Since 1820 there has been a continuous discussion about the contents of history courses and the current debate considering this school subject is no exception; it is as vital as ever. Both in educational policy and public debate the role of history as a school subject has been brought up for discussion.In this study the writer has chosen to study the politically independent interest organization HLF. The organization is a non profit association, which works for the consolidation of history in Swedish schools.The purpose of this study is to investigate how the organization HLF has received and met the ongoing debate on this issue. The writer has chosen to examine the strategies the organization has used in order to influence this school subject and if they have succeeded in doing this.To carry out this study the writer has made use of HLF´s annuals as well as Aktuellt om historia, which is a publication that the organization issues three or four times a year. The conclusion of this study is that HLF has little influence when it comes to the formulation of the education of history.

Title: Youth unemployment- A study of the tax effect on youth unemployment in 13 European industrial countries Seminary date: 2009-02-06 Course: NEK691 ? Bachelor thesis, 15 p Author: Emma Jonsson Tutor: Klas Fregert Keywords: Youth unemployment, tax, 13 European industrial countries, panel data, multiple regression analysis. Purpose: The purpose is to examine the reasons behind youth unemployment with a special focus on tax policy. Method: By using a multiple regression analysis examined with panel data from 13 European industrial countries for the period 1998 to 2004. The dependent variable youth unemployment is explained by five independent variables.

The Swedish road transport sector relies almost completely on fossil fuels. In 2007, as much as 96 percent of the total sales of fuels was made up of petrol and diesel, while at the same time the share of total emissions of greenhouse gases in Sweden that came from road transports amounted to close to 30 per cent. Sweden is by no means worse off than any other European country in these respects. In order to address the questions of high oil dependence and CO2 emissions the European Commission has proposed a reinforcement of the legislative framework, with a 10 percent minimum for the market share of biofuels in 2020. Furthermore, the proposed target is binding for the member states, unlike the current voluntary target of 5.75 percent by 2010. More than doubling the usage of biofuels in only a bit more than a decade will most likely not be possible without policy interventions.

Around the 1950s an explosive population growth started in the Third World. Parallel with the population growth a global network grew up advocating population control and limited population growth. Sweden had a unique place in that network through a pioneering role promoting the issue in the UN organization. During the 20th century Sweden was a pioneer country in terms of initiatives for population control. Ceylon family planing pilot project was something new in a time when other donors considered family planning be too controversial area for bilateral aid projects.

Background: The hurricane in the south of Sweden in January 2005 was the worst storm in Sweden for the last hundred years. The storm named Gudrun has blown down forest that according to estimation is corresponding to one year of cutting down in the entire country.Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to describe how credit granters act when facing falling forest real estate mortgage and describe if they will make considerations due to the storm in the south of Sweden 2005.Method: With help of a qualitative method, we investigated how the credit granters act when facing falling forest real estate mortgage. Interviews were obtained with three credit granters, SEB, Landshypotek and FöreningsSparbanken in the county of Jönköping and Kronoberg.Conclusion: The conclusion is based upon the empirical study, the analysis and our own reflections and it shows that the credit granters do not change their policy concerning credit granting to forest real estate properties. The policy of the credit granters has proven to be valid even in this extreme situation..

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.

Miljön är viktig för människans aktivitetsutförande och ett område där arbetsterapeuten kan göra nytta med sin specifika kunskap. Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka hur arbetsterapeuter inom kommunal verksamhet själva upplever sin psykosociala arbetsmiljö och om en eventuell förändring skulle påverka deras arbetsförmåga. Syftet var även att studera hur deras upplevda psykosociala arbetsmiljö påverkade deras arbetsförmåga enligt Karasek & Theorells krav- kontroll- stödmodell. För att besvara studiens syfte gjordes en enkätundersökning bland kommunanställda arbetsterapeuter där de fick besvara frågor som handlade om krav, kontroll och stöd. Resultatet visade att respondenterna upplevde en god psykosocial arbetsmiljö och efter det att resultatet analyserats enligt krav- kontroll- stöd modellen visade det att arbetsterapeuterna befann sig i den bästa kombinationen för att ha en bra arbetsförmåga.

I april 2011 arbetar riksenheten mot korruption med nio utredningar där koppling till kommuner, landsting eller kommunala bolag finns. Trots att Sverige i en internationell jämförelse har en låg korruptionsgrad så förekommer fall av korruption. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka korruptionens mekanismer på kommunal nivå i Sverige. För att uppfylla detta söks svar på frågeställningar gällande den kommunala organisationens betydelse för korruption, om några sambandsfaktorer finns samt huruvida etiska förhållningssätt kan vara av betydelse. Teorin som övergripande används menar att en gynnsam frestelsestruktur främjar ett korrupt beteende.

