Sökning: "Sven Oskarsson"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden Sven Oskarsson.
1. The Fate of Organized Labor : Explaining Unionization, Wage Inequality, and Strikes across Time and Space
Sammanfattning : The point of departure for this thesis is the divergent fate of organized labor during the last decades in the Western world. Given what we know about actual trends, how are we to explain the variation in the strength of organized labor across time and space? The thesis consists of four self-contained essays. LÄS MER
2. Growing into Voting : Election Turnout among Young People and Habit Formation
Sammanfattning : This thesis contains an introduction and four essays that together address the issues of turnout and habitual voting. Although voting is less unequal than other forms of political participation, it is still biased in favour of more socially affluent citizens. One way to achieve more equal participation is to increase the general turnout. LÄS MER
3. Essays on the collective action dilemma of vaccination
Sammanfattning : Vaccines famously possess positive externalities that make them susceptible to the collective action dilemma: when I get vaccinated, I protect not only myself, but also those who I might otherwise have infected. Thus, some people will have an incentive to free ride on the immunity of others. LÄS MER
4. Borders and Belonging : Nation-Building in Georgia's Armenian and Azerbaijani Ethno-Regions, 2004–2012
Sammanfattning : Since the fall of the Soviet Union, scholars researching ethnic politics have approached the South Caucasus as a testing ground for theories of separatism and conflict. But the 2003 Rose Revolution brought a new generation of politicians to power in Georgia. LÄS MER
5. Breaking the law : adolescents' involvement in illegal political activitiy
Sammanfattning : Illegal political activity has always been part of a democratic society. Despite this, not much is known about young people’s involvement in these political activities. LÄS MER
