Sökning: "Voting behavior"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden Voting behavior.
1. Information, Voting Behavior and Electoral Accountability
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
2. Essays on Voting Behavior, Labor Market Policy, and Taxation
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays.Essay 1 investigates the vote motive in Swedish general elections. A theoretical model of rational retrospective voting is tested empirically on pooled cross-sectional and panel data from the Swedish Election Studies between 1985 and 1994 supplemented with time series on inflation and unemployment. LÄS MER
3. Economic Voting and Issue Ownership. An Integrative Approach
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to improve our understanding of how economic changes influence popular support for political parties. Previous studies have generally found that there is a tendency for the popular support of incumbent governments to diminish when the economic development deteriorates. LÄS MER
4. Strategic Voting under Coalition Governments
Sammanfattning : If a voter defects from preference under the consideration of policy outcomes and others' behavior, it is a "strategic vote". This thesis relates voters' strategic considerations to the government formation process: the chances for a party to gain seats, enter office, and affect overall policies. LÄS MER
5. The Decline of Class Voting in Sweden 1968–2014: Reconsiderations, Explanations and the Role of the New Middle Class
Sammanfattning : Class voting has been one of the most wide-spread and persistent patterns of voting behavior in Western democracies throughout the 20th century. Understanding its decline is an important part of understanding the current political situation. LÄS MER