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International Maritime Regimes – Business Rules?
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Twingly och Twitter på se2009.eu. En fallstudie av det svenska EU-ordförandeskapets användning av sociala medier på ordförandeskapswebben
(2010-07-07)Deliberative democracy theory holds that democracy is about active partaking on formal and informal arenas in the public sphere where fairly equal citizens can obtain knowledge, discuss, evaluate and affect the political ... -
Liberty, Equality, Exclusion - Sverigedemokraterna and liberal anti-immigrant frames in western Europe
(2010-07-07)In this thesis, I firstly present my view on how to define the anti-immigrant party family in Western Europe. I argue for a broad grouping including parties sharing resentment towards immigration and multiculturalism as ... -
The many faces of the Council of the European Union: A study of decision making in the Council
(2010-07-07)Recent research shows that there is a slow but steady decrease in minister involvement in the Council of the European Union. This decrease cannot be explained by contemporary research and recent rational theoretical ... -
"We need both" - Identifying the different stages of norm promotion. The European Union as a promoter of values:the case of the Eastern Partnership.
(2010-08-04)The question of why agents adopt new norms have been adressed by a number of scholars, pointing at the importance of incentives as well as identification. Yet, less attention has been directed towards how norm promoters ... -
Tactical voting: A study of voters' tactical considerations in the 2010 Swedish general election
(2011-06-10)Most studies on tactical voting in proportional representation system focus on voting to help a party pass the threshold to the parliament. This study extends and develops the definition of tactical voting. The theoretical ... -
The EU-Turkey Foreign Policy Relationship: A Security Approach - An analysis of Turkey’s orientation to the European Security Strategy and human security and its impact on the EU-Turkey relationship
(2011-07-04)The slowing down of Turkey‘s accession negotiations with the EU has led to an increased emphasis of the foreign and security policy relationship. This thesis argues that this develop-ment, while merging with the EU enlargement ... -
Religiosity and trust: a causal cross country approach
(2011-11-03)The aim and focus of this paper is to examine the origins of social trust and to add a theoretical contribution to the existing discussion regarding this topic. The paper will more precisely focus on the causes of social ... -
Gaming Together. When an imaginary world affects generalized trust
(2011-11-03)This thesis, by employing a four month self-selected panel-study of players from the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft as well as a control-group of non-players, find that generalized ... -
EU Democratic Deficit and the Civil Society: Case study on EU migration policy
(2012-01-05)The main aim of this study is to provide an insight to the European Union‟s attempt to find a remedy for the long-debated „democratic deficit‟, one of the major issues for the contemporary process of European integration. ... -
EUROPEAN UNION – TURKEY RELATIONS REACTIONS OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND PUBLIC IN TURKEY TO THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND MINORITY RIGHTS REFORMS CALLED BY EUROPEAN UNION AND REACTIONS OF EUROPEAN UNION TO THE IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THESE REFORMS
(2012-01-05)After becoming a candidate member of Turkey to European Union at the end of 2005, European Union demanded to continue implement political reforms from Turkey such as religious freedom and minority rights. However, these ... -
Nation centered thinking and human centered work: A study of the conceptual understanding of, and the practical effects from, environmental security linkages in Moldova
(2012-01-05)The study takes off from two major research gaps of environmental security and environmental securitization theories regarding the conceptual understanding of environmental security and the effects on awareness, financial ... -
Reforming the Merits: Meritocratic Recruitment and its Effect on Corruption. Case Study of Tajikistan
(2012-01-05)The aim of this paper is to observe the causal mechanism between meritocratic recruitment and level of corruption. Previous cross country analyses showed positive results, however what is lacking in academic literature ... -
AFRICA’S LOW ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: An Analysis of the Potential Causes of Africa’s Low Economic Performance
(2012-01-05)Many development specialists, policy makers, aid donors and recipient institutions have tried, with little or no success, to curb poverty in Africa. Though the continent is the poorest on the globe (more than half of its ... -
Decentralisation; the road to better Quality of Government? A comparative case study of Multan and Larkana, Pakistan
(2012-01-05)This paper investigates whether an institutional reform such as decentralisation results in improved quality of government (better service delivery and less corruption) to the final users –the citizens and at what expense? In ...