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The ‘New Public Management’ wave of the 90s is considered to have had a great impact on the values that control the Swedish public administration. Arguably, it has led to an increased representation of economic values within the public administration and, as a result, democratic values have been neglected. This qualitative case study has analyzed the democratic and economic values within the publi
The collective housing movement in Sweden has undergone a lot of changes since it started in the 1930s. It has identified different problems over the years, but the solution has always remained the same. In my thesis I ask if these changes can be explained with individualization-theories, and my hypothesis is that the movement has been individualized. I have chosen to analyze the collective housin
In the year of 2015, Freedom House released their yearly report where they concluded that the global level of democracy had been declining for nine straight years. This raised questions about whether the golden era of democracy had come to an end. Shortly after, the Journal of Democracy released a special issue with the title Is Democracy in decline?, where a number of well-known academics gave th
In this thesis the starting point is the question on how the fact that the negotiations about nuclear power in Iran could be initiated. The time boundries are quite narrow, taking as the starting point when Rouhini became president in Iran. To answer the question the two theories ripeness theory and readiness theory are used. The goal is to test if these two theories can be used to explain why the
This thesis drives a twofold argument about the Swedish policies on foreign aid and development. First of all is it stated how there has been a continuity in this particular field of policy has since its inception in the 1960s and the issue has in the closest become depoliticised in mainstream politics. With the intent of bringing this field of policy back in to the light of politics and ideology
I tvistemål ska tappande part svara för uppkomna rättegångskostnader. I de fall ett aktiebolag för process är det som utgångspunkt aktiebolaget som vid ett ogillande av talan ska ersätta sin motparts rättegångskostnader. Principens ändamål kan beskrivas som handlingsdirigerande, då den primärt syftar till att avskräcka från obefogade anspråk. I arbetet redogörs för möjligheterna att utnyttja ett kIn civil proceedings, the loosing party account for legal expenses. In case a company holds a suit, the company primary accounts for legal expenses. The principle aims to discourage claims that have a lack of legal ground. This thesis investigates the possibilities to avoid responsibility for legal expenses by the use of a wholly owned yet less financially strong company, in order to cut ones loss
Traditional vegetation indices have long encountered a problem of saturating at high biomass levels. A newly formulated vegetation index, the Plant Phenology Index (PPI), which has a near linear relationship with canopy green leaf area index (LAI) is tested in this study against temperature at 12 sites across Sweden. For comparison, the performance of the Normal Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
Policy making processes is under constant study and scrutiny. Different theories bring different dimensions to the table. The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is especially developed studying ”wicked” problems, which the climate issue without controversy can be called. The ACF studies belief systems among actors, forming advocacy coalitions which act to achieve desired policy outcome. In this st
Sweden and Norway are both Social Democratic welfare states where abortions are legal, however Norway has a conscience clause in its abortion law and Sweden does not. This provides for a puzzle as well as research questions aimed at understanding how the debates in Sweden and Norway differ and if there is any difference over time as well. Since this also raises the question of why they differ an a
Adapting to climate change is a growing policy area and today more municipalities see a future need of protecting themselves against rising sea levels, floods and higher temperatures. In 2012 the city of Malmö took a significant step when adopting a strategy plan where actions where pointed out and prioritized. But the plan was three years later neither pursued nor prolonged. By using the advocacy
Uppsatsen ämnar redogöra för koncerners etablering i EU i ett svenskt och EU-rättsligt perspektiv. Detta sker genom att sätta den svenska skattelagstiftningen i ett EU-rättsligt sammanhang för att illustrera EU-rättens betydelse vid etablering. Nationella skattesystems regleringar har inte fullt ut harmoniserats med EU-rätten men EU-domstolens praxis har blivit en ledstjärna vad gäller förenlighetThe essay intends to describe the establishment of groups of companies in the EU from a Swedish and EU legal perspective. This is done by putting Swedish tax legislation in an EU legal context to illustrate the significance of EU law in the establishment. National tax system regulations are not fully harmonized with EU law and the European Court of Justice has instead become a beacon in terms of t
