Knut Heidar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1176483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Knut Heidar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Knut |
| FAMILY NAME | Heidar |
| SIGNATURE | HEIDAR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Deliberative democracy in contemporary political parties
Parties lose members, and organizational measures adopted to counter the alleged “crisis of parties” have often turned out to be counterproductive. In response to this development, scholars have argued that parties need to strengthen their deliberative capacity. Despite this (normative) claim, we know very little about levels of deliberation in contemporary parties. Based on unique longitudinal surveys among Norwegian party members between 1991 a…
All about the Party? Constituency Representation—and Service—in Norway
The article investigates the relationship between Norwegian MPs and their home constituency. The approach is based on the concept of constituency representation, which combines representational focus and constituency service. The data used in the empirical analysis comprise both surveys and in-depth interviews with MPs. It shows that MPs have multiple representative foci. The party is most important, but (party) voters in the constituency are als…
Parliamentary Party Group Unity
Party Feminism
On the basis of surveys of Danish and Norwegian political party members, this article shows that female presence is comparatively high in Danish and Norwegian parties, and that there are a number of consistent and politically significant gender differences in political opinions within the parties. These gender gaps are largest regarding issues that are not central to the ideological core of the parties and on issues where women are particularly a…
Norwegian parties and the party system
Norwegian political parties have changed in terms of party membership and organisational modes, significantly reducing the value of the mass party and catch-all party models. Membership has declined and decision-making processes have opened up to increased networking, although the formal organisational structures remain close to those of the old mass party. Political changes have transformed the old two-bloc system, making it more open and fluid.…
Political Parties in Norway. 40 Years Later
Democracy within Norwegian Political Parties
How democratic are the political parties in Norway? We use survey data from Norwegian party members (1991 and 2000) and Congress delegates (2000-1) to discuss two main questions: how do party members and Congress delegates evaluate the state of intra-party democracy? And what kind of intra-party democracy do they prefer? The analyses do not support the thesis of an increasing centralization of party decision making. Members were reasonably satisf…
Predestined Parties? Organizational Change in Norwegian Political Parties
Predestined Parties
In this article, we analyse changes, and the debates about changes, in the relationship between Norwegian political parties and their members. We ask whether parties develop from mass parties towards a ‘network model’, and whether such changes represent organizational convergence. The organizational diagnoses of the parties and their prescribed cures are similar. Thematic network structures, increased inclusiveness and membership ballots are deba…
A decline of linkage? Intra‐party participation in Norway, 1991–2000
The decline in party membership in Western Europe is generally taken as an indicator of party transformation. This article looks beyond membership figures and asks whether membership decline should be interpreted to mean that the activities and motivation of the remaining members are changing. Hypotheses on changes in party activism and motivation for party membership are tested with data from the 1991 and 2000 Norwegian party member surveys. Rat…
Norway
Roles, structures and behaviour
The empirical analysis presented in this article gives little reason for disregarding traditional images of the representatives of the Norwegian Storting as egalitarian minded, party based and district orientated. We found few trustees, but many delegates. There were also more MPs of the partisan and constituency varieties than policy advocates and parliamentary men. The most frequent role in the Norwegian Storting, however, was the 'no role' typ…
Norway
Norway
The polymorphic nature of party membership
The article argues that party member activity differs in terms of the degree, type and quality of organizational involvement, a fact often ignored in comparative studies of party membership as well as in arguments about the democratic potential of political parties. The article first presents different perspectives adopted in the literature on party membership. Distinctions are made on the one hand between research treating membership as an indep…
Norway
The Norwegian labour party
The Norwegian Labour Party revised its programme of principles in 1981. This marked the beginning of a decade of ideological reorientation, if not so much programmatic change. Through the internal ‘Freedom Debate’ the leadership sanctioned views on the state, the markets, the identity of the party itself and Labour's relations with the trade unions underwent change. Triggered by the electoral defeat of 1981 and influenced by tendencies in interna…
Norway
1989). Norway: Levels of party competition and system change. West European Politics: Vol. 12, Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe, pp. 143-156
Party Organizational Elites in Norwegian Politics
The question raised is why ‘secondary’ representativeness of political elites, i.e. the degree of similarity in socio‐demographic background between elite and electorate, is considered important in debates on democratic polities. Three answers are considered: to improve long‐term ‘primary’ representtativity. i.e. the representation of public opinions; to build systemic legitimacy: and to encourage the participation of low‐mobilized groups. From t…
Party Power
Much current research into the working of liberal democracy tends to emphasise and concentrate on the corporate channel of influence. The linkage to centres of power provided by political parties has not received sufficient attention. There is a need for more research into the operation of parties as linkages between grass root activists and national elite politics. Studying party democracy is to study internal distribution of power, and the arti…
