Democracy in Scandinavia : consensual, majoritarian or mixed? / David Arter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arter, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Scandinavia.

Democracy.

Scandinavia--Politics and government--1945-.

Scandinavia.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xi, 287 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2006.

Contents:

1 Analysing the Nordic region: a block of distinctive consensus model democracies? 1

2 Preferential list voting systems in Denmark, Finland and Sweden: a challenge to the 'party democracy model'? 26

3 The Scandinavian party system(s) since 1970: less uni-dimensional and less distinctive? 46

4 The strength of Social Democracy on mainland Scandinavia: continued dominance or incipient decomposition? 63

5 The diversity of coalition types and the frequency of minority governments: a distinctively Scandinavian form of parliamentarism? 86

6 Corporatist interest group systems: (still) a distinctive Scandinavian trait? 109

7 A common denominator between Westminster and the Nordic region? The growing importance of the office of prime minister 129

8 The state of Scandinavian democracy: democracy in a state? 154

9 Analysing parliamentary opposition parties: both policy actors and policy arenas? 177

10 Policy-making in the Finnish and Swedish opposition parties 196

11 The 2003 Finnish midsummer bomb and the Centre Party's 'decisive action strategy': a case of office-seeking with a capital 'O' 217

12 Minority government, shifting majorities and multilateral opposition: Sweden in the new millennium 238

Conclusion: Democracy in Scandinavia: consensual, majoritarian or mixed? 258.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719070465

0719070473

OCLC:

64555175

Publisher Number:

9780719070471

9780719070464