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Correcting Mistakes: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes in Sweden and the United States.
Elinder, Mikael - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009
Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate … turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve on previous studies by investigating political attitudes, measured … just before elections, when they are highly predictive of voting. In contrast to earlier studies I find no effect of voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034666
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On the Vote Purchasing Behavior of Incumbent Governments.
Dahlberg, M.; Johansson, E. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
A couple of months before the Swedish election in 1998, the incumbent government distributed 2.3 billion SEK to 42 out of 115 applying municipalities. This was the first wave of a four-year long grant program intended to support local investment programs aimed at an ecological sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669619
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An Economic Analysis of Voting in Sweden.
Jordahl, H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001
This paper presents a theoretical model of rational retrospective voting, which is tested empirically on pooled cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634516
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Why Politicians Favor Red-Heads - A Theory of Tactical Horizontal Redistribution.
Blomquist, S.; Christiansen, V. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
This paper studies a very pure form of "vote purchasing". We consider whether it may be in the interest of a party to discriminate between groups th at, possibly except for size, are identical in all welfare relevant aspec ts, i.e. the groups are assumed to have the same income, needs, etc. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634526
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The Internet, News Consumption, and Political Attitudes
Liang, Che-Yuan; Nordin, Mattias - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
We investigate the effects of the rise of the Internet as an additional mass medium on news consumption patterns and political attitudes. We use Swedish survey data from 2002 to 2007, the period during which online news media emerged. We find that broadband access is associated with online media...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818817
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The Internet, News Consumption, and Political Attitudes
Liang, Che-Yuan; Nordin, Mattias - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
We investigate the effects of the rise of the Internet as an additional mass medium on news consumption patterns and political attitudes. We use Swedish survey data from 2002 to 2007, the period during which online news media emerged. We find that broadband access is associated with online media...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762004
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Local Economies and General Elections
Elinder, Mikael - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006
This paper estimates voters’ response to municipality and regional level unemployment and economic growth, in Swedish general elections from 1985 to 2002, using data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions. An increase in regional growth or a reduction in regional unemployment by one percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644560
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Do Politicians’ Preferences Matter for Voters’ Voting Decisions?
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva; Sorribas Navarro, Pilar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
as well as voting decisions, this paper tests if voters typically support parties in which the politicians’ preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021413
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Do Politicians’ Preferences Matter for Voters’ Voting Decisions?
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva; Sorribas Navarro, Pilar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
as well as voting decisions, this paper tests if voters typically support parties in which the politicians’ preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131577
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Dividend taxation, share repurchases and the equity trap
Södersten, Jan; Lindhe, Tobias - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009
This paper reconsiders the effects of dividend taxation. Particular attention is paid to the form of the “equity trap”, that is, the extent to which cash paid to the shareholders must be taxed as dividends. Our analysis shows that Sinn’s (1991) criticism of the well-known King and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972820