Matti Wiberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1417779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matti Wiberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matti |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiberg |
| SIGNATURE | WIBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1476-3952 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mechanics of Disruption
Algorithms, Aprons, Accountability
Sustaining, Changing, and Refining
No abstract available
Questioning in European Parliaments
Although parliamentary questions (PQs) are a feature of most legislatures, no two legislatures share exactly identical questioning forms. This research provides an overview of forms of questioning in European parliaments, covering variation in the main institutional features, the processing of questions and the impact of political parties on questioning. Cross-national and temporal variation in the behavioural trends in questioning is identified …
Parliamentary Questioning in 17 European Parliaments
All democratic parliaments have some procedures to allow representatives to put questions to ministers. However, there are no two parliaments with exactly the same procedures. Cross-national comparisons are hindered by the lack of agreed-upon scientific criteria to group similar procedures, which are too often classified on the basis of their names rather than on their substantive characteristics. To overcome this problem, this article devises a …
Location equilibrium with endogenous rent seeking
Journal Article Location equilibrium with endogenous rent seeking Get access Magnus Wiberg Magnus Wiberg **Department of Economics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 9, Issue 6, November 2009, Pages 869–887, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbp011 Published: 16 March 2009 Article history Received: 06 January 2009 Accepted: 02 F…
How to Measure the Europeanisation of a National Legislature
While there is no shortage of research on national parliaments and European integration, empirical studies on the impact of EU on domestic legislatures are lacking. This article contributes to the literature by discussing the challenges involved in measuring the Europeanisation of national parliaments and through suggesting several hypotheses and indicators – EU-related national laws, the use of control instruments (confidence votes and parliamen…
The Eduskunta and the Parliamentarisation of Finnish Politics
According to the ‘decline of parliaments’ thesis that dominates the literature, the executive branch has increased its powers vis-à-vis the legislature. However, at the same time most studies indicate that the parliaments in the Nordic region are on average stronger than their counterparts in central and southern European countries. This article examines the validity of the ‘decline of parliaments’ thesis in the context of Finland, a country wher…
Présence absente des électeurs étrangers en Finlande
Controlling Outcomes
This article examines voting power in the directly elected European Parliament (1979-2000). The distribution of voting power among party groups is analysed under simple majority, 2/3, 3/4 and 3/5 majority rules with the standardized Penrose-Banzhaf and Shapley-Shubik voting indices. The share of seats controlled by each party group is compared to its share of a priori voting power. No party group has ever alone controlled the voting outcome, but …
Parliamentarizing Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Within less than a decade Finland's status has changed from a non-aligned country to a full European Union (EU) member. This article analyses two dimensions of the process: Finnish integration policy and the impact of EU membership on domestic balance of power. Commitment to European integration is primarily explained by the need to secure a place among the West European countries in order to protect national economic and political interests. We …
Building elite consensus
Winners and Losers in the Council
Who will have power in the enlarged European Union? How will the enlargement of the EU alter the configuration of Member States’ a priori voting power in the Council of Ministers? One of the most controversial topics debated in the 1996‐97 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) was the need for institutional reform, namely how to make EU decision‐making more effective. An important dimension of institutional reform is the challenge posed by enlargeme…
Strong parliament of a small eu member state
If even the minister participating in the meeting of the Council of Ministers does not know the agenda of the day, not to say anything of whether the minister has all relevant documents available, how can anyone imagine that the Parliament could influence the decisions? The Finnish Ex‐EU minister Mr Pertti Salolainen (Cons).1 The article gives a presentation of the Finnish Parliament's early adaptation to EU membership. Our main argument is that …
Reputation Pays
The article provides a general account of information problems in politics and games, and an analytical exploration of reputation effects in politics in terms of game theory. It is shown. by three game theoretical examples, that reputation effects may in some circumstances lie of essential importance in determining optimal choices
Wrong Persons‐Are Making Right Decisions without Hearing Us
That low trust in politicians in general endangers the political stability of a democratic political system is conventional wisdom even within the political science community. It is the purpose of the article to challenge this notion. It is claimed that, on the contrary, distrust of politicians in general may just be evidence of healthy scepticism. It should, on the other hand, be clear that high trust in politicians in general may also endanger …
Grounds for Recognition of Conscientious Objection to Military Service
This study of the grounds for recognition of conscientious objection to military service focuses on the conventional distinction between deontological and teleological moral theories. It is analytically proved that if it is possible to justify conscientious objection on deontological grounds, then this must necessarily be the case even on some teleological grounds
