Titlebook: Political Parties in Multi-Level Polities; The Nordic Countries Nicholas Aylott,Magnus Blomgren,Torbjörn Bergman Book 2013 Palgrave Macmill

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Parties and the Challenge of Multi-Level Politics,er (Bartolini 2005), national democratic systems remain the centrepiece of politics. Moreover, despite their frequently alleged decline (see Daalder 1992), parties remain absolutely central to political competition. It is hard to envisage a genuine alternative to them so long as parliamentarism rema

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Principals, Agents, Parties and the EU,life, we select other people to act on our behalf when we lack the capacity (often in the form of time) or competence (such as specialist, expert knowledge or talent) to get the job done ourselves, or when we face problems of social choice or collective action that hinder us in other ways (Bergman a

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Denmark: Party Agents on Tight Leashes,ty (EC) in 1973, alongside Britain and Ireland (but not Norway, which, as we will see later in the book, declined to take up the terms of its accession). Denmark’s involvement in European integration has been far from smooth and unproblematic, however. Of all the Nordic countries, Denmark has easily

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Finland: From Permissive Consensus to Angry Birds?,es that hit these countries. However, in the Finnish case, another argument was relevant. Throughout its history, Finland has been strongly influenced by the fact that the country is situated between Europe’s east and west. As such, the tension with Sweden, on the one hand, and with Russia and the S

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Sweden: Power to the Parliamentarians?, followed a referendum in October the previous year, in which the electorate approved the terms of membership by a fairly narrow margin. After that, opinion polls consistently showed Swedes to be among the EU’s least enthusiastic citizens. Although outright opposition to membership gradually diminis

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Conclusions: Nordic Political Parties, European Union and the Challenge of Delegation,land, Norway and Sweden. Our interest in the topic has been fired particularly by the debate about the effects of the European Union on the systems of democracy in its member states — and, indeed, in nearby states that are not actually members. Given the severe economic problems that gradually confr

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growth of a new layer of political decision-making at the supranational level, i.e. the EU? This comparative survey focuses on parties in four Nordic countries, including Norway, which remains outside the EU.978-1-349-31861-2978-1-137-31554-0