By testing theories from the likes of Seymour Martin Lipset and Francis Fukuyama, this thesis aims to illuminate the correlations between the size of a nation’s middle class and the stability and rigor of its democracy. Using quantitative data on democracy and middle class size in the time surrounding the financial crisis of 2008-2010, this thesis illustrates the parallel declines in both democrac

Denna studie har skett mot bakgrunden av den flyktingsituation som uppstod i Europa under 2015, där många flyktingar kom att mista livet under sin färd på fartyg över Medelhavet. Syftet med analysen är att genom en diskursanalys som tar avstamp i socialkonstruktivismens tankar gällande språkets påverkansbarhet på individens tankar och handlingar, blottlägga ledarskribenters bild av flyktingbåtar o

Sveriges föräldraledighetspolitik har ständigt utvecklats sedan 1974 när föräldraförsäkringen infördes. Frågan är aktuell eftersom den spelar en betydande roll i arbetet mot en jämställd arbetsmarknad. Kvinnor missgynnas av en icke jämställd föräldraledighet genom att kvinnor tar ut majoriteten av föräldraledigheten. Samtidigt som kvinnor går miste om arbetsmöjligheter på grund av arbetsgivarens f

Denna studie är en idéanalys som studerar argumentationerna för och emot skotsk självständighet. Den idéanalytiska metoden har tillämpats på tre olika valmanifest från två av de mest tongivande skotska partierna när det gäller frågan om skotsk självständighet, Scottish National Party och Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party. Det teoretiska ramverket bestod av teorier kring nationell identite

Parisavtalet togs år 2015 fram i syfte att bromsa den globala temperaturhöjningen, som skapats till följd av utsläpp av växthusgaser, till under 2 grader Celsius (UN, 2015). Utifrån teorin intersektionalitet genom maktasymmetriaxlarna ras/etnicitet, kön, klass, nationalitet/stat samt ålder analyseras i denna uppsats om dessa inkluderas och/eller exkluderas samt vilka som kommer till tals i Parisa

De senaste decenniernas juridiska utveckling där nya sorters entiteter erkänns status som rättssubjekt har aktualiserat frågan om vad som egentligen definierar ett rättssubjekt och vad rättssubjektivitet, de rättsliga positioner som rättssubjekt typiskt sett kan inneha, egentligen innebär. Uppsatsen använder sig av en av de senaste teorierna i ämnet, Visa Kurkis the bundle theory of legal personThe past decades new kinds of entities have been recognised as legal persons. This global development in law have led to an increased academic interest in the concepts of legal person and legal personhood and what it is that defines these concepts. The thesis explores legal personhood through one of the latest theories on the subject, the bundle theory of legal personhood of Visa Kurki. It does

This thesis aims at investigating the interaction between thermal gradients and acoustic fields in microfluidic devices. In the research branch of Acoustofluidics, which bridges together acoustics and fluid dynamics, inhomogeneity in the medium has gained great interest due to the novel physics behind and the potential in manipulating submicrometer particles. Concentration gradients of solute mole

Flyktingkrisen i Europa år 2015 skälvde till Sverige. Den dåvarande rödgröna regeringen vände snabbt från sin generösa flyktingpolitik till att bli restriktiv, med hänvisning åt att myndigheter och samhällsfunktioner var under högt tryck och behövde ”ett andrum”. Detta skedde första gången under en presskonferens den 24 november. Uppsatsen använder teorin om säkerhetisering och med en diskursiv me

Förenligheten mellan ISDS-mekanismen i Artikel 26 i Energistadgefördraget (ECT) och EU rätt har länge varit föremål för diskussion inom EU. Denna diskussion har de senaste åren fått all mer uppmärksamhet, sedan EUdomstolen i mål C-284/16 Achmea dömde att ISDS-mekanismen i det bilaterala investeringsavtalet (BIT) mellan Nederländerna och Slovakien var oförenligt med EU rätten. Enligt kritikerna gårThe compatibility of the investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism in Article 26 of the Energy Chart Treaty (ECT) with EU law has been a topic of intense discussion within the EU for a number of years. This discussion has gained traction in the light of the CJEU’s judgement in Case C-284/16 Achmea, where the Court declared that ISDS mechanism in the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) betwe

