The Rise of the Norwegian Parliament
Author : Hilmar Rommetvedt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Norway
ISBN : 1135774927
The Rise of the Norwegian Parliament
Author : Hilmar Rommetvedt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780714652863
Book Description
This volume presents eight studies of different but interrelated aspects of parliamentary government in post-war Norway. Focusing on parliamentary change, the studies are split into three sections. The first demonstrates how Norwegian politics has changed, including issues of coalition formation, structural changes and the impact of committee change on environmental policy-making. The second part analyses coalition governments and the management of party relations, the changing relations between organised interests, parliaments and executives, and the impact of lobbyism. The final study concentrates on district representation and explores the idea of the Storting (the Norwegian Parliament) as both a central assembly of Norwegian politics and the central assembly of the Norwegian periphery.
Measuring the Master Race
Author : Jon Røyne Kyllingstad
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1909254541
Book Description
The notion of a superior ‘Germanic’ or ‘Nordic’ race was a central theme in Nazi ideology. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological research on the physical characteristics of Europeans. The Scandinavian Peninsula was considered to be the historical cradle and the heartland of this ‘master race’. Measuring the Master Race investigates the role played by Scandinavian scholars in inventing this so-called superior race, and discusses how the concept stamped Norwegian physical anthropology, prehistory, national identity and the eugenics movement. It also explores the decline and scientific discrediting of these ideas in the 1930s as they came to be associated with the genetic cleansing of Nazi Germany. This is the first comprehensive study of Norwegian physical anthropology. Its findings shed new light on current political and scientific debates about race across the globe.
The Rise of Little Big Norway
Author : John F. L. Ross
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1785271946
Book Description
"The Rise of Little Big Norway" explores the unlikely rise of Norway from peripherality to today’s global steward with an enviable work-life balance, influential oil fund and Arctic front-row seat. Drawing on wide-ranging source material, John Ross’s original approach combines astute observation, thoughtful analysis and a flowing essay style, leavened with the comparative insight that only a seasoned observer of the region can bring. The book examines the settings, histories and niche elements that lend Norway its distinctiveness and differentiate it from its Nordic neighbors. It gives special attention to the northern and Arctic dimensions of Norwegian life and elaborates a connecting thematic thread, the mobility that once took Vikings across the Atlantic in open boats and makes today’s Norwegians the most-traveled people on the planet. The result is a carefully crafted general study of Norway, a country long overlooked in favor of its Nordic neighbors but now a quiet force in its own right and a touchstone for twenty-first century issues ranging from identity politics to the Arctic melt. This book fills a major gap in the literature on Norway and the Nordic region.
Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process
Author : Sven T. Siefken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 100044113X
Book Description
This book sheds new light on the often shadowy, but essential role of committees, which exist in modern parliaments around the globe, and it questions the conventional notion that the ‘real’ work of parliament happens in committees. Renowned country specialists take a close look at what goes on in committees and how it matters for policy making. While committees are seen as the central place where policy is made, they often hold their sessions closed to the public and calls for transparency are growing. To understand this "black box" it is necessary to look within but also beyond the walls of the committee rooms and parliament buildings. Bringing together formal and informal aspects, rules and practices shows that committees are not a paradise of policy making. They have great relevance nonetheless: as crystallization points in the policy networks, as drivers for division of labor and for socialization and the integration of MPs. The new insights presented in this book will be of interest to scholars, students and professionals in parliamentary affairs, legislative studies, government, and comparative politics. They are also relevant for political analysts, journalists, and policymakers.
