Sökning: "Extraordinary Policy Measures"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 uppsatser innehållade orden Extraordinary Policy Measures.

  1. 1. Constructing Spaces of Intervention in Gothenburg's Urban Periphery; The production of “vulnerable areas” in the City’s official documents

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Författare :Melissa Lennartsson; [2024-01-26]
    Nyckelord :Vulnerable areas; urban policy; place-making; advanced urban marginality; safety security nexus; neoliberalism; Gothenburg;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores the construction of the “vulnerable area” by critically analyzing the assumptions, representations, and discourses that inform official documents targeting such neighborhoods. By conducting a qualitative content analysis on local policy produced in the City of Gothenburg, this thesis finds that such texts – through their imagination of space – produce “vulnerable areas” as spaces of intervention in need of extraordinary treatment. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Disinformation - An existential threat to European democracy?

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Helena Nyqvist; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Disinformation; Securitisation; Policy discourse; European Union; Digital Services Act; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : In recent years the unprecedented spread of disinformation on online platforms, along with declining trust in government, journalism, and institutions, has consequently led the EU to regard disinformation as an urgent threat to democracy. To address the threat the EU decided in 2022 on the groundbreaking Digital Services Act (DSA) legislation, targeting digital platforms. LÄS MER

  3. 3. GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY IN SHAPING PANDEMIC POLICY. A comparative case study of the Covid-19 response in Sweden and Denmark

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Johanna Löfgren; [2022-01-26]
    Nyckelord :Covid-19; Denmark; Sweden; Democracy; Governance; Public Administration; Policymaking;

    Sammanfattning : The Covid-19 pandemic proves to be a major crisis with substantial effect on our society and thus projects an important area for academic research. Governments across the globe have taken extraordinary measures to fight the pandemic, with restrictions that limit social contact in order to stop the transmission of the virus. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Säkerhetiseringsprocessen av gängkriminalitet : En innehållsanalys av hur Moderaterna och Socialdemokraterna kommunicerar med väljarna 2018 och 2022

    Kandidat-uppsats, Försvarshögskolan

    Författare :Linn Carlsen; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Gängkriminalitet; säkerhetisering; politisk kommunikation; policy; Socialdemokraterna; Moderaterna;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the development of the Swedish criminal policy debate regarding how the Social Democrats and the Moderates, portray and propose to address gang criminality from a security perspective. Debate articles and election manifestos of 2018 and 2022 have been analyzed with the purpose of examining if there is evidence for an assumption that political parties in Sweden, other than the right-wing populist party Sweden Democrats, have come to adopt strategies to communicate with voters that are based on so-called securitization agendas. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Looking Back, Moving Forward : The 2007-09 Financial Crisis in the light of the 1990s Financial Crisis in Sweden

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Författare :Katarina Heimer; [2022]
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    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis, is through a qualitative research strategy and thematic data-approach, guided by the policy learning process theoretical framework to establish how the lessons from the 1990s financial crisis influenced the stabilization policies of the Swedish Riksbank during the 2007-09 financial crisis, and what effects the 2007-09 financial crisis had on the Riksbank’s stabilization policies to date. By analysing primary sources of policymakers and economists, this thesis finds that Sweden was successful in its 2007-09 crisis management, because it had learnt important lessons from its own past, namely, the severe financial crisis of the 1990s. LÄS MER