Essays about: "argumentative analysis"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 61 essays containing the words argumentative analysis.

  1. 16. Making Socio-Technical Transition Pathways : The establishment of the Swedish Climate Policy Council, an Argumentative Policy Analytical case study

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Eskil Engström; [2021]
    Keywords : transitions discourse; climate change acts; socio-technical transitions; transition pathways; argumentative discourse analysis; climate policy evaluation;

    Abstract : In recent years, several nations have adopted institutional framework laws, so-called Climate Change Acts (CCAs), as means to enforce Paris-compliant mitigation pathways. A key institutional feature to ensure policy stability and compliance with CCAs has been the establishment of independent advisory bodies, tasked with advising on mitigation targets and policy instruments, as well as the, monitoring and evaluation of target attainment. READ MORE

  2. 17. Carbon Storylines : The discursive struggle over carbon offsets as a decarbonization pathway in the Swedish Climate Policy Framework

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Miljöförändring

    Author : Sandra Ideskär; [2021]
    Keywords : Carbon Offsets; Storyline; Argumentative Discourse Analysis; Policy Discourse;

    Abstract : This study addresses discourses and how they affect climate policy, through the example of carbon offsets as a tool to reach domestic emissions reductions in the Swedish Climate Policy Framework. An interpretation of Maarten Hajer’s argumentative discourse analysis is applied to understand the ideas and arguments that inform the policy debate on carbon offsets as a supplementary measure in this policy process. READ MORE

  3. 18. Citizenship Beyond the Nation : Building Human Rights Inclusivity in a World of Exclusions

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Axel Martínez Shepherd; [2021]
    Keywords : Cosmopolitanism; Agonism; Anarchism; Citizenship; Internationalism;

    Abstract : This paper explores possible solutions to the existing gap between human rights and citizenship and asks if society should replace citizenship with a more globalised or international form of “citizenship”? It further asks how society should aim to best eliminate the gap between human rights and citizenship? The paper uses an argumentative analysis to examine the theories of internationalism, global citizenship, and the democracy of demoi while considering cosmopolitan, agonistic, and anarchist viewpoints. In doing so showing the imperialist tendencies within global citizenship due to its need for universalism, and the possible alternative presented by the democracy of demoi as a pluralistic solution that accommodates agonistic views and anarchist notions of non-domination. READ MORE

  4. 19. Stories of Climate Change : Circular Transformation or Business as Usual? A Discourse Analysis of Climate Change Mitigation Policy in Three Swedish Municipalities

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Miljöförändring

    Author : Malin Andersson; [2021]
    Keywords : Argumentative discourse analysis; circular economy; climate change mitigation policy; ecological modernization; post-politics; transformation;

    Abstract : This thesis identified dominant discourses in climate change mitigation policy in three Swedish municipalities using argumentative discourse analysis. It was explored how these discourses influence the potential for success in mitigating climate change. READ MORE

  5. 20. Calling for Health Reform: A Critical Discourse Analysis of President Klaus Iohannis’ First Official Responses to Two Deadly Hospital Fires in Romania

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Raluca-Cosmina Oprea; [2021]
    Keywords : health reform; Klaus Iohannis; Romanian healthcare; practical argumentation; European Studies; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The Romanian healthcare system faces various structural issues such as corruption, underfunding, and lack of modernization. As hospitals make every effort to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic around the country, there have been two deadly hospital fires. READ MORE