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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David Arter , Bill Jones , Bethan HirstPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780719070471ISBN 10: 0719070473 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 27 July 2006 Audience: Adult education , College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Analysing the Nordic region: a block of distinctive consensus model democracies? 2. Preferential list voting systems in Denmark, Finland and Sweden: a challenge to the party democracy model? 3. The Scandinavian party system(s) since 1970: less unidimensional and less distinctive? 4. The strength of social democracy on mainland Scandinavia: continued dominance or incipient decomposition? 5. The diversity of coalition types and the frequency of minority governments: a distinctively Scandinavian form of parliamentarism? 6. Corporatist interest group systems: (still) a distinctive Scandinavian trait? 7. A common denominator between Westminster and the Nordic region? The growing importance of the office of Prime Minister 8. The state of Scandinavian democracy: democracy “in a state”? 9. Analysing parliamentary opposition parties: both policy actors and policy arenas? 10. Policy-making in the Finnish and Swedish opposition parties 11. The 2003 midsummer bomb and the centre party’s ‘decisive action strategy’ A case of office-seeking with a capital ‘O’ 12. Minority government, shifting majorities and multilateral opposition: Sweden in the new millennium Conclusion. Democracy in Scandinavia: consensual, majoritarian or mixed? -- .ReviewsAuthor InformationDavid Arter holds the First Chair of Politics at the University of Aberdeen Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |