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
• Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics
• Subjects: citizen participation; Elections and referenda / suffrage; electoral harassment; electoral system; Finnish National Election Study; FNES; GAL-TAN; Interdisciplinary studies; Nordic politics; online campaigning; Party identification; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Political campaigning; Political parties and party platforms; Political structure and processes; Political structures: democracy; Politics and government; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Social and political philosophy; social media campaigning; Society and Social Sciences; Topics in philosophy; voting behaviour
• ISBN: 9781040023532; 1040023533; 1003452280; 1040023495; 9781003452287; 1032589531; 9781032589534; 9781040023495
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003452287

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. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution‑Non Commercial‑No Derivatives (CC‑BY‑NC‑ND) 4.0 license.