This thesis, drawing from several empirical investigations, reaches the conclusion that there seems to be a positive correlation between the level of democracy and the level of state capacity in Latin American countries. This correlation is explained by a hypothesis derived from Rational Choice theory. With some important caveats, this conclusion is then applied to the discussion about democracy as a form of government. Within democracy, the thesis also offers an insight into different electoral systems and its possible implications, mostly on a theoretical level. The thesis only exists in swedish as of yet..

För att flytta information från en databas till ett datalager används det idag olika tekniker. Existerande transformeringstekniker baseras på att en applikation hanterar detta. Detta examensarbete går ut på att skapa och undersöka en metod som istället genomför transformeringen i en databas. Denna transformering är metadatadriven, eftersom metadata är den information om data som krävs för att en transformering ska vara möjlig. Arbetet bygger därför på en metadatastudie som behandlar representation och struktur av metadata.

This Master's thesis explores representations of sexual agency in contemporary, Swedish novels for young adults. Using a representational theory approach the thesis analyzes 24 novels published in 2000 ? 2013. Addressing the following research questions: how is sexual agency constructed and regulated relative to gender performativity in Swedish novels for young adults? How are situations of sexual abuse and sexual ?grey zones? (situations that border on abuse) represented and being made intelligible in the texts? What are the consequences of representations of sexual agency? In the readings of the novels discourse analysis and theories on cultural representation and power have served as the critical points of entry, as well as the methodological basis for the study.

Drawing on theories of ethnic representations in mainstream news media and racial discrimination (van Dijk 2000, Hultén 2006, Husband & Downing 2005, Wodak 2011), and using methods of critical discourse analysis (mainly van Dijk 1993, 1991, Fairclough 1995) this bachelor thesis aims to investigate the inter-textual and inter-discursive relationship between selected editorial and opinion pieces written by three mainstream right wing ?symbolic elites? and the xenophobic blog ?Avpixlat?. The three selected symbolic elites are: Per Gudmundsson, editorial writer at the second largest Swedish newspaper SvD, Andreas Johansson Heinö, academic with a P.H.D. in political science, specialized on issues of integration and ethnic relations, and Paulina Neuding, editorial writer at SvD and editor in chief for right-wing oriented magazine Neo. All three are actively taking part in the mediated discussion of ethnic relations in Sweden from a liberal-conservative perspective.

In this essay different aspects of the motif of the criminal have been traced in Lotta Lotass?s Min röst ska nu komma från en annan plats i rummet and Vladimir Nabokov?s Lolita. By seeking its representation in the texts, the intention was to show how themes, stylistic patterns and narrative functions interrelate in the construction of the motif. The perpetrator?s position within the narrative structure and its consequences have also been assessed.By discussing the meta-fictive aspects of the novels I stressed the importance of the reader?s function, arguing the reader?s participation in the construction of the motif..

A new curriculum, entailing news for teachers as well as students, was implemented in 2011. Among other things History has been given a more prominent position in that every student will now study the subject. Can this decision lead to history being used more in the future?The aim of this thesis is to study the new curriculum, Gy11, as well the Lpf94 and Lgy70, based on Klas-Göran Karlsson´s typology where the use of history is divided into seven different categories. I will analyze the curricula, looking at what different uses of history that can be discerned as well as what changes have been made over time.

This thesis describes an optimising compiler for translating from SMV to CLP(B). The optimisation is aimed at reducing the number of required variables in order to decrease the size of the resulting BDDs. Also a partitioning of the transition relation is performed. The compiler uses an internal representation of a FSM that is built up from the SMV description. A number of rewrite steps are performed on the problem description such as encoding to a Boolean domain and performing the optimisations.

The northern province of Sweden has in both literature and film been depictured as something foreign and mythical, unlike the rest of the country. It has been my purpose to show in this essay that the systematic categorization of Norrland and its literature reveals multiple criteria known to define the colonial era. By reading the novel Stallo by author Stefan Spjut with postcolonial structures in mind I aim to show how the author uses Swedish mythology and through the presence of The Other criticizes colonial structures in place to this day. By examining the gothic atmosphere I intend to indicate how the trolls in the novel figures as both a horror element as well as a representation of nature itself. It is my belief that the author by further reinforcing the mythological in relation to Norrland addresses the problem at hand.

In modern, Swedish political science there are different ways of looking at ?democracy?. A very common distinction is that between three groups of democratic theories: electoral democracy, participation democracy and deliberative democracy.The nowadays frequently used concept of electoral democracy is often used as synonymous with the older concept of repre­­­­sen­tative or indirect democracy ? frequently regarded as a contrast to the direct democracy of ancient Athens. However, there are also important differences.

Detta är en kvalitativ undersökning om hur Sveriges Television arbetar med mångfald med fokus påfunktionshindrade i dramaproduktion och hur medarbetarna integrerar det i sitt arbete. För att kunna ta reda på hur det går till har vi utgått ifrån dramaserien Livet i Fagervik som fallstudie och gjort kvalitativa intervjuer med personer som varit delaktiga i produktionen av första säsongen av dramaserien. De personer som vi har intervjuat är: Stefan Baron, programchef på SVT Drama, MikaelSyrén, upphovsman till Livet i Fagervik, Calle Marthin, kreativ producent, Man Chiu Leung Carlson, projektledare, Harald Hamrell, regissör, Maria Kiisk, rollbesättare och Johannes Wanselow, skådespelare. Vi har även gjort intervjuer med personer på Handikappförbundens samarbetsorgan, HSO som har ett samarbete med SVT, Emil Erdtman, utvecklingsledare, HSO och Mia Ahlgren, projektledare, HSO. Intervjuer har även skett med Johan Hartman, CSR- Chef på SVT, och Christoffer Lärkner, handläggare hos Granskningsnämnden.Förutom de elva kvalitativa intervjuerna som vi har genomfört så har det empiriska materialet bestått avRadio och TV-lagen 1996, dramaserien Livet i Fagervik (12 avsnitt á 45 minuter), samt följande dokument: Sveriges Televisions mångfaldsplan 2008, överenskommelsen mellan SR, UR och SVT gällande fördelning för olika slags insatser rörande program om och för funktionshindrade 2008, Public service-redovisningen 2008, Anslagsvillkor 2008, Sändningstillstånd för 2007-2009 och Beställningsskrivelse.Den teoretiska ramen som denna uppsats utgår ifrån och som vi har kopplat vårt resultat till, är teorierkring identitet och representation, produktion och makt samt den sociala ansvarsteorin.Resultat visar att de som arbetar med att producera dramaserier, till stor del har tänkt på begreppet mångfald, men då i ett större perspektiv och inte specifikt på enskilda grupper.

Trots epitetet ?ett av världens mest jämställda länder?, lagar om förbud mot diskriminering p.g.a. könstillhörighet och styrmedel i skolan som betonar vikten av att all utbildning genomsyras av jämställdhet, visar forskning av läromedel förekomsten av könsstereotyper och en överrepresentation av män jämfört med kvinnor i innehållet.I bakgrund av detta och med uppfattningen om en brist av läromedelsgranskning framförallt av läroböcker för moderna språk, syftar föreliggande uppsats till att undersöka representationen av kvinnor och män på bilder i fem läroböcker konstruerade för första årets studier i franska på högstadiet. Metoden utgörs av en kvantitativ innehållsanalys där syftet är att undersöka hur kvinnor och män framställs på bilderna i materialet. Uppsatsens frågeställningar fokuserar på mäns och kvinnors representation gällande synlighet, yrken och färger samt på hur resultatet kan tolkas ur ett genusperspektiv.

Title: Access to cultural education in a multi-ethnical context.The right to dance and play an instrument, to paint and work with film is taken for granted by many children in Malmoe today. The agenda explicitely phrases the intent of the publicly financed schools of art for children to reflect the multi-ethnic demographics of the city. Public community music schools of today, incorporate classes in all forms of art and are called "Culture schools". There is a long tradition of teaching and making music to lean on as a music teacher in Sweden. This paper tries to explore how these rights are expressed in the governing documents of the Culture school of Malmoe.

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to examine how femininity, Silikon, Vecko Revyn, and Darling. The study is made from a critical discourse analytical approach and text, pictures, and layout are all analysed. Some of the main characteristics of the material are the division in the categories"we"and"them", double messages, and personal address to the reader. Femininity is strongly associated with body, sexuality, beauty, and looks.

The purpose of this paper is to analyse how work by Swedish artist Ylva Ogland (born in 1974) function as an eye-opener for the social marginalisation of people identified with homosexuality, prostitution and drug addiction. Although highly present in reality, these phenomena were historically, and are still today, hidden from view in public discourse. I have focused on the installations Rapture and Silence and Things Seen, and the still-life painting called Xenia. I argue that these artworks carefully represent the above-mentioned marginalised groups, by way of references to comparable motives in the history of art, from neoclassicism in France, to realism and romanticism..

A new curriculum, entailing news for teachers as well as students, was implemented in 2011. Among other things History has been given a more prominent position in that every student will now study the subject. Can this decision lead to history being used more in the future?The aim of this thesis is to study the new curriculum, Gy11, as well the Lpf94 and Lgy70, based on Klas-Göran Karlsson´s typology where the use of history is divided into seven different categories. I will analyze the curricula, looking at what different uses of history that can be discerned as well as what changes have been made over time.