This study has aimed to examine the rapid change in the issue of the Swedish conscription. In the year 2009 the government decided to abandon the national conscription and replace it with a professional army. However, in 2014 the minister of defence announced that the government would investigate the possibilities of bringing the national conscription back. John Kingdons Multiple Stream Theory aims to reveal the process of “knowing when an idea ́s time has come”, and has been applied to several policyprocesses spanning over a longer time-period. This study has a twofold purpose: to examine whether the theory can be applied to a case of rapid policy change and whether it can help explain a case of rapid change in existing policy. The method chosen in this study is processtracing through a qualitative method. The study concludes that the theory is indeed applicable to a case of rapid policy change and that the content and nature of the problemstream (what appears to be the problem) can be one explanation to rapid change in existing policy.

The diploma thesis deals with the mapping of the amendment to the law concerning the introduction of fare discounts for students and seniors with a focus on the fourth phase of the political cycle - implementation. The main goal of this work is based on the theoretical concept of the Multiple Stream Framework and aimed to identify the key reasons why the petitioners justified the adoption of the enactment of discounts in public transport. The main research questions focused on the opportunity window, the strategies used by the proposers to obtain support, the specific reasons for approving this amendment and its financial feasibility. The main goal was supplemented by a sub-goal, which was focused on the comparison of political and media discourse with the help of media analysis. The work is divided into three main parts - the first of them describes the nature of the Multiple Stream Framework and also describes the strategies that are used by actors to gain support for their proposal. The second part is focused on the methodology - it lists the set goals, sub-objectives, research questions and the method of data analysis. The third part contains research, which is divided into individual streams of theory, which are the stream of problems, the stream of politics and the stream of public policies....