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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781482603321

Titolo

The Madisonian turn : political parties and parliamentary democracy in Nordic Europe / / edited by Torbörn Bergman and Kaare Strom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2011

ISBN

1-283-15981-3

9786613159816

0-472-02550-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (428 p.)

Collana

New comparative politics

Altri autori (Persone)

BergmanTorbjörn

StrømKaare

Disciplina

324.20948

Soggetti

Cabinet system - Scandinavia

Political parties - Scandinavia

Legislative bodies - Scandinavia

Comparative government

Scandinavia Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Parliamentary democracies under siege / Kaare Strom and Torbjörn Bergman -- Nordic Europe in comparative perspective / Torbjörn Bergman and Kaare Strom -- Change and challenges of Danish parliamentary democracy / Erik Damgaard -- Finland : moving in the opposite direction / Tapio Raunio -- Iceland : dramatic shifts / Svanur Kristjánsson and Indridi H. Indridason -- Norway : from Honsvaldian parliamentarism back to Madisonian roots / Hanne Marthe Narud and Kaare Strom -- Swedish democracy : crumbling parties, a feeble Riksdag, and technocratic power holders / Torbjörn Bergman and Niklas Bolin -- Parties and party systems in the north / Nicholas Aylott -- East-West conflict and Europeanization : international effects on democratic politics in the Nordic states / Cynthia Kite -- The Nordics : demanding citizens, complex politics / Torbjörn Bergman and Kaare Strom.