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  • 1.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    A new right: the Swedish parliamentary election of September 20222023In: West European Politics, ISSN 0140-2382, E-ISSN 1743-9655, Vol. 46, no 5, p. 1049-1062Article in journal (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The Swedish parliamentary election of 11 September 2022 led to the removal of a Social Democratic government and the installation of a right-of-centre coalition. The change was made possible by the mainstream right’s abandonment of the previous cordon sanitaire around the radical-right Sweden Democrats (SD). The new government, consisting of the Moderates, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals, concluded a comprehensive agreement with SD. In this article, we sketch the background to the election; describe how the campaign unfolded; and interpret the results and outcome.

  • 2.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    A party system in flux: the Swedish parliamentary election of September 20182019In: West European Politics, ISSN 0140-2382, E-ISSN 1743-9655, Vol. 42, no 7, p. 1504-1515Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In the Swedish parliamentary election of 7 September 2018, the biggest parties, the Social Democrats and the Moderates, both lost votes compared to their scores in the previous election, but not as many as they had feared. Commensurately, the radical-right challenger party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), which had seemed certain to profit from Sweden's dramatic experience of the European migration crisis, did well, but not as well as it had hoped. The result left the array of parliamentary forces fragmented and finely balanced. Only after months of negotiations could a government be formed. Eventually, the incumbent coalition received a renewed parliamentary mandate. At the same time, the party system was transformed.

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  • 3.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    A peculiar practice: Intra-party democracy and leader selection in Sweden2015Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    There are various reasons to expect Swedish parties to demonstrate a high degree of intra-party democracy. However, data collected by the Political Party Database Working Group suggests that Swedish parties do not actually outperform most other Western democracies in this respect. What is more, we know that Swedish party leaders are chosen in a way that observers in many other countries would regard as profoundly undemocratic. In this paper, we look more closely at this particular aspect of intra-party democracy in Sweden. We describe how the leader-selection process works, focusing on three recent instances. An important objective is to develop a set of fine-grained, qualitative indicators that can be used in cross-national, comparative studies of how parties delegate to their leaders and hold them accountable.

  • 4.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Conflicts and Coronations: Analysing Leader Selection in European Political Parties2021In: Managing Leader Selection in European Political Parties / [ed] Nicholas Aylott; Niklas Bolin, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, p. 1-28Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Political parties shape politics, and the most important person in a party is usually the leader. Party leaders make the political weather. Take a recent example from Britain. In 2015 the Labour Party, somewhat unexpectedly, lost a national election. Its leader resigned and a new one was needed. “Jeremy Corbyn is not going to win the Labour leadership election”, insisted one of the country’s shrewdest political commentators (Rentoul 2015). But Corbyn did win, and by a comfortable margin. Labour thus took a big stride to the left.

  • 5.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Editorial: Party leader selection in Europe: concepts, processes and outcomes2023In: Frontiers in Political Science, E-ISSN 2673-3145, Vol. 5, article id 1279488Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 6.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörn University.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    How the rise of the Swedish radical right changed the most stable party system in Europe2018Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 7.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Leader selection, management failure and institutional change in the Swedish Liberal party2021Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 8.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Locating power in party leader selection2023In: Scandinavian Political Studies, ISSN 0080-6757, E-ISSN 1467-9477, Vol. 46, no 1-2, p. 1-22Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In this article, the aim is to enhance our understanding of who has power over leaderselection in political parties. To this end, we apply an analytical framework in which theselection process is divided into three phases: gatekeeping, preparation and decision.The focus is on determining the extent to which each of these phases is influential for theoutcome and thereby locating the distribution of intra‐party power. Underpinning theanalysis is the conviction that the comparison of leader selection is too limited if it reliessolely on information about formal procedures, including the composition of theselectorate. We should also take the preselection phase of leader selection into account.Empirically,  we  examine  a  sample  of  recent  selection  processes  in  Europeanparliamentary democracies. In contrast to previous research on intra‐party politics,which has suggested an ascendancy of the party in public office, our results suggest anenduring strength of the party on the ground and the party in the central office.

  • 9.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Managed Intra-Party Democracy: Precursory Delegation and Party Leader Selection2017In: Party Politics, ISSN 1354-0688, E-ISSN 1460-3683, Vol. 23, no 1, p. 55-65Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The question of how party leaders are selected has recently, and belatedly, come under systematic comparative scrutiny. If it is the location of intra-party power that interests us, however, it might be that some of the more observable indicators in such processes, such as the identity of the selectorate, are not actually the most revealing ones. Using a delegation perspective, we thus present a framework for analysing prior steps in leader selection and relate it to various ideal-typical constellations of intra-party power. The framework encompasses, first, what we call precursory delegation, with focus especially on an agent that, formally or informally, manages the selection process before it reaches the selectorate. Second, the framework takes account of the degree to which the process is managed rather than left open to free competition between leader candidates. We illustrate the framework primarily with instances of leader selection in two Swedish parties.

