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The Role of Civil Society in the European Social Policy

The European Union (EU) has been criticised for the lack of a social dimension but just recently the Commission proposed a new initiative; the European Pillar of Social Rights. This thesis focuses on civil society and on the different ideas concerning its role in European Social Policy. The study will draw on theories developed from Esping-Andersen’s welfare states models together with theories on

IOP – en medborgarskapsteknologi. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys om införandet av IOP på arbetsmarknadsområdet i Malmö

During the latest decades, active labour market policies have been launched in Sweden with the aim of reducing social exclusion and unemployment. In the wake of this policy, the idea-based public partnership – IOP was formed in 2010. Public institutions sign partnership agreements with actors from civil society to solve welfare problems. Through the IOP civil society has received a renegotiated ro

EU Environmental Policy and its Effect on U.S. Chemical Regulation

The purpose of this paper was to assess how the EU chemical regulation, REACH, affected the reform of the U.S. Toxic Substances Control Act. It borrows from theories of policy diffusion and of the EU as a regulatory power, which were used to theorize two causal mechanisms potentially leading to convergence between the European and American chemical regulations, tested using a method of process-tra

The Power of Discourse

To the reader acquainted with academic discourses about working time reduction, the public discussion about such a policy seems incomplete. This raises the question of how and why certain academic discourses are taken up in the public debate, while others are excluded. This thesis aims at developing a theoretical framework to explore this question in the light of social power relations. It thereby

...And Justice for All

Costa Rica and Argentina are two countries that form part of the vast region called Latin America. These two countries differ significantly in levels of corruption according to Transparency Internationals annual index of corruption globally. Why is this so and why are certain countries more corrupt than others? This overarching question has inspired this thesis. The study more specifically aims to

Newspaper coverage of TTIP: A comparative case-study of the differences between how TTIP was presented in German and Swedish papers

Germany is generally considered to be a country that is free trade friendly and had, at the start of the TTIP negotiations, a majority in favour of TTIP. Now however, Germany has amongst the lowest levels of public support of TTIP of all EU member states, while a majority at the same time remain positive of international trade and even increased trade with the US. Previous studies have shown that

Postmaterialism in a Materialist Country - An ideal type analysis of the political culture among protesters in contemporary Russia

The following thesis investigates political culture in Russia, focusing on the attendants in the protests for fair elections between 2011-2013. The study grounds in the ambivalent Russian youth that on the one hand are described as Putin’s ‘puppets’, and on the other hand are the main actors in protests against electoral fraud and corruption. The thesis focuses further in identifying support for p

Panda diplomacy - Literally soft power?

This thesis focuses on panda diplomacy as a part of Chinese interest in soft power and its public diplomacy. The main purpose is to examine the role of the panda in Chinese foreign affairs. A previous research chapter is mapped out to understand the domestic discussion on soft power and the state of public diplomacy in Chinese foreign affairs. Pandas and the concept of panda diplomacy is then exam

New Wars and State Building - A case study on the changed dynamics in New Wars and how it can affect state building in Syria

The experience drawn from the wars in the early modern era in Europe suggest that interstate wars lead to centralization of power and resources. These wars are also strongly associated with state building and were a crucial component in the formation of the modern state. Though another dynamic can be perceived in contemporary warfare. The wars we see today differ in actors, motives, methods of war

Kön och politik - En kvantitativstudie om kvinnorepresentation i kommunfullmäktige

Politics should be constituted by social representativeness in order to be conceptualised as democratic and legitimate. The set of politicians ought to be diverse and heterogeneous with the aim to include a wide spectrum of interest and concerns. The debate about women lacking power in politics was raised in the seventies. The political parties acted in response to the debate by implementing diffe

Post-materialism = Pro-environmentalism?

According to Ronald Inglehart, level of individual’s environmental concern is linked with grade of post-materialism resulting from physical and economic security experienced. As post-materialist individuals are considered to prioritize environmental protection over economic benefit, this study raises a question whether this change in values can provide a long-lasting solution for environmental cha

Friend or foe – A qualitative field study on intergroup relations among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

As the world becomes more global so does the conflicts and refugee movements. Whilst many have studied the tensions between the communities of host nations and refugee groups this thesis aims to explore what type of tension and conflict that occurs when one refugee group hosts another. In order to do so this thesis seeks to answer in what way, if any, the arrival of the Palestinian Refugees from S

En parlamentarisk dimension av global governance

According to the values of democracy, the governors should be held accountable for their actions and omissions by the governed. However, on a global level there is a deep deficit of democratic accountability. The Inter-Parliamentary Union, (IPU) whose members consist of almost all of the national parliaments in the world, claims to increase accountability within the UN system. This thesis uses the

För alltid elev.

This essay examines which civic ideals that are described in the Swedish nine-year compulsory school, the journal from the Swedish Teachers Union and the journal from the National Union of Teachers in Sweden. One of the most important tasks for the nine-year compulsory school is to educate future citizens, however, other actors strive to influence the values and ideals during this education. The S

Feministisk Olydnad - Normativ studie av civil olydnad ur ett feministiskt perspektiv

In the middle of the 19th Century the American Henry Thoreau famously did an act of what we today call Civil Disobedience. Since then he has inspired lots of people with his act and today it has become a known and discussed phenomenon. In this thesis I’ll examine the phenomenon civil disobedience. I use a normative study to analyse whether you, from a feminist perspective, can justify three specif

Männen och det obetalda arbetet - En studie om pappaledighets påverkan på mäns obetalda hemarbete i Sverige och Danmark

This study aims to investigate what possibilities policymaking have, specifically the design of parental leave policies, to reach a more gender equal division of unpaid housework. The investigation poses the question, how the design of the Swedish and Danish parental leave policies, in respect of reserved ”daddy quotas”, have effected the long-term gender division of unpaid housework. There is no

Om inte jag gör det, gör ingen annan det heller - En intervjustudie om kommuners arbete med att förbättra flyktingars etablering på den lokala arbetsmarknaden

During recent years, Sweden has received the largest amount of refugees relative to its population among all OECD countries, posing new challenges to integrating those refugees in the labour market. Integration strategies, as well as outcomes of labour market integration, vary between municipalities. This thesis examines causes that can explain the variation in refugees’ local labour market integr

Kvinnorna som förde Trump till triumf : En kvalitativ undersökning av kvinnligt väljarbeteendet i det amerikanska presidentvalet år 2016

Over the years Donald Trump has made several controversial statements regarding women. Despite that, 42% of all American women who voted in the 2016 election, voted for him. This study examined what it was that made women vote for him. The method used was qualitative, and to collect material, interviews with six women, who voted for Trump, were conducted. General information on voting behavior amo

Revolution eller militärkupp? - En studie av maktskiftet i Egypten 2013

With this qualitative case study I intended to explain the power change in Egypt 2013 and characterize whether it was a revolution or military coup. I aimed to do this by answering two questions of “How can the power change in Egypt 2013 be explained?” and “How can the power change in Egypt 2013 be characterized, revolution or military coup?”. In this study I disclosed Samuel Huntington’s theo

Alla ”kvinnor” är svenska, alla ”invandrare” är män - En analys av kollektiva identiteter i 2016 års Almedalstal

The main purpose of this thesis is to examine how Swedish party leaders from the three biggest parties talk about the collective identities “women” and “immigrants” in their 2016 speeches from “Almedalsveckan”, the main political event in Sweden. By relating and contrasting these two groupings towards each other, I will also scrutinise whether an exclusion of “immigrant women” takes place. My anal