Titel: ?de-lib-e-ra-tion? ? en undersökning av de deliberativa inslagen ikommentarsfälten på de svenska riksdagspartiernas FacebooksidorFörfattare: Jonathan Svensson och Pontus StrömKurs: Examensarbete i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap. Institutionen förjournalistik, medier och kommunikation, Göteborgs universitetTermin: Vårterminen 2012Handledare: Nicklas HåkanssonSidantal: 51 inklusive bilagorSyfte: Att undersöka förekomsten av samtal med deliberativa kvaliteter ikommentarsfälten på de svenska riksdagspartiernas Facebooksidor.Metod: Kvantitativ innehållsanalysMaterial: Kommentarsfälten på de svenska riksdagspartiernas Facebooksidor. Totalt har464 kommentarer analyserats för att mäta förekomsten av Deliberation.Huvudresultat: Våra resultat visar att samtal av deliberativa kvaliteter inte förekommer ikommentarsfälten på de svenska riksdagspartiernas Facebooksidor. Kommentarerna uppfyller två av de fem kriterier för det deliberativa samtalet som vi har jämfört med.

Syftet med detta arbete har varit att belysa i vilken mån deliberativa samtal eller deliberativa inslag förekommer i undervisningen och om det i så fall kan vara en väg att lösa skolans dubbla uppdrag avseende kunskaps- och demokratiuppdraget. Fallstudien har genomförts vid en gymnasieskola, där ett arbetslag från industriprogrammet och ett från samhällsprogrammet har medverkat i dels en öppen enkät, dels i en fokusgruppsdiskussion. Studien visar att deliberativa samtal och deliberativa inslag förkommer i varierande grad i undervisningen, vilket ger underlag för att dra vissa slutsatser. Resultatet visar övervägande positiva effekter genom elevernas ökade engagemang, ett förbättrat klassrumsklimat, en ökad kvalité på undervisningen, elevernas positiva personliga utveckling samt underlättandet för utveckling av en demokratisk kompetens. Svårigheter som kan identifieras med arbetssättet är elevers bristande språkkompetens, elever utan samtals och diskussionstradition, tidsbrist och avsaknaden av metoden genom hela skoltiden..

Central in this paper is Olof Johansson, Swedish minister for the environment, there the focus lye on his resignation from this duty which occurred in 1994. This essay is a case study there I?m trying to identify which ethical reasons which lye behind his resignation. The relationship between politics and ethics is an interesting aspect to investigate and my ambition with this paper is to analyze that relationship in this specific case.The analysis has its focus built on the occurrence of role conflicts and the making of ethical decisions. Aspects like personal ethics versus organisational ethics, objective responsibility versus subjective responsibility etc.

Vellinge is one of few municipalities in Sweden that refuses to accept refugees. The subject of this thesis is to find out how the local politicians in Vellinge make their considerations when they decide not to welcome refugees. The analysis uses the representation theory as a starting point. The two ideals of the representative role, either as a bound mandate or as a free independent role, is the base of the analysis. Vellinge is in the analysis compared to Lomma, a very similar municipality in southern Sweden that for a long time alsohas refused to accept refugees, however suddenly in 2007 decided to change their mind.

Title: ?It´s so sensitive? - Persons in authority's arguments around those persons with disabilities chooses to become parents.Authors: Therese Andersson and Malene HelanderSupervisor: Magdalena DambergThe purpose with this paper is to describe and analyze how professionals act when people with disabilities chose to become parents. To achieve this purpose we have chosen to use a qualitative method with Deliberation interviews. The interviews have been implemented with six different persons in authority who work in social welfare offices and as LSS - administrators.Ensured to our questions, (1) How does persons in authority do in the meeting with persons that has a disability and chooses to become parents? (2) Which possibilities respective difficulties see persons in authority within social service and LSS with parenthood where the parent has a disability? (3) What is done in order to facilitate the needs that are added when persons with disabilities chooses to become parents? we consider that they have been responded to.Through our empirical materials we can interpret and read out the replies that we searched for in connection with our survey.

This paper deals with Will Kymlicka's and Charles Taylor's theories of multiculturalism, and the criticism of these theories by Jürgen Habermas and Seyla Benhabib. It also gives a brief background to the Swedish integration and minority policies and places them in relations to the academic discussion. Taylor advocates cultural survival to be a legitimate policy objective and Kymlicka argues that rights should be diversified in order to adapt to different needs of cultural minorities. The thesis aims to confront the theories with interviews of four persons who voluntarily or by profession work for the interest of minorities. The theories have been operationalized as questions and structured in four themes with the purpose of analyzing the interviews.

Denna magisteruppsats bekräftar Mark Duffields teori om att liberala länder från västvärlden använder humanitärt bistånd som ett biopolitiskt verktyg. Detta gör de i syfte att kapsla in och kontrollera överflödsbefolkningar i den underutvecklade världen så att de inte kan utgöra ett hot mot den egna säkerheten. Uppsatsen är en teoribekräftande fallstudie som med analysdiskurs som metod undersöker Sidas egna strategirapporter på tio afrikanska länder, vilka är mottagare av det svenska biståndet. Studiens teoretiska ramverk bygger på nio begreppsdefinitioner, vilka även ligger till grund för Duffields egen forskning på det studerade fenomenet. Tillsammans med diskursanalysen bildar detta teoretiska ramverk ett kraftfullt analysinstrument som har fungerat väl i analysen av Sidas strategirapporter, vilka utgör studiens empiriska urval.