Denna uppsats heter ”Rankinglogikens påverkan på universitetsvärlden” och är skriven av Emma Helton och Lisa Truedsson på Institutionen för kommunikation och medier vid Lunds universitet. Samhällets digitalisering har underlättat insamlingen av data, och därmed skapat bättre förutsättningar för kvantifiering och ranking. Detta leder till att vi rankar fler områden som formar hur vi förstår och vär

The corona pandemic is the worst pandemic in Sweden's modern history. At the same time, the Swedish crisis management of the pandemic differs from other countries. In this case study, Swedish crisis management is examined according to two theoretical approaches: crisis management theory and institutional logic. The approach is theory- testing and the purpose of this study is to comprehend whet

This thesis aims to investigate if there is a correlation between Donald Trump’s political beliefs and his foreign policy behaviour towards North Korea during 2016-2019. By applying the theoretical framework Operational Code redesigned by Alexander George, Trump’s political beliefs are visible through ten questions. These political beliefs which are divided into philosophical and instrumental beli

In a speech at the demonstration for refugees at Medborgarplatsen in Stockholm on September 6, 2015, the Social Democrats’ party leader and Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven made it clear that his Europe does not build walls when the need is great. However, the autumn that followed the number of refugees seeking asylum in Sweden reached record highs. Shortly after Löfven’s speech, the governin

The Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) has been defining Swedish politics during the past century. Against the backdrop of an ideological shift to the right in the 1990s, this study aims to investigate if the SAPs understanding of equality has changed over the past twenty years. The purpose is to show if there has been an alteration within the SAP. The study itself is a descriptive idea analysi

Den här kvalitativa studien handlade om internationella studenter och coronapandemin utifrån kritisk realism. Forskningsfrågorna var hur påverkade coronapandemin internationella studenters interpersonella relationer, behov av tillhörighet och social identitet. Åtta (N=8) semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med internationella studenter som hade studerat i Sverige vårterminen 2020 och som hadeThis qualitative study focused on international students’ experiences during the corona pandemic in Sweden from a critical realist position. The research questions were how did the corona pandemic affect the interpersonal relationships, need to belong, and the social identity of the international students. Eight (N=8) semi-structured interviews were conducted with international students who had be

This essay which is considered to be a study in political theory aims to analyze if Chantal Mouffe's theories about left populism should be used to radicalize democracy and the democratic values of liberty and equality. Politics is today in a post-democratic situation, where the neoliberal hegemony does not allow opinions that don't fit into the neoliberal consensus. Mouffe critiques the c

The Swedish government has increased security but also various efforts in Sweden to reduce organized crime. Despite all efforts to reduce gang crime in Sweden, it is increasing enormously. Shootings, robberies, murders and explosions are increasing every day. The Swedish government started a 34-point program that works against gang crime, but gang crime has still increased. The 34-point program in

The aim of the study is to examine how young women conceive their empowerment processes through access to ICTs, provided by the non-governmental organization IT for Children. The thesis is a qualitative case study of young women’s empowerment. Accordingly, a minor field study was conducted in the village Dixcove in the south of the western region of Ghana. Material was gathered through semi-struct

This qualitative study aims to explain the electoral success of the Christian Democrats in Sweden. The electoral success of the Christian Democrats raises a question about what the possible, underlying causes of the electoral results could be. The question that this study aims to answer is therefore “How can the electoral success of the Christian Democrats in the election of 2018 be explained?” To

Contrary to popular belief, countries rich in natural resources are often poorer than their resource-poor neighbors. The phenomenon «the resource curse” is defined as “the perverse effects of a country’s natural resource wealth on its economic, social, or political wellbeing”. Resource cursed countries experience poor living conditions, poor economic development and poor levels of democracy with e