Browsing Master theses by Title
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MERITOCRACY AND CORRUPTION, THROUGH THE LENS OF ADMINISTRATIVE TRADITIONS The moderating effect of administrative traditions on the relationship between meritocracy and corruption
(2023-06-20)The research on the relationship between meritocracy and corruption has been widely studied and has shown that higher levels of meritocracy is associated with lower levels of corruption (Rauch & Evans, 2000; Dahlström ... -
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 ... -
MULTIPLE DISADVATANGES? The integration of refugee women on the Swedish labour market
(2018-09-24)Despite generally high levels of female employment and an extensive provision of gender-specific institutions, refugee women still hold a marginalized position on the Swedish labour market. While there already exists a ... -
Name changers’ experience in the Swedish labor market
(2022-04-08)Ethnicity, race, name, and several other factors can determine whether an individual enter the labor market or not. Ethnic minorities and immigrants are discriminated in employment process and therefore immigrants in some ... -
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 ... -
NO ONE LEFT BEHIND? The ability of EU policies to support the capabilities of stateless people facing climate change-induced disasters
(2023-08-31)Statelessness is an issue that has affected Europe since the end of World War II, as nation-state boundaries have constrained which people have a nationality and which do not. In the instance of a climate change-induced ... -
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
(2022-12-06)In the past ten years, the amount of migrants that have travelled to Sweden to make it their new home has increased at a geometric rate. Whilst the number of those searching for housing has increased, the amount of new ... -
NO TIME TO PLAY: THE EFFECT OF NEXT GENERATION EU FUNDS ON THE CITIZENS’ IMAGE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION A Bayesian approach
(2023-10-20)The Covid-19 pandemic put the economic and political stability of the European Union to a tremendous test. Only a decade after the start of the Euro Crisis, the EU had to face a new challenge of unprecedented proportions ... -
NON-COMPLIANCE AS PROCRASTINATION? Analysing how EU-member states live up to the Nuclear Waste Directive
(2023-10-20)This thesis seeks to better understand how EU member states express motivations for not complying with EU law. Using the case of the Councils Directive 2011/70/Euratom, also known as the nuclear waste directive, this study ... -
On the Road to Better Governance. The “Middle Class Particularism” and Quality of Government
(2014-07-04)This thesis merges two large bodies of literature – that concerned with the effect of regime type on institutional quality, and research on the middle classes’ effects on economy and society at large. With the purpose of ... -
ON THE SWEDISH SOCIAL INSURANCE AGENCY AND ITS APPROACH TO DIVERSITY: A Study of Social Inclusion and Diversity in the Swedish Social Insurance System (SSIA)
(2018-10-05)Previous research has shown that the study of diversity need to account for variables other than ethnicity and nationality in order to provide more nuanced findings of the local diversity of experiences also on the basis ... -
PARTISAN ELECTORAL CYCLES AND GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. A quantitative study of subnational governments in the US and Canada
(2022-11-07)Although decisive government response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been critical to keep down infection rates such policies have also brought with it substantial social and economic costs. Much scholarly attention has ... -
PARTNERS IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT? EU-UN cooperation in the DRC and Chad
(2020-05-04)This thesis seeks to explain the reason why international and regional organisations have started to cooperate, especially after the Cold War. Cooperation amongst organisations has gained importance as a field of research ... -
PAY TRANSPARENCY AND BARGAINING POWER: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY.
(2023-10-20)Through a mixed-methods approach consisting of a European-wide survey and qualitative interviews, while using a multinational company as my case study, I explore employees´ perceptions of pay transparency as an effective ... -
THE PAY TRANSPARENCY DIRECTIVE IN THE NORDIC LABOUR MARKETS
(2023-12-11)The present thesis aims to understand how the new Pay Transparency Directive will suit or fit the Nordic EU member states e.g., their labour markets and the tradition of collective agreements. The first section presents ... -
Perceptions of Healthcare and Trust
(2014-12-16)This thesis is about the perception of healthcare with a focus on the role of trust. One of the purposes is to bring a better understanding on how some factors influence the way people in Europe perceive their healthcare. The ... -
PICTURES AT AN ELECTION A visual semiotic analysis of Swedish political parties’ visual communication in the 2018 election
(2020-01-27)The following thesis utilizes visual social semiotic analysis in order to investigate the usage of images by Swedish political parties during the election campaign to the Swedish Riksdag of 2018. Visual semiotics is used ... -
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 ...