Social Democratic Parties between Class and Organization
Two questions are discussed in this article. First, what are the main divisions in the debate on the causes of the deradicalization of European social democratic parties? Second, what kind of empirical research could at this stage of the debate hope to contribute substantially to it? Through a survey of the literature the argument is presented that in both Marxist and Liberal debates the question of the relative importance of class‐factors and pa…
Predestined Parties
In this article, we analyse changes, and the debates about changes, in the relationship between Norwegian political parties and their members. We ask whether parties develop from mass parties towards a ‘network model’, and whether such changes represent organizational convergence. The organizational diagnoses of the parties and their prescribed cures are similar. Thematic network structures, increased inclusiveness and membership ballots are deba…
A decline of linkage? Intra‐party participation in Norway, 1991–2000
The decline in party membership in Western Europe is generally taken as an indicator of party transformation. This article looks beyond membership figures and asks whether membership decline should be interpreted to mean that the activities and motivation of the remaining members are changing. Hypotheses on changes in party activism and motivation for party membership are tested with data from the 1991 and 2000 Norwegian party member surveys. Rat…
Democracy within Norwegian Political Parties
How democratic are the political parties in Norway? We use survey data from Norwegian party members (1991 and 2000) and Congress delegates (2000-1) to discuss two main questions: how do party members and Congress delegates evaluate the state of intra-party democracy? And what kind of intra-party democracy do they prefer? The analyses do not support the thesis of an increasing centralization of party decision making. Members were reasonably satisf…
Party Feminism
On the basis of surveys of Danish and Norwegian political party members, this article shows that female presence is comparatively high in Danish and Norwegian parties, and that there are a number of consistent and politically significant gender differences in political opinions within the parties. These gender gaps are largest regarding issues that are not central to the ideological core of the parties and on issues where women are particularly a…
Norwegian parties and the party system
Norwegian political parties have changed in terms of party membership and organisational modes, significantly reducing the value of the mass party and catch-all party models. Membership has declined and decision-making processes have opened up to increased networking, although the formal organisational structures remain close to those of the old mass party. Political changes have transformed the old two-bloc system, making it more open and fluid.…
Roles, structures and behaviour
The empirical analysis presented in this article gives little reason for disregarding traditional images of the representatives of the Norwegian Storting as egalitarian minded, party based and district orientated. We found few trustees, but many delegates. There were also more MPs of the partisan and constituency varieties than policy advocates and parliamentary men. The most frequent role in the Norwegian Storting, however, was the 'no role' typ…
Predestined Parties? Organizational Change in Norwegian Political Parties
Parliamentary Party Group Unity
Norway
1989). Norway: Levels of party competition and system change. West European Politics: Vol. 12, Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe, pp. 143-156
Party Power
Much current research into the working of liberal democracy tends to emphasise and concentrate on the corporate channel of influence. The linkage to centres of power provided by political parties has not received sufficient attention. There is a need for more research into the operation of parties as linkages between grass root activists and national elite politics. Studying party democracy is to study internal distribution of power, and the arti…
Deliberative democracy in contemporary political parties
Parties lose members, and organizational measures adopted to counter the alleged “crisis of parties” have often turned out to be counterproductive. In response to this development, scholars have argued that parties need to strengthen their deliberative capacity. Despite this (normative) claim, we know very little about levels of deliberation in contemporary parties. Based on unique longitudinal surveys among Norwegian party members between 1991 a…
All about the Party? Constituency Representation—and Service—in Norway
The article investigates the relationship between Norwegian MPs and their home constituency. The approach is based on the concept of constituency representation, which combines representational focus and constituency service. The data used in the empirical analysis comprise both surveys and in-depth interviews with MPs. It shows that MPs have multiple representative foci. The party is most important, but (party) voters in the constituency are als…
Norway
The Norwegian labour party
The Norwegian Labour Party revised its programme of principles in 1981. This marked the beginning of a decade of ideological reorientation, if not so much programmatic change. Through the internal ‘Freedom Debate’ the leadership sanctioned views on the state, the markets, the identity of the party itself and Labour's relations with the trade unions underwent change. Triggered by the electoral defeat of 1981 and influenced by tendencies in interna…
Political Parties in Norway. 40 Years Later
Norway
Norway
Social Democratic Parties between Class and Organization
Two questions are discussed in this article. First, what are the main divisions in the debate on the causes of the deradicalization of European social democratic parties? Second, what kind of empirical research could at this stage of the debate hope to contribute substantially to it? Through a survey of the literature the argument is presented that in both Marxist and Liberal debates the question of the relative importance of class‐factors and pa…
Party Power
