Essays about: "Right and Left Politics"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 essays containing the words Right and Left Politics.
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1. What is the effect of political coalitions on economic outcomes? : A Regression Discontinuity approach for Swedish municipalities during 1994-2017
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis identifies the effect of traditional political coalitions on the left-right spectrum in Swedish municipal politics on economic outcomes such as Municipal Revenues, Expenditures, Net-expenditures, Municipal Tax-rates, Unemployment, and the share of Municipal Employment. To do so, varying time spans of Swedish municipal data from 1994-2017 are used in a regression discontinuity design, basing its identification on quasi-random variation created by close municipal elections. READ MORE
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2. Political Parties on the Move: Computational Scaling Method Applied to Swedish Parliamentary Debates
University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Over the years, a variety of methods have been used in order toestimate policy positions for political parties in national parliaments. This papersets out to apply a novel computational method called Wordfish and apply it to aheavily under-researched form of political text, parliamentary speeches. READ MORE
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3. The tilted horseshoe: Euroscepticism in the Nordic A study of the changing course of politics in far left and far right parties.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to study the changes that occurred within the far left and far right parties of the Nordic member states of the European Union, regarding their euroscepticism. The study aims towards both mapping out the changes of the parties political course as well as comparing the political standpoints between the countries. READ MORE
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4. Mainstreaming the Sweden Democrats - mapping changes and continuities in party ideology 1989-2019 through discourse analysis
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Much academic literature has explained the success of radical right parties across Europe in the last few decades through the increased importance of the sociocultural, conceptualised as the GAL-TAN, or libertarian-authoritarian, scale. The late rise of the Sweden Democrats, long considered an exception to the rule, as a successful radical right party, has attracted some academic interest and various explanations on what may have caused this sudden success. READ MORE
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5. Housing and Populism
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : In the last half-decade, populism has become a trademark of western politics. Much literature has been devoted to explaining the rise in populism and most researchers tend to focus on macroeconomic shifts and trends, often overlooking the impact of house price developments on populist appeal at the individual level. READ MORE
