Sökning: "Electoral Accountability"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Electoral Accountability.

  1. 1. Information, Voting Behavior and Electoral Accountability

    Författare :Mattias Nordin; Eva Mörk; Massimo Bordignon; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information; Voting Behavior; Electoral Accountability; Principal-Agent; Vote Aggregation; Mass Media; News Consumption;

    Sammanfattning : Essay 1: In this paper, I investigate the causal effect of information on citizens’ ability to hold their elected politicians accountable for past behavior. Using survey data from the 2006 U.S. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Incumbent Renomination : Accountability and Gender Bias

    Författare :Michal Grahn; Elin Bjarnegård; Johanna Kantola; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political recruitment; party politics; proportional representation; gender; incumbency; re-selection; accountability; representation; delegation; preference voting; flexible lists; Czech Republic; Slovakia.; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : Party recruiters in proportional-representation (PR) systems are forced to do what their majoritarian counterparts are not: they need to rank-order all their candidates on the party ballots based on whom they most wish to get elected. Consequently, new candidates and incumbents alike compete for a limited number of electable ballot slots. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Models of Electoral Competition : Three Essays on Political Economics

    Författare :Jan Klingelhöfer; Torsten Persson; Christian Schultz; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Elections; Lobbying; Rents; Imperfect Information; Median Voter Theorem; Accountability; Valence; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three essays in theoretical political economics. In "The Swing Voters' Blessing", I model elections with quality differences between two ideological candidates. The quality differences are only observable to a limited number of informed voters. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Essays on Political Representation, Electoral Accountability and Strategic Interactions

    Författare :Hanna Ågren; Matz Dahlberg; Federico Revelli; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Political representation; Spatial auto-correlation; Tax competition; Yardstick competition; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of an introduction and four self-contained essays.Essay 1 (with Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk) investigates political representation by exploring the relationship between citizens' preferences and the preferences of their elected representatives. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Principled Principals? Voter Responses to Public Goods Provision

    Författare :Felix Hartmann; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Public Goods Provision; Electoral Accountability; Voting Behavior;

    Sammanfattning : Do voters in developing democracies reward incumbents for public goods provision? One of the basic assumptions of democratic theory is that voters use elections to punish and reward incumbents for their performance in office. However, many accounts characterize elections in developing democracies as being dominated by clientelism and vote buying, suggesting that voters do not base their vote on public service provision. LÄS MER