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Preparing for Genocide: Community Work in Rwanda

Bonnier, Evelina; Poulsen, Jonas; Rogall, Thorsten; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2015

How do political elites prepare the civilian population for participation in violent conflict? We empirically …

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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A History of the Swedish Pension System

Hagen, Johannes - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

This report provides an extensive overview of the history of the Swedish pension system. Starting with the …

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The legacy of the Swedish gift and inheritance tax, 1884–2004

Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

particular. It is also a very interesting episode in the economic history of Sweden. I have access to aggregate tax revenue data …

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The legacy of the Swedish gift and inheritance tax, 1884-2004

Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

particular. It is also a very interesting episode in the economic history of Sweden. I have access to aggregate tax revenue data …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528480

Voter Turnout and the Size of Government

Aggeborn, Linuz - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

things, to a system with a single election day for political elections, thus reducing the cost associated with voting. This …

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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...

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