Flyktingar, alternativt skyddsbehövande och övrigt skyddsbehövande har rätt till uppehållstillstånd då dem har asylskäl i den svenska rätten. Uppehållstillstånd kan även beviljas när det föreligger synnerligen ömmande omständigheter. Ensamkommande flyktingbarn som flyr från krig eller förföljelse i hemlandet möts i Sverige av en asylprocess där åldern är viktig för prövningen av uppehållstillståndRefugees, persons eligible for subsidiary protection and persons otherwise in need of protection have the right to residence permit when they have grounds for asylum in the Swedish law. A residence permit may also be granted for an asylum seeker with exceptionally distressing circumstances. Unaccompanied children who are fleeing war or persecution in the native country meet in Sweden an asylum pro
Civilkurage är ett flitigt debatterat område i Sverige, och trots att de flesta av våra grannländer har lagstiftning om en allmän handlingsplikt att bistå en nödställd person har Sverige valt att inte införa en sådan. Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att belysa de olika problem som lagstiftaren ställs inför vid ett eventuellt införande av en civilkuragelag. Uppsatsen redogör för hur gällande rätt ärMoral courage is frequently debated in Sweden, and despite the fact that several countries in our proximity have implemented a general legal duty to rescue a person in distress, Sweden has chosen not to implement such a legislation. The main purpose of this essay is to illustrate the different problems the legislator is facing regarding the possible insertion of a “moral courage law”. The essay ac
Sverige har genom tiderna varit en stark röst för folkrätten och respekten för mänskliga rättigheter samt en engagerad del i FN:s internationella insatser. Men efter det paradigmskifte som skakade världen i och med Sovjets fall och kalla krigets slut, vilken roll kan Sverige ta där. Och med antaganden om en bredare samt djupare definition av säkerhetsbegreppet blivit allt mer implementerad i den s
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the concept of corporate culture and leadership at a hotel in a crisis environment. In particular, we ask to what extent this corporate culture is challenged by the leadership during a crisis situation. The study was conducted in a city hotel in Thessaloniki, Greece. The financial crisis had and continues to have a great impact in the Eurozone. The crisis m
Introduktion Inom nansbranschen sa krigar handlare dagligen om att overlista deras ende - marknaden. Men, med dagens kommunikationsmedel sa blir handlarna overosta med information och for att kunna salla bland all den informationen - sa kan matematik anvandas. Denna studien forsoker ta ut den mest vitala informationen man kan fa fran historisk data - och bygga en modell av hur man tror priserna koThe ever ongoing battle to beat the market is in this thesis fought with the help of mathematics with a way to reduce the information to its core. It is called PCA, Principal Component Analysis. This is used to build a model of future commodity prices. To assist PCA, Copula is used - a sort of mathematical glue which can bring multiple distributions together and represented as one. The data used i
Upphandling av offentliga kontrakt är av stor ekonomisk betydelse och beräknas i Sverige uppgå till drygt 600 miljarder kronor. Den offentliga upphandlingen används dessutom i allt större utsträckning för att uppnå samhällsekonomiska och arbetsmarknadspolitiska mål. Nya EU direktiv på upphandlingsområdet ska underlätta för upphandlande myndigheter att i större omfattning beakta arbetsrättsliga häPurchases bound by public procurement rules is estimated to exceed 600 billion SEK. Public procurement is also increasingly used as a means for achieving socio-economical and labour market policy targets. New procurement directives adopted by the EU in 2014 are intended to facilitate a higher regard for labour law by the contracting authorities. These new directives have yet to be implemented in
Den 3 mars 2015 kom hovrättens dom i fallet om Lars som tagit sitt liv efter upprepade konflikter med sin närmaste arbetsledare. Lars upplevde sig vara mobbad av sin överordnade och hamnade i en djup depression. I målet prövades om arbetsgivaren gjort sig skyldig till vållande av annans död genom att inte ha följt arbetsmiljörättens regler. De åtalade cheferna fälldes i tingsrätten men friades i On March 3rd 2015 the Court of Appeal ruling came in the case of Lars who took his own life after repeated conflicts with his immediate supervisor at work. Lars had experienced himself to have been bullied by his superiors and ended up in a deep depression. The case was tried to confirm whether the employer was guilty of negligent manslaughter by failing to comply with health and safety regulation
För att försäkra sig rätt att anlägga en ledning i mark som ägs av annan privat eller juridisk person kan man gå tillväga på olika sätt. En möjlighet är att skriva avtal om nyttjanderätt eller servitut, ett annat är att bilda en gemensamhetsanläggning tillsammans med andra fastighetsägare. Om rätt att anlägga ledning inte kan upplåtas med stöd av den lag som reglerar gemensamhetsanläggningar kan dTo ensure the right to construct a conduit on land owned by other private individuals or legal entities one can go about it in a few different ways. One of them is to apply for a cadastral procedure for conduits. However this requires a number of conditions to be fulfilled, one of which is the so called locality condition. The condition requires any conduit, granted on the basis of the Utility Eas
BUP Halland har beslutat att barn och ungdomar med lättare psykiska symtom skall hänvisas till första linjens psykiatri. Som stöd i bedömningen har en telefonintervju BCFPI använts. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur symtomnivå och funktionsnivå såg ut för patientgruppen som hänvisades till första linjens psykiatri vid tillfället de sökte hjälp på BUP, samt vid uppföljning ett år senare och
