The aim of this thesis is to study the cause of Egypt´s failed development of the transition to democracy and vice versa, the reason why Turkey succeeded in democratic transition. Thesis methodology is a comparative analysis between design units Egypt and Turkey. Thus, the most similar design used in the investigation.European Commission began in 1998 to review Turkey´s political and economic reforms to fulfil the Copenhagen criteria. 2005 began negotiations on a Turkish- EU membership. U.S and Egypt have enjoyed close economic, security and democratic cooperation since 1975.

Syftet med föreliggande studie var att med utgångspunkt från psykologiska processer undersöka offentliga upphandlares subjektiva bild av vad som ligger bakom korruption. Åtta upphandlare inom samma organisation i offentlig sektor intervjuades. Fokus låg på upphandlarnas individuella och subjektiva bild av uppdiktade karaktärers oetiska beslut inom gråzoner i arbetslivet. Data analyserades med hjälp av tematisk analys. Studien resulterade i fem temaområden; Förminskning av egen skuld, Beroendeställning, Intressekonflikt, Vad är korruption, Kan alla bli korrupta och Risker i verkligheten.

The subject-matter of the following essay is to investigate the relationship between what is commonly called Deep Ecology or Biocentric Philosophy, as articulated by the co-founder of the Deep Ecology Movement, Arne Naess, and later proponents of the biocentric school of environmentalist thought. I contrast Naess? concept of Self-realization as founded in his Ecosophy T to the ideas of american conservationist and co-founder of the radical green movement Earth First! Dave Foreman, and to the controversial finnish environmentalist and ecofascist Pentti Linkola?s ideological agenda of population-reduction respectively.According to some critics of the movement, especially the social ecologist Murray Bookchin and French liberal philosopher Luc Ferry, the Deep Ecology ideology is essentially misanthropic and totalitarian in structure. A central idea among deep ecologists is that ecosystems and natural entities have intrinsic value in themselves, even outside a human social context. This idea is thought of among deep ecologists to create a philosophically sound basis for counteracting the environmental global crisis.

The purpose of this thesis is to study how homosexuals and homosexuality were represented in the press during the trials against the Pentecostal pastor Åke Green, and to what kind of social representations and narratives these representations can be related.Using critical discourse analysis and theories about the differentiation between in- and outgroups I try to unveil implicit meanings and attitudes towards gay people mainly at the local text level. The material consists of articles in Ölandsbladet and Dagens Nyheter that were produced before, during and after the trials.The analysis suggests that homosexuals are construed as a deviant outgroup and that the majority, the ingroup, is presented as an essentially heterosexual, tolerant community. Homosexuality is wrong and heterosexuality is the right way of living. Homosexuals, in terms of group lobbyism, are construed as an enemy, a threat, against Western ideals such as family values and freedom of speech. They indirectly become a threat to Swedish democracy.

Denna studie gör en inventering av de argument som attraherar värdnationer till att ansöka om värdskap för megaevenemang. De megaevenamang som behandlas i uppsatsen är fotbolls-VM i Tyskland 2006 och fotbolls-VM i Sydafrika 2010. ?De ekonomiska framgångar som antas för värdnationerna visar sig oftast vara felaktiga då kostnaderna underskattats och intäkterna överskattats. Att vara värd för så stora megaevenemang kräver stora förpliktelser från både offentliga och privata resurser under en lång tidsperiod. Ett värdskap för fotbolls-VM kan ge värdnationen de resurser de behöver för att skapa ett meningsfullt socialt liv och att förändra faktorer som underbygger detta.

This essay concerns the notion of how immigration politics, defined as a political discursive structure that explains and justifies how and why the movement of people into a state's territory is restricted and controlled, has come to present its purpose not as solidarity with the 'immigrants' wanting to enter the state but as a protective measure for the state's citizens. By using discourse theory combined with theories from the International Relations field I attempt to explain why and how such a discourse positions 'immigrants' as a threat to the state.First, I concentrate on why an immigration politics discourse would position 'immigrants' as a threat. I argue that in order for people to construct their identity, the 'outside' what they "are not" has to be repressed. In the same way, the state has to dislocate the "outside" and create threats to uphold its supremacy. These boundaries are set to create a feeling of predictability and security, and ultimately they are a way of making peoples' "world" coherent.

