Magisteruppsatser: Recent submissions
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THE EUROPEAN UNION’S FOREIGN POLICY IDENTITY - A case study of EU enlargement to the Western Balkans
(2021-08-12)Key EU actors’ discourse in relation to other external actors in the EU enlargement process of the Western Balkans is analysed. The analysis is undertaken in order to gain insights into the EU’s current foreign policy ... -
UNATTENDED DISTORTION - A study on how EU higher education objectives can appear distorted by level-, actor- and issue-dimensions of governance in Business and Economics bachelor’s programs at Swedish University Colleges
(2021-08-12)The EU agenda for the whole education area is denounced vital for the economic and social growth of the Union. As such it infers involvement of other policy areas such as research and innovation, foreign policy, or migration ... -
RECOGNITION OF SUPRANATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS IN SUBNATIONAL LAND USE PLANNING
(2021-07-02)Environmental goals are often agreed upon on the international level. Local municipality land use planning can contribute to various overall environmental goals, including those necessary to reach the European Green Deal. ... -
THE EU AS A SPACE POWER A path towards integration or interdependence?
(2021-07-01)This thesis aims to explore the synergies (or the lack thereof) in the actions and programmes of the European Union in conjunction with the European Space Agency in the areas of the space-based economy, space-based ... -
“PROMOTING OUR EUROPEAN WAY OF LIFE” A case of newly arrived refugees participation in the establishment program in the municipality of Mark – Sweden
(2021-07-01)This thesis presents an interpretation of the EU’s utilisation of norms through the establishment program for regular immigrants. The focus and interest are on newly arrived quota refugees in the Swedish municipality of ... -
POLICY FAILURES OF SINGAPORE’S INCLUSIVE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMMES The inaccessibility of persons with disabilities to the labour market in Singapore
(2021-02-12)The purpose of this thesis is to understand why the employment rate of persons with disabilities in Singapore is significantly low despite its extensive and generous inclusive employment programmes and the ratification and ... -
FOREIGN POLICY AND ITS FRAMING TO DIFFERENT AUDIENCES A qualitative study of Swedish feminist foreign policy communication in four countries
(2020-10-14)This thesis aims to investigate whether and in what ways Swedish foreign policy actors frame feminist foreign policy differently for audiences. The focus of this thesis concentrates on the single case of Swedish feminist ... -
THE ÅLAND OFFICE IN BRUSSELS An analysis of its channels of influence
(2020-10-12)This thesis is a case study of the Åland office in Brussels that sets out to analyse its extra-state and intra-state channels of influence in use in order to influence European policy- and decision-making and at the same ... -
SOCIAL FAIRNESS, INCLUSION & SUCCESSFULNESS IN EU COAL TRANSITION PROCESSES
(2020-09-28)Recent studies have shown that there are a number of flaws in current coal transition policies when viewed through a justice lens. The aim of the current research is to present how the social dimensions are integrated into ... -
INNOVATION IN EUROPE A Comparative Study
(2020-09-16)Innovation is one of the major factors of the country’s development and wealth. It is generally accepted that economically strong countries can afford to dedicate more funds to research and development, and as such, the ... -
THE ROAD FROM SALZBURG Translating European principles of Doctoral Education to local contexts
(2019-07-08)The aim of this study has been to investigate in what ways directors of doctoral education navigate and translate doctoral education norms from the European level to local contexts. In focus are the two norms of original ... -
”GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME?” A study of cluster professionals’ views on the cluster policies’ support to the EU’s concept of “Innovation Union”
(2018-11-01)This research inquires how EU’s Cluster Policies support the EU’s concept of an ‘Innovation Union’ by asking cluster professionals. The EU needs innovation to maintain today’s level of welfare. The European Commission’s ... -
LESS IS MORE, OR MORE IS A MUST? A study on how European cross-sectorial social partners navigate when advocating their position on platform work.
(2018-09-27)This thesis aims at examining how cross industrial social partners seek legitimacy in a European context; a context defined by a patchwork of welfare regimes where the same kind of actors can come to contradictory solutions ... -
Room for Interpration? A study on how the member states execute the harmonized Schengen Visa Code
(2018-08-24)Visa policies in the European Union and the Schengen Area are still a field of research that is still very much out of focus. This paper aims to put light in the dark: by investigating the different interpretations of two ... -
RETHINKING PARTICIPATION IN THE DIGITAL ERA Social Media Networks as a Digital Public Sphere for European Politics
(2018-08-10)The digital structure of social networking sites hold vast democratic value in light of the democratic deficit in the European Union. The sites have increased the possibility for the public of European citizens to participate ... -
AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT The Effect of Labor Market Disadvantage and Mainstream Party Convergence on Anti- Establishment Attitudes
(2017-07-07)Workers in precarious employment may have no incentives to support the political system. Drawing on the insider-outsider debate, and the populism and party decline literatures, this thesis first investigates David Rueda’s ... -
INTERCULTURAL CONTACT AND SOCIAL TRUST A Quantitative Analysis on the Effect of High School Exchange on Social Trust
(2017-07-07)The aim of this thesis was to investigate the effect of intercultural contact on social trust. The thesis focused on high school exchanges with AFS Intercultural in Finland. The research question was Do intercultural ... -
Leading the blind A cross-country analysis of the effect of transparency on environmental performance
(2017-07-07)The aim of this thesis was to investigate whether government transparency has an independent effect on environmental performance. Transparency is being promoted by policymakers and international institutions alike as a ... -
JOB INSECURITY AND GENERALIZED TRUST The role of labour market policies and institutions in mitigating or exacerbating the effects of job insecurity on generalized trust
(2017-07-07)The labour market in Europe har for decades now seen a radical shift from traditional full-time labour with unlimited contracts to a new flexible labour market designed to the economy of today, with temporary employment ... -
PRESIDENTIALISM IN DEVELOPING DEMOCRACIES: A SOURCE FOR BAD GOVERNANCE? A quantitative study on the effect of presidentialism on corruption in developing democracies
(2017-07-07)Researchers within the field of political science have been analyzing the effects of legislative-executive relations for several decades and both parliamentarism and presidentialism have their critics and proponents. ...