  • 10.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Managed Intra-Party Democracy: Precursory Delegation and Party Leader Selection2016Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 11.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, NiklasMid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Managing Leader Selection in European Political Parties2021Collection (editor) (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This book explores the varying ways in which political parties in Europe make arguably their most important decisions: the selection of their leaders. The choice shapes the representation of a party externally. It also influences the management of internal conflict, because there will always be some disagreement about the party’s direction. The rules of selection will naturally affect the outcome. Yet there is more to it than rules. Sometimes the process is open and fiercely contested. Sometimes the field of potential leaders is filtered even before the decision reaches the selectorate – the organ that, according to party statutes, formally makes the appointment. The selectorate might have only a single candidate to ratify, a so-called ‘coronation’. The book presents a framework for analysing both the formal and informal sides of leader selection, and hones the framework through its application in a series of case studies from nine European countries.

  • 12.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Sodertorn Univ, Ctr Balt & East European Studies, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Polarising Pluralism: The Swedish Parliamentary Election of September 20142015In: West European Politics, ISSN 0140-2382, E-ISSN 1743-9655, Vol. 38, no 3, p. 730-740Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 13.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Selecting party leaders: Who chooses and who shapes the choice?2016Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 14.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Shifting perceptions of intra-party democracy: Leader selection in the Swedish Liberal Party2023In: Frontiers in Political Science, E-ISSN 2673-3145, Vol. 5, article id 1070269Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The Swedish Liberal Party chose a new leader in 2019. It was, in some ways, typical of leader selection in Sweden. It featured an elaborate, institutionalised and yet only semi-public form of “precursory delegation,” in which aspiring leaders are filtered by a “steering agent” on behalf of the party's main power centres. In other ways, though, the process was unusually conflictual and produced an unexpected result, which had considerable consequences for the party and for Swedish politics. Moreover, the selection involved the breakdown of a long-established procedure for leader selection in the party. We seek to explain this deviant case. We emphasise an unexpected cascade of decisions by regional party branches to hold membership ballots on the leadership candidates. This event, we argue, was critical for the outcome. We also suggest a causal mechanism, a shifting perception of procedural legitimacy, that facilitated the outcome—a mechanism that could be useful in understanding leader selection and moments of party change more generally.

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  • 15.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    The Rule of the Valberedning?: Party Leader Selection in Sweden2021In: Managing Leader Selection in European Political Parties / [ed] Nicholas Aylott; Niklas Bolin, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, p. 175-195Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The international trend towards more inclusive leader selection (Cross and Blais in Party Politics 18: 127–150, 2012) seems to have gone largely unnoticed by Swedish parties. At least on the surface, the process works as it has done for decades. Almost exclusively to Sweden, it centres on a valberedning, a selection committee. This committee is typically chosen by the formal selectorate of the party, the party congress. The job of the valberedning is to consider candidates and then to propose one of them as the new leader.

  • 16.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    The scope of party leadership: re-examining the terms on which political parties select their leaders2018Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 17.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Sodertorn Univ, Ctr Balt & East European Studies, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    The Swedish Greens: A Big Step Forward – and Several Steps Back2015In: Environmental Politics, ISSN 0964-4016, E-ISSN 1743-8934, Vol. 24, no 2, p. 337-341Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The parliamentary election of 14 September 2014 induced decidedly mixed feelings in the Swedish Green Party (Miljöpartiet de gröna). It led to the ejection of the centre-right government and the installation, for the first time, of Green cabinet ministers. However, the party also experienced a small but unexpected loss of votes compared to its score in the previous election. Moreover, partly because a far-right party built impressively on its breakthrough into the national parliament in 2010 the new government rests on a precariously narrow parliamentary base.

