Essays about: "Welfare Critique"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Welfare Critique.
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1. Conviviality and Conscience: How Degrowth and Abolition Theory Critique and Re-envision Welfare States
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialhögskolanAbstract : Abolition theory and degrowth theory address important issues in the social-political world. An emergent discipline (in academia), abolition theory carefully dissects the ideological and historical underpinnings of the current system of police and prisons in the United States. It offers a systematic critique of their impact. READ MORE
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2. Consumer Welfare and the European Commission
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : This essay aims to answer several questions: how is consumer welfare defined in economics and by the Commission, how has the role of the concept evolved throughout the history of the Commission’s competition policy, and how do the modern problems of digital markets and sustainability affect the role of consumer welfare? It can first be stated that there exists a clear definition and a way to measure consumer welfare in economic theory. In short, it is the difference between what consumers would have been willing to pay for a good and what they actually had to pay. READ MORE
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3. User Centered Design of a Fall Detection System
University essay from Lunds universitet/InnovationAbstract : This master thesis has created a concept of a fall detection system for older people. The system is built around new radar technology that will detect a fall accident and then initiate an alarm sequence that will contact the home care. The system is intended to be installed in the home of the user. READ MORE
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4. Missnöjesrörelser i den svenska välfärdsstaten : En studie av "Försäkringskassanupproret!"
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialhögskolanAbstract : The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to examine posts in the facebook group“Försäkringskassanupproret!” and it’s discontent with the Swedish Social Insurance Agencyas a part in a larger critique of the welfare state and its institutions. To do this we developed atheoretical framework out of the literature surrounding grievance and framing through whichwe analyzed our research material. READ MORE
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5. Political Climate : How Environmental Attitudes relates to Support for Radical Right-wing Parties in the Nordic Countries
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The Nordic countries are geographically, culturally and politically close, and have all witnessed an upsurge in support for radical right-wing parties over the past decades. Although the five parties: the Danish People’s Party, the Finns Party, the Icelandic Progressive Party, the Norwegian Progress Party, and the Sweden Democrats, are different when it comes to party history and how accepted they have been by other parties, they are today similar in their anti-immigration rhetoric, their critique of the established elites and to some extent their welfare chauvinism. READ MORE
