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Researchers in the field of political corruption generally expect voters in democratic states to lose trust in corrupted politicians. However, there are cases where corrupted politicians maintain their popularity, a phenomenon studied in this thesis. Focus lies on three cases of …
… with Swedish state boards trying to influence the public opinion and even political bodies through different kind of information efforts. Several observers inside and outside the academy have studied how state boards increasingly use information as an instrument and also how …
In Sweden, a new feminist political party (”Feministiskt initiativ”) was founded in 2005. The main objective of this thesis is to study the reasons and driving forces behind the establishment of the party, as well as to explain the timing of its foundation in 2005. The theories …
… The two parties formed an alliance with other parties and manifested a political program. The main focus lies on their campaign promises and their premier political area as a single party before the election and what results that has been produced a year after. The method is a …
… Cultural Capital of 2014. I have used Dorte Skot-Hansen's three cultural political rationalities: the humanistic-, the sociological- and the instrumental rationality, as well as and Jenny Johannisson's extension of those into three cultural-political discourses, as sensitizing …
… contains a wider discussion on the analytical framework of class studies in political science. The purpose is to put class into the light of a useful methodological and theoretical tool when it comes to studies on inequality and political, as well as scientific approaches and …
The means to political participation at the local level in Sweden are changing and this change is analyzed through a case study. The first aim is to explore the forms of public political participation in Swedish municipal Älvkarleby, namely public question time in local …
… is to test the explanation process of the crosscutting theory applied to the political and social situations in Belgium and Switzerland and furthermore to examine potential conflicts in pluralistic states. Our main question is: How can the crosscutting cleavages theory explain …
The aim of this study is to explain and analyse political steering of public libraries in Swedish municipalities and the roles of politicians and administrators in this process. To fulfil this purpose five municipalities have been studied. It is argued that both politicians and …
… accomplished among immigrants in Malmö. My thesis examines which types of political participation storstadssatsningen were trying to increase. The goal was to turn the immigrants into political participants, but in many of the projects the democratic work had to focus on …
This article discusses desirable political representation within the framework of representative democracy. In the desirable representation it is the responsibility of the politician to balance authoritative decision making with responsiveness towards the voters. The article …
… than just voting. The focus is problems connected to the democratic value political equality. The goal is to examine if the theoreticly described problems occur in the practical implementation. I have examined to types of participation on municipal level. The results show that …
… Despite this development in Africa, the quantitative research on women's political representation in the world has not yet paid attention to the situation there. Some of the surveys that have been done have even excluded countries that do not fit the homogeneous pattern ” which …
… it should be. By studying descriptions of equality and discrimination in the political programs of the parties of the Swedish parliament from the sixties until today, I examine which groups are included and excluded from the concept of equality. The analyse shows that the …
… further analyzes the case of Egypt on grounds of socioeconomic development, political culture, and class configuration. By this contextual approach, the thesis adduces that a low level of modernization, an incomplete democratic political culture, and a bourgeoisie supported by …