  • 18.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Towards a Framework for Analysing Party Leadership Selection2016Report (Refereed)
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  • 19.
    Aylott, Nicholas
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola, Statsvetenskap.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science.
    Towards a two-party system?: The Swedish parliamentary election of September 20062007In: West European Politics, ISSN 0140-2382, E-ISSN 1743-9655, Vol. 30, no 3, p. 621-633Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 20.
    Bergman, Torbjörn
    et al.
    Södertörns högskola, Statsvetenskap.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen.
    Swedish democracy: crumbling political parties, a feeble riksdag, and technocratic power holders?2011In: The Madisonian turn: political parties and parliamentary democracy in Nordic Europe / [ed] Torbjörn Bergman and Kaare Strøm, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press , 2011, p. 251-293Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 21.
    Bergman, Torbjörn
    et al.
    Umeå university.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Swedish Democracy: Crumbling Political Parties, a Feeble Riksdag, and Technocratic Power Holders?2013In: The Madisonian Turn: Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe / [ed] Torbjörn Bergman & Kaare Strom, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013, p. 251-293Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 22.
    Bergman, Torbjörn
    et al.
    Umeå universitet.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Sandström, Camilla
    Umeå universitet.
    Det finns möjligheter till blocköverskridande samarbeten2015Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 23.
    Bergman, Torbjörn
    et al.
    Umeå universitet.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Sandström, Camilla
    Umeå universitet.
    DÖ är inte hållbar i längden2015Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 24.
    Blombäck, Sofie
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    The discouraging effect of the radical right.: An experimental study of the importance of party cues on voters’ assessment of political proposals2019Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The radical right continues to make electoral progress. While the general and, by large, continuous increase in support has been going on for at least two decades it is only recently that we can regard the radical right party family as one of the large ones. Despite this, there are reasons to believe that its full potential has yet to be revealed. Previous research suggest that parties of the radical right might suffer from a stigmatization effect, that is, voters are reluctant to vote for them since supporting them is regarded as less socially acceptable. Similarly, it has been suggested that due to the lack of a reputational shield some segments of the electorate will find proposals from the radical right less compelling compared to a situation where the exact same proposal is presented by one of the mainstream parties. While this seems like a convincing hypothesis, we are not aware of any systematic Large-N studies testing this claim. Against this background, this study employs an experimental survey design to empirically test whether political proposals are assessed differently dependent on who the sender is. Specifically we have conducted a survey experiment, in a panel with Swedish voters, randomizing the sender in order to measure whether political proposals are less favored if they are presented by the radical right Sweden Democrats instead of one of the mainstream parties the Social Democrats and the Moderates.

  • 25.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    A Loyal Rookie? The Sweden Democrats’ First Year in the European Parliament2015In: Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, ISSN 1230-4999, no 2, p. 59-78Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In the 2014 election, the Eurosceptic and anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) for the first time entered the European Parliament. The article first sheds light on the question of why the SD ended up in the EFDD parliamentary party group with a discussion of both the history of the party and its stance on some of the most important issues.In order to assess what inclusion in the EFDD has meant in regard to its behaviour, analysis of roll call data is presented. The results indicate that the SD tends to vote similarly to UKIP. Moreover, and surprisingly, the coherence between the SD and the Danish People’s Party is very low, indicating that group membership is more important than political affinity for the SD in deciding on its voting stance in the EP.

  • 26.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    A Matter of Time? The Impact of the Radical Right on Parties and MPs2015Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 27.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Book review: Nordic Nationalism and Right-Wing Populist Politics2019In: Party Politics, ISSN 1354-0688, E-ISSN 1460-3683, Vol. 25, no 6, p. 864-865Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 28.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Book review:: The Leadership Capital Index: A New Perspective on Political Leadership2020In: Party Politics, ISSN 1354-0688, E-ISSN 1460-3683, Vol. 26, no 4, p. 523-524Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 29.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Umeå University.
    Contextual Impact on New Party Entrance2006Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Although much of the first half of the 20th century was affected by major events such as war and dictatorship, theparty systems of the Western Europe stayed quite static. In the words of Lipset and Rokkan, the party systems hadfrozen and were still in the middle of the 1960s a reflection of the cleavage structures which dominated the firstdecades of the century. Somewhat ironically, just years after their study was published, an explosion of new partiesentering national parliaments took place more or less all over Western Europe. This enlightens the need forunderstanding why and when new parties enter national parliaments for the first time.This study shows that the cross-national variation between the West European countries are significant and thatall three Scandinavian countries can be labelled as low-scorers when it comes to number new parties in their nationalparliaments. The survey also shows that more new parties have entered during the latter part of the 20th century thanduring the 1960s and 1970s.Three different types of factors, institutional, societal and economic, are tested to explain the cross-countryvariations. Overall the analysis gives weak results. Some institutions and economic indicators seem to explain at leastsome of the variance. But most of these factors, for instance electoral system, and the societal conditions seem to beof little importance. The main conclusion drawn from this is the difficulty of explaining new party entrance with theuse of system-level analysis. In-depth case studies can perhaps be a more appropriate way to get an understanding ofwhen new parties enter national parliaments.

