Paradoxes and Opportunism: The Danish Election of March 1998
THE RESULT OF THE DANISH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION OF 11 MARCH 1998 could hardly have been closer. It came down to 89 voters in the Faroes: had this number voted for the local centre-right party, rather than the centre-left one, both of the islands' two seats in the Danish Folketing (parliament) w...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1999.tb00471.x 2023-05-15T16:11:16+02:00 Paradoxes and Opportunism: The Danish Election of March 1998 Aylott, Nicholas 1999 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1999.tb00471.x https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0017257X00004279 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Government and Opposition volume 34, issue 1, page 59-77 ISSN 0017-257X 1477-7053 Public Administration Sociology and Political Science journal-article 1999 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1999.tb00471.x 2022-04-07T08:59:47Z THE RESULT OF THE DANISH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION OF 11 MARCH 1998 could hardly have been closer. It came down to 89 voters in the Faroes: had this number voted for the local centre-right party, rather than the centre-left one, both of the islands' two seats in the Danish Folketing (parliament) would have gone to supporters of the opposition, thus tipping the parliamentary balance. However, because the sister party of the Danish Social Democrats won one of those seats, the incumbent prime minister, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, managed to confound the predictions of the opinion polls and stay in power, continuing his Social Democrats' coalition with the Social Liberal Party. It remained a minority government; but this is the norm in Denmark's fragmented multi-party system. Moreover, with the presumed support of the parties to the left of the Social Democrats, and with other parties also professing their keenness to cooperate, the chances of a stable government enduring through the rest of the four-year parliamentary term looked bright. Article in Journal/Newspaper Faroes Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Rasmussen ENVELOPE(-64.084,-64.084,-65.248,-65.248) Government and Opposition 34 1 59 77 |
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THE RESULT OF THE DANISH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION OF 11 MARCH 1998 could hardly have been closer. It came down to 89 voters in the Faroes: had this number voted for the local centre-right party, rather than the centre-left one, both of the islands' two seats in the Danish Folketing (parliament) would have gone to supporters of the opposition, thus tipping the parliamentary balance. However, because the sister party of the Danish Social Democrats won one of those seats, the incumbent prime minister, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, managed to confound the predictions of the opinion polls and stay in power, continuing his Social Democrats' coalition with the Social Liberal Party. It remained a minority government; but this is the norm in Denmark's fragmented multi-party system. Moreover, with the presumed support of the parties to the left of the Social Democrats, and with other parties also professing their keenness to cooperate, the chances of a stable government enduring through the rest of the four-year parliamentary term looked bright. |
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