Essays about: "local politicians"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 125 essays containing the words local politicians.

  1. 26. Criminal Politicians and Deforestation: Causal Evidence from India

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Edvin Johannesson; Sandra Ågren; [2021]
    Keywords : Criminal Politicians; Deforestation; India; Regression Discontinuity;

    Abstract : This paper examines linkages between the criminalization of politics and deforestation on the local level in India, with the ambition of contributing to the emerging corruption-environment nexus in development research. We combine satellite data on forest cover with state assembly election outcomes and criminal records of candidates into a panel of Indian constituencies spanning from 2004 to 2014. READ MORE

  3. 27. The Representation of Immigrants A Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech in the Presidential Campaign of 2016

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

    Author : Banan Bara; [2020]
    Keywords : Critical Discourse analysis; Political Discourse; Ideological Discourse;

    Abstract : CDA is a multi-disciplinary approach to discourse which study the relationship between discourse, power and ideology. This makes the application of it on political discourse very suitable since it can be applied to analyse the specific structures of language and ideologies used by politicians to influence the recipient’s mind and hence their actions. READ MORE

  4. 28. Landscapes of change and resistance : a case study of the mineral industry’s establishment in south-east Skåne

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Tove Berg; [2020]
    Keywords : struggles over the landscape; the production of landscape; mining conflict; environmental politics; green transition; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This paper studies the struggles over the landscape that emerge in south-east Skåne due to the exploration permission which was given to ScandiVanadium in 2018. It also examines how this permission has a background in trends of a green transition in the mineral industry. READ MORE

  5. 29. Urbanisation by expulsion : the political economy of landed property in Asunción, Paraguay

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Maiwenn Jensen-Guenec; [2020]
    Keywords : Paraguay; real estate development; land inequality; urban development; Marxian political economy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Although much research has been conducted regarding the uneven distribution of land in developing countries, such work tends to focus on rural land dispossession. In turn, land inequality in urban property markets of vulnerable economies remains somewhat understudied. READ MORE

  6. 30. Accessibility to democracy through participation -A case study of how social vulnerability and marginalisation is taken into consideration by local governments in their participatory process

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Anny Mattsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Participation; social vulnerability; marginalisation; municipality; local; government; democracy; citizen dialogue;

    Abstract : Participation as a way to ensure equal accessibility to democracy has gained importance alongside the concept of sustainability. At the same time, it has become clear that not everyone has equal opportunity to participate in these participatory events, creating power issues that leave out the voices of certain societal groups from the political context. READ MORE