During the last 20 years, the number of minority governments in Swedish municipalities have increased dramatically. Simultaneously, the Swedish Democrats have gained an increasing share of municipal voter support. With the help of Down’s theory of political isolation of right-wing populist parties, the aim of this thesis is to statistically analyse the correlation between the rise in municipal vot

During the last decades, market-oriented policies have entailed significant changes within the Swedish public sector. In Västra Götalandsregionen, primary care clinics for physiotherapy since 2014 get funding based on collected contact points. The points are generated by patients visiting the clinics. Furthermore, the physiotherapists working at the clinics are assigned a daily target number. The

While the climate crisis is gaining more attention, market mechanisms and individual behaviour changes seem to remain the dominant political answer to mitigate climate change. This thesis aims to examine how blue-collar labour unions in Sweden position themselves in the climate transition. Additionally, it explores ideological frontlines and identifies interest conflicts and power relations in the

An inclusive democracy is of essence to combat the changes that the world is going through seen in the trend of increasing female participation. However, attitudes towards women in the public sphere seems not as progressive as one might believe which is an understudied topic. The aim of this thesis is to examine this development through the phenomena violence against women in politics in the conte

Surveillance has throughout history been a widely discussed phenomenon and the debate over the delicate balancing of state power vis-à-vis privacy in the pursuit of national security equally so. In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA had been conducting digital surveillance globally and it represents a tipping point in the history of surveillance. By applying the normative logics deontology

To commence, this is a qualitative case study about China and its diplomatic ties to the outside world, particularly Sweden. The thesis examines and illustrates an aggressive and coercive form of diplomacy utilized extensively by Chinese diplomats around the world; called “wolf warrior diplomacy”. Fundamentally, this diplomacy is a comparatively new phenomenon – or so it seems. Popular application

This paper endeavours to study whether Brexit could be Britain’s way to find its national role in the international arena by analysing three levels of theory analysis from foreign policy analysis operating discourse analysis in its different forms. Initially, individual decision-makers are scrutinised by operating psychological discourse analysis on three Prime Minister’s speeches to learn the pri

The voting behavior of the Members of the European Parliament (MEP) has been widely studied. However, little is written about the effects of crises. This thesis tries to understand how the Covid-19 pandemic affected the MEPs voting behavior in relation to their European political group (EPG) and in addition their national party. This was done using the two theories: the two principal dilemma

This bachelor thesis seeks to find out if the Congress, the legislative power of the United States of America, is suffering from the phenomenon of democratic deficit and what the causes of that may be. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s democracy index for 2021, the U.S. is no longer considered a full democracy but instead a flawed democracy. The U.S. Congress has been notorious for so

In the spring of 2020 an ambitious new strategy, named Farm to Fork, was made public as part of the wider EU Green Deal. The main goal being substantial decrease in the use of both synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Despite the negative consequences of large scale industrial pesticide use, the agricultural industry within the European Union has a lot to lose in a potential legislation to limit

Organized crime is generally associated with men. Women in organized crime have long lived under the radar, and it is only in recent years that their participation has begun to be noticed. The aim of this qualitative study (based on feminist IR theory) is to provide understanding on how women in Sweden are involved in organized crime, what roles they play, and how they are discursively represented

This study analyzes the conservative swedish party “The swedish democrats” and their Youtube-channel “Riks” different portrayal of two party leaders that belong to two different genders, one man and one female. The selected party leaders are Annie Lööf and Stefan Löfven. The investigation studies the different portrayal of two party leaders with a basis in gender theory. Through a qualitative cont

Although the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the importance of easily accessible medicines, a reactive pharmaceutical industry and the effects of how the same industry sector is regulated, the EU’s pharmaceutical regulations still have apparent flaws. Therefore, this WPR study intends to visualize how EC, EFPIA, and CEO have tried to maintain or undermine these regulations over time. To enabl

This study exams the governmental press conferences between 1993 and 2019. It aims to understand the fluctuations and increase of press conferences over the whole period as well as during term of office and discusses possible explanations for these changes. For the analytical discussion, tools like coalition theory and more recent theoretical frameworks such as Sagarzazu and Klüvers research are u

This thesis concerns the research area of ​​International visual relations. It also concerns the media platform Instagram, and how it has come to be used by Swedish politics between 2014 and 2022. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the way Swedish political parties express visual political communication has changed. This is done through a quantitative approach. Content analysis is

Revisionism is a widespread phenomenon in international relations – it questions why and how states grow dissatisfied with the international order and seek to pursue their broader interests. Since Adalet ve Kalknma Partisi (AKP) took power in 2002, Türkiye has gained significant self-confidence. Building upon that notion, questions concerning Türkiye’s revisionist tendencies have been raised. On t

The rise of radical right-wing populism in Western Europe has severely altered the political landscape during the last decade, and mainstream parties, from left to right, are struggling to employ strategies preventing voters from deserting to the radical right. In this thesis, I examine two mainstream parties in the context of Sweden, the Social Democratic party (S), and the Moderate party (M), to

De senaste decennierna har användningen av extern kvalitetssäkring av högre utbildning ökat i Sverige och Europa. Policyn för kvalitetssäkring formas i ett komplext samspel mellan nationell och internationell politik, där Bolognasamarbetet varit centralt. l uppsatsen kartläggs metoderna för den statliga externa kvalitetssäkringen av högre utbildning i Sverige mellan 1995 och 2020. Genom en analys

This study aims to analyze how politicians from different municipalities in the Christen democratic party of Sweden, view questions regarding the right to abortion. Furthermore, it compares the individuals’ views with both each other and the party’s official stand. The material consists of interviews and the party program from year 2015. The method of the study is based on a qualitative idea analy

This thesis investigates the reasons behind the continuation of legitimisation for the ruling party in Singapore, despite its undemocratic practices. The main hypothesis is that the ruling party has effectively utilised competitive authoritarianism, which involves the use of manipulation and repression to maintain control over the public and convince or pressure them to vote for the party. Through