Browsing Master theses by Title
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Has the Arab Spring Led toward Democratic Gains? Examining the democratic implications of the recent uprisings in the Arab world using different data sources
(2018-04-26)What happened in the Middle East and North Africa after 2011? Did the millions of people in the MENA-region who demanded democracy experience democratic gains? Approaching seven years on, more than ten Arab countries have ... -
HOW DEMOCRACY BACKSLIDES. Tracing the Pathway in Turkey
(2022-06-17)Democratic backsliding is a gradual process that negatively affects the countries in terms of democracy. The different levels of democracies can face a number of challenges as a result of democratic backsliding and this ... -
HOW HAS THE EUROPEAN IDENTITY BEEN ARTICULATED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION? A case study
(2020-11-13)The concept of European identity is a debatable topic in Europe. There have been several studies about European identity’s function and of its content, whereas the European Commission has tried to protect and maintain its ... -
HOW HAS THE EUROPEAN IDENTITY BEEN ARTICULATED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION? A case study
(2021-02-12)The concept of European identity is a debatable topic in Europe. There have been several studies about European identity’s function and of its content, whereas the European Commission has tried to protect and maintain its ... -
How important is winning? Democratic experience and system support in young democracies
(2016-07-01)Research has shown that there is a sizable difference between new and old democracies in terms of the effect of ‘winning’ on system support. This study traces the development of the winner and loser gap, in relation to ... -
HOW NICHE PARTIES CAN CHANGE MAINSTREAM PARTY STRATEGIES A quantitative content analysis of local parties
(2021-02-12)Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to analyse how niche parties influence mainstream parties’ strategies on the local level. The municipal election of Gothenburg 2018 is used as the case for the study. As material, ... -
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 ... -
Hungering for Governance. The Role of Quality of Government in Access to Food.
(2015-01-27)Over the last years, political science scholars have increasingly questioned the role of democracy in producing human welfare and public goods provision, as many democracies tend to fail in these aspects. In attempts to ... -
IDENTITY IN MULTI-ETHNIC STATES: THE COLLECTIVE IMAGINARIES THAT UNITE - The transformation of the Ukrainian National Identity and the impacts of threats
(2022-06-23)This thesis has studied how nation-building and identity formation better can be understood in settings where the conditions for these phenomena are not seen as self-evident. Identity is linked to how individuals ... -
If Election were Held Today. The temporal proximity-effect and the polls.
(2014-11-21)This thesis tests Franklin & Weber's finding that national elections have a temporal proximity-effect. They find that when a first-order election is closer in time, voters in second-order elections behave more similar to ... -
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 ORGANIZED CRIME ON DECENT JOBS FOR YOUTH. Evidence from Italy
(2023-06-20)Young people face enormous difficulties in finding decent jobs both in developed and developing countries. The estimates indicate that 68 million young people globally are looking for a job; 123 million are working but ... -
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 ... -
THE IMPLICATION OF POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE ON AGGREGATE ELECTION RESULTS
(2022-10-03)Political knowledge is a key concept in research on democracy, elections, and political behavior.1 While several studies that examine political knowledge’s effects on the aggregate election results have been conducted, ... -
The Implications of State Resources And Gender. Diplomatic Networking by Male and Female Ambassadors with Limited Resources
(2023-10-30)Networking is viewed as essential to successful diplomatic performance. Existing scholarship on diplomatic networking is nevertheless limited and therefore yet to explore and examine diplomatic networking in conjunction ... -
THE IMPORTANCE OF MEMORY IN POLITICS
(2022-10-03)The aim of this thesis is to analyse how the collective memory narrative of a country with a fascist past influences the way society views far-right populist parties today. I employ a comparative approach of Germany and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
INDIA: SHAPING THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AGENDA? Evaluating the vision for Sustainable Development in 12th Five Year Plan of India
(2015-12-17)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how India’s national 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) incorporates Sustainable Development, with a special focus on the strength and the weakness of the vision on Sustainable ... -
Inequality and democracy A quantitative study of the relationship between different measurements of inequality and democracy level
(2018-03-16)This master’s thesis investigates the relationship between inequality and democracy level. The research question investigated is, does inequality affect democracy? I conclude from previous literature that there is little ...