Master theses: Recent submissions
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THE OIL WAR IN NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA. An Analysis over the Niger Delta Conflict and the Country’s Media Presentation of the Conflict
(2016-11-09)The Niger Delta in Nigeria has suffered from more than 7000 oil spills since 1970. Niger Delta communities have lost their basic human needs, health, access to food and clean water and the ability to work. The Niger Delta ... -
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN EUROPE. A quantitative study on the effect of convicted traffickers on trafficking victim inflow
(2016-11-09)There are several indicators that supposedly influence the trafficking victim inflow in a country: the type of prostitution law, as researched by Jakobsson et al. (2013) and Cho et al. (2013), and additionally, according ... -
The Border is not the End - The geostrategies of the European Council, the European Commission and the European Parliament towards the Turkish border
(2016-10-26)When it comes to Turkey, facts show that sometimes the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament have preferred other forms of cooperation along with accession. These have entailed different ... -
Vulnerable EU Migrants' access to Welfare - A source of Conflict? A Comparative Study of Party-Political Approaches in Gothenburg and Stockholm
(2016-10-04)Vulnerable EU migrants' access to welfare has become a controversial issue in Sweden since two rounds of EU Eastern enlargement. The political debate has comprised both inclusive and welfare protective preferences, however, ... -
WATER AS A CURSE? A quantitative examination of the link between water resources and interstate conflict
(2016-09-16)The phenomenon of the resource curse links the abundance of natural resources to higher levels of conflict occurrence. Until now, most literature merely focuses on non-renewable resources such as diamonds or gold. This ... -
PLAN B A comparative study of how the Norwegian and Swedish states relate to the international organization they cannot be members of
(2016-09-16)The purpose of the thesis is to reconsider the Norwegian non-membership of the EU and the Swedish non-membership of NATO. The premise of this extensive in-depth study is to contribute to our understanding of how state ... -
ANTI-IMMIGRANT PARTY SUCCESS - The insider-outsider divide and the role of labour market policies and institutions in 19 countries
(2016-09-16)The structure of the labour market in industrialized economies has changed during the last decades. There has been an increase in atypical employment, such as limited contracts. This development has resulted in a dualization ... -
REMITTANCES AND CORRUPTION IN MIGRANTS’ COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN Corruption Experience of Remittance Recipients in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2016-09-16)This thesis aims to explore whether and how (monetary) remittance affects petty corruption in migrants’ countries of origin. Specifically, it investigates whether remittance recipients are more likely to pay bribes than ... -
REGULATIONS AND MARINE AQUACULTURE An experimental investigation of the effect of trust and bureaucratic capacity
(2016-09-16)What explains the demand for regulation when institutions are considered ineffective, corrupt or incompetent? This thesis presents a novel study of the public’s attitudes towards marine aquaculture and regulation of a ... -
WOMEN AS ACTORS? An analysis of the focus on women´s representation within Swedish development cooperation
(2016-09-16)Gender inequality is still a wide spread problem in the world today. One way of working for gender equality is via development cooperation. Nowadays gender equality advocacy is an accepted and important part of development ... -
INCOME INEQUALITY AND MASS POLARIZATION A Cross Country Analysis of the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Polarizationin Attitudes to Economic Redistribution
(2016-09-16)More and more political attention has, in recent years, been directed towards the rise in income inequality that many western countries have experienced during the last decades. Among the questions asked by political ... -
Size and Flow - Does it make a difference? Multinational electricity market integration and price effects at the Nordic electricity market
(2016-09-14)The liberalisation process and the (re)structuring of the electricity markets within Europe has been subject to extensive discussion during the last decade. A key concept in this discussion is the creation of multinational ... -
Regulating the (E)Uterus - Epistemic Communities in the European Medicines Agency and the case of ellaOne
(2016-07-05)EU institutions increasingly rely upon opinions from scientific experts in decentralised agencies as the basis for EU-level legislation. At the same time, the role of private actors as drivers of integration is becoming ... -
WOMEN’S POLITICAL AMBITION AND REPRESENTATION The democratic consequence of media sexism
(2016-07-05)Despite progress overall in women’s rights, two areas where progress has halted are women’s representation in media and politics. Women currently make up 24% of news subjects — those being interviewed, reported on or ... -
WHO IS THE GREEN LEADER IN SOLAR ENERGY MATTERS? A theorization of political leadership in domestic solar energy development in the cases of the EU, the USA and the People's Republic of China
(2016-07-05)The objective of this exploratory study is to develop a theorization of how political leadership could have an impact on domestic solar energy development. Theorization means in this case the identification of empirical ... -
The Survival of Political Parties in Consolidating Democracies: A Qualitative Case Study of Zambian Political Parties 1991-2015
(2016-07-01)The Third Wave of Democratization brought with it strong ideals of representative democracy. This meant that countries had to create political parties as vehicles of electoral democracy through which people would constantly ... -
TRUST, VALUES AND QUALITY OF GOVERNMENT A multilevel cross-country investigation of public support for environmental taxes
(2016-07-01)Environmental taxes are argued to be the key to more effective environmental protection in developing countries. This paper investigates whether such taxes have the necessary public support to be successfully implemented ... -
BLOOD AND BALLOTS THE EFFECT OF VIOLENCE ON VOTING BEHAVIOR IN IRAQ
(2016-07-01)Iraq is a very diverse country, both ethnically and religiously, and its political system is characterized by severe polarization along ethno-sectarian loyalties. Since 2003, the country suffered from persistent indiscriminating ... -
What explains success and failure in Community Based Natural Resource Management? A comparison of Botswana and Zambia
(2016-07-01)This study was set out to understand why some African countries succeed in implementing co-management programmes in natural resource management while others fail to do so. This relevant problem is at the center of this ... -
GENDER SENSITIVE DEMOCRACY AND THE QUALITY OF GOVERNMENT The role of gender equality in lowering corruption
(2016-07-01)The aim of this study is to build on literature on the relationship between gender equality, democracy and corruption, in order to see if gender equality is a key factor for impartiality, which in turn has impacts on the ...