The Governments in Europe project connects ten senior scholars in ten Baltic and East Central Europe countries with Södertörn University, Sweden, for the purpose of conducting cutting edge comparative research on the formation and stability of national governments. In particular, the project examines two aspects that in the region have not yet been the subject of scholarly inquiry: coalition governance and specific reasons for cabinet termination.
European social researchers have devoted much time and effort to collect information on citizens' values and attitudes. Until now, however, there has been no focused and systematic effort to relate these citizens' views to the central actors of representative democracy: political parties, parliaments and governments. The purpose of the data archive project is to rectify this by developing systematic information on central political actors and the institutions in which they exist.
The CPD program is devoted to comprehensive study of West European cabinets and is informed by and seeks to develop coalition research. The various volumes produced within the CPD program describes every governing coalition, the parliamentary seat distribution after each election, and the institutional rules under which the parliaments operated from the post-World War II beginning of 17 national regimes to 1999.
This 2011 volume is about the challenges to democratic government in a region in which parliamentary and party institutions are both strong and vulnerable: the Nordic countries. Parliamentary institutions and party democracy in those countries are widely perceived to be healthy both because of the efficiency with which they operate and because of the esteem in which they are held by their respective citizens. But are they? Read our book!
This section will present specific information on Nordic politics, such as information in tables, descriptive accounts of interesting aspects of Nordic politics, interviews with Nordic politicians and other useful information translated to English. For now, we share information (1) on an ongoing research project about Swedish constitutional reforms and (2) a chronological account of how the Swedish electoral law has changed since World War II.