Search for dissertations about: "Christian democracy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words Christian democracy.

2. 1. Engendering Spatial Planning : A Gender Perspective on Municipal Climate Change Response

   Author : Christian Dymén; Göran Cars; Richard Langlais; Susan Buckingham; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Spatial planning; climate change; gender perspective; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis;

   Abstract : While climate change mitigation has been on the agenda of spatial planning practitioners for over two decades, adaptation has only become influential in spatial planning practice in recent years. This trend is evident not only at the municipal levelbut also at the regional and national levels. READ MORE

4. 2. From Approaching to Challenging the Forerunners : A Study of Innovation Capability Building in Brazilian Firms

   Author : Stefan Cavalcante Bernat Junior; Solmaz Filiz Karabag; Christian Berggren; Thomas Magnusson; Inge Ivarsson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Brazil; Catch-up; Emerging economy firms EEFs ; Forerunners; Innovation capability; Technological capability; Windows of opportunity; Brasilien; Ikapp; Företag i tillväxtekonomi; Föregångare; Innovationsförmåga; Teknisk förmåga; Möjligheter;

   Abstract : Innovation capability refers to the ability to continuously innovate. Firms have recognized this ability as the most critical source of innovation performance, firm performance, and sustained competitiveness. READ MORE

5. 3. Public Planning, Neoliberal Hybridity and Local Activism in Sundbyberg : Epochal Reconfiguration of Urban Development in Greater Stockholm

   Author : Christoffer Berg; Susanne Urban; Fredrik Palm; Miguel A. Martínez; Christian Schmid; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Neoliberalism; neoliberal urbanism; urban planning; urban development; production of space; Henri Lefebvre;

   Abstract : Which urban policy responses are deployed when a small social democratic municipality in a greater city region aims to be competitive for private investments in housing and the built environment? Which new institutional development arrangements are implemented for this purpose, in the wake of a decades-long hegemonic position of the municipal public housing company? This thesis draws on a qualitative case study design to approach such questions, and investigates recent urban development in Sundbybergs stad in Greater Stockholm to answer them. Theoretically, the thesis draws on a theory of neoliberal localization in combination with Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the social production of space. READ MORE

6. 4. The Eastward Enlargement of European Parties : Party Adaptation in the Light of EU-enlargement

   Author : Mats Öhlén; Henri Vogt; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transnational political parties; European Union; Central and Eastern Europe; Christian democracy; social democracy; liberalism; Political Science; Statskunskap;

   Abstract : The aim of the study is to map out and analyse the integration of political parties from Central and Eastern Europe into the main European party families. The prospect of eastern enlargement of the EU implicated opportunities and above all challenges for the West European party families. READ MORE

7. 5. Piety and Politics : Nurcholish Madjid and His Interpretation of Islam in Modern Indonesia

   Author : Ann Kull; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nurcholish Madjid; Indonesia; takwa; Islam; context; ijtihad; Paramadina; tolerance; pluralism; gender; Sufism; spirituality; democracy; human rights; Pancasila; Ibn Taymiyya; education; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Abstract : This dissertation in the field of Islamic studies offers a critical analysis of Nurcholish Madjid's attempt to interpret Islam within the framework of modern Indonesia. Nurcholish, who recently passed away at the age of sixty-six, had been active in the reform of Islamic thought for over thirty years, and while remaining deeply coloured by the local Indonesian context, was also part of a global and century-old tradition of reform. READ MORE