Essays about: "institutional critique"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 20 essays containing the words institutional critique.

  1. 11. The rise or demise of 'Social Europe' - A case law study in the context of worker protection

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Hanna Wallström; [2018]
    Keywords : EU Law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The European Union is facing several challenges of constitutional, democratic, political and social nature. One of these challenges is the EU’s ‘social deficit’. The European Commission has listened to the critique and committed itself to reorient the European integration project towards a ‘Social Europe’. READ MORE

  3. 12. The warring gods of sustainability : approaches to sustainability within capitalism

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Lukas Von Schuckmann; [2015]
    Keywords : capitalism; sustainability science; institutional change; values; Habermas; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : There is no answer to the question “Are sustainability challenges solvable within capitalism?” which is not already taking sides in a debate about values, perceptions and motivations. There are several different approaches to sustainability, based on assumed feasibilities and expected agents of change. READ MORE

  4. 13. Frontex and the right to seek asylum - A critical discourse analysis

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Alicia López Åkerblom; [2015]
    Keywords : Frontex; right to seek asylum; critical discourse analysis; power; knowledge; human rights; migration; border;

    Abstract : The European Union’s border control agency, Frontex, was established in 2004. Since its founding it has received ongoing critique from international human rights organizations stating that it prevents people from claiming their right to seek asylum. READ MORE

  5. 14. Managerial Incentive Systems : Reasons Behind Use and Design

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Peder Kron; Daniel Kaluski; [2015]
    Keywords : Managerial incentive systems; short-term structures; agency theory; motivation crowding theory; institutional theory; stakeholder pressure; qualitative approach;

    Abstract : Managerial incentive systems have for a long time been criticized by different fields within the academia for contributing to a short-term focus among managers, which undermines the long-term interest of shareholders. Despite the critique put forward by business scholars and behavioral scholars, short-term structures are still prevalent within managerial incentive systems. READ MORE

  6. 15. A Blue Print or a Mirage : An Anthropological Study of agricultural and institutional practices, engagements and development discourse in Ethiopia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturantropologiska avdelningen

    Author : Birhanu Desta Woldegiorgis; [2014]
    Keywords : Discourses; Development; Practices; Ethiopia Engagements; Governmentality; Power;

    Abstract : This thesis is an exploration of the institutional engagement between farmers and government, as well as a discourse about the development process in Ethiopia. The discussions are based on the fieldwork conducted from January 2012 to March 2012 in the eastern Ahmara region of the Dewa Chefa district (woreda). READ MORE