This essay is a case study about the Swedish Armed Forces during the years 1988-2004; when it transformed from a force constructed to meet an invasion, to an international force with the primary mission to help subdue conflicts around the world. The essay uses texts and documents to examine what happened between these years and to find out what drove that change.By asking the questions A) ?What happened between the years 1988-2004?? and B) ?What is the difference between the Armed Forces in 1988 and in 2004??, it is possible to also ask C)?Why did the Swedish Armed Forces change??.The essay is divided into three main parts; 1) a theory-part focused on three main theories of international relations: liberalism, realism, and constructivism, 2) a historical case study examining the evolvement of the Armed Forces during these years, and 3) a conclusions section that uses thethree theories of international relations to examine why this change happened.In examining the historical period and making conclusions about the differences between these years it was also necessary to construct a scale of military power, on which the historical case study is based..

The aim of this bachelor´s thesis ist to analyze the idea progress in the party programs in the swedish Centre-party during the time 1910-1959. The progress in the party program is compared with the evolution of society during the same period.The bachelor´s aim is also to analyze how each new program is described in newspapers, two newspapers were chosen to make the comparison; Arbetet (a social-democratic newspaper), and Skånska Dagbladet (a centre-party newspaper). The result shows that the party in the beginning was conservative and against both capitalism and socialism. The start of the party was a reaction against the new electionsystem which was introduced in Sweden in 1909.The party took a clear standpoint for the Swedish farmers, but after 1933, they were standing for the whole countryside. In the 1940´s and the 1950´s the party became more like a social liberal party rather than an agrarian party only for the farmers.The party programs are not given much space in the two newspapers.

Uppsatsens syfte är att analysera den mediala debatten kring konfessionella friskolor för att komma fram till hur diskursen kring de religiösa friskolorna konstrueras. Vilka teman är debatten uppbyggd kring, vilka utgångspunkter grundar sig den i och vilka begränsningar skapas det i talet om de religiösa friskolorna? Uppsatsen behandlar såväl olika syn på religion och dess betydelse, som integration, liberalistiska värden och hur makt skapas i samband med institutionaliserade diskurser. Vidare kan man genom debatten även utröna diskussioner om vilken funktion skolan bör ha, hur mycket statlig styrning som är önskvärd och hur intolerans egentligen ska definieras. Genom analysen uppmärksammas det svenska svenska samhället och de sekulariserade samt liberalistiska värden som styr möjligheterna att utala sig som de religiösa friskolorna. Debatten kring de religiösa friksolorna kan bland annat ses som en sätt att försöka kontrollera och definiera religionen och dess alltmer påtagliga plats i det offentliga..

Sammandrag Vår uppfattning är att barns spontana lekfulla musikutforskande i sin ljudliga form inte alltid får utrymme och gehör hos oss vuxna. För att utveckla mer kunskap om detta vill vi i en institutionell kontext studera och analysera processen från barns utforskande och spontana musikproducerande till en produkt som kan reproduceras genom musikvideoskapande. Studiens bärande stolpar är inspirationskällor, aktörskap samt möjliggörande. Under arbetets gång har vi sett olika inspirationskällor som kunnat påverka barnen i deras skapande process av en musikvideo. Vi har huvudsakligen utgått från Bjørkvolds (2005) teori om spontansång när vi analyserat barnens musikskapande.

The purpose of this study is, on the basis of institutional theory, to contribute with moreunderstanding about resistance to management accounting change and also to survey reasonsfor the resistance and how to cope with the resistance.The study is a qualitative case study and semi-structured interviews have been used tocomplement the study?s theoretical area, consisting of scientific articles.The conclusion from the study is that resistance to management accounting change can beunderstood and explained by the institutions of each organisation and its underlying structures. Afurther conclusion is, with the structures in mind there are many reasons for resistance and alsomany ways to cope with the resistance. A model has been produced in purpose to createunderstanding and to survey the resistance to management accounting change..

The subject this thesis will investigate concerns the matter of how political ideologies exist within public libraries with a focus on the democratic ideal. Public libraries are part of the political system and we want to show how political ideologies take their shape in public libraries and the possible consequences of this. With the help of three major political ideologies, liberalism, conservatism and socialism we investigate how the democratic ideals of these ideologies are expressed in documents that describes activities the libraries will and have performed. In order to identify these ideologies we use discourses in cultural policy as a bridge between the investigated documents and the political ideologies. As an analytical tool we have developed a model that describes the relation between text, discourse and ideology which we use in our analysis.

Den här uppsatsen undersöker om etnisk komposition i gymnasieskolan påverkar skolprestationer. Frågeställningarna i uppsatsen är: Samvarierar kontextuella skillnader i skolprestationer med avseende på elevens etniska bakgrund, eller är skolprestationer knutna till selektion hos elever? Varierar kontextuell effekt för olika undergrupper såsom flickor och pojkar? Teorin utgår från socialt kapital och kontextuella effekter såsom epidemilogisk modell, kollektiv socialisation och institutionell modell. Datamaterialet är registerdata från Skolverket och metoden som används för analysen är multilevel analys. Resultaten visar att det finns en negativ kontextuell effekt att gå en skola med hög etnisk komposition.

