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Parties, Governments and Voters in Finland

Politics under Fundamental Societal
Transformation

Lauri Karvonen

Lauri Karvonen 2014

First published by the ECPR Press in 2014

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Figures

Figure 1.1: A ballot paper in a Finnish parliamentary election

Figure 3.1: Left-right variation in west-European party manifestos, 19452003

Figure 3.2: Size of party families in Finnish parliament since the 1950s, decennial averages of vote shares

Figure 3.3: Turnover in the Finnish parliament since 1962

Figure 5.1: Voter turnout in national and local elections in Finland

Figure 5.2: Correlations between social class and party choice and between income and party choice, 19912011; values of Cramers V

Figure 5.3: Democracy may have its problems, but its better than any other form of government

Figure 5.4: Interest in politics

Figure 5.5: Politics is too complicated to understand

Tables

Table 1.1: The distribution of the six seats in South Savo in the 2011 election

Table 1.2: Number of parliamentary seats held by the various parties, 19992011

Table 2.1: Vote shares (per cent of valid vote) of five constituent parties in Finnish party system, compared with vote shares of other parties, in 1922, 1962, 2007 and 2011

Table 2.2: Original structural foundations of four constituent parties in Finnish party system

Table 2.3: Economically active population by sector (percentages) 19202004: Finland compared to ten other west-European countries

Table 2.4: Types of cabinets in Finland, 19502009

Table 3.1: Mean aggregate support for new political parties in 16 west-European democracies, 19602009

Table 3.2: Party membership in western Europe during the past three decades

Table 3.3: The number of basic (local) organisations of Finnish parties since 1945

Table 3.4: Party membership in Finland since 1945

Table 3.5: Incentives for individual campaigns in preferential voting systems

Table 3.6: Proportion of women among candidates for parliament and elected MP, in selected years

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