Political Behaviour in Contemporary Finland Studies of Voting and Campaigning in a Candidate-Oriented Political System

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2024
• Subjects: citizen participation; electoral harassment; electoral system; Finnish National Election Study; FNES; GAL-TAN; Nordic politics; online campaigning; Party identification; Political campaigning; social media campaigning; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies; 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::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHV Political structures: democracy; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPL Political parties and party platforms; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy; voting behaviour
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• ISBN: 9781003452287; 9781032589534; 9781040023495; 9781040023532
• Access: Open Access

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.