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- Aylott, Nicholas, 1970-, et al.
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A party system in flux : the Swedish parliamentary election of September 2018
- 2019
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In: West European Politics. - : Routledge. - 0140-2382 .- 1743-9655. ; 42:7, s. 1504-1515
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the Swedish parliamentary election of 7 September 2018, the biggest parties, the Social Democrats and the Moderates, both lost votes compared to their scores in the previous election, but not as many as they had feared. Commensurately, the radical-right challenger party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), which had seemed certain to profit from Sweden's dramatic experience of the European migration crisis, did well, but not as well as it had hoped. The result left the array of parliamentary forces fragmented and finely balanced. Only after months of negotiations could a government be formed. Eventually, the incumbent coalition received a renewed parliamentary mandate. At the same time, the party system was transformed.
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- Aylott, Nicholas, et al.
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A peculiar practice : Intra-party democracy and leader selection in Sweden
- 2015
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- There are various reasons to expect Swedish parties to demonstrate a high degree of intra-party democracy. However, data collected by the Political Party Database Working Group suggests that Swedish parties do not actually outperform most other Western democracies in this respect. What is more, we know that Swedish party leaders are chosen in a way that observers in many other countries would regard as profoundly undemocratic. In this paper, we look more closely at this particular aspect of intra-party democracy in Sweden. We describe how the leader-selection process works, focusing on three recent instances. An important objective is to develop a set of fine-grained, qualitative indicators that can be used in cross-national, comparative studies of how parties delegate to their leaders and hold them accountable.
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- Aylott, Nicholas, 1970-, et al.
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Managed Intra-Party Democracy : Precursory Delegation and Party Leader Selection
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In: Party Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0688 .- 1460-3683. ; 23:1, s. 55-65
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The question of how party leaders are selected has recently, and belatedly, come under systematic comparative scrutiny. If it is the location of intra-party power that interests us, however, it might be that some of the more observable indicators in such processes, such as the identity of the selectorate, are not actually the most revealing ones. Using a delegation perspective, we thus present a framework for analysing prior steps in leader selection and relate it to various ideal-typical constellations of intra-party power. The framework encompasses, first, what we call precursory delegation, with focus especially on an agent that, formally or informally, manages the selection process before it reaches the selectorate. Second, the framework takes account of the degree to which the process is managed rather than left open to free competition between leader candidates. We illustrate the framework primarily with instances of leader selection in two Swedish parties.
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- Aylott, Nicholas, 1970-
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The Party System
- 2015
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In: The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780199665679 ; , s. 152-168
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Aylott, Nicholas, et al.
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The Swedish Greens : a big step forward – and several steps back
- 2015
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In: Environmental Politics. - : Routledge. - 0964-4016 .- 1743-8934. ; 24:2, s. 337-341
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The parliamentary election of 14 September 2014 induced decidedly mixed feelings in the Swedish Green Party (Miljöpartiet de gröna). It led to the ejection of the centre-right government and the installation, for the first time, of Green cabinet ministers. However, the party also experienced a small but unexpected loss of votes compared to its score in the previous election. Moreover, partly because a far-right party built impressively on its breakthrough into the national parliament in 2010, the new government rests on a precariously narrow parliamentary base.
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