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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 fro...
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Covers the national parliaments of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden; the supranational Nordic Council; and the developed assemblies of Greenland, Aland and the Faroes.
This book examines the behaviour of political parties in situations where they experience conflict between two or more important objectives.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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