According to PARSON’s structural functionalism, politicians are in charge of establishing and preserving a functional society. Political decisions have to be effective regarding such functionality. Due to globalization and numerous worldwide trouble spots, more and more people leave their home countries. They concentrate themselves in cities like Berlin or New York. Such societies are deemed as...

This thesis has strived to analyze how institutionalized frames may affect how another topic is discussed in a political context. This presented framing strategy is referred to as frame bridging. The aim was to analyze whether the framing of homosexuality in Uganda has affected its HIV policy. It is based on the constructivist understanding of policy as something created in dynamic social proce...