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Minority governments and party politics: The political and institutional background to the Danish Miracle
The performance of the Danish economy in the 1990s has been successful to the extent that scholars are talking about a Danish miracle. The importance of government policies to Denmark's economic success is taken as a point of departure in investigating why Danish governments have been able to govern the economy successfully in the 1990s. The paper argues that two factors have been important. First, the functioning of Danish parliamentarianism has been reshaped to strengthen the bargaining position of minority governments, which became the rule in Danish politics after the landslide election in 1973. Today, Danish minority governments can enter agreements with changing coalitions in the Danish parliament. The paper thus challenges the conventional wisdom about minority governments as weak in terms of governing capacity. Second, the changed socio-economic strategy of the Social Democrats after returning to power in 1993 has been important because it has created a political consensus around a number of controversial reforms.
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Englisch
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Series: MPIfG Discussion Paper ; No. 01/1
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Green-Pedersen, Christoffer
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Veröffentlichung
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung
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Köln
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2001
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
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- Green-Pedersen, Christoffer
- Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung
Time of origin
- 2001
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