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Models of Democracy in Nordic and Baltic Europe: Political Institutions and Discourse

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Full Title

Models of Democracy in Nordic and Baltic Europe: Political Institutions and Discourse

Author(s)

Aylott, Nicholas, Dr

Edition
ISBN

9781472409423, 9781472409409, 9781317094814

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This book explores the ways in which representative democracy works in two neighbouring collections of European states: the Nordic (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and the Baltic (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). Starting from a Nordic vantage point, contributors explore the extent to which aspects of politics function similarly or dissimilarly across the two groups of democratic states, acknowledging the differences in models of democracy that occur within each group. Authors explore the possibility that some of the apparently successful institutional features of Nordic politics have somehow influenced politics in the Baltic states, despite the considerable contextual differences between the two groups. The Nordic-Baltic comparison is particularly worthy of study, given the comparative stability of the Nordic democracies and the half century of occupation by a totalitarian dictatorship that the Baltic states endured.

The central, guiding questions are: how does political representation work in countries that have a lot in common, but also a few significant contextual dissimilarities