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Five main components of political risk were extracted from the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) Rating model, this paper researches the elements: Government Stability, Socioeconomic Conditions, Investment Profile, Internal Conflict and External Conflict. We have chosen four countries to examine: the United Kingdom, Mexico, China and Iran from different economic worlds. We would like to inve
Föreställ er att vi i Sverige skulle legalisera det egna bruket av narkotika. Det skulle bli lagligt att snorta kokain, att skjuta upp heroin eller att röka marijuana. Vad skulle detta innebära för svensk Polis, sett ur ett tvångsmedelsperspektiv? Toleransen i Sverige gentemot droger är väldigt låg. Narkotikafrågan har under en längre tid varit, och är fortfarande, högprioriterad hos regering ochImagine that we, in Sweden, would legalise the personal use of drugs. It would be legal to snort cocaine, to shoot up some heroine or smoke marijuana. What would this mean for the Swedish law enforcement, from a "means of enforcement" point of view? The Swedish tolerance when it comes to drugs is very low. It has for a long time been, and still remains, a top priority for the governmen
Abstract Title: Victims or perpetrators – a qualitative study on professional social worker’s perception of young men’s situation in an honour context. This qualitative study is based on seven semi-structured interviews with professionals who encounter honour related issues in their work. The focus of the interviews and this study is the young men and their situation. Our intention was to see ho
Denna uppsats grundar sig på översättningen av de tre inledande kapitlen i Anatole Broyards Kafka Was the Rage – A Greenwich Village Memoir. Uppsatsen inleds med en källtextanalys som utgår ifrån Lennart Hellspong och Per Ledins modell (1997) samt Rune Ingos (2007) teorier om översättning. Här diskuteras även överväganden inför översättningen utifrån Lita Lundquist (2010) och Yvonne Lindqvists (20
In this paper I have investigated the construction of the professional social worker in Swedish journals and newspapers. My empiric material is a collection of major articles published in Sweden between 2002 and 2012. The thirteen articles analyzed in this paper is a selection from 1250 relevant articles found between these years. When analyzing the empirical material I have been working with a di
This study investigates the relationship between health and households’ decisions whether to participate in the stock market or not. We construct a set of health variables and out of these, we choose the most important health factors, such as self-assessed health, mobility limitations and mental health. To test empirically the hypothesis that healthier households are more likely to participate in
This thesis examines the effect of closing down police stations on crime in Sweden from 1996 to 2011. This is done by analyzing the relationship between the number of crimes in a municipality, the crime rate and the closing down of police stations in 288 Swedish municipalities from 1996 to 2011. A quantitative approach using a difference-in-difference estimator and monthly panel-data from question
Syftet med denna studie var att få en inblick i en grupp ungdomars individuella upplevelser och erfarenheter av att använda Facebook och hur detta påverkar identitetsutvecklingen. Det var även av intresse att undersöka om det fanns några könsskillnader gällande användandet av Facebook. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats, där fokusgruppintervjun användes som metod. Undersökningsdeltagarna bestod av e
Author: Fredrik Nilsson Title: To understand consensus – a study about Swedish social workers thoughts and experiences about consensus when planning treatment for clients with substance abuse [translated title] Supervisor: Arne Kristiansen Assessor: Ulrika Levander The aim for this study was to examine how Swedish social secretaries who worked with alcohol and drug addiction, viewed the consensus
Abstract Author: Da Sol, Jung and Rebecca Sundqvist Title: He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance – A study of professionals’ view on their attitude in meeting with clients and professionalism of the two organiations. Supervisor: Claes Levin Assessor: Maria Bangura Arvidsson The aim of our essay was to study if there were dif
En växande utmaning för dagens organisationer är hållbart företagande och införande av miljöledningssystem, dvs. strukturerat och systematiskt miljöarbete (Naturvårdsverket, 2003). Studien syftar till att empiriskt undersöka tre dimensioner av medarbetarskap (kunskap och lärande, demokratiska processer och lärande) och samt tre förändringsfaktorer kopplade till införande av miljöledningssystem (at
The thesis concentrates on the issue of bill of lading fraud and discusses legal remedies as to respective type of fraud. Due to complexity and difference of each jurisdiction, the thesis selects English law and Chinese law as targeted jurisdiction, under which the issue of bill of lading will be addressed and analyzed. In addition to domestic law, the recent-adopted international convention, name
Denna uppsats är ett examensarbete i juris kandidatprogrammet. Uppsatsen är skriven inom området familjerätt och behandlar problemområdet riskfyllda umgängen där domstolen förordnar om umgängesstöd för att tillvarata barnets rätt till umgänge. Jag kommer i uppsatsen redogöra för hur de rättigheter som ett barn har i förhållande till sina föräldrar ser ut, däribland rätten till umgänge och rätten tThis thesis is written within the field of family law, covering the problematic area of access right where the court decides that supervised access is going to be used in order to obtain the child’s right to meet and have contact with his or her parents. To obtain an adequate general idea about how supervised access is used, I have chosen to explore a) how the intervention is intended to work in S
This master’s thesis aims to compare national museum in Norway and Sweden throughout different time periods. The study consists of a literary analysis of yearly reports from 1905-06 and 2010 from the open-air museums: Norsk Folkemuseum and Skansen, and the national art museums: Nationalmuseum and Nasjonalmuseum for kunst, arkitektur og design. With the dissolution of the political union between No
Repatriation has been proclaimed as the important right of an individual to go back home and returnees are often seen as substantial force for development and reconstruction of their home countries. It is assumed that once the reasons that force people to flee are eliminated, people will want to return back. There is a separate repatriation program in Sweden that aims to support those who decide t
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) är en allvarlig sjukdom med orsaksförklaringar som varierat genom historien. Studier om familjer med en anorektisk medlem ger inga belägg för en konsistent bild. Behandling av vuxna saknar empiriskt stöd och ökad kunskap behövs om unga vuxna. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka reliabiliteten i familjerelationsskalan (FARS) samt hur det korrelerar med instrument för int
The present study looked at beliefs/attitudes towards and effects of dreams, in a larger, primarily non-student, adult sample (N=667). On one side, findings supported previous research in that women were more approving towards dreams, they recalled more dreams, read dream literature more often, speculated more frequently about their dreams, and finally shared dreams more often than men. It was als
The aim of the paper is to illustrate the role of commodity price fluctuations in business cycles in three countries - the United Kingdom, the United States and Sweden. The study examines data between 1993 (Q3) – 2011(Q2). The countries in this paper represent differences in economic structure – Sweden is primarily an economy characterized by the manufacturing of goods, the United Kingdom represen
