TY - BOOK ID - 4839281 TI - Models of democracy in Nordic and Baltic Europe : political institutions and discourse PY - 2014 SN - 147240940X 9781472409409 1322433283 9781315595849 9781317094791 9781317094807 9781138707535 PB - Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, DB - UniCat KW - Political science. KW - Democracy. KW - Democracy KW - Démocratie KW - Since 1991. KW - Europe, Northern. KW - Scandinavia. KW - Baltic States. KW - Baltic States KW - Europe, Northern KW - Scandinavia KW - Pays baltes KW - Europe septentrionale KW - Scandinavie KW - Politics and government KW - Politics and government. KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Baltic States -- Politics and governmen t -- 1991-. KW - Democracy -- Baltic States. KW - Democracy -- Europe, Northern. KW - Democracy -- Scandinavia. KW - Europe, Northern -- Politics and government. KW - Scandinavia -- Politics and government. KW - Regions & Countries - Europe KW - History & Archaeology KW - Northern Europe & Scandinavia KW - Démocratie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4839281 AB - This book explores the ways in which representative democracy works in two neighbouring collections of European states: the Nordic (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and the Baltic (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). The central, guiding questions are: how does political representation work in countries that have a lot in common, but also a few significant contextual dissimilarities; and what, if any, relationships between the respective styles of democracy can be identified? Using a variety of theories, perspectives and methods, the empirical studies that populate the book seek to of ER -