The European Union has been working to promote equality between women and men for a long time. Despite this, Sweden still have a gender segregated labor market where men generally has the leading positions. According to European law the member states shall promote gender equality and to take all appropriate measures. Statutory gender quotas for company boards is one such measure that some of the European member states have implemented in national law. The Swedish law has no provisions governing gender quotas and therefore the purpose of this study is to explain how gender quotas for company boards relate to current law, both of European law and national legislation.

Gentrifiering är ett begrepp som beskriver den ekonomiska och sociala förändringen som infinner sig när en stadsdel uppgraderas, från att ha en låg status till att få en högre status. En gentrifieringsprocess kan generera positiva effekter till en stadsdel och dess invånare genom att tillväxten och servicen ökar. Men gentrifiering kan också skapa kännbara konsekvenser för de boende som blir undanträngda från sina hem på grund av ökade hyror. Gentrifiering har länge varit ett stort forskningsämne inom discipliner så som etnologi, sociologi, geografi och kulturgeografi.Statsvetenskapen har däremot ägnat gentrifieringen förvånande liten uppmärksamhet.Uppsatsens syfte är därför att inleda en teoriutveckling av gentrifieringsbegreppetutifrån ett statsvetenskapligt maktperspektiv. Genom att kritiskt granska tidigaregentrifieringsforskning från maktperspektivet drar jag slutsatsen att tolkningsföreträde och inflytande är två centrala begrepp som statsvetare bör ta fasta på i en statsvetenskaplig teoriutveckling som fokuserar på gentrifiering..

Medborgarinflytande i kommunala planeringsprocesser har aktualiserats bland annat på grund av att det finns en önskan att göra dessa processer mer effektiva och demokratiska. Vi undersöker hur socioekonomiska skillnader bland medborgare påverkar deras möjligheter till inflytande i dessa planeringsprocesser. I en fördjupad studie vill vi se hur en kommun, där dessa skillnader finns, skulle kunna hantera kommunikation och medborgarinflytande utifrån denna aspekt. En enkätundersökning har gjorts i Kristianstad stad med avsikten att undersöka personers socioekonomiska status kontra medborgarinflytande. Vi har också använt resultaten för att kunna föra en diskussion kring medborgarinflytande på orterna Åhus och Tollarp i Kristianstad kommun.

The purpose of this bachelor?s thesis is to examine whether there was an elite on Gotland during Roman Iron Age or not. To explain this focus has been put on the roman goods. The contexts in which the roman artifacts are found indicate that they can be tied to what might have been an elite on Gotland during Roman Iron Age. They might also have been used as means of expressing wealth and prestige.

Every year the Swedish gambling monopoly serves as a significant source of income for the government. This income is later distributed by the government on various areas for the common good. The question is wheather the state is allowed to preserve this lucrativemarket for itself by any means necessary. Also is it enough to claim that the monopoly exists to protect the citizens, and thus escaping the conditions of EC-law, and its struggle to harmonize trade between the member states? This thesis describes the Swedish gambling monopoly and its relationship with EC-law.

The purpose of this paper has been to find out what motives buyers of forest property has for there purchasse, what competence they have in economics and forestry, and what analysis they had done before the purchase. The study is based on interviews with nine different buyers from two geographical areas, five from Hälsingland and four from Småland/Skåne. A forest property is a property where the value to 100 % consist of forest. A part from the interviews every purhase has been analysed in comparison to an estimation of the yield value. The theoretical yield value was estimated with a computer programme.

The purpose of this bachelor?s thesis is to examine whether there was an elite on Gotland during Roman Iron Age or not. To explain this focus has been put on the roman goods. The contexts in which the roman artifacts are found indicate that they can be tied to what might have been an elite on Gotland during Roman Iron Age. They might also have been used as means of expressing wealth and prestige.

The aim of this paper is to explain how the European Union?s common strategy for theCommon Foreign- and Security Policy (CFSP) will change with the implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon. A comparative case study and qualitative method is used. On the basis of Smith?s theory of institutionalization we will analyze two member states: France and Denmark.

The aim for this study was to find out what strategies women use to not react against inequality and sexist prejudice. In the study I used a critical realistic approach through, primary, the social ontology presented by Margaret S. Archer. The study focus on both the women?s construction of femininity and their construction of masculinity and what directions it constitutes for the women?s social orientation.

This bachelor?s thesis aims to examine how the ?New Pact on Migration and Asylum? construct the discourse on ?sustainable migration? and ?efficiency? in the European Union. The new jurisprudence concerning migration and asylum in the European Union seeks to establish a more ?fair, efficient and sustainable migration and asylum system?. To analyze the discourses, a critical discourse analysis is applied to the former asylum regulation, Dublin regulation III, a revised and withdrawn proposal, Dublin regulation IV, and future legislation.

The purpose of the study is to contribute to the field of social access in children's free play in the pre-school class, by looking at how children are included and excluded and how power structures arises in the free time. In order to capture the events that occur among the children, observations were chosen as research method.The results show that the children wanted to play with each other, and that the most common way to facilitate play was to ask "Can I join?". There were also other strategies being practiced regularly. It was also common to exclude other children from playing, and this was especially when the children wanted to protect their ongoing game, or that someone was not allowed to join because he or she ruined it for the others.

In Sweden, the County Administration board is responsible for improving the water quality in lakes and watercourses according to the European Union Water Framework Directive. In Västmanland county, where river Lillån is situated, the County Administration of Västmanland have the main responsibility for the aquatic environment in that area. The knowledge about the different watercourses in the chatchment of river Lillån is today limited. The aim with this study was to evaluate the ecological quality of River Lillån based on water chemistry analyses and benthic fauna investigations. The aim was also for the benthic fauna to compere different samplingsites and sampling methods with each other in order to see how the species composition changes in the river, and to see the advantages and disadvantages with different sampling tecniques.

In the United States, see recommendations for cardiac safety of sports arenas but also to health and fitness facilities. However, this does not exist in Sweden today. Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify the health- and fitness facilities today are equipped with respect to cardiac safety and specifically relating to preparedness for cardiac arrest. Method: Quantitative data are collected and compiled with the help of a questionnaire. The questionnaire contained 19 questions in total.

Undersökningens syfte var att studera om det finns någon skillnad mellan elevers resultat i matematik beroende på vilket socioekonomiskt skolområde de bor i efter att de har lämnat förskolan och börjat i förskoleklass, men även att se om det finns ett samband mellan elevernas språkliga förmåga, kön och aritmetisk förmåga i början av förskoleklass.Studiens resultat visar att elever från områden med svag socioekonomisk status hade generellt sämre matematiska kunskaper och färdigheter och grundläggande språklig förmåga jämfört med elever från områden med god socioekonomisk status. Resultatet visar också att elevers språkliga förmåga har betydelse för den förberedande aritmetiska förmågan. I analysen av den språkliga förmågan är det framförallt den fonologiska förmågan som är avgörande för den förberedande aritmetiska förmågan..

Our project is meant to produce a generic medicine for stomach ulcers and heartburns. As Astra Zeneca's patent on Nexium expires in the United states in 2012, our clients wants to take advantage of the market and with using the same active substance as Nexium contains we want to produce a new generic drug, that we named Bluezec..