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  • 30.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Continued Absence: A Case Study of EU Salience in the Swedish Parliamentary Election of 20222023In: Journal of Common Market Studies, ISSN 0021-9886, E-ISSN 1468-5965, Vol. 61, no S1, p. 102-114Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 31.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    De politiska ungdomsförbunden som partipolitikens plantskola2024In: Vad hände?!: Från engagemang till karriärister,en bok om partipolitikens förfall / [ed] Anna Halla, Elsa Valeberg & Ulrica Schenström, Stockholm: Fores , 2024, p. 46-67Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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  • 32.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Det nya svenska partisystemet2018In: Snabbtänkt: Reflektioner från valet 2018 av ledande forskare / [ed] Lars Nord, Marie Grusell, Niklas Bolin och Kajsa Falasca, Sundsvall: Mid Sweden University, DEMICOM , 2018, p. 67-Chapter in book (Other academic)
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  • 33.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskap.
    Established parties and their measures against new parties. The case of Sweden2007Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 34.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Förord till den svenska utgåvan: Ett försvar för populism2022In: Populism: En kort introduktion / [ed] Cas Mudde & Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2022, p. 9-12Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 35.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Förord till den svenska utgåvan: Ytterhögern igår, idag och imorgon2022In: Ytterhögern idag / [ed] Cas Mudde, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2022, p. 9-12Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 36.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Green Parties in Finland and Sweden. Electoral, Programmatic and Organizational Changes2013Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 37.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Green parties in Finland and Sweden: Successful cases of the North?2016In: Green parties in Europe / [ed] Emilie van Haute, London: Routledge, 2016, p. 158-176Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 38.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen.
    How new parties shape their own fate: An actor-centered framework for analysis2010Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 39.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Hur vanligt är det med nya partier i nationella parlament?2014Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 40.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Kampen om Ohlsson ställer L:s dilemma på sin spets2016Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 41.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Miljöpartiet de Gröna2018Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 42.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Miljöpartiet är inte regeringsdugliga2016Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 43.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen.
    Målsättning riksdagen: Ett aktörsperspektiv på nya partiers inträde i det nationella parlamentet2012Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    During much of the 20th century, the national party systems of Western Europe remained largely unchanged. However, beginning in the 1970s, these frozen party systems slowly started to melt. As the number of parties has increased, the question of what explains new party entrance has also attracted more scholarly interest.

    Despite this increased attention, the study of new political parties still suffers from a structuralist bias. The implication is that the fates of new parties are decided almost exclusively by external factors. Some scholars focus on the institutional environment; others emphasize sociological explanations, such as the formation of new cleavages in society.

    Yet such non-actor-centred perspectives risk being excessively deterministic. They also struggle to explain why some parties succeed in gaining entrance to legislatures while others, seemingly under the same external circumstances, fail. In this thesis, therefore, a new way to study parties and their path to parliament is proposed. Starting with the notion that external conditions alone cannot explain new party entrance, the thesis takes an agency-based perspective. Three sets of strategies are identified as being important means for a party to influence its chances of getting into parliament. They concern the party's resources, its political project and its external relations. In what ways can supply and management of resources, policies and relations with other parties affect the potential for becoming a parliamentary party?

    Through four in-depth case studies of new entrants into the Swedish national parliament, the Riksdag, the thesis concludes that there are some important commonalities in their paths to parliament. Especially with regard to their resources and their political project, the empirical evidence supports the initial premise: new party entrance is unthinkable without successful strategic behaviour.

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  • 44.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskap.
    New Party Entrance: Analyzing the Impact of Political Institutions2007Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Although research on new parties now is more common than just a couple of decades ago, we still lack a more general theory of when new parties manage to enter national parliaments for the first time. In this article I try to fill some of the gap in the literature by analyzing the impact of certain formal political institutions. Using a dataset made up of election results held in 18 West European countries between 1960 and 2005, some tentatively important political institutions are scrutinized. I find the electoral system is an important factor in the explanation of when new parties enter national parliaments. The impact of state subsidies to parties is, on the other hand, rather weak. This runs contrary to the cartel thesis, which implies that such subsidies serve to block the entrance of new parties. Overall, however, the institutional framework can provide only a partial explanation and can only be seen as one aspect of new party entrance. Socio-economic factors as well as actor-centred factors are other aspects with potential explanatory power.

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  • 45.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    New party parliamentary entry in Western Europe, 1960-20102014In: European Journal of Government and Economics, E-ISSN 2254-7088, Vol. 3, no 1, p. 5-23Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Although the number of studies of new political parties is gradually increasing, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of when new parties manage to enter national parliaments. The objective of this article is to explain the circumstances under which new parties enter national parliaments for the first time. Unlike earlier research, this study does not focus on individual party families. Instead, generally applicable explanations are sought. This is achieved through an examination of the importance of the political opportunity structure, that is, the external environment new parties face in their quest for parliamentary representation. Using data collected for 18 Western European countries for the period 1960-2010, the analysis shows that institutional factors are important to understand new party parliamentary entry. The sociological factors analysed in the study, however, do not seem to be of equal importance.

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  • 46.
    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
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    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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    Bolin, Niklas
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
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    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
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