Essays about: "voter expectations"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words voter expectations.
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1. Party strategies during economic instability : Examining how fluctuations in economic expectations among voters affect the policy positioning of parties
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis examines the ways that fluctuations in voter expectations for the state of the economy affect party strategies, throughout 28 countries across the EU and OECD between 1995 and 2021. I thus make a theoretical contribution to the existing research by testing the theoretical models that claim that parties primarily respond to voter preferences and perceptions when conducting their policy strategies. READ MORE
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2. The Populist Surge and Democratic Dissatisfaction: Unveiling the divide : A quantitative analysis on variations in the level of satisfaction with democracy among populists and non-populists in Western Europe the past 20 years
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis deals with differences in the level of satisfaction with democracy between populists and non-populists in eleven Western European countries the past twenty years, with the common denominator that they all have experienced the electoral success of a populist radical-right party and a population increasingly expressing distrust and dissatisfaction with democracy. The thesis is based on a definition of populism in which it is regarded as a threat to democracy, and moreover, the thesis explores whether there are any significant differences in the level of satisfaction with democracy and whether these differences changes as time passes between these two voter groups. READ MORE
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3. Assessing the electoral outcome in the 2019 European Parliament election : Substantially influenced by European issues, or still dominated by national issues?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis compares two theories of voter behavior in the 2019 European Parliament election (EP election). The second-order national contest theory claims that the European Parliament elections are basically seen as unimportant and are predominantly about national issues. READ MORE
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4. You Say You Want a Revolution - A Model on the Implications of Prospect Theory on Voting Behaviour
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : In this thesis we create a voting model with a prospect theory foundation, introducing reference-dependent risk preferences, loss aversion, and probability weighting in the individual utility function. Classical voting models represent perfectly rational voters, we argue that voter behaviour can be better modelled by introducing prospect theory preferences, especially recent political trends. READ MORE
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5. In the traces of a crisis An individual-level analysis of the impact of the European sovereign debt crisis on voter participation in the 2014 European Parliament election
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Elections to the European Parliament have since they were introduced in 1979 been, as scholars define it, a “second-order” election. They are typically as such characterized through the losses for national government parties, surge of smaller parties, low interest from the public in general and most of all low levels of voter participation. READ MORE
