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Informationen zum Autor David Arter is an Emeritus Professor and Director of Research at the University of Tampere, Finland Klappentext This book breaks new ground in challenging the established status of the Scandinavian countries as consensual democracies Zusammenfassung This book breaks new ground in challenging the established status of the Scandinavian countries as consensual democracies -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Minister8. 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 parties11. 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 millenniumConclusion. Democracy in Scandinavia: consensual, majoritarian or mixed?
