Among ten percent of today's independent schools in Sweden have a denominational emphasis. This approach has caused great debate in media. To get an understanding of the media debate the ambition of this essay is to find out what rules denominational schools are governed by, and also which discretion this schools have. To find answers to these questions I will use a kind of idea centered analy

Globalisation has left, and continues to leave, its mark on the contemporary world. The aspiration of creating a desirable development globally is often lead by global actors such as economic institutions. In working for a sustainable global sphere, it is paramount that the global actors such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) both consist of, and spread democratic as well as economic values

An analytical reading of the Nigerian and South African online debate regarding China’s engagement in Africa is here presented, with the purpose to contribute with knowledge from an African perspective. This thesis is a qualitative textual analysis of ideas where I have classified arguments from blogs and articles into different categories, compiled by Chris Alden, to view China in Africa as a dev

UN resolution 1325 on empowering women has its tenth anniversary 2010. The Swedish government subsidiary the Folke Bernadotte Academy and Swedish military evaluated the practical implementation of the resolution in Afghanistan. This thesis investigates if women’s emancipation in accordance with resolution 1325 may spoil the peace process. The thesis main focus is on the Swedish action plan and its

This thesis discusses the question whether it can be justified that the xenophobic party “Sverigedemokraterna” is not allowed admittance to the Swedish schools. Political parties are invited to schools and also ask to be invited to take part in debates or to hand out leaflets, especially before elections. In order to answer that question I present what the curriculum says on civic education and I

This thesis tries to clarify why Japan still uses the death penalty even though there have been radical norm changes throughout the 20th century. This essay, through using a comparative case study method, concludes there are three main reasons for why Japan still possesses the capital punishment, which are all connected to each other. First, Japan has not signed nor ratified the international tre

The purpose of this essay is to give further understanding of the relatively new phenomena Chinese popular nationalism. I will have my benchmark in traditional theory of civic and ethnic nationalism but also in popular nationalism theory and the from-culturalism-to-nationalism thesis. To further understand the identity shaping role of the populist movement in China I will separate it from official

In the last decades regions have become increasingly important as actors in the global challenge for economic growth. To be a strong competetor you need to have the right skills and in an era where knowledge-based industry is the key for economic growth the right skills is identified as the right knowledge. The keepers of this knowledge is known by Richard Florida as the “the creative class” and b

It makes no difference to animals if it is a Tuesday or Christmas Eve, they still need food and care. Horses are one of the biggest hobbies and the number of horses has increased the last thirty years. With this increase the demand of working labor has grown. The dividing line between paid and unpaid work is today vague and hard to define and therefore makes the concept of labour more complicated.

This paper deals with affirmative action linked to theories of equality. The aim is to answer the question: Can affirmative action be justified? Three different perspectives, or faces that I have chosen to call them, are the core of the analysis; formal equality meaning equal rights, actual equality which deals with equal opportunity and absolute equality which is understood as equal results. Aft

This thesis is a case study, which sets out to argue that the U.S., through the discourse of security, has been able to use measures to control migration that would otherwise not have been legitimized. The new agenda of migration as a security threat makes it possible to frame a necessity of increased regulations around the boarder. The effects of 9/11 on US policy with regards to Mexican immigrat

This essay concerns the problematic and highly contested topic of group specific rights for cultural minorities. I ask the question whether group specific rights for cultural minorities can be justified within the context of liberal democracy, and use the tools provided by normative analysis to analyse and provide an answer to this question. I start out with pinpointing the conflict that lies with

The objective of this essay is to map the possible future scenarios of energy relations between the European Union (EU), the world’s biggest energy market, and Russia, the world’s largest producer. The security of energy supply is essential to the functioning of the EU. Energy security, therefore, is a highly politicized subject that has divided European capitals for decades and will, ceteris pari

The purpose of this study is to give clarity on the use of Swedish identity and the definition of Swedish identity in the Swedish national political debate between 1976 – 2006. The study analyzes the electoral programs of the three biggest political parties of the period, namely Socialdemokraterna (The social democrats), Moderaterna (The conservative party) and Centerpartiet (The centre party). A

China is the country in the world with the strongest economic development for the last three decades with an average economic growth of 9 percent annually. The country is very controlled and the government is in power of the media as well as the Internet. But according to the modernization theory China should be a democracy. The theory is presenting a correlation between economic development and d

This thesis proves that the political culture of Iraq has possessed a major obstacle for the country to consolidate the new democratic regime, established after the overthrowing of the authoritarian Baath-regime in 2003. More specifically, it tries the theories of recognized scholar Larry Diamond, strengthening his interpretation that the presence of liberal norms and values among the people is ce

Nine Stockholm-based joint-stock data analysis and web hosting companies are hereby united in an external financial analysis, ranging from 1998 to 2007. The main contributions to the body of knowledge comprise observations regarding the companies’ management efficiency and their survival of “the dot-com crisis”. Given the fact that the firms’ resource bases are their differentiating factors, resou

This paper aims to discuss two research questions. The first question is what role race plays in American local politics. With the second question I intend to analyze what effect racial group conflicts have had in the city of Dallas. In the case of what role race has played in American local politics the results indicate that the complexity of the term race in itself makes the study of race in Ame

Algeria, alongside many other countries, was not swept up in the so called third wave of democratization. Instead, the wake of some political opening, it experienced a return to authoritarian rule. With the holding of regular elections in a multi-party system that allowed for relatively free press, traditional democratization theory would predict political reform. Arguing that this liberalized for

The purpose of this essay is to discuss whether the occidental approach to human rights, namely the importance of civil and political rights, in Africa is disappearing with the Chinese influence and its oriental viewpoint with focus on economic, cultural and social rights. China has lately chosen to ”Go Global” and now they officially promote their perspective on human rights. The intensified coop