Search for dissertations about: "voting power"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the words voting power.
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6. Essays on Pensions and Information
Abstract : The first essay examines the outcome in a competitive private pension market characterised by adverse selection. In addition to using the private pension market, the consumers can save in a bequeathable asset. READ MORE
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7. Essays in Political Economics
Abstract : When Does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election OutcomesWe use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates are resolved via a lottery to study the personal incumbency advantage. We benchmark non-experimental regression discontinuity design (RDD) estimates against the estimate produced by this experiment that suggests that there is no personal incumbency advantage. READ MORE
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8. The pricing of shares with different voting power and the theory of oceanic games
Abstract : The price difference for shares with different voting power is, in some sense, a quantitative measure of the value of control which is used empirically to investigate the theory of oceanic games, a model of the power distribution among shareholders. The results show that all shareholders, including the very small, have power in a competitive market for corporate control. READ MORE
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9. Natural Disasters and National Election : On the 2004 Indian Ocean Boxing Day Tsunami, the 2005 Storm Gudrun and the 2006 Historic Regime Shift
Abstract : The 2006 Swedish parliamentary election was a historic election with the largest bloc transfer of voters in Swedish history. The 2002-2006 incumbent Social Democratic Party (S) received its lowest voter support since 1914 as roughly 150,000, or 8%, of the 2002 S voters went to the main opposition, the conservative Moderate Party (M). READ MORE
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10. Mobilising the Lower Castes : The Rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party in India
Abstract : This thesis investigates the rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), a party that represents the untouchable castes (Scheduled Castes or Dalits) in India. During the 1990s, the BSP emerged as a major political force in Uttar Pradesh, the largest state in India. READ MORE