Master theses: Recent submissions
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WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE? How Policymakers Consider Policy Attitudes When Designing Climate Policies
(2025-07-18)Despite extensive research on factors influencing citizens’ attitudes towards climate policies, little is known about whether policymakers consider these when designing climate policies. This qualitative study aimed to ... -
Food Insecurity and Political Trust - A Mixed-methods Case Study from Sri Lanka
(2025-07-03)This study investigates the relationship between individual food insecurity and trust in political institutions in Sri Lanka, using a mixed-methods approach that combines regression analysis with thematic analysis of ... -
THE ROLE OF CULTURAL NARRATIVES AND SOCIAL IDENTITY IN PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES. A survey experiment in the car-state Germany.
(2025-07-03)This thesis examines whether and how cultural narratives influence public support for environmental policies of the European Union (EU). It contributes to the field of European Studies by demonstrating how such narratives ... -
MERITOCRATIC BUREAUCRACY, COALITION GOVERNMENTS AND PUBLIC DEBT - A statistical analysis of the merits of meritocracy for government fiscal outcomes
(2025-07-02)Since the end of the 1980s, many studies have found a relationship between coalition governments and larger debt accumulation. Several contributions have proposed different moderators of this relationship, but none ... -
PREDICTING THE FUTURE: THE SWEDISH ARMED FORCES ANALYSIS OF RUSSIA
(2025-07-02)This thesis examines why the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) failed to foresee Russia’s military actions, culminating in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This study shows that a combination of theories concerning ... -
IS BLOOD THICKER THAN WATER? Comparing Swedish Voters’ Ideological Similarity with Their Family and Friends
(2025-07-02)This study investigates the outcomes of political socialisation by examining ideological alignment between Swedish voters and their family and friends. While traditional theories have emphasised the family as the primary ... -
LEGAL CLARITY AND IMPARTIALITY An Experimental Study of Consistency in Decision Making Among Government Officials Worldwid
(2025-07-02)The language used in legal texts is often ambiguous, hindering bureaucrats' ability to understand, interpret, and apply the law consistently, thereby threatening impartiality. The Quality of Government (QoG) literature ... -
FROM SEEDS TO ASSEMBLIES. AGROECOLOGY AS A TOOL FOR POLITICAL PARTICIPATION A Case Study on Q’qechi’ Mayan Peasant Women in Zona Reina, Guatemala
(2025-07-02)Indigenous women’s political participation remains limited due to intersecting inequalities. Nevertheless, sustainable initiatives such as agroecology have proved to empower communities and promote social engagement. ... -
Environmentalism for whom? How perceived injustice shapes environmental beliefs & personal norms among the energy-poor
(2025-07-02)This qualitative thesis explores the reasoning of people living in energy-poverty towards injustice and environmental behavior regarding energy policies. This thesis is an empirical study and deductively builds on the ... -
Playing Musical Chairs: The Role of Elite Support during Democratic Transition
(2025-07-02)What role does the support of elite groups play in sustaining democratic transition? While the literature on elite defections has emphasized internal ruptures within regime coalitions as triggers for democratization, ... -
EN ROUTE TOWARDS FAIRER BURDEN SHARING: Targeting transport-related carbon taxes towards the rich and the rest
(2025-07-02)Carbon taxation is an effective policy instrument for reducing GHG emissions, but its adoption and development is often hampered by public resistance. Since distributional fairness has emerged as a key determinant of ... -
Blown away or visually stunned? – The impact of visible wind turbines on radical right-wing mobilisation in German federal elections
(2025-07-02)Do newly constructed wind turbines cause political backlash? This paper argues that both the effect of wind turbines on voting for anti-climate parties and the role of visual exposure to turbines have been largely ... -
How Does Party Leadership Manage Internal Dynamics When Intra-Party Disagreement Occurs? A case study on the Swedish Social Democrats during their shift towards a restrictive migration policy
(2025-07-02)After the 2015 migration crisis and the Swedish Social Democrats' subsequent shift towards restrictive migration policies, the leadership faced critique within the party as members voiced their concerns. However, after ... -
Power and Stakeholders in IKN Nusantara: Land Use and Environmental Protection Discourse in Indonesia’s New Capital
(2025-07-02)This research examine how the pro-government and counter-discourse on land use and environmental protection in IKN Nusantara reflect stakeholders’ power, legitimacy, and urgency. To do this, around 36 selected documents, ... -
Non-State Actor Preferences in AI Governance - Analysing the 2021 Public Consultation by the Council of Europe on a Legal Framework for Artificial Intelligence
(2025-07-02)This thesis aims to contribute to understanding the preferences of non-state actors in the global governance of AI. It distinguishes between business, academic, and civil society actors and analyses their overall ... -
New Dimensions in the Politics of Compliance: The Role of Politicization in Shaping EU Compliance Performance in Italy and France
(2025-07-02)This thesis explores how domestic politicization shapes and influences member states’ compliance with EU environmental policy, focusing on the cases of Italy and France. While the EU has switched up on its environmental ... -
FRAMING MIGRATION: POLITICAL PARTIES’ MIGRATION DISCOURSE IN ELECTION CAMPAIGNS SINCE THE MIGRATION CRISIS
(2025-07-01)Since the 2015/2016 ‘refugee crisis’, which saw a sharp increase in the influx of refugees, immigration has become one of the most contested topics in the public and political debate in the European Union (EU). The crisis ... -
Gender Identity and the Cultural Cleavage: How Traditional, Authoritarian, and Nationalist Political Groups Oppose Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Rights in the European Parliament
(2025-07-01)This thesis examines how Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from the Traditional, Authoritarian, and Nationalist (TAN) groups European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) as well as Identity and Democracy (ID), opposed ... -
THE ‘POLLUTER PAYS’ PRINCIPLE IN THE EU COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY Implementation and rollback trends in environmental conditionality across CAP Strategic Plans
(2025-06-26)The polluter pays principle (PPP) is a core element of EU environmental policy, yet its application in agriculture remains limited and contested. While environmental conditionality in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) ... -
DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES A comparative inquiry on Swedish and Italian trade unions’ attitudes on Universal Basic Income
(2025-06-26)This thesis investigates the contrasting attitudes of Swedish and Italian trade unions toward Universal Basic Income (UBI), within the broader context of European welfare states. Relying on qualitative interviews and ...