Democracy in Scandinavia: Consensual, Majoritarian or Mixed?

Author:   David Arter ,  Bill Jones ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9780719070471


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   27 July 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   David Arter ,  Bill Jones ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780719070471


ISBN 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   Availability explained
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1. 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? -- .

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David Arter holds the First Chair of Politics at the University of Aberdeen

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