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1. 6. 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

3. 7. Essays in Political Economy of Development

   Författare :Michele Valsecchi; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ethnic diversity; public-private goods; polarization; fractionalization; property rights; land titling; land reform; land inheritance; international migration; political decentralization; political institutions; elections; corruption; natural resource curse; oil; fiscal decentralization; public goods;

   Sammanfattning : Paper 1: Social Conflict, Fractionalization, and Polarization We develop a Conflict model linking Conflict intensity to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest version of the model by Esteban and Ray (1999: "Conflict and Distribution", Journal of Economic Theory, 87(2): 379-415) to include a mixed public-private good. LÄS MER

4. 8. Formal and Informal Regulations: Enforcement and Compliance

   Författare :Clara Villegas Palacio; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; technological adoption; environmental policy; imperfect compliance; enforcement; disclosure; image motivation; public goods experiment targeted enforcement; Conditional cooperation; experiment; public goods; social group;

   Sammanfattning : The question I address in the thesis is how cooperation in social dilemma situations and compliance with environmental regulations are determined by legal enforcement, intrinsic motivations and culture. In light of this, the thesis consists of five independent chapters. LÄS MER

5. 9. Public and Non-Public Gifting on the Internet

   Författare :Jörgen Skågeby; Sture Hägglund; Kevin McGee; Daniel Pargman; Magnus Bergquist; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Communities; End-user content; file-sharing; online methodology; gift-giving; Informatics; Informatik;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis contributes to the knowledge of how computer-mediated communication and information sharing works in large groups and networks. In more detail, the research question put forward is: in large sharing networks, what concerns do end-users have regarding to whom to provide material? A theoretical framework of gift-giving was applied to identify, label and classify qualitative end-user concerns with provision. LÄS MER

7. 10. Essays on redistribution and local public expenditures

   Författare :Mikael Witterblad; Thomas Aronsson; Tomas Sjögren; Lars-Erik Borge; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; optimal taxation; unemployment; durable goods; flypaper effects; intergovernmental relations; demand system; local government spending; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of a summary and four papers. The first two papers are theoretical contributions within the area of optimal taxation and public expenditures under asymmetric information between the government and the private sector, and the last two are empirical contributions to the literature on local public expenditures. LÄS MER