Essays about: "vested interests"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words vested interests.

  1. 1. A Game of Fraud: : Uncovering Corruption Within FIFA's Decision to Award Qatar the World Cup 2022

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

    Author : Eliona Qira; [2023]
    Keywords : FIFA; Sports Governance; Trancparency; Institutional Corruption;

    Abstract : An investigation into FIFA's corruption is conducted in this thesis, with a particular emphasis on the organization's awarding of the 2022 World Cup hosting rights to Qatar. Using institutional corruption, power dynamics, and lack of transparency as a lens into FIFA's decision-making process, this study attempts to understand the factors influencing international sports governance generally. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Framing of Affordability within Ireland’s Housing Discourse : Analysis of the Negotiated Process of Narrative Struggles within the Framing of Affordability within Housing Discourse

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Neil Dunne; [2023]
    Keywords : Affordability; Affordable Housing; Housing Affordability; Housing Policy; Social Constructionism; Narrative; Housing Regimes; Commodification; Decommodification; Welfare Provision;

    Abstract : After the 2008 Global Financial Crash, Ireland’s neoliberal housing policy turned again to housing financialisation as focus lay upon the attraction of corporate investors in order to revive the housing market. The result was a swift return to housing price rises but this came with ever growing homelessness and housing precarity as REITs and other corporate investors' influence on the housing market grew. READ MORE

  4. 3. FEAR THE OUSTED! HOW VESTED INTERESTS FIGHT BACK The Case of Georgia

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Teona Zurabashvili; [2021-10-13]
    Keywords : nti-corruption reforms; vested interests; fight back; Georgia;

    Abstract : The literature that discusses the anti-corruption reforms' failure in transitional countries departs from the assumption that the vested interests represent one of the critical stumbling-blocks for the reforms. The previous researches demonstrate that the political elite's reluctance towards the reforms significantly underpins power elites' success to preserve their vested interests. READ MORE

  5. 4. "Stuck in Hel Joseon"

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Ella Holttinen; [2020]
    Keywords : South Korea; Hel Joseon; millennials; compressed modernity; Confucianism; neoliberalism; human capital; achievement society; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : South Korea is well known for its development miracle: the nation has managed to develop from the state of extreme poverty to the World´s 12th largest economies in a period of five decades. However, the negative consequences and side effects of this rapid growth, and issues of the contemporary Korean society has been less discussed, especially from the perspective of the Korean youth. READ MORE

  6. 5. The role of researchers in deliberate social-ecological transformations: a structure-culture-agency approach

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Martinez Peña Rodrigo; [2017]
    Keywords : social-ecological transformations; sustainability transitions; policy-science; Chile;

    Abstract :   Awareness of profound ecological, economical and social crises interacting globally at various scales has brought up the notion of the necessity of a fundamental change, which has driven studies on sustainable change in diverse fields of knowledge. Resilience scholars have approached the issue through a systemic lens that integrates social and ecological phenomena, but scientists from the social “wing” have pointed out the need of adopting a structure agency approach. READ MORE