Search for dissertations about: "free-riding"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the word free-riding.
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1. The Cooperative Challenge : Farmer Cooperation and the Politics of Agricultural Modernisation in 21st Century Uganda
Abstract : The main purpose of this dissertation is to study whether the official rhetoric on the role that cooperatives could play in the quest for agricultural modernisation in Uganda have any resemblance with how farmers view the benefits and problem with cooperation. This question was motivated by the political initiative in the early 21st century to revive the cooperative movement in Uganda, a movement burdened with a history of political intervention and difficulties to adapt to a de-regulated agricultural market system. READ MORE
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2. Food and Fashion : Water Management and Collective Action among Irrigation Farmers and Textile Industrialists in South India
Abstract : In recent years, much ofthe political debate in the West, East aud South has focused on the decentralization of responsibilities from the state to private enterprises and NGOs. But what potential is there for local communities to create their own govenlance structures able to deal with issues up till recently seen as the responsibility of the state? In this thesis, answer to this question is sought by analyzing two case studies from the semi-arid Coimbatore-region in South India from an institutionai perspective. READ MORE
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3. Procedural justice, social norms and conflict : human behavior in resource allocation
Abstract : Research questions, results and Empirical Data This book studies the allocation of scarce resources among competing needs and wants. Chapter 1 Luck, effort and Redistribution on procedural justice provides one possible explanation for the vast differences between US and Western European tax an redistribution levels. READ MORE
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4. Essays in Political Economics and Public Finance
Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays.Essay 1: This paper first extends a recently developed nonparametric approach to estimate labor supply (Blomquist and Newey 2002) to handle the case when there are individuals that do not work. The extension makes it possible to sort out responses on the participation and hour margins. READ MORE
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5. Decentralizing hydraulic society : Actor responses to institutional arrangements in Vietnam
Abstract : Irrigation decentralization has been launched worldwide with high expectations of improved governance, efficiency, and productivity through democratic processes. However, there is widespread recognition that decentralization is, in reality, unlikely to bring about these positive outcomes. READ MORE