Sökning: "Electoral processes"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Electoral processes.
1. Essays on Development Policy and the Political Economy of Conflict
Sammanfattning : Electoral Rules and Leader Selection: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Community Groups. Despite a large body of work documenting how electoral systems affect policy outcomes, less is known about their impact on leader selection. LÄS MER
2. Voters' Perceptions of Party Politics - A Multilevel Approach
Sammanfattning : Modern representative democracies are often described as government by the consent of the governed rather than government by the people. Elections play a central role in this context and several theorists of modern democracy have struggled to determine the circumstances under which effective political representation can exist. LÄS MER
3. Vägen till Varannan damernas : Om kvinnorepresentation, kvotering och kandidaturval i svensk politik 1970-2002
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to analyse women’s political representation in the Swedish parliament 1970-2002, a period during which the share of women parliamentarians increased from 14 to 45 percent, and to assess changes in party rules and party norms in terms of regulative and discursive continuity and change. Inspired by Carol Lee Bacchi’s “What’s the Problem? Approach,” with its focus on the construction of political problems rather than “the problem” as such, this dissertation studies how Swedish political parties have formulated the problem of women’s exclusion from parliamentary politics, what causes of women’s under representation they have identified and what solutions they have proposed. LÄS MER
4. Extracting Legitimacy : Input, Throughput, and Output Legitimacy in the Mining Industry
Sammanfattning : Legitimacy affects questions on constitutional design, international political regimes, and specific policy sectors. Although it permeates society at various levels, legitimacy becomes particularly crucial when decisions hold long-term or permanent consequences. LÄS MER
5. Politicizing Europe : Patterns of party-based opposition to European integration
Sammanfattning : European integration was for a long time perceived as an elite-driven project that received public acceptance through what was coined as the permissive consensus. With the expansion of the domain of community actions and capacities, and the turmoil in the ratification processes following changes of the treaties, an increased public contestation over European integration can be observed. LÄS MER
