Lessons from the Nordics: does party membership still provide a meaningful link between citizens and politics?

Demker, Marie, Heidar, Knut and Kosiara-Pederson, Karina (2020) Lessons from the Nordics: does party membership still provide a meaningful link between citizens and politics? LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog (24 Jan 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Political parties play a crucial role in enabling the views of citizens to be represented in political decision-making. Yet across Europe, the vast majority of citizens no longer actively participate in political parties, with party membership numbers experiencing a sharp fall in recent decades. Drawing on a new edited volume covering the Nordic countries, Marie Demker, Knut Heidar and Karina Kosiara-Pedersen explain how parties might continue to link citizens with politics, despite the fall in membership numbers.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2020 08:45
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 01:59
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/103595

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