Loyalty Oaths in Finland
Loyalty oaths are a certain type of promise. What is their moral force? Do I by taking an oath thereby bind myself with some (new) moral ties to, say, the State of Finland? When can we speak of an oath as morally binding? These questions constitute the core of the paper. First, I shall give an analysis of promises and promising in general. Secondly, I shall try to analyse the question ‘Do we have to keep our promises?’ After this I shall consider…
Parliamentary Questioning in 17 European Parliaments
All democratic parliaments have some procedures to allow representatives to put questions to ministers. However, there are no two parliaments with exactly the same procedures. Cross-national comparisons are hindered by the lack of agreed-upon scientific criteria to group similar procedures, which are too often classified on the basis of their names rather than on their substantive characteristics. To overcome this problem, this article devises a …
Questioning in European Parliaments
Although parliamentary questions (PQs) are a feature of most legislatures, no two legislatures share exactly identical questioning forms. This research provides an overview of forms of questioning in European parliaments, covering variation in the main institutional features, the processing of questions and the impact of political parties on questioning. Cross-national and temporal variation in the behavioural trends in questioning is identified …
How to Measure the Europeanisation of a National Legislature
While there is no shortage of research on national parliaments and European integration, empirical studies on the impact of EU on domestic legislatures are lacking. This article contributes to the literature by discussing the challenges involved in measuring the Europeanisation of national parliaments and through suggesting several hypotheses and indicators – EU-related national laws, the use of control instruments (confidence votes and parliamen…
Winners and Losers in the Council
Who will have power in the enlarged European Union? How will the enlargement of the EU alter the configuration of Member States’ a priori voting power in the Council of Ministers? One of the most controversial topics debated in the 1996‐97 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) was the need for institutional reform, namely how to make EU decision‐making more effective. An important dimension of institutional reform is the challenge posed by enlargeme…
The Eduskunta and the Parliamentarisation of Finnish Politics
According to the ‘decline of parliaments’ thesis that dominates the literature, the executive branch has increased its powers vis-à-vis the legislature. However, at the same time most studies indicate that the parliaments in the Nordic region are on average stronger than their counterparts in central and southern European countries. This article examines the validity of the ‘decline of parliaments’ thesis in the context of Finland, a country wher…
Parliamentarizing Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Within less than a decade Finland's status has changed from a non-aligned country to a full European Union (EU) member. This article analyses two dimensions of the process: Finnish integration policy and the impact of EU membership on domestic balance of power. Commitment to European integration is primarily explained by the need to secure a place among the West European countries in order to protect national economic and political interests. We …
Strong parliament of a small eu member state
If even the minister participating in the meeting of the Council of Ministers does not know the agenda of the day, not to say anything of whether the minister has all relevant documents available, how can anyone imagine that the Parliament could influence the decisions? The Finnish Ex‐EU minister Mr Pertti Salolainen (Cons).1 The article gives a presentation of the Finnish Parliament's early adaptation to EU membership. Our main argument is that …
Controlling Outcomes
This article examines voting power in the directly elected European Parliament (1979-2000). The distribution of voting power among party groups is analysed under simple majority, 2/3, 3/4 and 3/5 majority rules with the standardized Penrose-Banzhaf and Shapley-Shubik voting indices. The share of seats controlled by each party group is compared to its share of a priori voting power. No party group has ever alone controlled the voting outcome, but …
Wrong Persons‐Are Making Right Decisions without Hearing Us
That low trust in politicians in general endangers the political stability of a democratic political system is conventional wisdom even within the political science community. It is the purpose of the article to challenge this notion. It is claimed that, on the contrary, distrust of politicians in general may just be evidence of healthy scepticism. It should, on the other hand, be clear that high trust in politicians in general may also endanger …
Location equilibrium with endogenous rent seeking
Journal Article Location equilibrium with endogenous rent seeking Get access Magnus Wiberg Magnus Wiberg **Department of Economics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 9, Issue 6, November 2009, Pages 869–887, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbp011 Published: 16 March 2009 Article history Received: 06 January 2009 Accepted: 02 F…
Reputation Pays
The article provides a general account of information problems in politics and games, and an analytical exploration of reputation effects in politics in terms of game theory. It is shown. by three game theoretical examples, that reputation effects may in some circumstances lie of essential importance in determining optimal choices
Loyalty Oaths in Finland
Loyalty oaths are a certain type of promise. What is their moral force? Do I by taking an oath thereby bind myself with some (new) moral ties to, say, the State of Finland? When can we speak of an oath as morally binding? These questions constitute the core of the paper. First, I shall give an analysis of promises and promising in general. Secondly, I shall try to analyse the question ‘Do we have to keep our promises?’ After this I shall consider…
