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16. Neoliberalism and Welfare States : A case study of two EU member states’ pension systems
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : Sweden and Hungary both applied for European Union membership in the beginning of the 1990s. The 1990s were also the years of economic deregulation inspired by an ideology: neoliberalism, which affected many policy fields. READ MORE
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17. I don’t see a future being gay in this country: A non-legally binding charter and its consequences for queer women in Poland.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : LGBTQ rights are under attack in Europe. Poland is one of its most homophobic countries and many municipalities have announced themselves ‘LGBT-free zones’ by adopting the Family Charter (henceforth the Charter), which is a policy document of a homophobic organization. READ MORE
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18. Mainstreaming the Sweden Democrats - mapping changes and continuities in party ideology 1989-2019 through discourse analysis
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Much academic literature has explained the success of radical right parties across Europe in the last few decades through the increased importance of the sociocultural, conceptualised as the GAL-TAN, or libertarian-authoritarian, scale. The late rise of the Sweden Democrats, long considered an exception to the rule, as a successful radical right party, has attracted some academic interest and various explanations on what may have caused this sudden success. READ MORE
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19. The Unsettlement of the Greek Property Regime and the Emergence of Vigilant Violence in Thessaloniki’s West End
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : The thesis inquires into the entanglement between the unsettlement of the Greek model of social reproduction that heavily relies on self-regulated property ownership and the emergence of vigilant violence on behalf of local property owners against undocumented migrants in the relegated neighborhood of Ksiladika in Thessaloniki’s West End. It probes the extent to which incidents of vigilant violence can be used as indicators of the structural deficiencies in the Greek housing system and property paradigm. READ MORE
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20. Domination in the name of Democracy? : The means and ends to the European Union’s democracy promotion
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : In recent years we have been able to witness a growing divide in the politics of democracy promotion, research in the field has taken a more critical turn and is proclaiming a legitimacy crisis of democracy promotion. Some of the most prominent critique comes from the field of postcolonialism where authors argue that the desire to intervene and democratise another society should be considered an imperial project. READ MORE
