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- Andersson, Staffan, 1969-, et al.
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Regeringen
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Ingår i: Motståndskraft, oberoende, integritet: Kan det svenska samhället stå emot korruption?. - Stockholm : Transparency International Sverige. - 9789198009002 ; , s. 141-164
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- Andersson, Staffan, 1969-, et al.
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Riksdagen
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Ingår i: Motståndskraft, oberoende, integritet: Kan det svenska samhället stå emot korruption?. - Stockholm : Transparency International Sverige. - 9789198009002 ; , s. 115-138
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- Andersson, Staffan, 1969-, et al.
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The European Representative Democracy Data Archive
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We believe that a key to progress in terms of a better understanding of democratic politics rests on a research agenda that combines the best of cross-national statistical research with in-depth studies of historical pathways (path dependency), norms and practices in an analysis of rational politicians seeking power and policy influence. To enable us to conduct research on both that which is common across countries and specific to regions and the historical configuration of an individual country, we have built a new database with comparative data on cabinets, parliaments and political parties. It contains comparative data on 29 European countries
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- Bergman, Torbjörn, et al.
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Government formation and breakdown in Western and Central Eastern Europe
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Ingår i: Comparative European Politics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1472-4790 .- 1740-388X. ; 13:3, s. 345-375
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we use a new data set describing governments, political parties and institutions to make an explicit comparison between Western Europe (WE) and Central Eastern Europe (CEE) in the investigation of three different topical issues found in the coalition literature, namely, coalition formation (that is, which factors affect who forms the winning coalitions), the number of cabinet members (that is, what affects the number of ministers in a cabinet) and cabinet duration (that is, which factors affect how long a new government lasts). Our findings indicate that, regardless of all the discussions about how CEE is different from WE because of the post-communist heritage or the volatility of voters in the CEE region, structural attributes such as the size and number of political parties are important determinants of coalition formation and cabinet duration patterns in both the West and the East. In fact, precisely because of the unsettled nature of CEE party politics, structural attributes tend to matter even more in the East.
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- Bolin, Niklas, 1977-
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Målsättning riksdagen : Ett aktörsperspektiv på nya partiers inträde i det nationella parlamentet
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During much of the 20th century, the national party systems of Western Europe remained largely unchanged. However, beginning in the 1970s, these frozen party systems slowly started to melt. As the number of parties has increased, the question of what explains new party entrance has also attracted more scholarly interest. Despite this increased attention, the study of new political parties still suffers from a structuralist bias. The implication is that the fates of new parties are decided almost exclusively by external factors. Some scholars focus on the institutional environment; others emphasize sociological explanations, such as the formation of new cleavages in society. Yet such non-actor-centred perspectives risk being excessively deterministic. They also struggle to explain why some parties succeed in gaining entrance to legislatures while others, seemingly under the same external circumstances, fail. In this thesis, therefore, a new way to study parties and their path to parliament is proposed. Starting with the notion that external conditions alone cannot explain new party entrance, the thesis takes an agency-based perspective. Three sets of strategies are identified as being important means for a party to influence its chances of getting into parliament. They concern the party's resources, its political project and its external relations. In what ways can supply and management of resources, policies and relations with other parties affect the potential for becoming a parliamentary party? Through four in-depth case studies of new entrants into the Swedish national parliament, the Riksdag, the thesis concludes that there are some important commonalities in their paths to parliament. Especially with regard to their resources and their political project, the empirical evidence supports the initial premise: new party entrance is unthinkable without successful strategic behaviour.
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- Bonander, Fredrik, 1973-
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Party membership and state subsidies : a comparative study
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis tests the hypothesis that increasing state subsidies to political parties cause a declined party membership. The theory that predicted this development was constructed by Epstein in 1967 and presented in his book Political Parties in Western Democracies. The theoretical propositions have been debated by political scientists since then, but no thorough test has been conducted. In order to test the hypothesis state subsidies data and party membership data was collected for the national parties from eight states. The data was then analysed by use of the panel data models. Panel data models make use of the regression analysis technique. Examples of specialized such models are analysis through the fundamental parameter of change, first differencing and pooled analysis. The results provided by the models proved to not give a straight answer. Instead, the results pointed in different directions. The most likely interpretation of the results is that increasing state subsidies to political parties does not cause a decline in party membership. To validate such a result would require that most of the results pointed in the same direction. Thus, the hypothesis of the investigation should be considered falsified. Instead the focus of future studies should probably be directed at the supply side of party membership. When party membership decline is explained by the supply side this means that the decline is explained by people stop having motive to become party members. However, it is important to remember that other interpretations of the results are possible as well.
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