This thesis seeks to investigate the relationship between municipal Policy for housing supply and the planning of new housing in Sweden. Through a case study of Göteborg municipality and a comparative content analysis of Göteborgs Policy for housing supply and a number of plans featuring housing the analysis seeks to investigate the effect of Policy for housing supply as a tool for securing the demand for housing in the Swedish municipalities. The thesis also seeks to discuss its findings using theory concerning the implementation of Policy and the general planning situation for Swedish municipalities today. The result of the analysis shows that most plans fail to regulate most of the content suggested in the Policy for housing supply, particularly regarding aspects such as pricing, type of housing and type of ownership. The result also points towards a relationship regarding the prevalence of municipal land contracts and compatibility to Policy for housing supply as well as a connection between how extensive the plans are in their proposed land use and their compatibility with Policy for housing supply.

To integrate environmental concerns into non-environmental Policy making has become an important Policy objective within the European Union. This essay investigates Policy instruments in use to achieve environmental Policy integration in the EU's transport sector respectively fisheries sector. The point of departure is a theoretical discussion about governance and the use of different Policy instruments for environmental management at the EU-level. The focal point is the argumentation that regulatory Policy instruments alone cannot achieve environmental Policy integration satisfactory. By using Jordan et al's classification of so called "new" environmental Policy instruments (market-based instruments, voluntary agreements and ecolabels) as complements to regulatory measures, the essay investigates whether the first-mentioned are used within the two sectors.

As the numbers of immigrants to Sweden and the EU are ever increasing even the right-wing populist parties grow faster in number. Sweden, Germany and France are three European countries that receive 90 percent of all asylum seekers and should therefore have a well-established and talked about immigration Policy one can think. Yet the political parties in Sweden do not mention much about the immigration Policy apart from the political party Sweden Democrats. This study aims to analyze eight different political parties in the Swedish parliament through a textual analysis to see what kind of immigration Policy they share. Carl Dahlström has a theory to determine what type of Policy a certain party has and whether they want to assimilate or integrate immigrants.

The UN has a goal to gender-mainstream all politics, but its politics in climate change is not gender-sensitive. The Swedish government has the same goal concerning gender mainstreaming, but does the Swedish politics of climate change reach this goal? The aim of this paper is to examine the relations between the Swedish politics of gender and climate change. In addition, the aim is also to investigate how gender is constructed in the climate politics. To reach these aims, an institutional, Policy and gender analysis is used.

AbstractIn this essay, Policy change and learning is studied in the case of the Social Democratic Party and their Policy concerning independent schools. Their Policy differs clearly from the right-wing parties. Between 1991 and 1994, the right-wing government made substantial reforms concerning independent schools. The question posed in this essay is whether the Policy of the Social Democratic Party has changed as a result of these actions, and if they have approached their right-wing counterparts.Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework, defining a Policy as a result of the values the actor holds, the question is studied by applying the theory's assumptions of Policy-learning across coalitions. The argumentation of the Social Democratic Party, as it is expressed in official text documents before and after the right-wing government, is analysed.

I detta arbete undersöker jag frågan om hur arbetsgivarnas Policy för de anställdas datoranvändning under arbetstid ser ut. Jag har gjort en jämförelse mellan kommuner och verkstadsföretag inom Västra Götaland.Rapporten inleds med en introduktion till privata angelägenheter, personlig integritet och kontroll av de anställda. Vidare behandlas hur en Policy ser ut, behovet av en Policy och hur det ser ut hos arbetsgivarna gällande Policys för datoranvändningen. I denna del tas bland annat tidigare undersökningar och publikationer upp.För att kunna besvara denna fråga har jag använt mig av enkätundersökning. 11 kommuner och 11 verkstadsföretag ingår i undersökningen.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine the view of literature within Swedish governmental cultural Policy. The main issue is to discover changes in attitude towards democracy, literature and library by comparing the attitudes in the governmental Policy documents from the 1970s with the governmental Policy documents from the 1990s. The theoretical starting point is Danish cultural Policy researcher Dorte Skot-Hansens theories of the development of cultural Policy in the Nordic countries. My method of analysis is a textual one, analysis of ideas and ideology, focusing on the aspect of signification of a text. The study has an effort of analysing the governmental Policy in terms of idea and ideology.

The aim of this master?s thesis is to study the discourses on culture as developed by EU Commission. The method applied is a discoursebased historical analysis, where analysis of arguments and metaphors are functional to the enlightening of the construction of discourses within EU cultural Policy. EU official documents constitute the empirical material studied. The theoretical framework of the thesis draws upon cultural public sphere theory as well instrumentalist cultural Policy research.

