Master theses: Recent submissions
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Respect for Fundamental Rights in Credibility Assessment of LGBTIQ+ Asylum Seekers in Sweden
(2019-09-13)This thesis investigates an increasingly important topic in the European Union (EU). I analyze challenges to respecting fundamental rights when assessing the credibility of LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers in Sweden. A qualitative ... -
DEMOCRACY AND REPRESENTATION FOR PUBLIC GOODS How democracies create conditions for provisions of public goods
(2019-08-29)Purpose. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate if it is reasonable that democracies create conditions for provisions of public goods. Democracies are argued to create conditions for public goods provisions by ... -
WOMEN’S CIVIL SOCIETY AND COUNTRIES’ SUPPORT OF SUPRANATIONAL POLICY CONCERNING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN A quantitative analysis of countries’ ratification of the Istanbul Convention
(2019-08-27)Violence against women (VAW) is a societal problem and a violation of human rights. It is crucial that governments act on the oppression that women face for being women. There has been a lack of a coherent legal system ... -
THE EFFECT OF CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC INSECURITY ON AUTHORITARIAN ATTITUDES A study on the effect of cultural and economic insecurity on authoritarian attitudes depending on level of post-materialism
(2019-08-08)This thesis explores the relationship between cultural and economic insecurity in post-materialist and materialist countries. This is done using OLS regression to test whether the effect of different forms of insecurity ... -
THE LINK BETWEEN ETHNIC FRACTIONALIZATION AND CORRUPTION REVISED Ethnic voting in Africa
(2019-08-08)This thesis revisits the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and corruption in Africa. An earlier literature argues that ethnic fractionalization leads to corruption via mechanisms involving ethnic favoritism. ... -
INTERNATIONAL ALIGNMENT IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT A quantitative study with Andrew Moravcsik’s liberal theory of international relations
(2019-07-05)The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has received a lot of international attention since its evolvement during the 20th century. This thesis aims to resolve the puzzle of worldwide alignment: it tries to identify the factors ... -
EU ETS VS. CORSIA A neoliberal institutionalist study of European emission reduction policy
(2019-07-04)Since 2012, the European aviation sector is covered by the European Union Emission Trading Scheme, (EU ETS). A global counterpart, which is currently being developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) ... -
POLICY DIMENSIONS AND THE CENTER-RIGHT A study of the center-right in Spain and Sweden
(2019-07-04)This thesis has two aims: to understand the motivations behind the political positions of center-right parties and to examine policy dimensions that are used to measure those positions. Political parties increasingly compete ... -
BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY: A TRUST OR CONTROL MACHINE? Theory and Experimental Evidence
(2019-06-25)After the introduction of Bitcoin in 2008, there has been a proliferation of interest in digital technology called Blockchain. It has been argued that Blockchain can sustain any transaction of value, be it monetary or ... -
SWEDEN – A LONE BRIGHT SPOT Wage formation and labour market antagonism
(2019-06-25)Economic inequality is a problem of global concern and labour unions may have an equalising effect on gender wage-differentials. In Sweden, the gender-wage differentials underwent a significant decline between 1960 and ... -
CUE OR NO C(L)UE? How parties shape climate opinion formation using experimental insights from USA and Sweden
(2019-06-18)As a central actor in shaping domestic climate policies, political parties play a vital role in building public support for policies aimed at mitigating climate change. However, previous research has neglected the role ... -
“The grandiosity of tasks and mediocrity of tools”: Confronting the transnational social question with mobile CEE citizens’ experiences in Sweden
(2019-05-08)This thesis contributes to the debate surrounding east-west intra-EU mobility, the transnational social question and European citizenship by uncovering often undervalued and stigmatized histories, experiences, and knowledge ... -
DOES WOMEN'S POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT IMPROVE GENDER BALANCE IN PEACEKEEPING? A Large N Study of Troop Contributing Countries
(2019-03-28)Although the United Nations has officially recognized an importance of women’s participation in peacekeeping, the number of female personnel remains low; thus, scholars have been investigating the factors that may facilitate ... -
THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT EMIGRANT Explaining radical right party voting among expatriate Swedes
(2019-03-28)What can explain the radical right party voting of citizens that have emigrated abroad? Results from the 2014 SOM survey of Swedish expatriates show that 7% of the expatriate population voted for the radical right party ... -
MOBILE MONEY AS A FINANCIAL INCLUSION TOOL FOR POVERTY REDUCTION A cross-country analysis of low- and middle-income countries
(2019-02-12)This thesis aims to examine if mobile money can act as a financial inclusion tool to reduce poverty levels in low- and middle-income countries. In contrast to the majority of the literature within its research field, this ... -
ELITE SURVIVAL FIRST, THEN MERITOCRATIZATION Implications of Elite Survival on the Meritocratization of Bureaucracies: A Panel Data Study from 1820 to 2010
(2019-02-12)Previous research has shown that meritocratic recruitment increases bureaucratic governance and decreases corruption (Evans and Rauch, 1999, 2000). However, less emphasis has been made on why meritocratic practices take ... -
THE CRITICAL ROLE OF A NON-HEALTHCARE APPROACH TO MATERNAL MORTALITY REDUCTION Qualitative insights from Rwanda’s success
(2019-02-12)Maternal mortality is one of the most critical contemporary development challenges as it accounts for a substantial number of deaths every year, despite the fact that we today have the medical knowledge to prevent it. ... -
“The grandiosity of tasks and mediocrity of tools”: Confronting the transnational social question with mobile CEE citizens’ experiences in Sweden
(2019-01-17)This thesis contributes to the debate surrounding east-west intra-EU mobility, the transnational social question and European citizenship by uncovering often undervalued and stigmatized histories, periences, and knowledge ... -
CLAIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION Analyzing the understandings behind migration policy in the EU
(2019-01-17)This thesis aims to uncover how, through the common discourse, human rights violations occur in the European Union when it claims to protect and promote human rights. More specifically the question is asked in what way ...