Public opinion can be shaped as well as transformed in a number of ways. Government authorities occasionally make use of public information campaigns to educate and steer the public. In this thesis the balance between public and private, the individual and the society is analysed in terms of dimensions of individualism and communitarianism. These dissimilar theories on how the society ought to be constructed can be used when analysing many different policy areas, however, they also pinpoint the controversies seen in the public debate regarding Swedish information policy. Based on this analysis an empirical study identifies what kind of knowledge the state wants the citizens to possess and public information campaigns can be problematic.

With ever-increasing environmental problems in the world, I have with this thesis aimed at studying how the Inuit people of the Arctic organize themselves around the issue of environmental degradation. In focus for this thesis is the organization Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), an NGO that focuses on saving and protecting the social and cultural rights of the Inuit people, along with the environment in the four arctic regions. This aboriginal population has a strong connection to the environment they dwell in, as the area serves as a source of income and nutrition as well as an historically important place for their culture.I will in this thesis primarily investigate the methods of operation amongst NGOs, as well as their ability to influence and interact with the UN. These are three concepts that I, as a hypothesis, considered to distinguish ICC from other NGOs. With help from three theories about NGOs, I conclude that certain central elements of ICC differ from the average NGO, making ICC a new kind of actor in global politics..

The conflict in Aceh had been going on for 30 years time, but ended after a tsunami hit the area in 2004. The impact the natural catastrophe had on the conflict was that both GAM and the Indonesian government was brought together with the intent of reaching a peace agreement. The authors to this thesis paper ask the question of why it became peace after such long time of war, but also if rational choice theory can explain this event. The answer to the first question is that the tsunami was the main reason to why it became peace. As to the second question, the conclusion would be that, depending on which view of human nature one has, rational choice theory can only answer the question if cultural, religious and emotional factors are disregarded.

AbstractI den svenska högskolelagen anges det att svenska lärosäten ska samverka och informera om sin verksamhet. Något som har kommit att kallas ?Den tredje uppgiften?. Vår ambition med vår uppsats har varit att genom en kvantitativ och kvalitativ enkätundersökning se hur fyra lärosäten i södra Sverige samverkar med det omgivande samhället. De undersökta lärosätena är; Lunds Universitet, Malmö Högskola, Växjö Universitet och Högskolan Kristianstad.

I denna uppsats behandlas ämnet politisk organisering. Frågorna som tas upp är huruvida globaliseringsrörelsen bör organisera sig i partier eller agera utomparlamentariskt i sociala rörelser och om deliberation är ett effektivt påverkansmedel för att förändra de institutioner de vänder sig emot. Utifrån en teoretisk diskussion om hur företag de senaste decennierna omorganiserats som en följd av bland annat 60- och 70-talens uppror och framstegen inom digital informationsteknologi samt debattmaterial från globaliseringsrörelsen diskuteras frågorna.Uppsatsens resultat är att den mest effektiva organisationsformen i dagens läge är nätverk av sociala rörelser. Deliberation framstår inte som särdeles effektivt kanske främst på grund av att det skulle innebära att rörelserna tvingas anpassa sig och bli mer lika de hierarkiska institutioner de vill förändra..

The main focus of the essay is to investigate if bugging can be justified from two ethics perspectives, the teleological and the deontology. I?ve chosen to emanate from two specific values which I believe is especially relevant to the ethical problems of bugging, efficiency in fighting crime and the personal integrity. To be able to illustrate this conflict between different values did I do an analysis of an official report which had the task to explore if Sweden should introduce bugging as a new means of compulsion. The official report's statement was that the police should have modern instrument to fighting crimes efficient, including bugging.My examination of the report showed that they used several arguments derived from both the efficiency in fighting crime perspective and the personal integrity perspective.

I denna uppsats undersöker vi olika elevers uppfattningar kring implementeringen av värdegrund och normer i den svenska gymnasieskolan. Vi definierar läraren som en förvaltningstjänsteman och tar upp implementeringsproblematik som kan tänkas uppkomma inom skolan, i synnerhet de problem som uppkommer genom lärarens ställning som närbyråkrat.Vi har valt att göra en kvantitativ fallstudie där vi låtit elever svara på enkäter som vi sedan sammanställt i form av deskriptiv statistik. Vi har även gjort en litteraturstudie kring lärarens roll som förvaltningstjänsteman.Vår undersökning visade att endast drygt hälften av eleverna var medvetna om den värdegrund och de normer som skolan skall implementera. Vi menar att detta kan bero på att läraren har stor handlingsfrihet i kombination med oprecis och motsägelsefull målstyrning. Dessa faktorer skulle kunna leda till att värdegrund och normer inte prioriteras i undervisningen utan att läraren frångår sitt uppdrag..