Deliberative democracy theory holds that democracy is about active partaking on formal and informal arenas in the public sphere where fairly equal citizens can obtain knowledge, discuss, evaluate and affect the political agenda before decisions are made.In line with the deliberative vision of online Deliberation social media such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Twingly offer such formal and informal arenas where people can obtain knowledge and interact with other people, and politicians.The Swedish EU-Presidency was the first EU-presidency to make use of social media and it was the first time the Swedish Government Offices used other social media than email and chat features.This thesis will examine the Swedish EU-Presidency?s ambitions of using social media as well as the actual use of social media on the Swedish EU-Presidency website in the light of deliberative democracy theory.The aim of this thesis is, through a case study, to analyze the Swedish EU-Presidency?s use of social media in the light of deliberative democracy theory..

The purpose of this article is to describe the discourse in which public-private partnership (PPP) resides, within the Swedish parliament, in the field of infrastructure. I have chosen to look at the latest three years Deliberation where PPP appears in parliament bills.This case study is based upon discourse as a qualitative method. Five indicator signs which is history, comparison, geographic location, vision of growth potential and solution controls the context of PPPThe result of the analysis was that a clear discourse was unravelled. A first rather surprising conclusion shows that it is possible to disconnect the discourse from PPP. PPP is not important by itself, the result shows that it only play the part of possible solution to the problems related to the discourse and does not have any value in its own.This result lead the conclusion that PPP is no more than a tool for politicians to get as much out of their infrastructural aims as possible, as rational vote-maximizing actors.

The purpose of this study is to discuss the use of social media by the Swedish Police for democratic purposes. The idea of citizen empowerment is closely related to the development of new communication technologies such as social media. Yet many studies indicate that governmental institutions rarely make use of the assumed potentials of social media.In this study, the democratic potential of social media is derived from Habermas normative concept of deliberative participation. Operational definitions emphasize discursive equality, interactive reciprocity and external impact. The analytical framework is combined with qualitative text analysis to highlight the conditions of interaction between representatives of the Police and citizens.In conclusion: the democratic potential of social media, from a Habermasian point of view, is to a significant extent neglected at the expense of its strategic advantages.

The work with Agenda 21 resulted in a larger focus on local participation and Deliberation. The Swedish implementation of Agenda 21 is a result of these local governments´ political agendas and policies.The purpose with this paper is to examine the relationship between the citizen and the local government. It focuses on three theories of citizenship and how the view of "the environmental aware citizen?; in the local government?s municipalities policies differ and from which theory of citizenship do they come from.The analysis is of a valuing and comparing nature. The municipalities´ web pages have been the main source to generate an understanding of their view on the normative environmental work.

Partly as a reaction to a perceived crisis in contemporary democracy, the nineties witnessed an upsurge in different forms of citizens? fora, dedicated to the promotion of increased participation by the citizen in the political process. Youth councils are a special point in case as they entail the general characteristics of a deliberative forum, with an emphasis on political learning. This study aims to undertake an evaluation of a regional youth council in the region of Skåne in the south of Sweden. Through qualitative analysis, the study aims to portray the origin, purposes and consequences of such a forum.

This essay analyses the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) legitimacy. Theories on input- and output legitimacy are used in the examination. After analysing stakeholder representation, forum for Deliberation, transparency, independence, and information sharing, input legitimacy in EFSA is assessed to be high. Output legitimacy was examined through the authority's outcome effectiveness, which was divided into compliance and effectiveness. Since food safety is an immense area, two important parts were chosen for the analysis of output legitimacy; transmissible/bovine spongiform encephalopathy (TSE/BSE) and genetically modified organisms (GMO).

The general contract law principle of loyalty between negotiators, in Deliberation, leads to a duty of disclosure for negotiators. The extent of this duty of disclosure is influenced by many different factors; amongst others the type of agreement, the negotiators knowledge and opportunity of procuring knowledge. The general duty of disclosure is both a part of the contract law principle of loyalty between negotiators in negotiating a contract, and an indirectly statutory obligation, that, if neglected will lead to nullification of the agreement. The legislator has stated that the general contract law, Lag (1915:218) om avtal och andra rättshandlingar på förmögenhetsrättens område (avtalslagen), should be used to regulate negotiating of contracts, including the negotiation of contracts of employment. In arbetsdomstolens judging, additional factors have been weighed in, and the judgement is done also through the use of a concept taken from employment law, the concept of ?saklig grund för uppsägning?.

Gruppolarisering innebär att bl.a. social jämförelse leder till att isolerade grupper med likasinnade genererar mer extrema åsikter. Gruppolarisering på internet kan vara ett oroväckande fenomen för den deliberativa demokratin. Istället för att människor med konkurrerande ståndpunkter utbyter idéer och tankar med varandra samlas de i isolerade diskussionsforum på internet där social jämförelse i värsta fall kan utmynna i hattal och terrorism. Med netnografisk metod studeras här politiska diskussioner online i två olika typer av forum, ett politiskt och ett icke politiskt.