Diss. Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2007.

Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2007.

<p>Why engage if it risks your life?</p><p>Motives to participation in labour unions among women in Colombia</p><p>Essay in Political Science D-level</p><p>Author: Susanna Svensson</p><p>Tutor: Hans Lödén</p><p>Why do people choose to participate in politics when it is such a small chance that you actually make a change? Also political participation favours the collective and therefore you do not get any personal advantages for your contribution. Even more interesting is the question of why you participate when it puts yourself in a position of danger? Colombia is considered to be the most dangerous country to be a member of labour unions in and it would therefore be a context where it is unlikely to find participation. This study is based on thirteen qualitative interviews with Colombian female union members with the aim to understand why people engage in labour unions despite threats of violence and other obstacles, when the most likely would be to abstain from action. The overall research question is: Why do women in Colombia participate in labour unions in spite of violence or threats of violence and other obstacles?</p><p>The study is framed by the attribution theory. The attribution theory is used to explain why people act as they do and states that there are both external and internal attributions as well as stable and unstable. The theory has been used to set up research question, an interview template, and to analyse the material.</p><p>The most of the interviewed persons had been violated because of there activism in labour unions. Many of them had been threatened to their lives. The study finds that their beliefs in rights and equality are crucial to explain why they participate in union activism. So is their environment in which they grew up. Moreover, the social life and the international support that the unions provides is also important for their engagement.</p>

<p>Under senare år har ett flertal reformer gjorts för att öka pressen på kommunerna att sköta sin ekonomiska hantering. Budgetuppföljning har hamnat i fokus för att hålla nere avvikelsen mellan resultat och budget. Syftet i uppsatsen är att ge en ökad förståelse för vad det är som påverkar budgetavvikelserna i de svenska kommunerna. I uppatsen används statistiska analyser av dels eget insamlat datamaterial för att hitta samband och förklaringar till hur budgetavvikelserna skiljer sig utifrån a) partiblocktillhörigheten hos de styrande i kommunen, b) hur stark den politiska makten är hos de styrande i kommunen, c) storleken på kommunen. Undersökningens resultat visar främst att en större folkmängd i kommunen generellt leder till ökade problem att följa budgeten och därmed är det dessa kommuner vi ska akta oss för att lita på när det gäller budgeten.</p>

Under senare år har ett flertal reformer gjorts för att öka pressen på kommunerna att sköta sin ekonomiska hantering. Budgetuppföljning har hamnat i fokus för att hålla nere avvikelsen mellan resultat och budget. Syftet i uppsatsen är att ge en ökad förståelse för vad det är som påverkar budgetavvikelserna i de svenska kommunerna. I uppatsen används statistiska analyser av dels eget insamlat datamaterial för att hitta samband och förklaringar till hur budgetavvikelserna skiljer sig utifrån a) partiblocktillhörigheten hos de styrande i kommunen, b) hur stark den politiska makten är hos de styrande i kommunen, c) storleken på kommunen. Undersökningens resultat visar främst att en större folkmängd i kommunen generellt leder till ökade problem att följa budgeten och därmed är det dessa kommuner vi ska akta oss för att lita på när det gäller budgeten.

Diss. Göteborg : University, 2004.

Diss. Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2006.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att bidra till forskningen om politiskt förtroende bland unga i Sverige, genom att skapa en djupare kunskap och förståelse för ungas förtroende för politiska partier. Det teoretiska ramverket bygger på tidigare forskning om vilka faktorer som kan tänkas påverka förtroende. Erfarenhetskapital, livsfaser och individens tolkning används som verktyg vid analys av resultatet. Det empiriska materialet för att besvara syfte och frågeställning har samlats in med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer med personer mellan 16 och 26 år. Resultatet pekar på relation mellan upplevd kunskap och intresse hos individen, vilket i sin tur hänger samman med förtroende för politiska partier. Intresse skapas av att en upplevd kunskap tycks finnas, samtidigt som kunskap genererar i intresse för politiken och där dessa två ger effekt på förtroende för de politiska partierna.

The democratic institutions are being challenged in many of the world's democracies, where more and more anti-democratic elements have gained influence in politics. The preservation of democracy depends on the coming generations believing that its values are something worth protecting. Sweden has high voter turnout among young voters. However, in the 2022 parliamentary election, turnout fell at the same time as more voted for right-wing parties, which is a break from the trend. In the wake of this, this study has tried to get closer to the first-time voters in Nybro to take part in their views on politics and social issues, to what extent they are interested in these and what factors influence them. The study has been based on the theory of framing and studies about right-wing populism. In addition, eight first-time voters were interviewed about their views and experiences of politics and society. The results show that the first-time voter's views of political issues depend on what framing they have. Also, the tendency to be politically interested has to do with his or her level of education, knowledge of the political system and insights into how political decisions affect his or her life.

During recent years, there has been a major change in the way people engage in politics. The introduction of social media to the world, as well as the fact that the number of members of political parties has halved between 1990 and 2010, are part of a major shift in the study of political participation and engagement. This change shows that there has been a switch in political engagement, from the traditional representative democracy institutions to a much more digital way. Having taken this into consideration, this study aims to explore how young first-time Swedish voters experienced the political climate on social media during the Swedish general election in 2022. The focal point of this study is firstly to answer how the voters believe that the political climate on social media affected their political gathering of information ahead of the election. Secondly, to gain a deeper understanding of the students' opinions and experiences on politics in social media in relation to concepts like tolerance, freedom of speech, intolerance and censorship. And thirdly, if these experiences seem to influence the first-time voters' political participation and engagement on social media. The theoretical framework is foremost based on Henrik Bang’s theory on project-oriented identities, John Stuart Mill's understanding of freedom of speech and political scientist Sigal Ben-Porath’s definition on censorship. The method that will carry out this paper is face-to-face interviews with 10 upper secondary school students in a social science class in Orebro. The chosen method is content analysis, combined with an analysis scheme which will outline the empirical collection based on four main categories. The results show that the first-time voters did not use social media voluntarily for political information gathering, but that it rather happened because social media is part of their everyday life. The study also demonstrates that the first-time voters considered the political climate on social media as relatively harsh. Their opinions also vary regarding the political climate in relation to tolerance, freedom of speech, intolerance and censorship. Lastly, it was rather difficult to know with certainty whether the first-time voters’ experiences of the political climate had an impact on their political participation and engagement or not, but that it may possibly have been the case.