The centre of attention in this essay is on public-private-partnerships in Swedish city planning. It discusses the phenomenon and tries to identify the problems and possibilities that may appear when private and public actors are trying to work together to plan new cities or parts of cities in a process with network structures. The main questions that is asked is ?what vision for the city can we se, and who's vision is it?? together with the question of where the actual power to make the city plan and the vision can be find. The soon-to-be-built area Ulriksdal in Stockholm were Peab AB and Solna Stad stands as main actors has been chosen to illustrate the possible problems and is analysed from different angles, but the writers intention is also to say something on the matter in general.

The aim of this thesis is to form a theory of the green consumer power and to distinguish whether this phenomenon could indicate a movement toward the ecological citizenship. To do so, scientific theories regarding the responsibility of companies have been used, as well as the public choice theory, to link individuals as citizens to individuals as consumers. The motives of corporate environmental responsibility, along with consumers ability to bring pressure in different dimensions, are later drawn on as indicators applied to empirical information. The largest producer of ecological products in Sweden, Arla Foods, is employed as case study to explore if the green consumer power can and does exist. The ecological citizenship uses the ecological footprint, to define in what ways we can minimize our part of environmental degradation.The study seems to strengthen the theory, consumers do have a power to make companies go green and they tend to use it increasingly.

There is a clear difference between types of regions and forms of regionalization. This theoretical division can point out other division lines on different areas and levels, like the one of discourses. In this article is urged that regional political discourses may be divided in West and East European ones. To argue for West and East differences in regional discourse the article shows division lines both in the history of regionalization but also in ideologies. The regional policy of the EU is one example for today's regionalization as a West discourse and the Transylvanian in Rumania as an example for the East discourse.

The municipality of Olofström is intensifying the co-operation with Sölvesborg and Karlshamn, the two other municipalities in the west of Blekinge. They co-operate in two local federations and for the moment negotiations are going on about a third local federation in continuation school, but the municipalities do not agree. The aim of this thesis is to examine why Olofström co-operate with Sölvesborg and Karlshamn, if there are any problems and where the limit of this co-operation is. The method in the thesis is qualitative interviews with local politicians and officials and an actor-structure-perspective is used. The result shows that Olofström is a municipality where the population is decreasing, and it has lost state subsidy during the last decade.

Demokrati är ett omhuldat begrepp som är svårt att definiera och har otydliga avgränsningar. Detta medför svårigheter vid kontrollen av hur demokratisk den svenska förvaltningen är. Avsaknaden av ett verktyg för att undersöka verksamheten ur ett demokratiskt perspektiv gör att demokratigranskningen har svårt att få samma förutsättningar som en ekonomirevision.Denna uppsats har som syfte att granska om en kontroll av demokratiska värden sker och hur den ser ut. Uppsatsen bygger på en fördjupad granskning av revisionen i Malmö stad.Studien har grundat sig på analys av tidigare forskning och textanalys av befintliga dokument som styr den kommunala revisionen samt intervjuer med i ämnet insatta personer.Vi fann att det förekommer en demokratisk kontroll i Malmö stad, men att den saknar en tydlig demokratidefinition som kunde vara ett verktyg för att ytterligare utveckla hur en sådan kontroll ska se ut. Denna otydlighet återfinns i de regleringar som styr den kommunala revisionen, varför vi efterlyser en levande demokratidiskussion..

The creation of Region Skåne, and the transfer of the development responsibility from the national administrative country board (Länsstyrelsen) has given the state new challenges. New structures have grown between Region and State, and also between different municipalities. These can be characterized as Policy-networks, and the goal of this study is to analyze the planning process of the regional infrastructure with these theories.This is a qualitative study of the infrastructure process in Skåne, and the actors that acts within this process. It has been studied with the eyes of the theories of Governance and Policy-networks. The main method to collect material has been through interviews with different actors within the process, and very little written material has been used.

Människors livsmönster är idag inte lika förutsägbara som förr, ålder kön och klass är inte det enda som styr våra livsval längre vilket gör det svårare att planera utifrån sådana parametrar. Det skapas nya gemenskaper på nya grunder när den digitala tekniken gör det möjligt att kommunicera oberoende av geografisk närhet. Samtidigt är folk mer benägna att flytta, dels för att studera eller hitta nya arbetsplatser men också för att upptäcka nya saker och utveckla sig själva. Att världen är föränderlig är i sig inget nytt, men globaliseringen, informationssamhället och den ökade konkurrens som de medför, leder till ett ökat behov för platser/regioner att faktiskt anpassa sig till de nya villkor som förändringarna medför och visa att man innehar attraktivitet. Att ha visioner och strategier som skapar förutsättningar för människors varierande livsstilar och livsmönster, samt att marknadsföra och kommunicera detta såväl inåt som utåt tycks bli allt viktigare..

At the Congress of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) in 1991 a decision was made to reform LOs politics of gender. In the new resolution class and gender were established as equal causes of oppression. This was a giant leap from LOs traditional politics, where the dimension of class had always been considered more important than gender. The present thesis discusses how gender was constructed in LOs discourse after 1990 by analysing their official publications about gender politics called Klass och kön. The key terms in the analysis are continuity and change.