Search for dissertations about: "election campaigns"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words election campaigns.

  2. 1. Promising Democracy. Parties, Citizens and Election Promises

    Author : Elin Naurin; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; election promises; representative democracy; public opinion; voter behaviour; elections; mandates; accountability; political trust; election campaigns; election manifestoes; policy evaluation; Sweden.;

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  4. 2. Campaigning in Poetry, Governing in Prose: Pre- and Post-Election Effects of Election Pledge Rhetoric

    Author : Elina Lindgren; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; persuasive words; election pledges; election pledge rhetoric; changing policy beliefs; policy support; evaluation of policy outcomes; perceived fulfilment of election pledges;

    Abstract : In election campaigns, parties often use value-laden words such as freedom and competitiveness, to reach out to voters with their election pledges and policy proposals. While it is well known that the presence of such words in election pledges can impact voters’ support for policy proposals, we know less about what makes these words effective. READ MORE

  5. 3. Mind the Mind : Strategic Communication in the Swedish Green Party

    Author : Emma Svensson; Jakob Svensson; Mats Edenius; Eli Skogerbø; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Strategic Communication; Strategic Political Communication; Election Campaigns; Practice Theory; Strategy as Practice; Objective Mind; Biography; Positioning; Tensions; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

    Abstract : An increasingly complex environment and pressure from external publics on organizations to speak consistently challenge contemporary organizations. Strategic communication has been portrayed as offering a method for organizations to handle these complexities and is characterized not only as a rational way to handle problems organization face by centralizing, planning, and controlling, but as inevitable. READ MORE

  6. 4. Legal bribes? : An analysis of corporate donations to electoral campaigns

    Author : Nubia Evertsson; Janne Flyghed; David O. Friedrichs; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; legal bribes; electoral donations; electoral financing; corruption; political white-collar crime; creative compliance; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : In this research I analyse how the existence of regulations that allow private funding of election campaigns have created opportunities for crime. Three specific questions are addressed here: 1. Do electoral donations increase political corruption? 2. Why do companies give electoral donations? 3. READ MORE

  7. 5. Pledge-based accountability: Voter responses to fulfilled and broken election pledges

    Author : Niels Markwat; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Political parties communicate their plans to voters via promises made during election campaigns. While it has been found that governments generally take these promises they make seriously, it has also been established that many voters believe otherwise. READ MORE