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- Blombäck, Sofie, 1982
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Making their way home from Brussels. New Political Parties in European and National Elections
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis studies new political parties in the context of both European and national elections. It argues that the study of new political parties should not focus only on the national level. This is particularly true for new parties in Europe, since these can also aim for representation in the European Parliament. The thesis challenges the conventional wisdom that the European Parliament is an easy arena, that can serve as a short-cut into national politics. The thesis also challenges one aspect of the classical second order election theory, which does not expect that parties’ results in the European elections should influence their fate in the national arena. The thesis instead argues that European elections can be important for new parties, but only for some parties, in particular circumstances. For parties in other contexts the European elections matter less. Gaining representation in the European Parliament may in many cases prove as difficult as, or even more difficult than, gaining representation in the national parliament. The thesis consists of a comprehensive study of all new parties that have gained their first elected representatives in the European Parliament, from the first direct elections in 1979 to the elections in 2009. Additionally, data is gathered on the representation in both the national and the European Parliament after a full parliamentary term, as well as on the resources, political project and political opportunity structure for each party. These data are analysed both individually and using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). Finally, there is an in-depth study of four parties, two in the Netherlands and two in the United Kingdom. One important finding of the project is that new parties entering the European Parliament is a comparatively rare phenomenon. While some new parties have gained representation in each European election, several Member States have not seen any successful new parties at all. Of those that do enter the European Parliament, a third also gain representation in the national parliament within five years. Of the rest, most have either disappeared or no longer take part in elections. When it comes to explaining why only some of the parties that try to enter the national parliament, after gaining their first representation in the European Parliament, are successful, three factors come out as particularly important. The new party needs experienced leadership, acceptance from the established parties, and advantageous electoral rules at the national level. The case studies show that for some parties being elected to the European Parliament can be very important. Both UKIP and the Green Party in the UK gained the chance to have their leaders being full time politicians, access to staff and other resources and time to develop both their organisations and political projects from their representation in the European Parliament.
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- Blombäck, Sofie, 1982, et al.
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Same Considerations, Different Decisions: Motivations for Split-ticket Voting among Swedish Feminist Initiative Supporters
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Political Studies. - : Wiley. - 0080-6757 .- 1467-9477. ; 40:1, s. 61-81
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores why supporters of small, non-established parties choose to vote for different parties in the elections to the European Parliament (EP) and elections to the national parliament. It uses individual-level data with open-ended questions from an online survey on supporters of Feminist Initiative (Fi) – a comparatively small and new Swedish feminist party – to map voters’ own motivations for split-ticket voting in the 2014 elections. Contrary to expectations based on second-order election theory, it is found that voters ticket-split in both directions: there are those voting for Fi in the EP election but not in the national election, and those voting for Fi in the national election but not in the EP election. These voters take the same types of considerations into account but nevertheless end up making opposite voting decisions. Voters clearly distinguish between the two levels – for example, by prioritizing different issues.
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- De Fine Licht, Jenny, 1982, et al.
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Feministiskt initiativs sympatisörer
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Ingår i: Annika Bergström, Bengt Johansson, Henrik Oscarsson & Maria Oskarson (red) Fragment.. - Göteborg : SOM-institutet. - 9789189673328 ; , s. 387-397
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- Hagevi, Magnus, 1965-, et al.
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Party based conflict in national parliaments
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Ingår i: Nordic Political Science Conference in Odense 8-11 augusti 2017. - Odense : Nordic Political Science Association.
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- Loxbo, Karl, 1975-, et al.
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The decline of Western European social democracy: Exploring the transformed link between welfare state generosity and the electoral strength of social democratic parties, 1975–2014
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Ingår i: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 27:3, s. 430-441
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social democratic parties are crumbling at the polls. Surprisingly, however, the causes of this demise remain largely unexplored. This article contributes to filling this gap in the research by studying the long-term impact of welfare state generosity on the vote share of social democratic parties in 16 Western European democracies. If the welfare state indeed was a key factor behind social democratic growth in the past, we ask whether the recent plight of these parties is down to a reversal of their previously dominant success factor? The article makes three principal findings. First, we show that social democratic parties primarily benefited electorally from expansive reforms at lower levels of welfare state generosity. Second, we find that this dynamic of diminishing returns also helps explain the demise of the Social Democratic party family in the whole of Western Europe. Lastly, our results reveal that programmatic turns to the right predict electoral losses in the least generous welfare states, whereas such shifts either pass unnoticed or predict vote gains in the most generous ones. We conclude by arguing that the structure of welfare state institutions is one important explanation for variations in the demise of the once powerful Social Democratic party family.
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