Author: Lauri Karvonen

The political landscape in Finland has changed dramatically during the past 35 years. Like everywhere in the democratic West these changes have pertained to the economic and social underpinnings of t …

This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan’s classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an influential work since its publication in 1967. It e …

This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan’s classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an influential work since its publication in 1967. It e …

This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan’s classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an influential work since its publication in 1967. It e …

With the weakening of the structural determinants of politics in Western democracies, it is commonly assumed that individual politicians and politicians as individuals have come to mean more for vote …

With the weakening of the structural determinants of politics in Western democracies, it is commonly assumed that individual politicians and politicians as individuals have come to mean more for vote …

This book is the story of what happens to parties, governments and voters when the fundamental features that conditioned party formation and voter alignments undergo rapid change. It is this that mak …