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Political conditionality is when certain conditions concerning democracy, the respect for human and civil rights, and the rule of law are to be met by the recipient country either as a prerequisite for, or for keeping up aid. It may seem impossible to ethically justify aid without these kinds of conditions, but they can bring about severe complications that have to be taken into consideration in f

On three occasions, in 1973, 1993 and 2005, Swedish parliament and government has resolved to integrate the, previously independent, foreign offices beloning to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) with the Swedish embassies. The implemenation of the integrationreform has however been a lengthy process. This thesis adresses two main issues: how has the integrationreform

Taiwan's recent democratization seem to have rallied a wider support of the notion of a national identity amongst its citizens which in the year 2000 led to the election of the pro-independence party DPP and President Chen Shui-bian. Meanwhile, China insists on the "one country, two systems" formula, regarding Taiwan as merely a Chinese province, and continues to fight any Taiwanese

The number of public schools in Sweden has increased strongly over the past twenty years. This essay gives a possible explanation to how the Social Democratic Party in Sweden took part in this evaluation from 1987 to 1997. I've analysed how the party's ideology in this issue was shaped and adapted to the opposite politics, when the Liberals and Conservatives Parties were in government.The

The aim of this study is to discuss how public officials, who are implementing integration policies, describe and relate to ?immigrant women?. The analysis is based on interviews with eight public officials. Drawing on perspectives from discourse theory, multiculturalism, western feminism and postcolonialism, the diskussion tries to place the interview statements within a theoretical debate concer

Abstract One aim of this thesis, has been to explore how discursive frames are constructed, frames to relate to, compare with, and therefore be part in shaping political subjects. The other aim has been connected with a more empirical platform, where I wanted to discover how these frames are established and structured discursively within a political organization, among its members; in this case w

The aim of this study is to explain and analyse political steering of public libraries in Swedish municipalities and the roles of politicians and administrators in this process. To fulfil this purpose five municipalities have been studied. It is argued that both politicians and administration have to be included in a study of steering and that the relation between politicians and administrators sh

This Bachelor Thesis is entitled "WTO-spelarena för utvecklingsländer? En studie om avgörande faktorer för utvecklingsländers förmåga att implementera sina regimpreferenser". Through our empirical results in conjunction with realist theories, this Bachelor thesis attempts to answer the questions: (1) How does the decline in American power, the nature of existing institutional structure a

Syftet med denna studie är att spegla tidsandan i det tidiga 2000-talets Sverige så som den tar sig uttryck vid annonser för bostadsförsäljning. Hur kan ett svenskt hem se ut idag? Vad finns det för ideal kring hem och heminredning?

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka hur tvåsamhet uppfattas och reproduceras av några unga människor idag, genom att titta på hur de upplever samhällets tvåsamhetsnorm och hur den påverkar dem.

Det övergripande syftet med denna uppsats är att analysera hur McDonald's som aktör förhåller sig till den aktuella debatten om riskerna med snabbmat. Hur försöker McDonald's upprätthålla förtroendet från oss konsumenter inom ramen för den aktuella debatten? Vilka nya åtaganden har McDonald's genomfört den senaste tiden vad det gäller sortiment och marknadsföring? Hur speglar snabbmats

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur människor som regelbundet utövar teater och/eller musikal utvecklar och agerar sin identitet och sin medvetenhet om den egna kroppen i ett postmodernt samhälle.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur en grupp feminister upplever att de bemöts när de benämner sig själva som feminister inför andra, samt vilka strategier och metoder de har för att hantera eventuellt negativa reaktioner som nidbilden av "feministen" som "manshatare". Vidare ska uppsatsen ge kunskap om hur feministisk identitet kan skapas och formas via mediebruk och i k