Nordic politics : comparative perspectives
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Nordic politics : comparative perspectives
Universitetsforlaget, c2004
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Most chapters build on lectures in "Nordic politics" given at Oslo University's Department of Political Science in the spring 2004"--Pref
Bibliography: p. [276]-301
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book questions the much vaunted thesis of Nordic homogeneity by launching a comparative re-examination of the institutional structures, political forces and public policies that characterise Sweden, Denmark and Norway separately and collectively as emblematically "Nordic". Broadening the focus by degrees, the book tests claims that "Nordic democracy" and "Nordic welfare state" are a special case, distinguishing them from wider European versions. Each of the 15 chapters compares a different aspect of Nordic and national politics, among them parties and party systems; voters and social cleavages; civic society; women in politics; local government and security policies. With bibliography and index.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- State and Nation-Building in he Nordic Area
- Modern State Reforms
- Parties and Party Systems
- Voters and Social Cleavages
- Civic Society in Transition
- Patterns of Corporatist Intermediation
- Parliamentary Nominations and Political Representation -- Group Representation or Party Mandates?
- Parliamentary Government
- The Presence of Women in Parliamentary Politics
- Local Government and Politics
- Nordic Regions in a European Perspective
- The Welfare State -- Still Viable?
- Security Policies from Constraints to Choice
- The Nordics and the EU
- Comparative Perspectives on the Northern Countries
- Index.
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