The Common Agricultural Policy has been a burning topic for debate for severaldecades. According to the CAP:s opponents it's effects include pollution, market distortionsand not least a huge expense for the European union.In this study we seek to explain why the CAP has remained almostunreformed since it's constitution in the 1950:s. The means by which we do so isa case study where we analyze the CAP by using three different theories; liberalinter-governmentalism, realistic trade theory and new institutionalism.In the final chapter we conclude that the theories complement each other. Newinstitutionalism explains the rigidity of the CAP. The liberal perspective explainsthe origin and the logic behind the Policy whereas the realistic point of view putsthe Policy in the light of an international economic theory and recognizes nationalPolicy makers roll in the inflexibility of the CAP..

The role of cultural Policy within the general political planning of a community can vary both historically and regionally. The aim of this study has been to explore the cultural Policy plans, during the 1990's, in the recently formed geographical region of "Västra Götaland". This is a qualitative study, carried out during 1999, and based upon structured interviews with five representatives of the cultural-Policy sector in the "Västra Götaland" region. In order to identify connections and tendencies in a more general social context the aims of the five representatives regarding cultural Policy have been explored from the perspective of three cultural Policy paradigms, namely Dorte Skot-Hansen, Olav R. Spilling and Göran Nylöf.

Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine if the Swedish Policy of foreign affairs has been changed due to the Swedish enter as members in the European Union. The research method used for this essay has been a comparative case study between the Swedish and Norwegian declared Policy of foreign affairs and it strives to answer the research question, which is if the Swedish declared Policy of foreign affairs has been changed in character due to the Europeanization. The theoretical framework of this study consists of Europeanization as a comprehensive theoretical perspective. I order to answer the research question a classification schedule has been elaborated to examine the objectives of the Swedish and Norwegian declared Policy of foreign affairs. The analytical method of this part has been a quantitative and qualitative approach.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine the view of funding and sponsorship of culture within Swedish governmental cultural Policy. The main issue is to discover changes in attitude towards funding and sponsorship of culture by comparing the discourse of cultural Policy in the 1970s with the discourse of cultural Policy in the 1990s. The theoretical and methological starting point is Ernesto Laclaus and Chantal Mouffes discourse theory. Another theoretical starting point is Danish cultural Policy reasearcher Dorte Skot-Hansens theories of the development of cultural Policy in the Nordic countries, and Norman Faircloughs, of critical discourse analysis, theory of the marketization of discourse. Four governmental cultural Policy documents, two from the 1970s and two from the 1990s, are analysed through a model loosely based on Laclaus and Mouffes idea of nodalpoints and elements constituting a discourse.

This study investigates Swedish and Finnish official perception of Russia following the Cold War. This is aimed at categorizing changes in perception of Russia over time and assessing the impact of perception on defense Policy. The study uses a comparative method where the contents of three foreign Policy reports of Sweden and Finland respectively are analyzed according to dimensions based in image theory. Results show that Swedish and Finnish perceptions of Russia are overall similar between the reports being compared, except for Finnish perception of Russian relative power being significantly greater. Changes in Swedish and Finnish official perception do not clearly correlate with changes in defense Policy.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine the view of market-led culture, focusing on literature, within Swedish governmental cultural Policy. The main issue is to discover changes in attitude towards cooperation between culture and business by comparing the attitudes and ideas expressed in the governmental Policy documents from the 1970s with the governmental Policy documents from the 1990s. To illuminate, and with an effort to explain, these attitudes and ideas expressed in the documents their political and social context has been studied as well. The theoretical starting point is two political ideologies, and Danish cultural Policy researcher Dorte Skot-Hansens theories of cultural Policy in the Nordic countries. The methodological starting point is two variants of analyses that are textual ones.

This essay aims to explore the development of the common foreign and security Policy within the European Union as well as the recent addition of the post of High representative in the field of the common foreign and security Policy. This essay will attempt to achieve this trough exploring the questions; how have the aim of the European foreign Policy developed, how the forms of cooperation has within this field developed and finally what impact will the recent addition of a high representative for the common foreign and security have. My aim is to answer these questions with the help of neo-functionalism.The results that came out of this essay point to the direction that the neo- functionalist premise about spill over effects and the notion about increased supranational influence turn out to have some validity in them. The study has shown that during the time the cooperation within the field of foreign and security Policy have developed it is possible to see that supranational institutions will gain influence when the scope of integration within a Policy area widens and deepens..

The purpose of this essay is to examine the Swedish governments discourse on integration of immigrants and thereby examine what social reality it constructs. The aim is to examine how integration and immigrants are constructed within the discourse. The method and theory being used in this essay is discourse theory. As a methodological instrument we use the Policy on functional impairment as a comparison. The material being analyzed in this essay is political documents on the strategy on integration Policy and the strategy on the Policy of functional impairment.

This essay is about Swedish government cultural Policy.The premise is that cultural Policy is a form of welfarePolicy. The welfare state has changed and this affects theconditions for the cultural Policy. Welfare is funded andorganized in different parts of society, in three spheres thatcan be said to represent society as a whole. These spheresare the public sphere, the market and the civil society. Theaim is to analyze how the national cultural Policy appearedin the 1970s, compared to how it appears today.

The purpose of this study was to examine and explain Sweden?s defence and security Policy during the twenty-first century. The method that was used in this research was a case study. The material that was used were government documents focusing on this area of Policy, and numerous books concerning the theoretical perspectives on international relations and defence security Policy. The study is of an explaining art and the analysis explains Sweden?s security and defence Policy during the twenty-first century. The analysis explains this by testing it against a liberal and a realist view on international relations. The conclusion of the study is that Sweden?s defence and security Policy has been liberal during this time period ? and still is.

The aim of this study has been to explore local cultural Policy documents in some municipalities in the geographical region of Västra Götaland. Do the municipalities have these kinds of documents for their local cultural activities, and how are they designed? These are questions which the study has focused on. The study has been concentrated on the library activity in the local cultural Policy documents. The research has been a comparative one.

The development aid from Sweden to developing countries is a activity thatinvolves a great deal of monetary founds as well as an opportunity to influence the environmental situation in a partner country. It´s also an opportunity to promote Sweden's values in a field like the environment, setting a good example is important. This thesis aims to evaluate Sida´s environmental Policy and find out if there in fact is a Environmental Policy Integration Policy (EPI) taking place. EPI is a Policyimplementation theory that emphasise the importance of the total integration of the environmental in the organisation as a whole. To identify this I will use a theoretical framework of indicators invented by William M.

Who is responsible for youth Policy implementation?This thesis attempts to deepen our understanding of Swedish and Nordic youth Policy. Youth Policy is cross-sectoral and includes all the decisions and measures affecting the conditions of young people. National youth Policy therefore concerns young people's life situations in a number of different areas, such as work, housing, education, health, leisure and influence. The purpose of the study is to increase the knowledge of youth Policy work the last century by understanding the impact of youth research concerning adults' role in youth Policy implementation. A mixed method approach has been applied to the study: interviews, documents and youth theory have been analysed.

In Sweden there is an integration Policy and a Policy for national minorities. The integration Policy aims to integrate newly arrived immigrants (nyanlända invandrare), whereas the minority Policy aims to maintain and strengthen the rights of the national minorities. The national minorities are though, at times, included into the integration Policy, even though they hold a minority status in Sweden. This paper aims to, through discourse analysis, investigate the research question: ?how is the content of integration referred to, when it is related to immigrants, contra when it is related to national minorities?.

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.