Essays about: "electorate"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 35 essays containing the word electorate.
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21. Who Listens to a Stock Index?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Previous findings on the subject of Class Biased Economic Voting (CBEV) suggests that voters who are not among the wealthiest elite respond positively, in terms of probability of voting for the incumbent party or president, to income growth among the wealthiest 5% of households, and more so than to mean income growth. The aim of this paper is to explore if this type of bias voting is due to voters paying attention to macroeconomic variables that are correlated with economic fortunes of the wealthiest elites. READ MORE
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22. Distinguishing between strategic and stochastic voters: An empirical study of misaligned voting in the 2010 Swedish parliamentary election
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : This paper examines the proportion of the Swedish electorate that did not vote for their most preferred party in the parliamentary election of 2010. We propose a way in which we can divide these misaligning voters into subgroups in order to further increase the understanding of what drives this behaviour. READ MORE
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23. Framing the vote for Brexit - The Leave campaign and the EU-referendum
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : On the 23rd of June the British electorate chose to vote in favour of leaving the EU. The fact that one of the prominent states will leave the EU project is in itself controversial. This thesis examines the Leave campaign through a framing analysis. READ MORE
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24. One felon, no vote: The role of racial threat in felon disenfranchisement laws across the United States
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis looks at the role played by racial threat mechanisms in the persistence of felon disenfranchisement laws across the 50 American states. The US has a long history of disenfranchising its felons, and the motivations behind implementation of these laws has been mixed. READ MORE
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25. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son: Marriage Equality and the Catholic Church in Ireland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis will use the final Marriage Equality Referendum debate which took place on the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ in May 2015 and analyse the No campaign’s willingness to be associated with the Catholic Church through discourse and framing analysis. This qualitative study aspires to ascertain the salience of the Catholic Church to the Irish electorate in areas of moral-social policy in Ireland. READ MORE
