Browsing Master theses by Title
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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 ... -
PLASTICS AND LOBBYIN G - lobby group success in the decision making phase of a policy
(2023-11-09)In June 2019 a new legislation was in place targeting plastic pollution in the EU, banning the 10 most found single use plastic products ( SUP: s ) found in the marine environment. This was an important legislation where ... -
POCKETS OF WEAKNESS IN HIGH-CAPACITY STATES Migrant Labour Exploitation in Sweden
(2019-09-16)This thesis explores the uneven reach of a high-capacity state over societal actors. Infrastructural power is the aspect of state capacity that determines how far a bureaucracy can reach into a society. The limited reach ... -
POLICY DIMENSIONS AND THE CENTER-RIGHT A study of the center-right in Spain and Sweden
(2019-07-04)This thesis has two aims: to understand the motivations behind the political positions of center-right parties and to examine policy dimensions that are used to measure those positions. Political parties increasingly compete ... -
POLICY FEEDBACK EFFECTS OR RATIONAL CHOICE? Social policy preferences of informal and formal sector workers in Latin America
(2018-06-21)This thesis aims to investigate how informal and formal sector workers in Latin America form their social policy preferences. I contribute to the already existing literature by introducing a new perspective that combines ... -
Political Influence and Anti-Immigrant Attitudes
(2015-12-01)The study explores the mediating effects of political influence in the form of political articulation, e.g. the ‘political message’ on individual-level data measuring the effects of the level of ‘security’ and’ vulnerability’, ... -
POLITICAL INTEGRATION OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS IN SWEDEN… DO DOCUMENTS AFFECT INTEGRATION? Case study of Arab refugees and asylum seekers who arrived in Sweden during the period between 2013 and 2017.
(2022-11-07)Political integration of refugees and asylum seekers in host countries is an area of research that has interested political scientists for a long time. However, little attention has been given to how the type of documents ... -
Political Participation of Young People: A Comparison between Swedish Students and International Students in Gothenburg
(2014-09-11)A vast amount of literature has been dedicated to political participation of young people. How do young people perceive the political participation? Some argue that the decreasing participation of young people is balanced ... -
Political Trust and Covid- 19 Vaccine Hesitancy
(2022-06-20)As vaccines against Covid-19 are being distributed globally the goal is to limit the impact of the disease by achieving herd immunity, and to accomplish this most people need to get vaccinated. Vaccine hesitancy is a ... -
POLITICAL WILL, NO FREE WILL? A Quantitative Analysis of the Influence of Contextual Factors on Leaders’ Political Will to Fight HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018-02-20)Political will has become a ‘silver bullet’ in political science to explain the outcomes of public policy reforms. While success is seen as proof of its existence, failure is regularly attributed to a lack of political ... -
Polling accuracy of vote intentions in Sweden using different weighting and sampling strategies
(2018-03-16)Over and over again, vote intention polls have been reported to fail their forecasts of votes such as the UK “Brexit” referendum and the US presidential election of 2016. The trustworthiness of opinion polls are called ... -
POPULISM AND POLITICIZATION OF THE BUREACRACY An empirical analysis of the effect of populist rule in Europe and Latin America
(2020-07-03)Do populist rule lead to more politicization? As populists have had electoral success in many countries in recent years, populism has received much attention both in the public debate an in political science. One aspect ... -
POST-TRUTH IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN EUROPE: A Content Analysis of User-Driven Comments on COVID-19 Vaccination on Facebook
(2021-06-28)This thesis aims to analyse the presence of post-truth characteristics in the public sphere, using the case study of the highly debated COVID-19 vaccines in Europe. Since 2016, the concept of post-truth has received increased ... -
POWERLESS OPPOSITION Opposition’s Legislative Chances in Autocratizing Regimes: The Case of Ukraine
(2020-07-02)The assumption permeating this thesis is that, in the consensus democracy, the government should respond to the minority interests, which are operationalized as bills sponsored by the opposition. The research pays attention ...