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Karriärister eller idealister? En studie om sex partiaktivas motiv för sitt politiska engagemang.

Eriksson, Emil LU (2013) STVK02 20131
Human Rights Studies
Department of Political Science
Abstract (Swedish)
This essay is about why people participate in political parties in Sweden. The purpose of this essay is to gain more knowledge of people’s incentives for participation to help the political parties to recruit more members. I will use Panebiancos theory about the displacement of incentives for people to participate in political parties; collective incentives (idealists) such as ideology and social connection, to selective incentives (careerists) such as power and political career. Panebianco means that the motives have changed from idealists to careerists and this essay will try to explain if today’s party members, who have participated in political parties, are “believers” or “careerists”. The empirical analysis is done with individual... (More)
This essay is about why people participate in political parties in Sweden. The purpose of this essay is to gain more knowledge of people’s incentives for participation to help the political parties to recruit more members. I will use Panebiancos theory about the displacement of incentives for people to participate in political parties; collective incentives (idealists) such as ideology and social connection, to selective incentives (careerists) such as power and political career. Panebianco means that the motives have changed from idealists to careerists and this essay will try to explain if today’s party members, who have participated in political parties, are “believers” or “careerists”. The empirical analysis is done with individual interviews with six party members from three different parties; the moderate party, the social democratic party and the green party in Lund, Sweden. The modest results of this essay are that both collective and selective incentives are reasons for party members to participate, with a tendency to selective incentives and exercise of power. (Less)
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author
Eriksson, Emil LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK02 20131
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
politiskt deltagande, politiskt engagemang, partiaktiva
language
Swedish
id
3798542
date added to LUP
2013-07-01 12:57:21
date last changed
2014-09-04 08:27:38
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  abstract     = {{This essay is about why people participate in political parties in Sweden. The purpose of this essay is to gain more knowledge of people’s incentives for participation to help the political parties to recruit more members. I will use Panebiancos theory about the displacement of incentives for people to participate in political parties; collective incentives (idealists) such as ideology and social connection, to selective incentives (careerists) such as power and political career. Panebianco means that the motives have changed from idealists to careerists and this essay will try to explain if today’s party members, who have participated in political parties, are “believers” or “careerists”. The empirical analysis is done with individual interviews with six party members from three different parties; the moderate party, the social democratic party and the green party in Lund, Sweden. The modest results of this essay are that both collective and selective incentives are reasons for party members to participate, with a tendency to selective incentives and exercise of power.}},
  author       = {{Eriksson, Emil}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Karriärister eller idealister? En studie om sex partiaktivas motiv för sitt politiska engagemang.}},
  year         = {{2013}},
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