Jørgen Elklit
Biographic Data
| ID | 163540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jørgen Elklit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jørgen |
| FAMILY NAME | Elklit |
| SIGNATURE | ELKLIT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9057-3942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 531 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Public trust in elections: The case of Zanzibar
Ballot position and election results: New evidence from a natural experiment
The Oxford Handbook of Danish Politics
This is the most comprehensive and thorough English language book on Danish politics ever. It is written by fifty authors, each of whom is an expert in and has contributed to the field that they write about. And why is Denmark an interesting topic for a handbook? In some respects, Danish political institutions and political life are similar to that of other small, North European countries such as the other Scandinavian countries and The Netherlan…
Oxford Handbook of Danish Politics
Welfare State Policies: From the Beginning Towards an End?
Denmark is a welfare state. Arguably, the development of the welfare state over the last 120 years is one of the most striking features of Danish history and society. An indication of Hegel’s famous phrase that ‘the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk’, the crisis of the welfare state in the 1970s sparked an interest in understanding both the welfare state’s historical development as well as the changes that took pl…
Why Ballot Secrecy Still Matters
Human-rights declarations and various legal instruments state that elections must be conducted by secret ballot, but are silent about precisely what that means. This paper discusses two situations in long-established democracies—the 2018 Swedish general elections and the 2017 Australian "plebisurvey" on same-sex marriage—in which recognized principles of electoral secrecy were clearly violated. It then identifies the main objectives of ballot sec…
Electoral violence during party primaries in Kenya
Since the restoration of multi-party democracy in Kenya in 1991, elections have witnessed intra-party violence during the primaries for selecting parliamentary and civic seats candidates. This article addresses the question of why electoral violence occurs during party primaries in Kenya and argues that violence is an outcome of the organization of political parties, which has revolved around personalities identified with ethno-regional interests…
Ballot position and election results: Evidence from a natural experiment
The Impact of Assembly Size on Representativeness
Choosing the number of seats in a legislature is a balancing act between efficiency and representativeness. This article focuses on representativeness and hypothesises that the larger the assembly, the higher the vote-seat proportionality, the higher the number of parties represented, and the higher the representation of otherwise under-represented groups. An approach using simulations of elections is introduced and applied in testing the hypothe…
Electoral malpractice
The Role of International Organisations During Electoral Crises: The Case of Kenya 2007–08
International organisations play many different roles during election processes in new and emerging democracies (and in countries hoping to be seen as democracies). These roles—and their impact—become particularly interesting during situations that develop into ‘an electoral crisis’. An electoral crisis is some kind of humanitarian or political (or other) crisis, where administrative or other problems in relation to an electoral process function …
Local Party System Nationalisation: Does Municipal Size Matter
Udgivelsesdato: June 2010
Party politicisation of local councils: Cultural or institutional explanations for trends in Denmark, 1966–2005
Local government party systems are not necessarily copies of the national party system. In many countries, local party systems have come to resemble the national one more and more – a process Rokkan termed ‘party politicisation’. The traditional expectation has been that the take‐over of local politics by political parties, through a gradual process of societal modernisation, would eventually be complete. More recently, however, it has been sugge…
Split‐ticket Voting in Times of Sub‐national Government Reorganisation: Evidence from Denmark
Local government amalgamations may have unintended consequences on electoral behaviour. Using the most recent local elections in Denmark as its case, this article demonstrates that inter‐level split‐ticket voting between three levels (national, regional and local) decreased slightly from 2001 to 2005 – that is, simultaneously with the implementation of a major reform, where many municipalities and all the counties were amalgamated. These amalgama…
Consultative Elections of Chinese Township Leaders: The Case of an Experiment in Ya'an, Sichuan
The article presents observations from a 2006 township election experiment in Ya'an Municipality, Sichuan Province. Gradual institutionalization of elections to Chinese village committees has for two decades fascinated those interested in social and political development in rural China. Elections at the next level-the townships-were seen by many, in China and outside, as a natural next step. For this reason, the election of a township mayor in Bu…
Election Processes and Problems in Weak (and Less Weak) States: Selected Cases and Experiences
The issues related to power, politics and change in weak states are approached by looking at the way in which elections are prepared for and electoral issues handled. The point of departure is a general model of the contextualised electoral process with a number of iterative steps or phases. Afghanistan, Iraq, Lesotho, Nepal and Mauritius are the cases selected for scrutiny, and the main focus is on the choice of seats allocation systems during t…
Denmark: Simplicity Embedded in Complexity (or is it the Other Way Round)?