This study analyzes the political view of criminality and crime politics in three political parties in the Swedish parliament, Socialdemokraterna, Folkpartiet and Moderaterna. The study seeks to describe which kind of view these parties present on the criminality in our society. The material for this study is the ideologies that the parties descend from which are, socialism, liberalism and conservatism, the political programs of these three parties have also been studied as well as the parties proposals, political documents in the Swedish parliament. The current public debate shows that the crime politics is an attractive question and the parties may seem to have similar proposals on how to lower the criminality in our society. The theory that has been used to describe the results of the study is ?actors and structures? and the results are related to this theory as well as the theory has been used as an instrument to explain and sort the material and the results.The results of the study show that the parties are different in their views on criminality as a problem in our society.

Questions about discipline have always been current within the Swedish school system, from the sixteenth century until today. The purpose of this study is to compare the discipline in two old-time elementary schools, located on Gotland, with each other.This study will compare an old-time elementary school from the countryside with an old-time elementary school from a town to show the differences in discipline between the coun-tryside and a town. This study will also focus on how questions about discipline changes from 1847 to 1937/1941. In order to do so I have studied the regulations from the two schools and compared them with each other. When I discuss discipline I will use Michel Foucault?s theory concerning the development of power and discipline in modern society.My study shows that it did not differ much in questions of discipline between the two ex-amined old-time elementary schools.

I denna jämförande studie analyseras det partistrategiska handlandet i Sverige och Österrike gällande regeringsbildande med en jämförande ansats. Analysen av strategierna har gjorts med hänsyn till den institutionella och politiskt kulturella kontexten. Studien visar att de institutionella arrangemangen mellan länderna liknat varandra men att den politiska kulturen och partisystemen skiljt sig åt vilket påverkat det partipolitiska agerandet.En skillnad mellan länderna är att det i Österrike traditionellt bedrivits en koncensusinriktad och kompromissvillig politik medan det i Sverige präglats av konflikt mellan det socialistiska och borgerliga blocket. Vid det österrikiska valet 1999 infördes konflikt som en följd av det frihetliga antietablissemangspartiet FPÖ:s framgångar och det partistrategiska agerandet kom att ändras. Självbindningar och kompromisslöshet hade ersatt koncensus och samförstånd, och den traditionella ?stora koalitionen? mellan det socialdemokratiska och konservativa partiet ersattes med en regering bestående av det populistiska frihetliga partiet.

The purpose of this study is to examine the changes in law and other types of politicialregulation regarding unauthorized absence during the reformation of the Swedish schoolsystem in 2010. How was this ?new? approach on unauthorized absence established; whatmade it possible and which view on ?unauthorized absence? does it implicate? The study hasa discourse analytic approach in which it examines central policy documents regarding thetopic of inquiry. The study has found that the alliance-government?s education policy onunauthorized absence is pervaded by one hegemonic discourse termed the mono-culturaldisciplinary discourse.

Detta är en uppsatts om norra Sverige tiden kring förra sekelskiftet. En period i vårt lands historia som kännetecknades av en stor omvandling vad gäller människors förutsättningar och livssituation. Sverige liksom övriga västvärlden var vid denna tid mitt uppe i en industrialiseringsprocess, en utveckling som kom att forma den värld vi lever i på ett radikalt sätt. Den omvandling av samhället från jordburks ekonomi till en industriekonomi som genomgicks ställde såväl människor som stat på prov. Hur väl dessa aktörer klarade detta test kom att bli avgörande för den fortsatta utvecklingen av nationen.

France is committed to its ambition to lift the European Union's arms embargo imposed on China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. France is of today the only member state that is acting to lift the arms embargo, evoking questions of motives behind its behavior. The underlying assumption in this essay is that France's actions reflect a need to find new ways of adapting itself and surviving faced with the threats of its decreased international influence. By using three different perspectives ? realism, liberalism and constructivism ? this essay examines three possible models of analysis to explain France's behavior.An analysis of the discourse covering this essay´s topic between 1989-2007 provided the basis of the paper.

The purpose of this comparative study is to investigate if the views of Sayyid Qutb and Tariq Ramadan regarding social structure and religion are possible to unite with western liberal democracy. The basis of the study is the problematizing approaches written by Qutb and Ramadan regarding the possible unity between Islam and democracy. These problematizing approaches are then tested on the political philosophy of liberalism to see if a unity is possible.The result showed that Qutb's view did not meet the criteria of democracy, which wasn't surprising due to his negative views on the system. However, Ramadan's reformist view on Muslim identity did unite with the views of liberal democracy, though questions regarding the possibility of creating and preserving a European Muslim identity in the secular society were immediately brought to attention.The importance in Qutb's view is social equality, unity and submission to God and the importance of Ramadan's view is to create and preserve a European Muslim identity and adapt to the society where you live and participate as a citizen. Qutb's view will not tolerate diversity and one is to keep or convert to the Muslim faith.

I denna uppsats behandlar vi anledningar till varför Swedbank omstrukturerar till ?starka kontor?, en omstrukturering som innebär en decentralisering av organisationen till mer självständiga kontor. Vi diskuterar i denna uppsats Swedbanks omstrukturering utifrån legitimitets- och effektivitetsperspektiv med hjälp av institutionell teori och situationsteori. Swedbank är en rikstäckande och internationellt etablerad organisation som agerar på en bankmarknad, märkbart påverkad av den globala finanskrisen. Omstruktureringen som sker under hösten 2009 är till viss del inspirerad av andra banker såsom Handelsbankerna och sparbankerna.