Sökresultat

In the late medieval period the religious guilds along with trade guilds grew in importance, as did the role of material culture related to the guilds. This history has seen little examination from a Fenno-Scandinavian and particularly a Swedish vantage point. In order to analyse the role of material culture in the formation of this way of organizing people, the article investigates the existence

The New World was present in material representations in the 17th-century castle of Skokloster, Sweden, in contrast to the concepts of history and centrality that were used in the construction of a locality of power in a European colonial society. Material displays, architecture and art visually constructed the New World as an integral, yet inferior, part of the Old World. The commodification of t

The IPUMS Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel (MLP) is a longitudinal population panel that links American censuses, surveys, administrative sources, and vital records spanning the period from 1850 to the present. This article explains the rationale for IPUMS MLP, outlines the design of the infrastructure, and describes the linking methods used to construct the panel. We then detail our plans for

This essay centres three research questions related to the Swedish Social Democrats’ positioning towards neoliberal principles in the labor market and how it’s expressed with regard to political role. This is done for the purpose of creating a nuanced understanding of the effect that neoliberal ideas have had on the formation and expression of the party narrative. For theory, critical realism and

Public procurement is growing consistently in the public sector, both in spending and in organization. Interconnected to this expansion exists an optimism that public procurement can steer the market and societal development as a policy instrument. An attempt to develop public procurement in Sweden has been the policy public business (offentliga affärer) in which the focus shifts from legality and

Previous research suggests that political efficacy can explain the relationship between political homophobia and political participation, since it captures the behavioural implications of misaligned demands in relation to state outcome. This thesis investigates whether political efficacy can explain LGBTQ patterns of political participation in a politically homophobic context, which remains unexam

This thesis examines how key political concepts within Islamic political thought—legitimacy, consultation (shura), and community (ummah)—have been formulated and reinterpreted across classical and modern contexts. Rather than evaluating Islamic political ideas through external normative frameworks such as liberal democracy, the study aims to analyze how political authority and governance have been

Migration has been a contested issue in Swedish politics over the past decade, and media coverage has repeatedly sparked debate about the impartiality of Sveriges Television (SVT). Using large language models (LLMs) as coding instruments, this study examines how migration has been framed in SVT Nyheter, a major Swedish public service news outlet, between 2014 and 2024. Rather than explaining causa

This study examines how energy policy is framed in official documents adopted by the Baltic Assembly between 2013 and 2023. Using qualitative content analysis and securitisation theory, the study analyses 22 documents, resolutions and joint statements adopted by the Baltic Assembly, to trace how energy framing evolved in response to geopolitical developments, particularly Russia’s annexation of C

Den här kvalitativa komparativa studien ämnar att utforska och jämföra de facto-staterna Taiwans och Kosovos relation till EU utifrån ett neorealistiskt perspektiv. Både Taiwan och Kosovo saknar fullt erkännande som suveräna stater. Tidigare har forskning gjorts om respektive fall, men inte i en komparativ kontext. Resultatet pekar på fyra oberoende variabler som skiljer fallen åt: internationella

The premise of this bachelor’s thesis is that Swedish Early Childhood Education is underrepresented in social science research, despite being governed by political objectives and constituting one of the most central welfare institutions in Swedish society. The empirical material consists of four Swedish Government Official Reports published between 1972 and 2020. Using a qualitative content analys

This study provides a number of lessons that Sweden can draw as a small state in NATO, based on how Norway and Denmark have acted in relation to NATO’s nuclear policy. Through a theory-driven content analysis of these two cases, the study concludes that small states can oppose nuclear weapons while remaining loyal allies in a military-based alliance. Norway and Denmark have systematically worked w

The Swedish government has presented a welfare reform, set to be implemented in 2026-2027. The reform includes an activation requirement with a clearly defined target group and a dual set of obligations imposed on both municipalities and individuals. This intends to address the long-term “welfare dependency” that recipients of welfare benefits are perceived to be trapped in. We situate this policy

The thesis examines how United Nations child marriage prevention strategies are translated from global policy frameworks into local practice in post-2011 Syria. While global frameworks developed by UNFPA and UNICEF assume the existence of stable legal systems, functioning institutions and predictable social environments, the Syrian conflict has produced conditions that fundamentally alter how prev

This study examines the Swedish church election and why the electoral participation is low while the Swedish parliamentary election has one of the best electoral participation in the world. The study was conducted partly through a statistical analysis based on data from the national SOM-survey and partly through interviews with five young individuals, two of whom had voted and three who had not. T

Swedish political party subsidies are a cornerstone of the country's political system, yet they remain a rarely debated and largely accepted practice. Unlike many other democracies,Sweden allocates significant public funds to political parties with little public scrutiny. Despite its democratic significance, the debate on the topic is surprisingly absent from extensive Swedish political discus

The idea of a just war is as old as war itself. This paper examines the ongoing conflict between the United States and Venezuela, as well as the Gulf War, and analyzes how they relate to just war theory, with a particular focus on jus ad bellum. The purpose of this thesis is to provide an empirical study of an otherwise theoretical subject in order to assess the viability of the theory in modern w

This study investigates the relationship between standard of living and environmental performance by analyzing the components of standard of living: income per capita, educational level, and life expectancy across both high- and low-income countries. The study finds a positive correlation between standard of living and environmental performance in all countries. However, this relationship is only

This qualitative study examines the organisation and risk-management practices of the Northern Civil Area and its County Administrative Boards. After a prolonged latent period, Sweden resumed its work on total defence in 2015, requiring authorities to adapt to new forms of security challenges including hybrid threats that blur the boundary between peace and conflict. A major administrative reform