The Routledge Handbook of Parliamentary Administrations
Author : Thomas Christiansen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000843920
Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Parliamentary Administrations brings together an international, multidisciplinary group of contributors providing a systematic and comprehensive analysis of parliamentary administrations. Including chapters on the administrations of national parliaments in every member state of the European Union, in most of the EU candidate countries and in key liberal democracies around the world, this book represents a uniquely broad-ranging resource. Each national system is treated in a consistent manner, with authors providing relevant facts, figures and critical analysis according to a common framework. Additionally, it provides coverage of transnational parliamentary administrations in different regions around the globe and includes a number of cross-cutting chapters, addressing key issues of relevance for a better understanding of parliamentary administrations such as the potential for politicisation, professionalisation, digitalisation or Europeanisation with the comparative analysis of different national experiences. This handbook will enable readers to better comprehend the role and influence of parliamentary administrations and in doing so will enhance our understanding of their importance for the effective functioning of representative democracy more generally. The Routledge Handbook of Parliamentary Administrations constitutes a unique tool and prime reference for any researcher, scholar or practitioner working in the area of parliamentary and legislative studies, governance, democracy, public policy and administration, as well as more widely to European studies, general political science and comparative politics.
Societal Security and Crisis Management
Author : Per Lægreid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 331992303X
Book Description
This book studies governance capacity and governance legitimacy for societal security and crisis management. It highlights the importance of building organizational capacity by focusing on the coordination of public resources and underscores the relevance of legitimacy by emphasizing the importance of public perceptions, attitudes, and trust vis-à-vis government arrangements for crisis management. The authors explore several cases and identify relevant dimensions concerning performance, capacity and legitimacy across different countries. It is an ideal volume for audiences interested in public administration, public policy, crisis management and security studies.
Norway in Transition
Author : Oyvind Osterud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317970365
Book Description
The transformation of Norway is a magnifying glass to processes of political change in European countries generally. In this book, a group of Norway`s most prominent political scientists closely analyzes the forces of change - ranging from the political apparatus, the mode of partisan mobilization, and the development of political trust to the new gender relations and the strains on the established elite consensus. This volume shows how Norway is an embodiment of the Nordic Model. Norwegian society and politics have attracted wide-spread interest for three interrelated reasons – a strikingly egalitarian and cooperative model for public-private relations, a stable and rich country on the outside of the European Union, and a notable engagement in moral policy areas globally. Now the model is in flux for domestic as well as external reasons. Rule by popular consent is in question, with a more fragile chain of governance and a slow erosion of mass parties. The model is transformed from below, through the changing democratic infrastructure, as well as from above, with privatization and market reform in the public sector. The focus is Norway, but the book is a comparative analysis of a paradigm case with relevance far beyond its own borders. This book was previously published as a special issue of the leading journal West European Politics.
Political Parties and Democracy
Author : Kay Lawson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1537 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0313083495
Book Description
Native scholars explore the relationship between political parties and democracy in regions around the world. The development of political parties over the past century is the story of three stages in the pursuit of power: liberation, democratization, and de-democratization. Political Parties and Democracy is comprised of five, stand-alone volumes that probe the realities of political parties at all three stages. In each volume, contributors explore the relationship between political parties and democracy (or democratization) in their nations, providing necessary historical, socioeconomic, and institutional context, as well as the details of contemporary political tensions. Contributors are distinguished indigenous scholars who have lived the truths they tell and are, thus, able to write with unique breadth, depth, and scope. They show the parties of their respective nations as they have developed through history and changing institutional structures, and they explain the balance of power among them—and between them and competing agencies of power—today.
The Madisonian Turn
Author : Torbjörn Bergman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0472117475
Book Description
Parliamentary democracy is the most common regime type in the contemporary political world, but the quality of governance depends on effective parliamentary oversight and strong political parties. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have traditionally been strongholds of parliamentary democracy. In recent years, however, critics have suggested that new challenges such as weakened popular attachment, the advent of cartel parties, the judicialization of politics, and European integration have threatened the institutions of parliamentary democracy in the Nordic region. This volume examines these claims and their implications. The authors find that the Nordic states have moved away from their previous resemblance to a Westminster model toward a form of parliamentary democracy with more separation-of-powers features—a Madisonian model. These features are evident both in vertical power relations (e.g., relations with the European Union) and horizontal ones (e.g., increasingly independent courts and central banks). Yet these developments are far from uniform and demonstrate that there may be different responses to the political challenges faced by contemporary Western democracies.