Denna studie grundas på en kvalitativ forskning i form av empiriskt material från litteratur och semistrukturerade intervjuer. Syftet med studien är att finna klarhet i hur samverkan sker och hur konkurrenssituationer uppstår mellan kommuner i ett regionförstoringsperspektiv. En samverkan kan många gånger uppfattas som komplex eftersom den innefattar ett stort antal aktörer från olika nivåer. Studien belyser även hur kommuner ständigt arbetar för att anses som attraktiva för såväl invånare som näringsliv. För en grundläggande förståelse i samverkan och konkurrenssituationer har en fördjupning gjorts i två centrala planeringsfrågor, infrastruktur och näringsliv.

Den ökade transparensen i samhället har bidragit till att allt fler företag aktivt arbetar medCorporate Social Responsibility, CSR. Tyvärr är det många verksamheter idag som inte får tillräckligt mycket uppskattning för deras CSR-policy. Detta är för att den externa kommunikationen gentemot konsumenter inte är optimal. När konsumenter inte har kännedom om företagets CSR försvinner mycket av den konkurrenskraft som CSR bidrar med. Samtidigt kan en överdriven marknadsföring av företagets CSR-policy medföra en motsatt effekt.

In this thesis I will examine Willy Brandt's new Ostpolitik with the help of Robert Putnam's analytical framework of two-level games perspective and the theory of social constructivism. Firstly, I will briefly set out the development of Germany's history before it was divided into the Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic in 1949. After that I present West Germany's foreign policy from 1949 to 1969 in order to show how Willy Brandt continued and broke with different foreign policy doctrines. Finally, I want to illustrate his new Ostpolitik and the international and domestic factors, which contributed to its realisation. The main question of this essay is: How significant were the changes of the West German society for the realisation of the new Ostpolitik from 1969 to 1973? One of the most important findings in this essay is that on the one hand that many West Germans had accepted that their country was divided and on the other hand that many groups in the society such as the significant newspaper Die Zeit and intellectuals supported the new Ostpolitik.

Balanced Scorecard [svenska; balanserad styrning] är ett koncept framtaget för vinstdrivande verksamheter men kommunförbundet har genomfört försök med adoptering av balanserad styrning i kommunal verksamhet, med vissa skillnader som motiverar anpassningar. Förvaltningen kommunkansliet i Tierps kommun har officiellt arbetat utifrån balanserad styrning sedan 2003 och anledningen till varför de började arbeta utifrån metodiken i balanserad styrning grundar sig företrädesvis i att den traditionella ekonomistyrningen konstaterades vara otillräcklig parallellt som den inte levererade en helhetsbild över verksamheten. Jag har genomfört en fallstudie vid kommunkansliet i syfte att se hur konceptet verkar i offentlig verksamhet. Fallstudien syftar till helhetsförståelse och insikt, vilket innebär att den vetenskapliga inriktningen på arbetet är hermeneutiskt. Undersökningen är av kvalitativ karaktär baserad på individuella intervjuer bland förvaltningschefen, enhetschefer samt medarbetare och jag har använt mig av den abduktiva forskningsansatsen i arbetet.

The purpose of this study was to examine the incentives behind Sweden?s decision to engagein the Afghanistan conflict.The method used to fulfil the purpose of the study is content analysis. The material that hasbeen used in the study is various books and articles concerning Sweden in Afghanistan,Swedish foreign policy and perspectives in political science.The study is multi-theoretical and thus the analysis explains the incentives from a liberal, arealist and a constructivist point of view.The conclusion of the study is that identity has a great part in explaining the incentives forSweden to engage in Afghanistan, especially because of the transformation in strategy andforeign policy that has taken place since the end of the cold war. Other factors, such as peacebuilding and national interests also are incentives supported by the material used in the study.Yet, perhaps they are first and foremost connected by the constructivist idea of identity..

Around the 1950s an explosive population growth started in the Third World. Parallel with the population growth a global network grew up advocating population control and limited population growth. Sweden had a unique place in that network through a pioneering role promoting the issue in the UN organization. During the 20th century Sweden was a pioneer country in terms of initiatives for population control. Ceylon family planing pilot project was something new in a time when other donors considered family planning be too controversial area for bilateral aid projects.

Bachelor essay in political science by Marie Åberg, autumn 2011. ?Harm or benefit? A critical view of the theoretical grounds of the international development aid?. Supervisor: Professor Mats Lindberg. The first of the dual purpose of this essay is to present international aid policy ideas and the theoretical grounds of international development aid.