Sökning: "Luc Bovens"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden Luc Bovens.

  1. 1. Democracy and the Common Good : A Study of the Weighted Majority Rule

    Författare :Katharina Berndt Rasmussen; Gustaf Arrhenius; Folke Tersman; Luc Bovens; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Weighted majority rule; common good; collective optimality; well-being; welfare; self-interest; stakes; proportionality; democracy; preference aggregation; Condorcet jury theorem; strategic voting; praktisk filosofi; Practical Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : In this study I analyse the performance of a democratic decision-making rule: the weighted majority rule. It assigns to each voter a number of votes that is proportional to her stakes in the decision. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Rational Goal-Setting in Environmental Policy : Foundations and Applications

    Författare :Karin Edvardsson Björnberg; John Cantwell; Luc Bovens; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; goal-setting; rationality; goal systems; precision; evaluability; attainability; motivity; coherence; operationalization; means and ends; support relations; goal conflicts; utopianism; self-defeating goals; management by objectives MBO ; environmental quality objectives; sustainable development; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    Sammanfattning :  The overall aim of this thesis is to present a model for rational goal-setting and to illustrate how it can be applied in evaluations of public policies, in particular policies concerning sustainable development and environmental quality. The contents of the thesis are divided into two sections: a theoretical section (Papers I-IV) and an empirical section (Papers V-VII). LÄS MER

  4. 3. Social Hierarchies between Democracy and Autocracy

    Författare :Björn Toelstede; Gustav Tinghög; Ali M. Ahmed; Luc Bovens; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Democracy; Autocracy; Social hierarchies; Power asymmetries; pro- and anti-sociality; Path-dependence; Principal-agent chains;

    Sammanfattning : Social hierarchies exist in democracies as well as in authoritarian societies. However, their nature is different. Democratic hierarchies are built bottom-up through election, while autocratic hierarchies are built top-down through coalition formation and domination. LÄS MER