Democracy

In this category, you will find articles on democracy and the Nordics, including parliaments, voting systems, egalitarianism, consensual democracy, social democracy and the welfare state. Categories are interpreted widely.

25 April 2024 - Jón Ólafsson

The promise of political renewal that followed the country’s currency and economy collapsing has stalled in political quagmire.

17 April 2024 - Damian Szacawa

Listen to a podcast about when and why states in and around the Baltic Sea have worked together for economic, social or geopolitical reasons, with a…

11 December 2023 - Birgitte Beck Prinsted

Listen to two podcasts in Danish on the changing political and cultural landscape since the invasion of Ukraine, both in Russia, Europe and Norden.

31 July 2023 - Therese Sefton

Responses to the pandemic challenge local autonomy.

The Danish parliament "Christiansborg" viewed from a frog-eyed perspective with a blue sky in the background.

12 May 2023 - Jesper Vestermark Køber

Nordic conceptions of democracy are challenged and change over time.

12 May 2023 - Anders Widfeldt

An overview of right-wing parties and political polarisation in the Nordic countries in the twenty-first century.

A drawing of several people inside a house. A man is reading from a book, with a woman standing behind him, looking down on the book. Everyone is gathered around a fire, and several other people are both standing and sitting down, listening to the story.

14 April 2023 - Margrét Gunnarsdóttir

An international current affairs publication in Iceland (Minnisverð tíðindi or Noteworthy News) ran for eight years at the turn of the nineteenth…

11 November 2021 - Ragnar Auðun Árnason

Back in the 1980s and 90s, support for joining the European Union in Iceland was split into three, a bit like it is today: for, against and undecided.…