Sökning: "Johan Tralau"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Johan Tralau.
1. Market, State, and Morality : Two Studies of How Left and Right Undermined Moral Motivation in the Swedish School System
Sammanfattning : The bulk of the literature on the New Public Management (NPM) has been blind to the moral dimension of the market-oriented reforms of the public sector. However, this thesis studies the potential for institutional arrangements such as financial incentives and other market mechanisms to undermine intrinsic, moral motivation among both“producers” and “consumers” of tax-financed welfare services. LÄS MER
2. Interpreting Policy Convergence Between the Left and the Right
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is made up of four essays that address major problems in the policy areas of education and immigration in Sweden and an introductory essay that offers an overarching analysis of the results of the four individual studies. The first three essays analyze the significant decline in quality of elementary and secondary education since the late 1990s from three different angles: the decline in teachers’ working conditions and status (Essay I), the deficiencies in the regulatory framework of Sweden’s system of school competition between public and for-profit providers of education (Essay II), and the prescribed view of knowledge in Swedish schools (Essay III). LÄS MER
3. Människoskymning : Främlingskap, frihet, och Hegels problem hos Karl Marx och Ernst Jünger
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the problem of alienation, that is, the fact that man can experience society, nature and his fellow human beings as something strange and even threatening. One way of dealing with this dilemma was envisaged by Hegel, who held that alienation could be superseded when the alienated person discovered the alien object as part of himself. LÄS MER
4. Treacherous Liberties : Isaiah Berlin's Theory of Positive and Negative Freedom in Contemporary Political Culture
Sammanfattning : Contemporary attitudes in affluent Western societies are characterised by a growing emphasis on individual freedom. What, then, does this commitment to liberty entail for our openness to diversity; and ultimately for liberal democracy? Previous research on popular attitudes, for example by Ronald Inglehart, tends to assume that valuing freedom entails an encouragement of a plurality of life-styles. LÄS MER
5. Herodotus and the Origins of Political Philosophy : The Beginnings of Western Thought from the Viewpoint of its Impending End
Sammanfattning : This investigation proposes a historical theory of the origins of political philosophy. It is assumed that political philosophy was made possible by a new form of political thinking commencing with the inauguration of the first direct democracies in Ancient Greece. LÄS MER
