Sökning: "preference voting"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden preference voting.

  1. 1. Strategic Voting under Coalition Governments

    Författare :Annika Fredén; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; strategic; voting; coalitions; PR-systems; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; strategic; voting; coalitions; proportional representation;

    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

  3. 2. Klass, åsikt och partisympati : det svenska konsumtionsfältet för politiska åsikter

    Författare :Jan-Magnus Enelo; Stefan Svallfors; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political opinions; class; cultural capital; economic capital; socioeconomic; socio-cultural; party preference; voting; field; social space; Bourdieu; correspondence analysis; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to study political opinions and party voting in relation to class. The range of opinions studied consists of a socioeconomic dimension, dealing with issues of economic equality, and a socio-cultural dimension, dealing with questions of culture and morality. LÄS MER

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. 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

  7. 5. Topics in Hardness of Approximation and Social Choice Theory

    Författare :Marcus Isaksson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Hardness of approximation; social choice theory; Gibbard-Satterthwaite; max-q-cut; Condorcet voting; linear threshold functions.; Hardness of approximation;

    Sammanfattning : Tools from Fourier analysis of Boolean functions have commonly been used to prove results both in hardness of approximation in computer science and in the study of voting schemes in social choice theory. In this thesis we consider various topics in both these contexts. LÄS MER