The Evolution Of Electoral And Party Systems In The Nordic Countries

Author : Arend Lijphart
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875861687
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Electoral and Party Systems in the Nordic Countries written by Arend Lijphart and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book that all scholars of electoral systems or electoral history will need to read, and most will want to own. Much of the historical material reported is not available anywhere else in English, and much of it appears to be first-time reports of primary materials. Quite readable and very well-organized." -Cambridge Univ. Press referee

Author : Åsa Bengtsson
Publisher : ECPR Press
ISBN 13 : 190730150X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nordic Voter written by Åsa Bengtsson and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nordic Voter is the first book-length comparative analysis of voting behaviour in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. Leading scholars from national election studies teams present a detailed account of voter turnout, party identification, satisfaction with democracy, preferential voting, government support and party choice. The five-nation study is based on a comparative data set prepared uniquely for this book that allows for comprehensive analysis of the diversity in voting behaviour in the Nordic countries, as well as discrepancies between Nordic and non‑Nordic countries. The book counters the widespread tendency for comparative analyses to lump Nordic countries together. Its general claim, substantiated by a unique and extensive empirical analysis of voter behaviour, is that the differences between the Nordic countries are in fact so large – in terms of institutional settings and micro-level voting behaviour – that there is no justification for making general claims about a typical ‘Nordic voter’. The authors challenge presumptions about ‘remarkable similarities’ between Nordic voters, revealing numerous examples of remarkable dissimilarities between voters in the Nordic countries.

Author : Nicholas Aylott
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137315547
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Parties in Multi-Level Polities written by Nicholas Aylott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political parties are essential for the functioning of parliamentary democracy but how have parties adapted to the challenges created by the growth of a new layer of political decision-making at the supranational level, i.e. the EU? This comparative survey focuses on parties in four Nordic countries, including Norway, which remains outside the EU.

Author : Kaare Strom
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025503
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Madisonian Turn written by Kaare Strom and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parliamentary democracy is the most common regime type in the contemporary political world, but the quality of governance depends on effective parliamentary oversight and strong political parties. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have traditionally been strongholds of parliamentary democracy. In recent years, however, critics have suggested that new challenges such as weakened popular attachment, the advent of cartel parties, the judicialization of politics, and European integration have threatened the institutions of parliamentary democracy in the Nordic region. This volume examines these claims and their implications. The authors find that the Nordic states have moved away from their previous resemblance to a Westminster model toward a form of parliamentary democracy with more separation-of-powers features—a Madisonian model. These features are evident both in vertical power relations (e.g., relations with the European Union) and horizontal ones (e.g., increasingly independent courts and central banks). Yet these developments are far from uniform and demonstrate that there may be different responses to the political challenges faced by contemporary Western democracies.

Author : Kaare Strøm
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472106806
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenges to Political Parties written by Kaare Strøm and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique inquiry into the long-term prospects for political parties

Author : Marie Demker
Publisher : ECPR Press
ISBN 13 : 9781538156872
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nordic Party Members written by Marie Demker and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political parties provide continuity at the elite level and among the mass electorate in times when "populist" forces threaten the stability of many western democracies. This edited collection aims to make an analytical contribution to what "party democracy" means, how to study it and add to our knowledge of who the party members are, what they do and how influential they are in policy-making processes.

Author : Hanne Marthe Narud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Party Sovereignty and Citizen Control written by Hanne Marthe Narud and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process by which candidates for election are being screened and selected is among the least understood and researched political phenomena, even though this process is so closely linked to the power structure within political parties. In this book, nomination processes in four Nordic countries are analyzed and evaluated as instruments of democracy. The authors compare institutions, procedures and unwritten norms. The book in particular addresses questions about the citizens' ability to influence the nomination processes. The process is not only modeled in traditional terms of representation, but also as a principal-agent relationship.

Author : Andrew Reynolds
Publisher : Stockholm : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electoral System Design written by Andrew Reynolds and published by Stockholm : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Ferdinand Müller-Rommel
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Politics written by Ferdinand Müller-Rommel and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers the rise of new political parties, the development of new political movements and political ideologies, and the resurgence of old ones, such as Nazism, in Europe and America.

Author : Reuven Hazan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317978927
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Electoral Reform written by Reuven Hazan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of elections and electoral systems, and particularly electoral reform, has exhibited tremendous growth and cross-national appeal over the last two decades. However, beyond an increased knowledge of voting rules and their consequences for political representation, little attention has been devoted to the question of why electoral systems have recently undergone substantial change in several liberal democracies. This book addresses several new approaches to electoral reform. First, the scope of the study of electoral reform has been expanded. Second, contrary to previous studies of electoral reform, the conviction that the determinants of reform can be explained by one single approach has been replaced by a belief in a more comprehensive framework for analysis. Third, we move beyond political parties (acting in parliament and government) as the most significant source of electoral reform. Fourth, a focus on the determinants of electoral reform allows us to include motivations and objectives of electoral reform. A final advancement in the study of electoral reform is the inclusion of countries other than ‘established’ democracies. This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics.