Sökning: "expressive voting"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden expressive voting.

  1. 1. Context Sensitive Civic Duty : An Experimental Study of how Corruption Affects both a Duty to Vote and a Duty to Abstain

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Simon Engström; [2021]
    Nyckelord :electoral turnout; voting; abstention; civic duty; civic duty to vote; civic duty to abstain; expressive voting; expressive non-voting; expressive abstention; rational choice; public choice; calculus of voting; utility maximization; rationality; Kant; kantianism;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis I explore a novel context sensitive conceptualisation of civic duty according to which the conduct (or misconduct) of elected officials affects whether eligible voters feel either a duty to vote (DTV) or a duty to abstain (DTA). Specifically, I argue that under conditions of corruption the norm of electoral accountability may override peoples’ sense of DTV in which case they instead feel a DTA. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Expressiv icke-röstning : En intern kritik och vidareutveckling av rational choice-teorier om röstning

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Simon Engström; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Rational choice theory; rationality; decision theory; game theory; utility maximisation; paradox of voting; Downs paradox; voter turnout; abstention; voting; expressive non-voting; expressive voting; political participation; non-voting; political act; protest; civic duty; Rational choice-teori; rationalitet; beslutsteori; spelteori; nyttomaximering; röstningsparadoxen; Downs paradox; valdeltagande; icke-röstning; röstning; expressiv icke-röstning; expressiv röstning; politiskt deltagande; politisk handling; protest; samhällsplikt;

    Sammanfattning : This study is mainly centred around a twofold theoretical aim, but also pursues a secondary empirical aim. The first part of the theoretical aim is to critically examine and identify problems for previous research within a group of rational choice theories that sets out to explain voter turnout in terms of utility maximisation. LÄS MER