Search for dissertations about: "important interests"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 175 swedish dissertations containing the words important interests.

2. 1. Safety and Sustainability in the Community Planning Process : Actors' Interests, Roles and Influences

   Author : Charlotta Bergström; Abdellah Abarkan; Björn Malbert; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; planning; actor; risk; accident; safety; sustainability; Civil engineering and architecture; Samhällsbyggnadsteknik och arkitektur;

   Abstract : The licentiate dissertation “Safety and Sustainability in the Community Planning Process – Actors’ Interests, Roles and Influence” has in three case studies over detailed development planning processes examined how issues related to safety and sustainability are handled in Swedish municipal planning. The research project has focused on three municipal actors; the Planning Office, the Environmental Agency and the Fire and Rescue Services. READ MORE

4. 2. Ethical Encounters : The Value of Care and Emotion in the Production of Mediated Narratives

   Author : Erika Theissen Walukiewicz; Gunilla Hultén; Christian Christensen; Steen Steensen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; care ethics; relationship; important interests; dependency duties; participation; emotional literacy; narrative emotion analysis; documentary; journalism; journalistik; Journalism;

   Abstract : Factual storytelling that relies on the participation of real-life people must navigate between obligations towards the participant and the story. By placing the relationship between storyteller and subject at the centre, this thesis offers an interdisciplinary examination of ethical and moral issues in the context of turning other people’s experiences into mediated narrative. READ MORE

5. 3. Technocracy within Representative Democracy. Technocratic Reasoning and Justification among Bureaucrats and Politicians

   Author : Christina Ribbhagen; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; de-politicisation; politicisation; attitudes; political communication; expertise; knowledge utilization; policy type; institutional context; Government Offices; parliamentary debate; survey; hypothetical scenarios; content analysis; risk; values; interests; economic and social steering;

   Abstract : The terms ‘technocracy’ and ‘technocrat’ are becoming part of common usage and it is frequently argued that technocratic decision-making is increasing due to the growing complexity of political matters. However, there is a lack of research into this matter and the concept is underdeveloped. READ MORE

6. 4. Sustainable inclusion without sustainability

   Author : Åsa Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; sustainable inclusion; unforseen movement; not knowing; case-assemblage; research interests; ethics; qualiting; non-fulfillmenting; open-teaching systems; extra-professional;

   Abstract : In this PhD project, I put forward the importance of becoming more comfortable with the oscillating nature of wisdom in physical education, sport, and research. This is also what the word `without´ in the title `sustainable inclusion without sustainability´ implies. READ MORE

7. 5. Essays on Interest Groups and Trade Policy

   Author : Carl-Johan Belfrage; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk teori; ekonometri; Nationalekonomi; economic policy; Trade policy; Special Interests; Campaign contributions; Information; Economics; econometrics; economic systems; economic theory; ekonomisk politik;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the relationship between domestic political processes and interindustry variations in unilateral and multilateral trade policies. The literature on endogenous protection is extended to account for the potential importance of information flows, to explore the consequences of adapting the analyses to political systems which differ from the American kind, and to build a framework suitable for empirical examination. READ MORE