I vår uppsats undersöker vi sambandet mellan demokrati och andelen rural befolkning - en aspekt av demokrati och demokratisering som är relativt underrepresenterad inom dagens forskning. Vi lägger fram en hypotes om att låg moderniseringsgrad, politisk exkludering och låga utbildningsnivåer samverkar i rurala områden för att skapa ofördelaktiga demokratiförutsättningar. Vi prövar vår hypotes med h

Zambia styrdes i nästan tre decennier av samma auktoritära ledare, vilken avsattes 1991. Uppsatsen utreder civilsamhällets roll och betydelse i landets demokratiseringsprocess fram till år 2001, där särskilt fokus läggs på perioden innan och efter parlamentsvalet år 1991. Vi påvisar hur civilsamhället i avsaknad av politiskt engagerad opposition blir den faktor som driver på landets demokratiserin

Borealis AG is a world-leading provider of polypropylene and polyethylene products and has over 50 years of experience in the relevant field. The plastic materials provided by Borealis are mainly used in infrastructure, advanced packaging and in the automotive industry. In addition to the above mentioned Borealis also provides a number of base chemicals, such as melamine, phenol, acetone. All of

In the Maldives tourism dominates the economy directly and indirectly with 70% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) making the country’s economy heavily dependent on this sector. This should (theoretically) also imply many job opportunities for the Maldivians; however only 3% of the tourism labour force is made up by Maldivian women as opposed to 51% which are Maldivian men. This low number of female w

In 1910 the Swedish trade union federation Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation (the SAC) was formed. Initially, the SAC had an anarcho-syndicalist ideological framework, with limited theoretical discussion on how the revolution or socialization process should be undertaken. 1917-1922 the SAC went through an ideological shift, in part due to general increased radicalization of the European worki

De sociala medierna får allt större utrymme i dag och vi har genomgått ett paradigmskifte mot PR 2.0 som lett till att företag och PR-aktörer måste anpassa sig efter detta nya kommunikationsklimat. Relationen mellan PR-företag och intressenter har utvecklats mot en mer symmetriskt inriktad kommunikation som främjar dialog och ömsesidiga relationer. Genom att utföra kvalitativa intervjuer med nio u

Kreditsäkerheter i fartyg kan upplåtas genom ett flertal olika konstruktioner. Denna uppsats avhandlar tre utav dessa varianter; sjöpanträtt i fartyg, retentionsrätt och ägarförbehåll till helt fartyg. Sjöpanträtt i fartyg är en legal panträtt som i princip inte kan upplåtas genom avtal. Sjöpanträtt uppkommer som en giltig sakrätt endast för sådan skada som har ett direkt samband med fartygets veCredit securities in ships can be provided for by several different constructions. This thesis focuses on three of these varieties; maritime liens in ships, right to retention and title reservations in ships. Maritime liens in ships is a legally granted right that principally cannot be obtained by contractual agreements. Maritime liens evolve as a valid right in rem only for such situations speci

This investigation is about Establishment reform that was launched by the Swedish government in December 2010, which is looked at from the discourse perspective. In order to reveal the contents of dominating and alternative discourses around the reform, as well as show the existing value conflict, Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis is applied to the documents about the reform, parliament deb

Background: This study aimed to explore how the physical and social environment of a neighbourhood influenced the physical activity of children from the perspective of children and caregivers. It used a low-income neighbourhood in Beijing as the setting and focused on children in middle childhood. Methods: Guided by the Urban Ecological Model for Environment and Health Behaviour, semi-structured i

Den 28:e november 2010 publicerade mediaorganisationen Wikileaks en dokumentläcka som bestod av 251 287 dokument från det amerikanska utrikesdepartementet. Denna läcka kom att skapa en het debatt runt om i världen. Ett av de länder som nämns bland dokumenten är Sverige och även här blossade en diskussion upp. Denna uppsats använder detta fall för att problematisera hur den svenska dagspressen rapp

This research presents a case study assessing community social capital and potential leadership amongst farmers in the village Blat, South Lebanon and it was conducted in November 2010. The social capital was approached from the network aspect with the use of social network analysis (SNA) and it was assessed with the network closure and the structural holes concepts, conflict resolution mechanisms

The purpose of this case study was to explore the process of institutional change in the water in Moldova, with the ambition of contributing to the under-theorized discussion on the way this process unfolds since two decades ago. Institutional change was conceptualised as the process of making improvements and amendments of what is wrong or unsatisfactory about water institutions, with the aim of

The connection between water and conflicts has a long-standing history in southeast Lebanon. It has created a perception of threat to the water security, which affect the development of the area. The aim of the research was to contribute to the under-researched discussion about how perceptions of water security are affected by conflicts. The research questions were concerned with how the Israeli

Ecotourism is a rapidly growing niche within the global tourism industry and has deserved the attention of wide circles from academia and the tourism industry internationally. There is, however, void of information on ecotourism in Armenia from theoretical and practical points of view. In light of its ambiguous perception, use and planning for development, the aim of this thesis has been to presen

Internally displaced women hold together the social fabric of society; they are resilient, resourceful and creative in ensuring the well-being of their families following forced displacement. By utilizing the analytical framework of the actor-oriented approach, and the concepts of feminization of poverty and response strategies, this research demonstrates that women’s agency, as actors in the reco

Sustainable development has been recognized as a global concern by the majority of the countries around the world. The importance of education for sustainable development for reaching sustainability has been recently emphasized by the international community. As a result of this recognition, the decade of education for sustainable development has been initiated by UN. The purpose of this thesis i

This thesis concerns formation of opinion by the Swedish state. We have seen an acceleration of state controlled authorities which main purpose are to create opinion. This phenomenon has been highly criticized. One perspective of the critique, which also concerns this thesis, is the democratic aspect. It says that it is the elected politicians’ business to form opinion, not the state authorities.

In this essay the subjects of city development and governance are studied in a context of democracy. The empirical cases for this study are two city development projects in the city of Helsingborg, Sweden. The two projects are studied with a focus on governance and democracy. The analysis shows that increased competition between cities have led to a situation where many cities use governance relat

Los Bambues is a low socioeconomic status (SES) barrio tucked away in the municipality of Giron, in the Metropolitan area of Bucaramanga, Colombia. This study observes a case of nineteen adolescents from the barrio, who are members of a youth program, in order to learn more about their career aspirations and who or what enables those aspirations. It discovers that family ties play the largest enab