A01=Peter Esaiasson
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Agenda Building Process
Author_Peter Esaiasson
Author_Soren Holmberg
Category=JPA
Category=JPHV
Category=JPQ
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Center Party
Delegate Principle
Environmental Issues
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Hans Dieter Klingemann
interest group influence
Interest Organizations
Labor Market Organizations
Left Party
legislative behaviour
Long Term Priorities
Low Level White Collar Employees
members
model
mps
Non-Socialist Members
Non-socialist Parties
Opinion Congruence
opinion formation theory
party
party discipline
Policy Congruence
Policy Issues
political elites
Representational Foci
Representational Style
Representative Democracy
responsible
Responsible Party Model
riksdag
Riksdag Members
Riksdag Studies
Social Representativeness
study
swedish
Swedish MPs
Swedish Parliamentarians
Swedish parliamentary representation analysis
Swedish Riksdag
unstandardized
voter surveys
Product details
- ISBN 9781855217461
- Weight: 616g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jul 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book uses Sweden as a test case to analyze how parliament and elected representatives function in a representative democracy. Despite the status of Scandinavian countries as perhaps the world’s most egalitarian societies, the book argues that the best summary characterization of Swedish representative democracy is an elitist system run from above. The book also argues that an individualist representational model is relevant to the Swedish setting and most likely, to other settings as well. Representative democracy is not just party-based democracy - not even in a country with strong and disciplined parties. The book takes a broad approach to the study of political representation. It integrates into a single analytical framework concepts and theories from neighbouring traditions such as legislative behaviour, opinion formation and interest organizations. The study is based on a comprehensive set of data, including three surveys of the Members of the Swedish Parliament, corresponding voter surveys and content analysis of mass media and parliamentary records.
Peter Esaiasson, Sören Holmberg
