Scandinavian Politics Today

David Arter is an Emeritus Professor and Director of Research at the University of Tampere, Finland

• Introduction1. The Nordic states: a suitable case for comparison?Part I: The making of modern Scandinavia2. Towards the eight quills of the swan: nation-building and state-building, 1809-1944Part II: The Scandinavian party system model3. 2 + 3 = ?: the emergence of the Scandinavian party system(s)4. Reds and Greens: the historic strength of the five main types of party5. 'Big Bang' elections and party system change in Scandinavia: farewell to the "enduring party system"?Part III: A distinctive model of political representation?6. Selecting candidates and electing members of parliament in the Nordic region: an analytical framework7. The personal vote and personal-vote-seeking: a shift towards a 'personalised candidate campaign' model?8. Political representation: a 'demand side' perspectivePart IV: A Nordic model of government?9. The Nordic states: consensual democracies?10. A Nordic model of government?Part V: A Nordic model of parliamentarism?11. The Nordic parliaments: much of a muchness 'working parliaments'?12. The Nordic parliaments: an alternative model?13. Towards prime ministerial government or a presidentialisation of the executive?Part VI: The Nordic welfare model14. Trouble in paradise: W(h)ither the 'Nordic welfare model'?15. The emergence of a new Nordic welfare model?Part VII: A Nordic model of regional co-operation16. Institutionalised regional co-operation: much ado about nothing [much]?17. Nordic regional co-operation: the security dimensionPart VIII: Norden in an integrating Europe18. Nordic euroscepticism past and present: the nation against the state? Epilogue: The end of Nordic exceptionalism?Index