Search for dissertations about: "Public Goods Provision"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words Public Goods Provision.
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1. Principled Principals? Voter Responses to Public Goods Provision
Abstract : 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. READ MORE
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2. The Great Divide: Inequality and punishment in the provision of public goods
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3. Voting, public goods and violence
Abstract : The disintegration of the former Soviet Union and the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia in the last ten years of the 20th century has received much attention. Apart from this, referenda on secession have been held in Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom, Quebec in Canada and East Timor in Indonesia. READ MORE
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4. Essays in Political Economy of Development
Abstract : 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. READ MORE
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5. Public and Non-Public Gifting on the Internet
Abstract : 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. READ MORE