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oapen-20.500.12657-881332024-03-28T14:02:48Z Political Behaviour in Contemporary Finland von Schoultz, Åsa Strandberg, Kim GAL-TAN electoral system Political campaigning online campaigning social media campaigning Finnish National Election Study FNES Party identification electoral harassment Nordic politics citizen participation voting behaviour thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHF Elections and referenda / suffrage thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPL Political parties and party platforms thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHV Political structures: democracy This book presents a comprehensive overview of Finnish electoral democracy, expertly detailing both its typical representation of a stable European party democracy and its particularities such as a personalized electoral system, a fragmented party system with tradition of grand government coalitions and its sensitive geopolitical location. Using the Finnish National Election Study as a basis, it analyses how voters act and react in an electoral democracy characterized by a high degree of competition between and within parties, yet a democracy in which the possibility for voters to hold governments accountable for their actions is weak, leading to interesting tensions within the system and influences on how voters relate to and engage in politics. This book not only describes these patterns but also provides the reader with thorough explanations and interpretations from a team of expert contributors. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Finnish politics, Nordic/Scandinavian politics and studies, political behaviour, electoral studies, public opinion and more broadly to comparative politics and democracy. 2024-03-04T16:48:37Z 2024-03-04T16:48:37Z 2024 book ONIX_20240304_9781040023495_9 9781040023495 9781032589534 9781040023532 9781003452287 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88133 eng application/pdf n/a 9781040023495.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003452287 Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003452287 10.4324/9781003452287 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb dfa24df8-b786-428e-83b0-91b54f607420 9781040023495 9781032589534 9781040023532 9781003452287 Routledge 294 Oxford [...] open access
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of Finnish electoral democracy, expertly detailing both its typical representation of a stable European party democracy and its particularities such as a personalized electoral system, a fragmented party system with tradition of grand government coalitions and its sensitive geopolitical location. Using the Finnish National Election Study as a basis, it analyses how voters act and react in an electoral democracy characterized by a high degree of competition between and within parties, yet a democracy in which the possibility for voters to hold governments accountable for their actions is weak, leading to interesting tensions within the system and influences on how voters relate to and engage in politics. This book not only describes these patterns but also provides the reader with thorough explanations and interpretations from a team of expert contributors. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Finnish politics, Nordic/Scandinavian politics and studies, political behaviour, electoral studies, public opinion and more broadly to comparative politics and democracy.
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