Background: From the beginning of the 60´s until the beginning of the 80´s the swedish Local government has expand enourmously. The expansion didn´t lead to any discussions about how the Local government should be controlled or organized. The Local government should instead be organized and controlled as administrations. Lately it has became more usual to have these discussions about how Local government should be controlled and organized. Nowadys it´s not unusual that Local governments imitate private companies.

The aim of this essay is to see how the IOGT, Local politicians and the Local newspaper acted in the city of Hedemora in Sweden in connection with the referendum held in 1922 whether or not to ban the use of alcoholic beverages. To accomplish this I have examined protocols from Local IOGT-groups, the town council and the Local newspaper Södra Dalarnes tidning. I find that the Local IOGT not only worked with the issue of alcohol but served as an institution that deepened democracy and education in the Local community through discussions, study circles and applying pressure on Local politicians. The Locally elected bodies in turn were generally in favour of the good work the IOGT did, although not always overwhelmingly so. Many of the Local politicians that handled the issues of alcohol were themselves active members in organisations promoting absolutism.

This thesis deals with Local identity and the workplace. We have taken part of stories dealing with Local identity and the workplace, by using a qualitative method. We interviewed eleven men working at the same company. The group contained of men from urban areas as well as rural areas. The data from our interviews have been applied to theories of Local identity and social theories by sociologists such as Durkheim, Simmel and Tönnies.

The hypothesis of this study is that the Local government act in Sweden 1862 was an instrument for the state to keep its´ political influence on the Local level. It did not open for Local self-government. The swedish historians Dahlkvist and Strandberg description of the Swedish Local government act support this hypothesis, as does the analysis of political scientists Pettersson and Söderlind. The general opinion that the Local government act opened for Local self-government does still exist among many swedish historians.This study had two aims. The first was to investigate the actual extent of self-government in Borgvik, a small municipality in Sweden during the period 1861-1924.

The purpose of this thesis is to give an understanding of how grocery stores relate to Local foods. Through a case study representatives for two groceries in Norrbotten have been interviewed regarding why they supply Local foods, how they try to influence customers to buy this, and how they decide upon the assortment of Local foods. The result shows that groceries supply Local foods in order to supply a wide range of products and to mediate social responsibility, in order to create customer loyalty. Concerning how the groceries try to influence customers to buy Local foods the result cannot give any clear-cut view. Instead it shows that a grocery that actively works to influence customers to buy Local foods markets them in specific ways, while the opposite applies to a grocery that does not actively work for this.

AbstractSince the 2006 election the country of Sweden is governed by four Liberal and Conservative parties. Parties that by cooperating maintain power in office and forms a so called coalition. A coalition that not only can be seen at the national but also at the Local level. According to pervious research coalitions that holds control of the seats in the government at the national level tends to increase the total expenditures compared to other types of government formations. Can a similar connection be seen at the Local level? This the fundamental issue of this essay.

This thesis concerns how Local governments use the concept sustainable development, and what the concept means. The concept of Agenda 21 and Local Agenda 21 will also be discussed in this essay, because it's an instrument for Local governments to specify their work towards sustainable development. I have interviewed civil servants in leading positions in the municipalities? work with environmental questions and sustainable development. In the choice of method for this thesis, I use the qualitative method and for the interviews I chose the ?semi structure way of interviewing?.This thesis shows that Local governments? implementation of sustainable development and Agenda 21 differ between the municipalities.

This essay is about Local history in history teaching in two cities; Kalmar and Vetlanda. The purpose was to see how teachers in Kalmar and Vetlanda define Local history and what kind of Local history they teach their students. I have also examined what benefits of didactics the teachers see in teaching Local history. In order to find out I interviewed four history teachers at three schools in Kalmar and two history teachers at one school in Vetlanda. Some of the interviews were carried out over the telephone and the rest at the teachers´s schools.

The purpose of this study is to examine if, how and why history teachers work with Local history projects in education. The results will be analyzed based on a theory of the uses of history. I also investigate, through group interwiews with students, if and how students? historical consciousness may develop through teaching about Local history. The result is a variation map of teachers? different uses of history and how students historical consciousness can manifest itself.The results of the study shows that all the teachers interviewed uses Local history projects in education.

The purpose of this study is to examine if, how and why history teachers work with Local history projects in education. The results will be analyzed based on a theory of the uses of history. I also investigate, through group interwiews with students, if and how students? historical consciousness may develop through teaching about Local history. The result is a variation map of teachers? different uses of history and how students historical consciousness can manifest itself.The results of the study shows that all the teachers interviewed uses Local history projects in education.

AbstractOur study deals with intrapreneurship in Local activity. The main purpose of this study is to understand, explain and develop the concept of intrapreneurship in Local activity with the help of existing information, our discussion, and reasoning and with the help of theoretical concepts. One reason for the choice of this topic was our pure curiosity towards this quite unique and unexplored phenomenon. We know that the term intrapreneurship in Local activity has not existed longer than about ten years and the amount of existing thesis of intrapreneurship in Local activity is very few. The information about intrapreneurship in Local activity is mainly collected by studying Örebro´s intrapreneurship policies but also by studying other Local authorities in Eksjö, Umeå and Västra-Götaland.

This essay aims to examine how safety is reflected in Local plans. This was done by describing the physical environments, which are addressed in the Local plans and its impact on safety. It has also been undertaken to see if certain physical environments with respect to safety have been addressed differently.The paper is made with the qualitative method Thematic analysis. The method is used to analyze the three Local plans that have been available during the essay. The analysis was done with my created themes Traffic separation, Accessibility, High vision, Light and bright and Human presence.The results have shown that the Local plans takes up physical environments that are good for safety.

The Swedish political organization is subject for the investigation of this thesis, with regard to the realization of universal human rights. There is a discrepancy between the Swedish state's international undertakings in legally binding treaties and theactualization of human rights by Local authorities. The Local authorities are ruled by a complex function of both national and Local government. Of interest here, is the effect that these, and other organizational aspects, between the national and the Local, have for the realization of human rights in Local authorities. Also, the discrepancy between the national and the Local is attempted to be understood.

The purpose of this thesis was to study Local bank offices work with customer satisfaction. A case study concerning two Local bank offices was made, the cases were based on interviews with the managers at the bank offices. The research questions that we wanted this thesis to answer was how Local bank offices create customer satisfaction among small business customers, and how Local bank offices assess customer satisfaction among small business customers. The study showed that Local bank offices find customer satisfaction among small business customers important and use complaints as the primary source in the process of creating customer satisfaction..

2 (45)AbstractAuthors: Gunnel Forssell Ehrlich & Alexandra WinbergTitle: Gender in Local press ? a quantitative study of four Local newspapers Level: BA Thesis in Media and Communication StudiesLocation: Linnaeus UniversityLanguage: SwedishNumber of pages: 50The report shows a quantitative study of balance in gender and position of power in the Local press. The study aimed to shed light on the distribution of space in the newspaper between men and women, those within power and those without in Swedish Local press. The study was conducted with four newspapers, during a month of time with Local editorial news material. In our study, we have assumed Lippmann?s and Strömbäck?s theories of pseudo-reality and distribution of gender and position of power in Sahlstrand and Jarlbro.