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Interparty Spatial Relationships in Norwegian Storting Roll Call Votes *
Author(s) -
Shaffer William R.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
scandinavian political studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9477
pISSN - 0080-6757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9477.1991.tb00405.x
Subject(s) - norwegian , parliament , politics , political science , left and right , public administration , session (web analytics) , plenary session , political economy , sociology , law , business , computer science , engineering , advertising , library science , philosophy , linguistics , structural engineering
The purpose of this study is to map interparty spatial relationships embedded in non‐unanimous roll call votes recorded during the 1985–86 session of the Norwegian parliament. The analysis is theoretically grounded in the one‐dimensional Scandinavian five‐party model and a two‐dimensional model which assumes that the conventional left–right continuum is intersected by an urban protest/rural traditionalism axis. While the one‐dimensional solution which arrays the parties along the conventional left–right continuum is statistically defensible, a two‐dimensional solution appears better to reflect the reality of contemporary Norwegian politics in which the post‐Second World War welfare‐state consensus is being challenged by the Progressive Party. The resulting divisions among the non‐socialist parties may preclude a stable center‐right governing coalition.