Essays about: "leaning"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 119 essays containing the word leaning.

  1. 11. What’s the matter with M? : One young asylum seeker’s fall from grace, in Sweden between 2015 - 2022

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

    Author : Gustaf Grapengiesser; [2023]
    Keywords : The Refugee Figure; Performativity; Relational Interviewing; Life in the exception; constructed others; irregular mobility; right to appear; knowing strangers;

    Abstract : M arrived in Sweden as a hopeful and aspiring adolescent minor in 2015. By 2022, he instead finds himself living on the streets as a drug addict, homeless, with his residency permit rejected and his asylum application declined. READ MORE

  3. 12. The discourse on policy shifts and NATO-membership

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Linda Jarl; [2023]
    Keywords : NATO; non-alignment; security; discourse; arguments; constructivism;

    Abstract : The decision to apply for Swedish membership in NATO in May 2022 demonstrates a major shift in security policy, as it means leaving the tradition of non-alignment. Three factors make this event interesting to explore further. READ MORE

  4. 13. Imagining Arms : Rationality and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of Swedish Defense Requirements Engineering

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : John Welsh; [2023]
    Keywords : Requirements Engineering; Rationality; Science and Technology Studies; Sociotechnical Imaginaries; Defense Systems;

    Abstract : Despite significant efforts at improving requirements engineering in the development of military systems, defense procurement is still plagued by expensive, well-publicized failures. Central to requirements engineering is the concept of rationality – more reason is assumed to eventually ‘solve’ the problem of defense requirements engineering. READ MORE

  5. 14. What is the effect of political coalitions on economic outcomes? : A Regression Discontinuity approach for Swedish municipalities during 1994-2017

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Gustav Aronsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Close Elections; Political Coalitions; Economic Outcomes; Policy Convergence; Policy Divergence; Swedish Municipalities; Modified Sainte-Laguë method; Regression Discontinuity Design.;

    Abstract : This thesis identifies the effect of traditional political coalitions on the left-right spectrum in Swedish municipal politics on economic outcomes such as Municipal Revenues, Expenditures, Net-expenditures, Municipal Tax-rates, Unemployment, and the share of Municipal Employment. To do so, varying time spans of Swedish municipal data from 1994-2017 are used in a regression discontinuity design, basing its identification on quasi-random variation created by close municipal elections. READ MORE

  6. 15. The Alt-Right and Agenda Setting Theory : A study of online news outlets and magazines

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Luka Wetzelaer; [2023]
    Keywords : Alt-Right movement; Agenda Setting theory; Corpus linguistics;

    Abstract : The Alt-Right is a movement that became very mainstream and this article’s research is about how often the Alt-Right movement has been mentioned in online news articles and magazines. Previous articles have researched how the Alt-Right has spread its presence on online forums and social media pages, what is written on these online forums where the Alt-Right has a presence and what their main ideas and ideology is. READ MORE