This is a two year master's thesis in the field of museum and cultural heritage studies. The purpose of the thesis is to examine different opinions among museum employees about the role of museums. The thesis also aims to find out to what extent and in what way these opinions are influenced by the museum's own policy documents, the national cultural policy and the academic field of museum studies. I have conducted qualitative research interviews with six employees from three different cultural history museums. The theoretical framework of the thesis is based on Laruajane Smith's term authorized heritage discourse.

The EU has for a long time had a special relationship with its former colonies in Africa Caribbean and the Pacific, called the ACP?countries. This relationship is about to change radically with the new partnership agreement signed in June 2000 in Cotonou. This essay aims to study the EU ?ACP Partnership Agreement from the perspectives of two different theories: The liberalist, free-trade policy theory and the nationalist/regionalist, protectionist theory.

Open access (OA) is a publishing model aimed at increasingthe access to academic research results. The object of thisstudy was to contrast nine colleges and four fundingorganizations in Scandinavia with mandatory OA-policies,and to study how they put OA into practice.Inspired by the Open Access Spectrum (OAS), a tool used toappreciate the OA of academic journals, the aim was tograde the policy documents of the colleges using the OASmodel.The study also compares how the colleges implementtheir OA-policies as well as how, and if, the demands fromthe funding organizations are reflected in the policies of thecolleges.The findings show that the OAS is not a tool designed forgreen OA and that all the information needed for the scale tofunction was not found in the policy documents we studied.A selection of the colleges has some demands in theirpolicies, although most of them allow exceptions to be madefrom the mandatory policy. This is shown to be mainly aquestion of academic freedom, and copyright, or rather thanthe degree to which the scientist and the publisher can cometo an agreement on allowing the information to be accessiblethrough OA.The study proposes that the way to change this may be toincrease the demands on OA in the policies, and that the bestsolution might be in stipulations within the employmentcontracts between the individual colleges and scientist..

Detta examensarbete utfördes pĂ„ uppdrag av akademin för innovation, design och teknik vid MĂ€lardalens Högskola och undersöker hur mikrosensorteknik med stöd av regelverk anvĂ€nds och kan komma att anvĂ€ndas för det tillĂ€mpade tillstĂ„ndsbaserade underhĂ„llet inom flygbranschen frĂ„n ett underhĂ„llsperspektiv. Syftet Ă€r att introducera den oinsatte i tekniken med dess möjligheter och begrĂ€nsningar. Arbetet gjordes i tre faser. Först generella efterforskningar och kĂ€llsökning, dĂ€refter fördjupning med förfrĂ„gningar till bolag och slutligen sammanstĂ€llning av insamlade kunskaper. Även om förhoppningen var att fĂ„ mer respons frĂ„n tillfrĂ„gade bolag, sĂ„ pĂ„visar Ă€ndĂ„ frĂ„nvaron en viss indikation pĂ„ den slutsats som dragits om det relativt lĂ„ga intresset hos slutanvĂ€ndaren i dagslĂ€get.

In the post Cold-War era, world politics was transforming itself through its emerging complex issues such as terrorism and influential and interdependent actors such as the European Union. In this new era, the European Union was developing its Common Foreign and Security Policy pillar both to present a coherent and unified EU policy and to prove its political potent in order to become an influential actor on world politics. On the other side, security environment was also transforming its content through emerging actors and issues. As one of the most prominent actors of the world politics, the EU was influenced by the transformation of security environment, whose economic ?soft power? proved necessary but insufficient for being a global power in this emerging security environment.

This thesis uses the ?What's the problem?-approach developed by Carol LeeBacchi. This approach studies how the problem that a certain policy is supposedto take care of is represented. Each representation will rest upon certainassumptions and will accordingly support certain solutions while other solutionswill be considered less suitable to the problem as it is represented.The thesis therefore evaluates the competing problem representations forgender mainstreaming in Sweden. The theory chapter explores two developmentpossibilities for gender mainstreaming, based on diversity and deliberativedemocracy.

De uppgifter som revisorn presenterar i sin revisionsbera?ttelse bo?r intressenter och fo?retag ha fo?rtroende fo?r. Revisorn ska vara en oberoende la?nk mellan intressenter och fo?retag. La?saren fo?rva?ntar sig finna eventuella ekonomiska problem i a?rsredovisningen.

Den första november 2010 trÀdde ett nytt regelverk ikraft, en frivillig revision, ett regelverk som berör aktiebolag och deras valfrihet att vÀlja fri revision. Aktiebolag som har möjlighet att vÀlja fri revision benÀmns mikroföretag, dem verkar inom ramen för regelverkets grÀnsvÀrden. Ambitionen med studien Àr att undersöka vilka faktorer som gör att mikroföretag i Sverige vÀljer att anlita revisor, fastÀn de enligt lag inte behöver. Studien Àr en surveyundersökning som bygger pÄ kvalitativ data frÄn intervjuer med 30 stycken mikroföretagare. Studien resulterade i att mikroföretagarna som vÀljer att anlita revisor gör det pÄ grund av olika orsaker, det som förekom mest frekvent hos mikroföretagarna Àr att de gör det; för sin egen skull, för sitt eget vÀlbefinnande, förÀndring tar tid, informationsasymmetri, skatteverket och behov av rÄdgivning.För att kunna sÀga att dessa anledningar till att anlita revisor Àr signifikanta för mikroföretag i Sverige föreslÄs en framtida studie, exempelvis en surveyundersökning med kvantitativ data..

