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Socialdemokratiska valsuccéer - finns de och vad förklarar dem?

Hadzovic, Haris LU (2020) STVK03 20201
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This paper aims to explore if theory from the literature on Social Democratic parties can account plausibly for relatively better election results of the Swedish Social Democrats (SAP). With the use of multiple OLS regression it explores whether expansion of municipal labor decommodifying programs lead to more favorable municipal election results for SAP. Labor decommodification is measured through three different indicators and separate tests are done for each respectively. 273-276 municipalities out of 290 are included and, depending on data availability, the separate indicator based tests concern the elections 2006-2018 as well as 2014-2018. The study makes some contributions to the subject of municipal data as well as literature on... (More)
This paper aims to explore if theory from the literature on Social Democratic parties can account plausibly for relatively better election results of the Swedish Social Democrats (SAP). With the use of multiple OLS regression it explores whether expansion of municipal labor decommodifying programs lead to more favorable municipal election results for SAP. Labor decommodification is measured through three different indicators and separate tests are done for each respectively. 273-276 municipalities out of 290 are included and, depending on data availability, the separate indicator based tests concern the elections 2006-2018 as well as 2014-2018. The study makes some contributions to the subject of municipal data as well as literature on so-called costs of incumbency. Apart from this, some areas for further research are suggested. (Less)
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This paper aims to explore if theory from the literature on Social Democratic parties can account plausibly for relatively better election results of the Swedish Social Democrats (SAP). With the use of multiple OLS regression it explores whether expansion of municipal labor decommodifying programs lead to more favorable municipal election results for SAP. Labor decommodification is measured through three different indicators and separate tests are done for each respectively. 273-276 municipalities out of 290 are included and, depending on data availability, the separate indicator based tests concern the elections 2006-2018 as well as 2014-2018. The study makes some contributions to the subject of municipal data as well as literature on... (More)
This paper aims to explore if theory from the literature on Social Democratic parties can account plausibly for relatively better election results of the Swedish Social Democrats (SAP). With the use of multiple OLS regression it explores whether expansion of municipal labor decommodifying programs lead to more favorable municipal election results for SAP. Labor decommodification is measured through three different indicators and separate tests are done for each respectively. 273-276 municipalities out of 290 are included and, depending on data availability, the separate indicator based tests concern the elections 2006-2018 as well as 2014-2018. The study makes some contributions to the subject of municipal data as well as literature on so-called costs of incumbency. Apart from this, some areas for further research are suggested. (Less)
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Hadzovic, Haris LU
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alternative title
Socialdemokratiska valsuccéer - finns de och vad förklarar dem? En kvantitativ studie om kommunala succéer för Socialdemokratiska Arbetarepartiet valen 2006-2018
course
STVK03 20201
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type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
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Socialdemokraterna, välfärdssatsningar, dekommodifiering, kommunalval, cost of incumbency.
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Swedish
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Tacksägelser
Jag vill tacka min handledare Petrus Olander för att han har hjälpt mig med sammanställning av datasetet samt erbjudit råd kring formuleringen av forskningsfråga och operationaliseringar. Jag vill också tacka Moira Nelson från Statsvetenskapliga Institutionen i Lund för att hon har uppmärksammat mig på metodologiska problem med TSCS-data.
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9009708
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2020-09-21 15:48:23
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2020-09-21 15:48:23
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  abstract     = {{This paper aims to explore if theory from the literature on Social Democratic parties can account plausibly for relatively better election results of the Swedish Social Democrats (SAP). With the use of multiple OLS regression it explores whether expansion of municipal labor decommodifying programs lead to more favorable municipal election results for SAP. Labor decommodification is measured through three different indicators and separate tests are done for each respectively. 273-276 municipalities out of 290 are included and, depending on data availability, the separate indicator based tests concern the elections 2006-2018 as well as 2014-2018. The study makes some contributions to the subject of municipal data as well as literature on so-called costs of incumbency. Apart from this, some areas for further research are suggested.}},
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  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Socialdemokratiska valsuccéer - finns de och vad förklarar dem?}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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