Master theses: Recent submissions
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Väljarnas val - en studie av partiers vallöftesgivande på kommunal nivå
(2012-09-07)Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa hur vallöftesgivandet ser ut på kommunal nivå. Mer konkret studeras antalet vallöften partier avger, vad för slags vallöften som avges och hur relationen ser ut mellan vallöften ... -
Skilled, interested, and governmental – the average participant A case study of participation opportunities in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
(2012-07-09)Do all actors have equal opportunities to participate in multi-level governance arrangements? As the first EU macro-regional strategy, the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) is an interesting and important case ... -
The Rotating-Presidency in a Post-Lisbon Environment: agenda-setter or agenda-manager?
(2012-07-09)This thesis examines the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the rotating-presidencies ability to pursue national preferences and examines the consequences of these changes on the potential evolution of the EU as a whole. By ... -
Trade Gone Bananas: A Study of Political Control over Trade
(2012-07-09)Trade patterns and trade partners occur in ever-changing constellations. Allies becomes rivals and vice versa. This thesis examines what factors creates trade and with the example of the Banana wars, tests if the European ... -
In search of a more restrictive asylum policy? Understanding the Swedish standpoint towards the Common European Asylum System
(2012-07-09)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the motives of the Swedish political parties for pursuing supranational asylum policies in the European Union. Although Sweden generally disapproves of supranationality Sweden is ... -
For better or for worse? Happiness among unemployed in 19 European countries - The effect of the economic crisis of 2008
(2012-07-09)As previous research has shown that unemployment is followed by lower levels of happiness and life-satisfaction, few studies have examined how this relationship is affected by an economic crisis. The economic crisis, which ... -
Contested Sovereignty The case of Greece
(2012-07-09)This thesis examines the issue of political versus economic incentives to default, with regard to the present Greece debt crisis. It is hypothesized that when a country has strong political incentives to not default on its ... -
What is the EU? The European Union’s foreign policy discourse
(2012-07-09)The aim of this thesis is to determine how the EU´s power projections are constructed in a depiction of its foreign policy actions in 2001 and 2011. Can the European Union be described as a normative or smart power? How ... -
Campaigning with poetry, governing on prose - Experimental analyses of the effects of persuasive strategies in election campaigns, on fluctuation in political trust pre- and post-elections
(2012-04-25)What accounts for fluctuation in political trust pre- and post-elections? The dynamic process of increased fluctuation in political trust around elections has been studied before, but the effects of persuasive strategies ... -
What Can EU Learn from Canada in Corporate Income Taxation?
(2012-04-25)This paper studies the race to the bottom in corporate income tax rates that has been argued to happen in federal or semi-federal structures and in particular in Canada and the EU, where the highest corporate tax rates ... -
Global Governance and Sustainable Development:An analysis of some examples for global, EU and national policies and strategies
(2012-01-05)This thesis has been motivated by a desire to understand how sustainable development on the national level fits into global relationships. Ideas of sustainable development may affect all countries; play an important role ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Implementation of flood early warning systems in Mozambique - A stakeholder involved process?
(2012-01-05)The interest in early warning systems, EWS, has intensified the latest decade since climate change is predicted to make new hazards arise and known hazards emerge in new places. EWS for natural hazards can be used to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...