BAKGRUND De senaste Ären har regelverken för banksektorn blivit allt mer omfattande. Regelverket Basel III stÀller ökade krav pÄ bankerna gÀllande sÄvÀl kapital som likviditet, och det Àr i stort sett samma regelverk som gÀller för storbanker som för smÄ sparbanker. Sparbanker Àr en intressant associationsform med en lÄng historia och de har ofta mycket stor betydelse för de orter dÀr de Àr verksamma.SYFTESyftet med denna rapport Àr att undersöka hur sparbanker i Kalmar lÀn upplever det ökade regelverk som har införts för banker under de senaste Ären. I syftet ingÄr Àven att undersöka vilka konkreta förÀndringar som införandet av Basel III har lett till i sparbankernas verksamhet samt om sparbankerna kan leva upp till de ökade kraven.METODDetta Àr en kvalitativ studie som bygger pÄ personliga intervjuer med representanter frÄn fyra sparbanker i Kalmar lÀn samt en intervju med en representant frÄn Sparbankernas riksförbund. Studien har ett hermeneutiskt synsÀtt och studiens resultat Àr dÀrför prÀglat av hur jag som uppsatsförfattare har tolkat intervjupersonerna. REFERENSRAMDetta kapitel innehÄller ett resonemang kring finansiella regelverk och kriser samt en beskrivning av Knutsen och Sjögrens kriscykelmodell.

In this essay, I investigate Swedish possibilities to influence the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union (CAP). After having summarized my findings, I try to explain the structure of influence by using Multi-level governance theory.Ten years have passed since Sweden joined the Union, and many changes have followed in the agricultural sector. By investigating the small country of Sweden's possibilities to influence CAP, I hope to be able to get a notion of the possibilities to influence the EU in general. The essay examines four possible paths for agricultural interests to influence the policy process in Brussels:* Through elected representatives of Sweden in the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers and in the Swedish Parliament* Through subnational institutions, such as the local authorities and regional representatives.* Through the Swedish Agricultural Office* Through the Swedish pressure group within the agricultural area, LRFThese four groups all have very different channels to the policy process on agricultural issues. The differences are mostly in terms of decisive power or advisory power and institutional contacts or lobby contacts.

Research now shows that the Individual Educational Programs (IEP) are dominated by individual- oriented actions. This despite the fact that the school`s policy documents advocate that IEP should be viewed in context of the school`s activities. Support must be seen from a holistic perspective and the student`s difficulties will be related to the whole school environment. In an attempt to understand why the individual- oriented actions are still there, I have studied how specific IEP are formulated, and how it relates to the school`s policy documents.In the study, I used discourse theory as a method. By examining the I E P in educational activity, I wanted to find the meaning with which the concept of individual, group and organizational level were filled.The results show that the IEP in comparison with the policy documents mainly differ on the definition of group and organizational level.

AbstractThis bachelor thesis was performed at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm on behalf of the Land Survey Authority. The thesis is about fish conservation and division of fishing water at official duty. It is the Land Survey Authority that examines division of fisheries, but before a case can be implemented, certain requirements must be achieved such as FBL 3:8, which prevent divisions that are deleterious for fish conservation. The purpose of this thesis is: to obtain a clearer view how FBL 3:8 should be applied in practice, how the application differs between the offices in central Sweden, and how fish care is regulated at both international and national levels.At an international level, in EU the commercial fishery is regulated through the common fisheries policy (CFP). The fisheries policy consists of a reform that will last for 10 years.

Syftet med examensarbetet Ă€r att analysera om BFN stötte pĂ„ problem vid upparbetningen, samt om vĂ„r expert och redovisningsekonomerna tror samma problem kommer att uppstĂ„ vid tillĂ€mpningen. ÄndamĂ„let Ă€r Ă€ven att beskriva varför dessa kommer att bli problematiska och om andra problem kommer att uppstĂ„. I teorin beskrivs gĂ€llande regelverk och kommande K2-regelverket för belysta problemomrĂ„den samt definitioner av olika organ. De problemomrĂ„den som redovisningsekonomerna nĂ€mner kommer inte att bli nĂ„gra större problem för K2-företagen, eftersom de flesta företag redan tillĂ€mpar reglerna som kommer att ingĂ„ i K2-regelverket. BFN vill inte ha komplicerad redovisning i K2, dĂ€rmed fĂ„r de företag som har komplicerad verksamhet och specifika krav pĂ„ sin redovisning istĂ€llet tillĂ€mpa K3-regelverket.

This bachelor thesis airns to examine change in Common Foreign and Security Policy towardsa Normative Power Europe irnplernented in the Treaty of Lis bon. The survey is conductedwith Ian Manners Norrnative Power Europe theory as the basis. U sing norms identified byManners in his article "Normative Power Europe: A Contradietian in Terms?" (2002) as thetools when analysing CFSP-staternents both from before and after ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon. The norms used in the analysis are Peace, Dernocracy and Human Rights.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze and examine India's economic reforms which the country introduced on the government's own initiative in the early 1990s after decades of practicing isolationism. The analysis entails a thorough systematic examination of possible factors that determined the decision to implement the reforms. These factors are derived from two models developed by scholars within the field of foreign policy.The research is performed through an examination where the possible factors for the reforms have been examined on a three-level basis; system-, state- and individual level. It is a qualitative case study that seeks to explain not only why the Indian government implemented the reforms but also to evaluate the validity of the models to the extent that they stand in accordance with the case of India.The conclusion presented in this thesis is that one model works better for explaining the case of India. The model lie emphasis on structural changes, a crisis and political entrepreneurs committed to a certain type of reforms as a prerequisite for policy change to take place.