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A cabinet minister who once defended the right to blaspheme now wants a crackdown.

Deutsche Welle reports on today's actions: The Danish parliament on Thursday approved legislation that would effectively prohibit Quran burnings in the northern European country. The law criminalizes the "inappropriate treatment of writings with significant importance for a recognized religious community." The bill was passed with 94 votes in favor by the 179-member Danish parliament, also known as the…

Here's an excerpt from the article, by free speech historian Jacob Mchangama, writing in Time: On July 30, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced that the government will seek to enact legislation for "special situations where other countries, cultures, and religions could be insulted, potentially resulting in significant negative consequences for Denmark." Sweden is mulling over…

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Since 2019, anti-Islam non-parliamentary activists have explored the limits to freedom of speech in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands through their provocative Quran desecration acts. Using the non-parliamentarian arena to exercise power from a position of minority, the far-right activist Rasmus Paludan and his party were able to effectively push the Danish constitutional boundaries, while at the same time affecting the geopolitical situation. While the protests so far only have had legal repercussions regarding blasphemy and freedom of speech in Denmark, it clearly demonstrates that non-parliamentary far-right activists also hold certain legislative powers.

And so as nations around the world, including liberal democracies like Denmark, increasingly limit free expression, the world is facing a worsening free speech recession.

Tension is growing in Sweden and Denmark, and in much of the Muslim world, because of recent public burnings of the Qur'an in those two European nations.

Growing up in a suburban town, I serpentined through my neighborhood streets every day after school. I also studied abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark and relied solely on public transportation and my bicycle, as it trulyContinue reading

The governments of Denmark and Sweden are looking at legislation that would ban the burning of the Quran or other religious texts during protests. The Danish foreign ministry, in a statement, said the government wants to intervene in protests where "other countries, cultures, and religions are being insulted, and where this could have significant negative…

In Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare, Klaus Hoeyer examines the paradoxes surrounding healthcare data, looking at Denmark as a case study, arguing that increased data collection does not always result in more efficient services. The book's extensive interdisciplinary research results in a rich guide for how we can think about our relationship to … Continued

The school strikes and new environmental social movements have raised awareness of climate change and pushed it higher up on the political agenda. In some countries, it has changed public opinion, for example in Denmark where climate change was the main topic in the Spring European and national parliamentary elections. Indeed, the elections are known […]
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Alexia Herwig, JSD, LLM
Associate Professor
Faculty of Law
University of Antwerp
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2000 Antwerp
Belgium
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Anna Leander
Professor
Department of Business and Politics
Copenhagen Business School
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2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Phone: +45 3815 3119
al.dbp@cbs.dk
Anna Leander
Professor (mso)
Department of Business and Politics
Copenhagen Business School
Porcelænshaven 18A, DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: (+45) 3815 3119 |al.dbp@cbs.dk |
www.cbs.dk/staff/ale

In 1974, when Harold Wilson formed the UK's first minority government in 45 years, observers like Anthony King optimistically claimed that "[m]inority rule can work". This challenges the oft-cited view of Strøm that minority governments are "counterintuitive phenomen[a] in the world of parliamentary democracy". Today, minority governments constitute approximately one third of governments in established parliamentary democracies, globally. This 'counterintuitive' statistic raises the following questions: When can minority rule work? Under which conditions are minority cabinets effective? How have minority rule governments evolved over time? To answer these questions, I focus on three cases – Sweden, Norway, and Denmark – where minority cabinets are the predominant form of government. Ultimately, I argue that existing measures to assess the performance of ...