Essays about: "conservative countries"

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  1. 16. Childcare, Social Norms and COVID-19: Does Internet Access Help Women Cope with the Increase in Childcare during COVID-19?

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Chengkun Li; [2022]
    Keywords : COVID-19; Gender Gap; Employment Loss; Childcare; Internet Access;

    Abstract : This paper investigates the changes in women's employment due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the school closure policies in response to the pandemic, by employing a Difference in Difference method. The data is mainly retrieved from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys and COVID-19 Follow-up Surveys across 38 countries. READ MORE

  3. 17. 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/Sociologi

    Author : Mikaela Kriss; [2021]
    Keywords : radical right; Sweden Democrats; GAL-TAN; flexibility; normalisation; authoritarianism; trygghet; people’s home; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : 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

  4. 18. Climate related hazards and changes in adaptive capacity

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Johanna Wedholm; [2021]
    Keywords : adaptation; adaptive capacity; change;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explore whether and how the frequency and severity of climate-related hazards are associated with changes in adaptive capacity. Despite increased hazard frequency and severity in the world, it is still contested whether hazard frequency and severity are associated with changes in adaptive capacity, often referred to as the preconditions necessary to enable adaptation. READ MORE

  5. 19. Welfare Provision in Two EU Countries : A Comparative Study of Integration-Oriented Welfare Provision in Germany and Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Sanja Pfister; [2021]
    Keywords : European Union; Provision of welfare; Immigration; Welfare model; Conservative; Liberal; Social democratic; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Through different events and developments in the recent 30 years, the generally comprehensive understanding of welfare within the European Union has shifted and one of the aims of this thesis is to investigate if EU welfare states have converged or diverged regarding the provision of welfare. The theory on which the research was based is a typology of welfare states from 1990 by the Danish sociologist Gøsta Esping-Andersen. READ MORE

  6. 20. Intra-Regional Trade in Africa in the Era of Regional Integration

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Aarne Walter Hakomäki; [2021]
    Keywords : Regionalism; Trade; Africa; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : A global surge in the number of regional trade agreements has taken place since the 1990s. Their impact on the trade patterns and development of participating countries has been a frequent topic of debate. In this study I analyse the impact of joining a regional trade on the trade patterns of African countries. READ MORE