Description des particularités de la politique des pays Scandinaves

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In order to describe the distinctive features of Scandinavian politics nowadays, I will present and analyse Scandinavian politics ; that is to say, I will try to expound not all but the main politics, and even a few governments in Scandinavia, and absolutely not Scandinavian values about nature, industry or international trade for example. That's why I will focus on Icelandic, Norwich, Swedish, Finnish and Danish politics. I will just expose and analyse particular points, which show the nearness between politics of these countries. But what are the particularities of these politics, compared to the United Kingdom or France ? What are the main distinctive features of Scandinavian Politics ?...

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[...] In Danish, Norwich and Swedish national assemblies, the specialist standing committees play a central part. Indeed, they emphasise the fact that the parliament has a role of expert, but between the roles of expert and partisan, the latter prevails if there is a conflict between the both. Political parties stay the dominant actors in Nordic parliament, which has to be really underline so important is their power. Political parties control the formation of governments for example and determine how the work of the national assemblies is conducted too. [...]

[...] But what are the particularities of these politics, compared to the United Kingdom or France ? What are the main distinctive features of Scandinavian Politics ? Without returning on particularities of the British and French systems, I have these both in mind before expounding the distinctive features of Scandinavian Politics today. In a first part, I am going to deal with the voting system. Then, in a second part, I will describe minority governments, which are a common point between Scandinavian states and very rare out there in western Europe. [...]

[...] Besides and it is the second point, that I wanted to emphasise in this third part of my development, I would like to explain the Nordic welfare model, because it seems to me that there is a Nordic model. Nordic welfare model (but Problem in Sweden for instance) : CH 8 (p.173s) To conclude, we can also underline that Scandinavian states work in the same direction and their three main purpose are the next ones : to keep democracy, to conciliate economic liberalism and social voluntarism and to open themselves to the world and particularly to Europe. [...]

[...] Thirdly, I will evoke some particular features, without links between them, which are more or less debated : are the Nordic countries corporate states ? and otherwise, are their welfare model still interesting ? that is to say, what about welfare rights as well as political liberties ? We can evoke a tradition of corporatism in Nordic states, that is to say a tradition of power-sharing or neo-corporatism. We can also define the both terms, corporatism and neo-corporatism, by the same way. [...]

[...] The last points, which have to be underlined here, are on the one hand the existence of separatist movements (like Faeroe, Greenland, Swedish from Finland ) and on the other hand the actual development of referenda, which is a democratic way to mitigate the decline of the electoral participation and to surmount the partisan cleavages. Then, there have been and still are minority governments in Scandinavian states. Minority governments have been the norm and some of them are really strong. [...]