Browsing CEFOS Working Papers by Author "CEFOS"
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A Drawn-Out Retreat from Corporatism: The Reluctant Restructuring of the Swedish Capital Market
Strandberg, Jönmark (2006)An important case of economical internationalisation is the deregulation of the formerly nationally organised credit markets. Governments performed this process of deregulation all over the industrialised world during the ... -
Implications of the ‘Bread and Peace’ Model for the 2008 US Presidential Election
Hibbs, Douglas A. (CEFOS, 2008)Presidential election outcomes are well explained by just two objectively measured fundamental determinants: (1) weighted-average growth of per capita real personal disposable income over the term, and (2) cumulative US ... -
Maktskiften i medborgarnas ögon
Bendz, Anna (CEFOS, 2010)När en ny politisk majoritet tillträder som ett resultat av medborgarnas röstande i allmänna val bör följden bli konkreta skillnader i politiken. I denna undersökning ställs frågan om medborgarna uppfattar en förändring ... -
Rättssäkerhet som välfärdspolitiskt ideal: Reformer av socialförsäkringens administration från 1955 till 2008
Bendz, Anna (CEFOS, 2010)Projektet Rättssäkerhet och politik behandlar frågan om hur rättssäkerhet som värde kommer till uttryck i politiska beslut om socialförsäkringens administration. I detta working paper sammanfattas de empiriska resultaten ... -
Six controversies in search of an epistemology
Abram, Simone; Strandberg, Urban (2005)Public engagement in planning and siting policy has been a political priority for some time, and there are various arguments as to why successful participation consistently proves to be an elusive goal. Emphasis is often ... -
Tax Toleration and Tax Evasion: Why Firms Enter the Unofficial Economy
Hibbs, Douglas A.; Piculescu, Violeta (2005)In this paper we propose a model of how institutional benefits, taxation and government regulations affect the propensity of private firms to enter the unofficial economy. A central implication of the model is that ... -
Temporality and joint commitment in railway planning
Boholm, Åsa (CEFOS, 2010)Decisions are seen from a phenomenological lens focusing on their characteristic temporal and flexible structure of meaning. In a bureaucratic social setting emphasizing procedural rules, legal constraints and formal ... -
The 2010 Midterm Election for the US House of Representatives
Hibbs, Douglas A. (CEFOS, 2010)The number of House seats won by the president’s party at midterm elections is well explained by three pre-determined or exogenous variables: (1) the number of House seats won by the in-party at the previous on-year election, ... -
The Economy, the War in Iraq and the 2004 Presidential Election
Hibbs, Douglas A. (2006)In this paper I apply the Bread and Peace model of voting in US presidential elections to analyze the sources of George W. Bush’s narrow re-election victory in 2004. The aggregate election outcome is readily explained by ... -
Voting and the Macroeconomy
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What are the most harmful forms of gambling? Analyzing problem gambling prevalence surveys
Binde, Per (CEFOS, 2011)Eighteen national prevalence surveys of problem gambling (PG), most of them from Europe, were analyzed to assess the relative harmfulness of various forms of gambling. It was found that interactive Internet gambling, casino ...