Much current research into the working of liberal democracy tends to emphasise and concentrate on the corporate channel of influence. The linkage to centres of power provided by political parties has not received sufficient attention. There is a need for more research into the operation of parties as linkages between grass root activists and national elite politics. Studying party democracy is to study internal distribution of power, and the arti…
Party Organizational Elites in Norwegian Politics
The question raised is why ‘secondary’ representativeness of political elites, i.e. the degree of similarity in socio‐demographic background between elite and electorate, is considered important in debates on democratic polities. Three answers are considered: to improve long‐term ‘primary’ representtativity. i.e. the representation of public opinions; to build systemic legitimacy: and to encourage the participation of low‐mobilized groups. From t…
Norway
1989). Norway: Levels of party competition and system change. West European Politics: Vol. 12, Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe, pp. 143-156
The Norwegian labour party
The Norwegian Labour Party revised its programme of principles in 1981. This marked the beginning of a decade of ideological reorientation, if not so much programmatic change. Through the internal ‘Freedom Debate’ the leadership sanctioned views on the state, the markets, the identity of the party itself and Labour's relations with the trade unions underwent change. Triggered by the electoral defeat of 1981 and influenced by tendencies in interna…
The polymorphic nature of party membership
The article argues that party member activity differs in terms of the degree, type and quality of organizational involvement, a fact often ignored in comparative studies of party membership as well as in arguments about the democratic potential of political parties. The article first presents different perspectives adopted in the literature on party membership. Distinctions are made on the one hand between research treating membership as an indep…
Norway
Norway
Norway
Norway
Roles, structures and behaviour
The empirical analysis presented in this article gives little reason for disregarding traditional images of the representatives of the Norwegian Storting as egalitarian minded, party based and district orientated. We found few trustees, but many delegates. There were also more MPs of the partisan and constituency varieties than policy advocates and parliamentary men. The most frequent role in the Norwegian Storting, however, was the 'no role' typ…
Predestined Parties? Organizational Change in Norwegian Political Parties
Predestined Parties
In this article, we analyse changes, and the debates about changes, in the relationship between Norwegian political parties and their members. We ask whether parties develop from mass parties towards a ‘network model’, and whether such changes represent organizational convergence. The organizational diagnoses of the parties and their prescribed cures are similar. Thematic network structures, increased inclusiveness and membership ballots are deba…
A decline of linkage? Intra‐party participation in Norway, 1991–2000
The decline in party membership in Western Europe is generally taken as an indicator of party transformation. This article looks beyond membership figures and asks whether membership decline should be interpreted to mean that the activities and motivation of the remaining members are changing. Hypotheses on changes in party activism and motivation for party membership are tested with data from the 1991 and 2000 Norwegian party member surveys. Rat…
Political Parties in Norway. 40 Years Later
Democracy within Norwegian Political Parties
How democratic are the political parties in Norway? We use survey data from Norwegian party members (1991 and 2000) and Congress delegates (2000-1) to discuss two main questions: how do party members and Congress delegates evaluate the state of intra-party democracy? And what kind of intra-party democracy do they prefer? The analyses do not support the thesis of an increasing centralization of party decision making. Members were reasonably satisf…
Norwegian parties and the party system
Norwegian political parties have changed in terms of party membership and organisational modes, significantly reducing the value of the mass party and catch-all party models. Membership has declined and decision-making processes have opened up to increased networking, although the formal organisational structures remain close to those of the old mass party. Political changes have transformed the old two-bloc system, making it more open and fluid.…
Parliamentary Party Group Unity
Party Feminism
On the basis of surveys of Danish and Norwegian political party members, this article shows that female presence is comparatively high in Danish and Norwegian parties, and that there are a number of consistent and politically significant gender differences in political opinions within the parties. These gender gaps are largest regarding issues that are not central to the ideological core of the parties and on issues where women are particularly a…
All about the Party? Constituency Representation—and Service—in Norway
The article investigates the relationship between Norwegian MPs and their home constituency. The approach is based on the concept of constituency representation, which combines representational focus and constituency service. The data used in the empirical analysis comprise both surveys and in-depth interviews with MPs. It shows that MPs have multiple representative foci. The party is most important, but (party) voters in the constituency are als…
Deliberative democracy in contemporary political parties
Parties lose members, and organizational measures adopted to counter the alleged “crisis of parties” have often turned out to be counterproductive. In response to this development, scholars have argued that parties need to strengthen their deliberative capacity. Despite this (normative) claim, we know very little about levels of deliberation in contemporary parties. Based on unique longitudinal surveys among Norwegian party members between 1991 a…
Law (21 works) · Political science (21 works) · Law (20 works) · Politics (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (12 works) · Norwegian (11 works) · Democracy (9 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (9 works)