Essays about: "neo-liberalism"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 36 essays containing the word neo-liberalism.
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21. "Water yes, gold no!" - The Effects of a Neo-liberal Development Strategy in Cajamarca, Peru
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Neo-liberal development strategies have for long been considered the way to achieve development and the Washington Consensus has gained influence in most countries in the world. Peru is one of its faithful followers that despite a left-wing turn on the Latin American continent has not followed suit and continues to embrace neo-liberal policies. READ MORE
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22. Between an alternative modernity and alternatives to modernity? - A case study of the Tipnis-conflict within the Bolivian "Process of Change"
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : This thesis aims at understanding, from a world-system analytical and decolonial perspective, the structural causes behind the outbreak of the Tipnis-conflict in Bolivia in 2011. Through interviews with representatives from the governmental party MAS and social movements that have taken up different positions in the conflict, and in dialogue with world-system analytical and decolonial theorists, the thesis argues that the conflict to a certain extent can be seen as an articulation of what Colombian social scientist Arturo Escobar regards as a partly antagonistic tension between two different emancipatory projects within the Bolivian “Process of Change”: on the one hand a political struggle against neo-liberalism to form an alternative, more inclusive, modernity while improving the relative position of the Bolivian state in the world interstate system; on the other hand a struggle for transforming Bolivian society beyond the bounds of modernity, in order to form a post-liberal political project that would constitute an alternative to modernity. READ MORE
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23. Neo-liberal ideas in Social Democratic arguments? : A look at the privatization debate regarding the Swedish railway sector
University essay from Avd för juridik, politik och ekonomiAbstract : Privatization is said to be fundamentally a neo-liberal idea and deregulation is one form of privatization. The Swedish railway sector has been deregulated gradually over the years. Some of the policy changes towards more deregulation have been done with the Swedish Social Democrats in government. READ MORE
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24. The Ideological Reconstruction of Higher Education: Problematising Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area.
University essay from Lunds universitet/PedagogikAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ideological forces working in the sphere of quality assurance in higher education. Through discourse analysis on two seminal policy documents, the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ENQA 2005) and OECD Work on Education (OECD 2010), the ideologically underbuilt discourses of Europe and Cost-effectiveness are identified. READ MORE
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25. "A Nation On the Move" : A Discourse Analysis of Namibian Policies for Development
University essay from Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudierAbstract : This thesis is approaching the concept of development in Namibian plans for development, its Vision 2030 and Third National Development Plan. The aim is to analyse discourses of development in the Namibian political context of planning for development. READ MORE
