This master?s thesis analyzes how cultural Policy was problematized in three governmental Policy areas; culturalPolicy for the free sector, education Policy and popular education Policy, during the social democrat Ragnar Edenman?s time (1957-67) as minister of ecclesiasticalaffairs. Earlier research has examined the Policy for the free sector, concerning artist?s economic problems. This thesisadds an analysis of the other fields of Policy, which were reformed in the 1960?s by the same ministry.

German regional Policy has changed from a strategy of redistribution to a regional growth focused Policy- strategies, which are often seen as opposites. Both policies, however, still have to relate to the constitutional objective ?to achieve equal living conditions for the country?s citizens.?This paper examines what effects a political change may have had on the interpretation of the German constitutional objective. Its aim is to examine German regional Policy and its relationship to justice, using John Rawls? A Theory of Justice.

The aim of this thesis is to map the intellectual base, and identify the general research interests, of Cultural Policy studies. In addition to this the thesis also aims to trace the uses of theoretical and conceptual approaches within the identified research interests. This is done by analysing citations from 130 articles published in the leading scientific journal International Journal of Cultural Policy between the years 2002-2007 using the bibliometric method author cocitation analysis (ACA). The results of the ACA confirm the overall notion that the research field of cultural Policy studies is an ambiguous one, even when it?s studied with a quantitative method specialised in uncovering hidden structures within a given field as ACA.

This Master?s thesis has governmental cultural Policy in focus and concludes a textual idea analysis of the governmental bill Time for culture. (Tid för kultur.) The aim of the study is to examine how the government is seeking legitimacy concerning the cultural Policy. One of the starting points is that the society has changed over time in terms of for example increased globalization and multicultural and even the market adjustment is more evident. Also the economical basis in the society is different nowadays.

This Master thesis aims to study the relation between Swedish governmental cultural Policy and cultural events at two Swedish public libraries. The Masters thesis demonstrates how national cultural Policy regulates every part of the public library. This demonstration is a result based upon national cultural Policy documents and interviews with employees at two public libraries in Sweden. The conclusion that national cultural Policy regulates this part of the public library is drawn with help of the circle of culture as applied in Culture Studies and Michel Foucault theories of power. The thesis contains the answer of four questions, two involving cultural Policy and the other two events at the library.

This thesis concerns the Policy process of a proposed bill. The specific bill constitute a new penal law which is supposed to replace the old penal law from 1974.The questions asked considers what in the foregoing Policy process that has proceeded, affected and also characterizes the proposed bill. In order to be able to produce a deep and reliable analysis to this question I use two different theories.The first theory being used consists of John W. Kingdons theory of ?multiple streams? which I use to answer the specific question ?what can be recognized to have proceeded and characterize the Policy process that the penal law bill involve??.The second theory consists of Peter Santesson-Wilsons development of symbolic Policy theories which is given a concrete form in the ?taxonomy of symbolic Policy? which he presents.

This paper addresses how political parties make decisions. Parties often have to choose between conflicting objectives such as influence on Policy, control of the government, and support among the voters. This paper examines the behavior of the two Swedish parties on one of their particular Policy positions: Swedish withdrawal from the EU. The aim is to describe why the Left Party (Vänsterpartiet) and the Green Party (Miljöpartiet) retain thisspecific Policy position when it on one hand seems damaging to their chances of getting into government, and on the other seems to be an unrealistic Policy to realize. I undertake a twocase study of the two Swedish parties, which I assume to represent a population of Nordic parties critical to the EU.

The economic Policy of the Swedish Social Democrats has undergone major changes during the last thirty years. From using a so-called Keynesian Policy to promote full employment in the economy, the Social Democrats have switched to a more monetaristic Policy to promote low inflation instead. What I intend to do with this study is to see if the Policy change also can be noticed in how the party describe their own Policy. Have the Social Democrats been open and transparent with their change in priorities, or have they tried to hide this in their rhetoric?The purpose of this thesis is to examine if one can notice a change from a Keynesian to a monetaristic Policy in the Social Democrat?s descriptions of their economic Policy.

The following study is dedicated to investigate what kind of problems an organisation might stumble upon in the process of implementing a Policy related to information security. Alongside investigating the eventual problems occurring in the implementation process of an organisation, the study also sets out to analyse how an organisation can motivate staff in order to follow the guidelines of a Policy. The collection of empirical data was done using interviews. In order to seek answers to our research questions a theoretical background is presented that illustrate the need for information security after which motivational theories are applied to our collected data.To summarise the results of the study we find a gap of knowledge between the employees of the organisation. The organisational level of an employee together with the degree of participation in working with a Policy seems connected to both the employee?s knowledge of a Policy as well as how well the employee are motivated to learn about and follow the guidelines provided from a Policy..

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.

Denna uppsats belyser vilka frågor som lyftes fram för några kommuners framtidsarbete, vilka aktörerna var i de Policyskapande processerna samt visar varför dessa framtidsvisioner fördes upp på dagordningen på 1990-talet. Metoden för studien är en jämförande, kvalitativ fåfallsstudie av kommunernas framtidsprogram. De utvalda kommunerna är Gävle, Halmstad, Karlskrona, Karlstad, Kristianstad och Luleå. Uppsatsens analysbegrepp är Policy Windows och Policy Networks. Dessa innefattas i en korporativ och elitistisk statsteori.

This bachelor thesis, written as a part of the European Studies at Gothenburg University, is concerned with the European Unions? (EU) climate political governance in their both climate- and agricultural Policy, and in particularly the question whether it is sustainable. This thesis intends to problematize if it is possible for the EU to continue to pursue its current agricultural policies, while at the sametime maintain its role as a sustainable actor on the global arena. The framework of theEUs? climate Policy governance disciplines this analysis.

Abstract During the last 15 years, the former ?really existing socialist? economies have undertaken an extensive transition process. In this paper the development, measured as GDP growth, is analyzed using variables for economic Policy. The analysis is both theoretical, taking as starting point current positions in academia, and econometrical with the linear regression model. We show that while economic Policy variables of inflation, economic freedom and institutional quality affect economic growth, the results are not only the ones predicted by the theory.

After the appointment of a new European Commission in 2004, ?communication? was made a top priority on the agenda. The Commission presented a new communication Policy, which would establish a dialogue with the citizens, thereby bringing more democracy to the union and bridging the gap to the citizens. Three documents containing the Policy were published, namely an internal action plan for the Commission, Plan D which establishes the framework for national debates and a whitepaper on EU communication Policy. These documents were met by mistrust and criticism from many different actors such as journalists and experts.The aim of this master thesis is to examine this new communication Policy from a deliberative democratic perspective.

Abstract  Title: Från neutralitet till öppenhet? ? En studie av säkerhetspolitikens utveckling i Sverige efter kalla krigets slutAuthor: Jens KindhSupervisor: Patric LindgrenLinnaeus UniversityDepartment of Political ScienceSpring term 2012 When the Cold War ended, a new security situation was unfolded in Sweden. The purpose of this thesis is to describe and compare how the Swedish security Policy is organized and how it has changed since the Cold War ended. To do that, I?m going to try answer the following questions:How is the Swedish security Policy organized?What defence resolutions have affected the Swedish security Policy after the Cold War ended?How has different political actions made its impact on the Swedish security Policy after the Cold War ended?My theory is to try explain how the Swedish security Policy has changed after the Cold War through a realism security perspective called traditional security, which refers to a realistic construct of the states security Policy.