till bloggar som publicerat inlägg kring Marnis Kollektion för Hennes & Mauritz vilket

Title: Management control tools within purchaser-supplier relationships Keywords: Management control, value chain, strategy, purchaser, supplier Aim: The aim of this master thesis is to describe and analyze what management control tools are used within the setting of purchaser-supplier relationships, how these tools are used and what their interdependencies are. Methodology: The methodology und

The study investigates how the consumption of bulk commodities has transformed from mundane to remarkable and reveals how people, events, meanings and ideas from the past have affected this change in consumers’ attitude. The paper discusses how mundane products have become a center of consumer interest and provides theoretical explanation of the phenomenon. The research focuses on bottled water as

Today’s presence of sport in the everyday lives of the majority of the world population has recently led development actors to promote sport as a potential vehicle for social change. At the forefront of this new discourse is the notion of sport as a universal language that unites people across the globe. Whereas sport organizations in the Global South apply participation in sports as a tool for in

Livförsäkringar kan enligt den skatterättsliga definitionen delas in i pensionsförsäkringar och kapitalförsäkringar. Utmärkande för de olika typerna av försäkringarna är att de beskattas enligt två helt olika system. För pensionsförsäkringar är premier avdragsgilla samt avkastningen och utfallande belopp skatteskattepliktiga. I de fall försäkringen är att betrakta som en kapitalförsäkring är premiA life insurance can, according to the Swedish definition, be classified as either a pension insurance or as a capital insurance for taxation purposes. These two types of life insurances are taxed in two completely different systems. The premiums are deductible for a pension insurance as the earnings during the investment period and the disbursed benefits are taxed. Furthermore, the premiums are n

Despite the enthusiasm that greeted democratization in Africa and Nigeria in particular, it has turned out that expectation has run contrary with the reality. The wave of democratization in Africa has turned out to be wave of conflict, violence and war. This paper examines the dynamics of fraudulent elections in African most populous nations,Nigeria; a land with great potentials but lacking the fr

This paper analyzes the impact of variables suggested by the trade-off theory and the pecking order theory, on publicly listed Swedish firms in a sample period of 8 years, ranging from 2003-2010. Also the relationship between leverage and weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is studied for the same set of firms and time periods. The model used is based on panel regression with fixed and random

The aim of the paper is to draw a conclusion about the effect that integration has on the (in)stability of the linkages between international stock markets. To measure this (in)stability we focus on the contagion effect caused by the US debt crisis. Furthermore, we take the anti-crisis policies of the different countries into account and discuss whether this could have a mitigating effect on the r

Samtidigt som fler och fler går över till vegetarisk- och vegankost, verkar fler och fler också börja använda sig av nischade dieter som LCHF, som står för Low Carb High Fat. LCHF går ut på att äta så lite kolhydrater som möjligt, max 20g/dag, och istället äta mer mättat fett och protein. Detta innebär att matkorgen med gott samvete kan fyllas med till exempel bacon, jordnötssmör och grönsaker med

This thesis is a feminist analysis of documentary and biographic images and stories of old age, focusing on axes of social differences, normalization and the consequences of inhabiting the position of deviation. Through a theoretical framework consisting of intersectional feminist theory and theories on normalization and a methodological framework consisting of discourse theory and semiotics of im

Frågor om Familjemedlemmar (FoF) är en självskattningsskala bestående av 30 item fördelat på de fyra delskalorna perceived criticism (PC), perceived emotional involvement (PEI), critical remarks (CR) och emotional overinvolvement (EOI). Formuläret är skapat för att mäta interaktionen i dyader. Syftet med denna studie är att göra en psykometrisk analys för att undersöka om instrumentet mäter det av

This thesis analyses the effects of democracy and democratisation on human development levels and growth. Theoretically, the idea of development as freedom is incorporated into the classical debate of democracy’s impact on development. Empirically, this is tested in a number of cross-sectional and pooled panel multiple linear regression models, covering the period 1980-2010. Democracy is measured