Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/217717 
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2013
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[Journal:] European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) [ISSN:] 2254-7088 [Volume:] 2 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Universidade da Coruña [Place:] A Coruña [Year:] 2013 [Pages:] 41-58
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Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña
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In a parliamentary system it is by definition justified to assume the government parties voting almost always in a unitary manner in plenary votes. In a multiparty system it is, however, hard to predict how the opposition groups vote. Few studies analysing government-opposition voting in the Finnish parliament Eduskunta were published during the 1960s and 1970s. This study provides similar analyses regarding the parliamentary years of 1991-2012. Combined the studies provide an insight into the government-opposition relations since World War II. The results show that before the 1990s the government-opposition division in plenary votes appeared rather clear and the political party groups' positions followed the traditional left-right dimension. Since the 1990s, the government-opposition division has become greater. The governing coalition acts almost as a bloc while the opposition groups are divided into moderate and hard opposition. The opposition groups, however, appear in a more or less random order. Consequently, since the 1990s the left-right dimension has disappeared with respect to plenary voting.
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Voting
parliament
opposition
Finland
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