This study deals with one particular instance of foreign Policy change in Sweden; The political take-off for enhanced Nordic Defence and Security Cooperation in the beginning of the 21st century which led to an agreement on a Nordic declaration on slolidarity. The aim of this study is to explain why the political development has undergone a rapid upturn and when such a Policy change occur. Its purpose is to explain what factors and conditions that influenced the Policy change. It also explores the meaning of the Nordic Declaration of Solidarity. The theoretical point of departure is Foreign Policy Analysis combined with John Kingdons Policy-window theory.

This paper takes it points of departure in a gender equality perspective and the perceived paradox between the governmental labour market Policy and family Policy. The first Policy area has the aim to put people to work, whereas the other introduces a reform, vårdnadsbidraget, that point in the opposite direction. Which are the problem representations within the two Policy areas and are the problem representations concordant or contradictive? From a constructivist perspective, langue is closely related to power through defining and ascribing meaning to reality. Drawing on political documents, speeches and articles formulated within the government, this paper analyzes problem representations through the use of discourse analysis and feminist political theory.

This study aims at examining the prospects for a Policy transfer of a Swedish municipal environmental Policy (that of Växjö) to the French urban commune Blois, for which an ambition of becoming a leading eco-city in France, was declared by the mayor in 2008.In the analysis, emphasis is laid on mechanisms to institutionalize the main environmental Policy principles, such as political and institutional structures and processes. Other prospects for an institutionalization of a new environmental Policy that are to be investigated are economic structures as well as visions of the different decision-makers concerned. Research methods used in the study are qualitative interviews, document studies and a questionnaire.The findings of the analysis show that today?s prospects for an environmental Policy in Blois close to that of Växjö, are clearly limited. The limitations can partly be found in economic structures but these seem to be rather related to a lack of priority amongst actors.

This thesis seeks to investigate the relationship between municipal Policy for housing supply and the planning of new housing in Sweden. Through a case study of Göteborg municipality and a comparative content analysis of Göteborgs Policy for housing supply and a number of plans featuring housing the analysis seeks to investigate the effect of Policy for housing supply as a tool for securing the demand for housing in the Swedish municipalities. The thesis also seeks to discuss its findings using theory concerning the implementation of Policy and the general planning situation for Swedish municipalities today. The result of the analysis shows that most plans fail to regulate most of the content suggested in the Policy for housing supply, particularly regarding aspects such as pricing, type of housing and type of ownership. The result also points towards a relationship regarding the prevalence of municipal land contracts and compatibility to Policy for housing supply as well as a connection between how extensive the plans are in their proposed land use and their compatibility with Policy for housing supply. Using theories of Policy implementation and the municipal planning situation, possible explanations for the findings of the analysis could be a split in responsibility between the formulating and implementation of the Policy for housing supply and its contents, a lack of resources of means for implementing or the prevalence of special interests when attempting to convert Policy to plans..

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze equalities/inequalities between the Danish and Swe-dish immigration Policy based on Habermas theory about openings/closures and analyze the reasons to the differences between Danish and Swedish immigrant Policy. Therefore this study has two question formulations, the first one was "Is there any equalities/inequalities between the Danish and Swedish immigration Policy based on Habermas theory of openings and closings?" and the second was "Why are there equalities/inequalities between the Danish and Swedish immigration Policy?" The results show that based on Habermas theory there are equalities between the Danish and Swedish immigration Policy. On the question why, the re-sults show us that the factors who give the difference are work, people?s attitude to immi-grants and party politics.Keywords: Denmark, Sweden, Immigration Policy, opening, closing..

This discursive Policy study has its starting point in the criticism of the Swedish gender-equality Policy is depoliticised. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the Swedish gender-equality Policy was problematised and designed during the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is also to investigate whether the Swedish gender-equality Policy can be defined as a depoliticised Policy or not. The research questions of this study are: What´s the problem of gender-equality represented to be in the specifics policies and what effects are produced of this representation? Can gender Policy, as it is designed in the various Policy documents, be understood as a depoliticised Policy, in the sense that sex is not articulated on the basis of a conflict dimension?To find the answer of theese questions I use the method ?Whats´s the problem represented to be", which is an inductive approach where the researcher sets selected questions to its material.

This study is set out to examine if there is any kind of influence between the EU and Swedish gender Policy. More specific the Swedish efforts within the gender Policy area, especially in the area of social Policy and employment, during the Swedish presidency in the Council of Ministers 2001. And also to examine the impact of Europeanization in Swedish gender Policy. We have decided to delimit our study to care of elderly and children when it comes to the area of social Policy. We are using a descriptive, examining qualitative method.