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- Aylott, Nicholas, et al.
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Political parties in multi-level polities : the Nordic countries compared
- 2013. - 1
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Political parties are essential for the functioning of parliamentary democracy but how have parties adapted to the challenges created by the 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.
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- Aylott, Nicholas, et al.
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Principals, agents, parties and the EU
- 2008
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Ingår i: Statsvetenskapliga förbundets årsmöte 2008, Uppsala Sverige.
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Konferensbidrag (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Berg, Linda, et al.
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EU-skeptikernas frammarsch : valet till Europaparlamentet 2014
- 2014
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I slutet av maj 2014 hölls för åttonde gången direktval till Europaparlamentet och väljare i 28 medlemsstater gick till valurnorna. Trenden med stadigt sjunkande valdeltagande stannade av och närmare 43 procent av väljarna röstade. Som Mark Franklin visade i en Sieps-publikation inför valet förklaras trenden med sjunkande valdeltagande till stor del av att EU har utvidgats och att de medlemsstater som tillkommit har haft ett lägre valdeltagande än de som har varit medlemmar en tid. Därför är den brutna trenden kanske inte så förvånande.Valkampanjen bedrevs i en kontext där den ekonomiska krisen alltjämt påverkade EU starkt. Även om eurozonen gradvis har stabiliserats, är effekterna av krisen alltjämt tydliga. Resultatet återspeglar en reaktion hos väljarna som vi känner igen från tidigare Europaparlamentsval, där större partier, i synnerhet i regeringsställning, gör sämre ifrån sig än vid nationella val. Konsekvensen den här gången blev att den politiska “mitten” tappade och flankerna i det framväxande europeiska partisystemet växte. De EU-kritiska partierna fick stor uppmärksamhet under valrörelsen och valresultaten kan delvis tolkas som en protest mot EU, även om det finns skillnader mellan medlemsstaterna och vilka uttryck kritiken tar sig. De politiska majoritetsförhållandena och utvecklingen inom partigrupperna analyseras i den här publikationen av Magnus Blomgren.I Sverige var valkampanjen intensiv och det påföljande riksdagsvalet hade sannolikt en roll i det. Två nya partier, Feministiskt initiativ och Sverigedemokraterna, lyckades vinna mandat medan Piratpartiet inte lyckades upprepa succén från 2009 och tappade sina mandat. Det svenska resultatet analyseras här av Linda Berg.Texterna i den här publikationen utgörs främst av bearbetningar av bidrag vid seminariet Valet är över – vad händer nu? som arrangerades i Stockholm den 28 maj. Det är min förhoppning att Sieps därmed ska kunna bidra till fördjupad förståelse för Europaparlamentsval och parlamentets funktionssätt.Jörgen Hettne Tillförordnad direktör
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- Bergman, Torbjörn, 1957-, et al.
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The EU Hybrid : Incrementalism with Democracy?
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: The European Union and the return of the nation state. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030350048 - 9783030350055 ; , s. 27-57
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter argues that the debate about the proper relationship between member states and EU institutions usually pits those who favour emphasising intergovernmental principles against those who think that the Union must have an increased element of supranationalism. One result of a stalemate between these two positions is that the EU has developed into a hybrid regime. However, an empirical examination of recent debates in four important policy areas conducted by the authors reveals that member states often take a third position, incrementalism, which is a step-wise process characterised by advocating small policy reforms without really altering the hybrid. The main drawback of the incrementalism position is that it has only a vague notion of the need for and possibility of representative democracy.
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- Blomgren, Magnus, 1966-
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Cross-Pressure and Political Representation in Europe : A comparative study of MEPs and the intra-party arena
- 2003
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation explores political representation and its manifestation within the European Union (EU). The main purpose is to examine the representative roles of Members of the European Parliament (MEP) in the context of cross–pressure between the national level and the EU level. This involves an analysis of how the MEPs under-stand their roles, how they organize their work, and how they have voted in the European Parliament (EP) in 1999-2002. It also includes a study of how national party organizations adapt to the EU environment and how this influences the MEPs link to the national arena. The study is based on various sources, such as interviews, formal documents and voting data. The most under-researched part of the cross-pressure has been the national link and the empirical focus of the thesis is on that link. It is a comparative study of parties in Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden. In each country, three parties were selected (social democratic, right-wing and green parties). By using a focused comparative method, and by controlling for certain independent variables, the ambition is to go beyond description and identify explanations for why MEPs adopt certain roles. The overall picture that emerges is of a relatively weak link between MEPs and the national level. To a certain extent, MEPs express frustration over their limited role in the national arena and over the lack of input from the national arena in their work at the European level. Most of the parties struggle to include MEPs in their organizational set-up, and the MEPs experience a growing hostility within the parties toward them. In general, the lack of interest and knowledge in the national arena, concerning the EU in general and specifically the work of the MEPs, obscures the role of the MEPs. They become EU ambassadors at the national level, rather than elected representatives at the EU level. The dissertation also tests variables that are thought to influence MEPs’ roles: the type of electoral system, popular opinion on EU issues, whether their party is in government, the party’s ideological heritage, and if the party organizes more advanced coordination mechanisms. The main result is that the working assumption that MEPs are influenced by characteristics in the national arena is shown to be largely correct. That is, some of the identified aspects of the national political context do influence how the MEPs understand their roles. For example, the character of the electoral system influences attitudes among the MEPs. However, that relationship is not as simple and straightforward as much of the literature suggests. Rather, the results in this study suggest that the most important aspect of the relationship between the national level and the MEPs is whether parties or others (such as national parliamentarians) actively engage in the work of the MEPs. It matters how parties design the relationship between the levels, especially for how and where MEPs direct their main attention, but also in terms of how MEPs vote in the EP. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of further research into how parties facilitate the link between the national and the EU level.
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- Blomgren, Magnus, 1966-
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De politiska partierna och författningen
- 2011
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Ingår i: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. - Lund : Fahlbeckska stiftelsen. - 0039-0747. ; 113:3, s. 271-290
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article is to study how Sweden’’s political parties handled the processof constitutional review from 2004-2008. In particular the analysis examines howparties choose between their office-seeking, policy-seeking and vote-seeking goalsand the desire to maintain intra party agreement. Three expectations are identified: (a)parties’’ different strategic situations lead them to advocate different long-term goals;(b) different party levels will take different stands in order to increase their influencevis-a-vis other levels; (c) party leaderships will try to increase their freedom to negotiatewith others by avoiding extensive intra party debates or decisions. The study isbased on 30 interviews with representatives closely involved in the constitutional-reformprocess. The conclusion is that parties have self-interested goals as regards thequestion of how the political game should be regulated. The conflict between differentintra-party levels is also obvious. However, due to party members’’ disinterest inthe constitutional review, party leaders did not need to adopt a variety of strategies toavoid a large scale intra-party debate. It was enough for them to claim that the resultingcompromise was actually something of a victory for each party.
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- Blomgren, Magnus, 1966-
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Det röda Norrland och det blå Sverige
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Ingår i: Ett delat Norrland. - Umeå : Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Umeå universitet. - 9789174593754 ; , s. 85-104
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