Med åldern ökar risken att insjukna i demenssjukdom. En ökad utmaning för vården är att identifiera smärta hos personer med demens. Smärta kan vara svårt att identifiera hos personer med demens eftersom dessa personer har svårare att uttrycka sig. Syftet i denna studie var att sammanställa befintlig kunskap om identifiering och bedömning av smärta hos personer med demens. Litteraturstudien var en integrerad kunskapsöversikt och genom en systematisk sökning valdes både kvantitativa och kvalitativa ut för att ingå i analysen.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att analysera vilka faktorer som är avgörande för ett värdeskapande uppköp samt att om det är möjligt utifrån dessa utläsa en modell för hur uppköpsprocessen kan göras värdeskapande. För att kunna besvara vårt syfte har vi studerat litteraturen som finns i ämnet uppköp och tagit del av de teorier som finns. Vi har utifrån teorin genomfört intervjuer på fallföretaget Getinge AB inklusive några av deras senaste förvärv. Efter detta har vi gjort ytterligare en teoretisk studie och kompletterat intervjuerna via epost och press. Motiv till uppköp är en kombination av flera.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att öka förståelsen för SME företagens val av finansiering och val av kapitalbudgeteringsteknik.  Vidare är syftet att se hur finansieringsvalet och valet av kapitalbudgeteringsteknik förhåller sig till varandra. Detta är viktigt av anledningen att SME företagen bidrar till sysselsättningsskapandet i samhället, och finansieringsvalet och användandet av kapitalbudgeteringstekniker kan vara fundamentala för deras bidrag. För att erhålla en djupare förståelse har ett kvalitativt tillvägagångssätt valts där sju tillverkande SME företag i Sverige intervjuats. De huvudsakliga resultaten är följande, (1) SME företag använder mestadels återinvesterat kapital och undviker att finansiera investeringar från utomstående finansiella institutioner. Vidare, (2) användes mindre sofistikerade kapitalbudgeteringstekniker oavsett valet av finansieringskälla.

Different educational and professional backgrounds play important roles in how school librarians prioritize activities in the school library. Whether the school librarian has a background as a teacher or as a librarian, they influence and apprehend the activities of the school library differently. The aim of this thesis is to find out how the school librarian looks at his/her commission. What shifts in priorities can be recognized depending on whether the librarian has training as a teacher or a librarian. This thesis also analyzes how the two different professional backgrounds justify their priorities in the school library.

Title: Kreativ reklam. En bra idé? (Creative advertising. A good idea?)Author: Evelina KarlssonTutor: Larsåke LarssonCourse: Bachelor Thesis: Media and CommunicationPurpose: The purpose of this study is to, through qualitative studies inquire creative prized advertise in Sweden to see which influence creativity have on both creative director and the audience.

This study concerns how Muslims are portrayed in a choice of twelve news articles from Swedish dailies and tabloid newspapers on the aftermath of the film Innocence of Muslims published on YouTube. All articles are distributed in the newspapers Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet in the period of September 11th, 2012 until September 30th, 2012.For this study, a qualitative text analysis has been embraced and focus has been on van Dijk?s Critical discourse analysis to the texts, with additional features from semiotics applied on the images.The theories consist of Critical discourse analysis, hegemony, ideology and power, postcolonialism and stereotyping.In the qualitative content analysis, concrete examples from the articles are retrieved and commented. These have been divided into various themes, which are trends that the authors have been able to distinguish in the analysis.The result shows that Muslims in the analyzed newspapers are portrayed as the others, unimportant and extremely religious, in a negative manner rather than a positive. Moreover the press has tendencies to generalize Muslims as a group.

Syfte: Att studera hur pressmeddelanden med positiva forsknings-resultat påverkar marknadsvärdet av bioteknikbolag, och därefter analysera hur företagsspecifika faktorer påverkar effekterna på marknadsvärdet. Metod: Undersökningen bygger på kvantitativ metod där studerandet av pressmeddelandena sker enligt Event Studie metodik. Insamling görs av sekundärdata bestående av press-meddelanden, aktiekurser samt marknadsindex. Ett antal hypoteser ställs upp för att sedan genom statistisk analys bekräftas eller förkastas. Slutsatser: Studien visar att meddelanden med positiva forskningsresultat medför signifikant positiv icke-normal avkastning.

The purpose of this study is twofold: First, to inquire how the George W. Bush administration plans to keep America safe from external threats and second ? based on the assumption that neoconservatives have influenced the Bush administration ? examine how neoconservative ideas have influenced this strategy to protect America. The research questions are as follows:What is the content of the Bush administration?s security strategy?How are neoconservative ideas reflected in this security strategy?To answer the first question, the main points of two studied documents were summarized.

The purpose with this thesis is to examine how four novels with a trait of confession written between 1996 and 2001 have been received in the Swedish daily press. This is done from a feministic perspective. The study is based on 36 reviews and the method which is used consists of a close-reading of the reviews, where the following questions are asked to the texts: Are there examples of reception in sexual analogies?; Are the novels ascribed a status of universality or are they considered to be something private?; How does the reviewers comment the exposure of the authors themselves and persons close to them?; What does the positive versus negative criticism concentrate on?; How does the reviewers comment the sexual element in the novels? The theoretical framework focuses on how womens literature has been treated in literary criticism and the treatment of the confession novels in the 1970s. The analysis of the reviews has, among many other things, showed that the novels mostly are regarded as something private; that the reviewers for different reasons question the publishing of the novels and that there are things concerning women and sexuality that is not accepted to write about.