Master theses: Recent submissions
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Demokratisering = bättre jämställdhet?
(2013-12-09)Utgångspunkten för den här uppsatsen är att undersöka om kvinnor i irakiska Kurdistan och de palestinska områdena känner sig mer jämställda med män eller inte efter att demokratiseringsprocessen påbörjats. Undersökningen ... -
Regulatory reform on the European gas market. Does it make a difference?
(2013-12-03)The structure of the European gas market has been the subject of extensive discussion during the last decade resulting in two EU directives. A key concept in this discussion is the mandatory break up of vertically integrated ... -
The retreat of multiculturalism – an exaggerated and misleading narrative?
(2013-11-11)In recent years, issues regarding immigration, integration and multiculturalism have been widely discussed where a common denominator has been to describe immigrant integration, and particularly multiculturalism as a policy ... -
Making Plans For Nigel Explaining the success of the United Kingdom Independence Party in the 2013 local council elections, with a focus on Boston, Lincolnshire.
(2013-11-11)Eurosceptic parties across Europe are on the rise, and since the Eurocrisis their calls for reform of or even exit from the European Union have gained more prominence. One such party, The United Kingdom Independence Party ... -
Countering the Menstrual Mainstream A Study of the European Menstrual Countermovement
(2013-11-11)Introducing the term the ”Menstrual Countermovement”: the mass of actions, and agents that purposefully work towards challenging the repressive mainstream menstrual discourse of shame and silence, this research focuses ... -
Impact of China’s Aid on Economic Development in Africa: The Case of Cameroon
(2013-10-23)China’s continuous development aid to Africa over the last few decades has being one of the most contentious developments within the region. Saddled on a spirited economic expansion towards enhancing self reliance capability ... -
The Impact of Coca Supply Reduction Efforts on Violence in Colombia
(2013-10-18)Cocaine remains one of the most problematic drugs in today's world. It has been associated with numerous negative health effects, as well as drug-related violence and other undesirable impacts. The "war on cocaine" ... -
Does Institutional Quality Determine Aid Allocation?
(2013-10-17)This thesis seeks to address the allocation of development aid in relation to institutional quality of recipient countries by focusing on General Budget Support (GBS) – an aid modality associated with increased aid ... -
Discussing Public Policy Online The case of the European Commission’s Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 online platform
(2013-10-04)This thesis aims at looking into whether democratic processes and deliberative policy discussion can take place online. In addition by using a grounded theory approach this thesis aims at expanding the current theories on ... -
Understanding Swedish Democracy Aid: An analysis of political party assistance.
(2013-10-04)Abstract The Swedish government commissioned a committee led by Hadar Cars in December 1993 to report on the question of channeling assistance for building democratic structures through Party Affiliated Organizations ... -
The Impacts of Post-election Power-sharing Agreement on Horizontal Mechanisms for Political Accountability: A case study of Kenya 2008 to 2013
(2013-10-03)Globally, power-sharing has become an international policy approach to mitigating conflict in ethnically or religiously diverse societies. Today, power-sharing is increasingly becoming part of almost every post conflict ... -
Pride and Prejudice A comparative case study on party response to LGBT-rights in Serbia and Croatia
(2013-09-26)Substantial research has been devoted to the party systems in Eastern Europe since the demise of the communism, concerning how political parties respond to liberal reform and what competitive patterns it produce. The ... -
Russia’s and the European Union’s Relation in the Context of their Foreign Policies Towards Moldova
(2013-09-24)The study “Russia’s and the European Union’s (EU) relations in the context of their foreign policies towards Moldova” is an initial attempt to investigate the convergence of the EU’s and Russia’s foreign energy and security ... -
Losing cabin pressure - A study on the forces behind the proposal to derogate intercontinental flights from Directive 2003/87/EC
(2013-09-24)In 2008, with support from all institutions, the EU decided to include aviation into its Emissions Trading System (ETS) in order to mitigate greenhouse emissions from the sector. Initially, this decision received criticism, ... -
The Nordics’ fear of the Russian bear - The Nordics’ threat perception of Russia’s military capacity as portrayed by media and the structural factors behind this picture
(2013-09-24)Research has proved that structural factors influence how frequently certain issues are mentioned in media. However there has been no research on how structural factors influence a certain media picture, such as that of ... -
Expected interests, or just interesting expectations? - How the EU’s bodies promote and prioritize policies in the EaP and ASEAN
(2013-09-24)This thesis takes its starting point in that policy promotion previously has been discussed mainly as values or norms, and argues that policies are also constructed of interests. As such, this thesis examines the behaviour ... -
The Struggle Within - Examining the presence of ʼwin-winʼ solutions in EU environmental legislation
(2013-09-24)Previous research point strongly to economic growth and competitiveness being the primary interests of the European Union (EU). This interest influences all policy areas including environment. However, combining economic ... -
City Networking in Europe Rescaling of the state and increased importance of cities in the multi-level system of governance
(2013-09-24)This thesis analyzes city networking from a rescaling perspective, highlighting the shift from government towards non-hierarchical governance, a development shifting political power between different scales. In its most ... -
Failure after success - A study of extreme right party failure in Eastern Europe
(2013-09-24)This thesis analyzes failures among extreme right parties (ERPs). A majority of studies describing ERPs has been devoted to party success and parties on the ascent. More rarely are ERPs studied when incumbent or when they ... -
Building a common identity - the impact of transnational EU projects
(2013-09-24)Previous research has shown that moving between European countries, interacting with other Europeans and involving in EU related matters have positive effects on the formation of a European identity. Research has also ...