Organizational de-integration of political parties and interest groups in Denmark
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 27-44
ISSN: 1354-0688
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In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 27-44
ISSN: 1354-0688
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 27-43
ISSN: 1460-3683
Political parties and major economic interest groups often used to be closely linked, but over recent decades they seem to have become more and more detached. Until now, this process has primarily been described in almost deterministic structural models that tell us little about how this detachment takes place and imply that it affects all players at around the same time. The article analyses this development with a simple exchange model that explains changes in organizational integration between political parties and interest groups from its effect on their respective goal-seeking as collective actors. The model is tested on four sets of political parties and interest groups in Denmark in a longitudinal analysis covering developments since 1920. The variation found largely confirms the expectations of the model that the timing of the detachment across party families depends on the strength of resources both sides can derive from the other.
In: Scandinavian political studies, Volume 45, Issue 4, p. 548-575
ISSN: 1467-9477
AbstractCentre Parties (Agrarians, Christian Democrats and Liberals) used to be an established part of the Scandinavian party systems and have often been pivotal for government formation. With ongoing individualisation, secularisation, decline of traditional cleavages, and the rise of new ones such as immigration, as well as polarisation, these parties face the challenge of losing representation in parliament as already happened to the Danish Centre Democrats and Christian Democrats. To shift a party's bloc affiliation and coalition preferences is a feature of centre parties, and it may itself be a strategic decision to mobilise new voters in a changed political environment to survive. Yet, it may alienate voters. While the strategic decision to change bloc is common among Scandinavian centre parties and theoretically relevant, empirical investigations of the electoral effects of bloc changes have been dim. We provide a systematic analysis of the electoral effects of bloc changes in Scandinavia in the last four decades. We collected data on bloc changes of Scandinavian centre parties and found 24 between 1977 and 2021. Our panel regressions reveal that bloc changes are indeed electorally costly as centre parties on average lose around 2% after a bloc change. Frequent bloc changes in the past do also reduce a party's average electoral performance. The electoral punishment of a bloc change, however, is cushioned by a large membership base as centre parties evade significant losses if they have a strong anchor in the electorate.
In: Oxford review of economic policy, Volume 13, Issue 4, p. 1-11
ISSN: 1460-2121
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Volume 35, Issue 4, p. 305-317
ISSN: 1467-9485
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In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Volume 20, Issue 1, p. 65-71
ISSN: 1467-9485
In: The journal of legislative studies, Volume 20, Issue 4, p. 413-429
ISSN: 1743-9337
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