Grounds for Recognition of Conscientious Objection to Military Service
This study of the grounds for recognition of conscientious objection to military service focuses on the conventional distinction between deontological and teleological moral theories. It is analytically proved that if it is possible to justify conscientious objection on deontological grounds, then this must necessarily be the case even on some teleological grounds
Wrong Persons‐Are Making Right Decisions without Hearing Us
That low trust in politicians in general endangers the political stability of a democratic political system is conventional wisdom even within the political science community. It is the purpose of the article to challenge this notion. It is claimed that, on the contrary, distrust of politicians in general may just be evidence of healthy scepticism. It should, on the other hand, be clear that high trust in politicians in general may also endanger …
Reputation Pays
The article provides a general account of information problems in politics and games, and an analytical exploration of reputation effects in politics in terms of game theory. It is shown. by three game theoretical examples, that reputation effects may in some circumstances lie of essential importance in determining optimal choices
Strong parliament of a small eu member state
If even the minister participating in the meeting of the Council of Ministers does not know the agenda of the day, not to say anything of whether the minister has all relevant documents available, how can anyone imagine that the Parliament could influence the decisions? The Finnish Ex‐EU minister Mr Pertti Salolainen (Cons).1 The article gives a presentation of the Finnish Parliament's early adaptation to EU membership. Our main argument is that …
Winners and Losers in the Council
Who will have power in the enlarged European Union? How will the enlargement of the EU alter the configuration of Member States’ a priori voting power in the Council of Ministers? One of the most controversial topics debated in the 1996‐97 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) was the need for institutional reform, namely how to make EU decision‐making more effective. An important dimension of institutional reform is the challenge posed by enlargeme…
Building elite consensus
Parliamentarizing Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Within less than a decade Finland's status has changed from a non-aligned country to a full European Union (EU) member. This article analyses two dimensions of the process: Finnish integration policy and the impact of EU membership on domestic balance of power. Commitment to European integration is primarily explained by the need to secure a place among the West European countries in order to protect national economic and political interests. We …
Controlling Outcomes
This article examines voting power in the directly elected European Parliament (1979-2000). The distribution of voting power among party groups is analysed under simple majority, 2/3, 3/4 and 3/5 majority rules with the standardized Penrose-Banzhaf and Shapley-Shubik voting indices. The share of seats controlled by each party group is compared to its share of a priori voting power. No party group has ever alone controlled the voting outcome, but …
Présence absente des électeurs étrangers en Finlande
The Eduskunta and the Parliamentarisation of Finnish Politics
According to the ‘decline of parliaments’ thesis that dominates the literature, the executive branch has increased its powers vis-à-vis the legislature. However, at the same time most studies indicate that the parliaments in the Nordic region are on average stronger than their counterparts in central and southern European countries. This article examines the validity of the ‘decline of parliaments’ thesis in the context of Finland, a country wher…
Location equilibrium with endogenous rent seeking
Journal Article Location equilibrium with endogenous rent seeking Get access Magnus Wiberg Magnus Wiberg **Department of Economics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 9, Issue 6, November 2009, Pages 869–887, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbp011 Published: 16 March 2009 Article history Received: 06 January 2009 Accepted: 02 F…
How to Measure the Europeanisation of a National Legislature
While there is no shortage of research on national parliaments and European integration, empirical studies on the impact of EU on domestic legislatures are lacking. This article contributes to the literature by discussing the challenges involved in measuring the Europeanisation of national parliaments and through suggesting several hypotheses and indicators – EU-related national laws, the use of control instruments (confidence votes and parliamen…
Parliamentary Questioning in 17 European Parliaments
All democratic parliaments have some procedures to allow representatives to put questions to ministers. However, there are no two parliaments with exactly the same procedures. Cross-national comparisons are hindered by the lack of agreed-upon scientific criteria to group similar procedures, which are too often classified on the basis of their names rather than on their substantive characteristics. To overcome this problem, this article devises a …
Questioning in European Parliaments
Although parliamentary questions (PQs) are a feature of most legislatures, no two legislatures share exactly identical questioning forms. This research provides an overview of forms of questioning in European parliaments, covering variation in the main institutional features, the processing of questions and the impact of political parties on questioning. Cross-national and temporal variation in the behavioural trends in questioning is identified …
Sustaining, Changing, and Refining
No abstract available
Mechanics of Disruption
Algorithms, Aprons, Accountability
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