Denmark has a very inclusive electoral system, combining high proportionality, low thresholds, and meaningful voter choice among candidates. Its multi-party system results in coalition governments, many of them minority governments. Parliament is more representative socio-demographically of the population than most of its counterparts in other countries, with women forming a high percentage of MPs. The current system is widely regarded as working…
Minding the Polls
Minding the Polls Jørgen Elklit (bio) Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy. By Eric C. Bjornlund . Woodrow Wilson Center Press and the Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. 383 pp. Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy. By Eric C. Bjornlund. Woodrow Wilson Center Press and the Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. 383 pp. Eric Bjornlund opens his study of international and domestic election…
Are Danes More Inclined to Ticket Splitting than the Swedes and the English?1
The first ever simultaneous general and local elections in Denmark (November 2001) allow for a comparison of Danish voters’ inclination towards inter-level ticket splitting with similar phenomena in Sweden and England. Inter-level split-ticket voting occurs when voters cast their vote on two different parties in the two different (but simultaneous) elections; this happened far more often in Denmark in 2001 than in the two other countries. One hyp…
Judging elections and election management quality by process
In this paper, we propose and test a framework for analysing how 'free and fair' electoral processes are. We start from the assumption that a rational process must be capable of being reproduced by others according to a given standard of practice. The framework for analysis is based on eleven constituent parts of an electoral process, each of which can be gauged by performance indicators. Various methods of measuring these indicators are offered,…
A framework for the systematic study of election quality
This article offers the beginnings of a methodology for assessing the quality of a national election, its freeness, fairness and administrative efficacy. The historical lack of a comprehensive framework of analysis has compelled election observers to make pronouncements on the basis of incomplete evidence, usually gathered on the day of the vote and count. It has allowed international observation missions to 'call' the results of elections on the…
Divisor Methods for Sequential Portfolio Allocation in Multi‐Party Executive Bodies: Evidence from Northern Ireland and Denmark
Some proportional representation (PR) rules can also be used to specify the sequence in which each party in a parliament or each member in a multiparty governing coalition is given its choice about (unique) desired resources, e.g., “indivisible goods” such as cabinet ministries or executive positions, thus providing an algorithmic method for determining “fair” allocations. Divisor rule sequencing using the d'Hondt method was recently used to dete…
Divisor Methods for Sequential Portfolio Allocation in Multi-Party Executive Bodies: Evidence from Northern Ireland and Denmark
Some proportional representation (PR) rules can also be used to specify the sequence in which each party in a parliament or each member in a multiparty governing coalition is given its choice about (unique) desired resources, e.g., “indivisible goods” such as cabinet ministries or executive positions, thus providing an algorithmic method for determining “fair” allocations. Divisor rule sequencing using the d'Hondt method was recently used to dete…
Sleeping or Active Partners: Danish Party Members at the Turn of the Millennium
The article is based on a newly conducted survey of Danish party members. It shows that Danish party members enrol because of the ideology and national policies of the preferred party, and because they want to support the party. A significant number of members leave their party every year, and as many as one-fifth consider leaving, but new members also enrol. Compared to voters, members are not gender and age representative, but are to some exten…
The Impact of Election Administration on the Legitimacy of Emerging Democracies: A New Comparative Politics Research Agenda
This article seeks to push the development of a new sub-field of research in the field of democratisation and institutional design, namely the relationship between the institutionalisation of electoral politics - including the administration of elections - and the development of political legitimacy and democratic consolidation in new democracies. Focus is on the conduct of elections and research questions are formulated to enable us to gauge the…
The Rise of Election Monitoring: What Makes Elections Free and Fair
Udgivelsesdato: July
A framework for the systematic study of election quality
This article offers the beginnings of a methodology for assessing the quality of a national election, its freeness, fairness and administrative efficacy. The historical lack of a comprehensive framework of analysis has compelled election observers to make pronouncements on the basis of incomplete evidence, usually gathered on the day of the vote and count. It has allowed international observation missions to 'call' the results of elections on the…
Ballot position and election results: Evidence from a natural experiment
Local Party System Nationalisation: Does Municipal Size Matter
Udgivelsesdato: June 2010
Sleeping or Active Partners: Danish Party Members at the Turn of the Millennium
The article is based on a newly conducted survey of Danish party members. It shows that Danish party members enrol because of the ideology and national policies of the preferred party, and because they want to support the party. A significant number of members leave their party every year, and as many as one-fifth consider leaving, but new members also enrol. Compared to voters, members are not gender and age representative, but are to some exten…
The Impact of Election Administration on the Legitimacy of Emerging Democracies: A New Comparative Politics Research Agenda
This article seeks to push the development of a new sub-field of research in the field of democratisation and institutional design, namely the relationship between the institutionalisation of electoral politics - including the administration of elections - and the development of political legitimacy and democratic consolidation in new democracies. Focus is on the conduct of elections and research questions are formulated to enable us to gauge the…
Divisor Methods for Sequential Portfolio Allocation in Multi‐Party Executive Bodies: Evidence from Northern Ireland and Denmark
Some proportional representation (PR) rules can also be used to specify the sequence in which each party in a parliament or each member in a multiparty governing coalition is given its choice about (unique) desired resources, e.g., “indivisible goods” such as cabinet ministries or executive positions, thus providing an algorithmic method for determining “fair” allocations. Divisor rule sequencing using the d'Hondt method was recently used to dete…
Electoral institutional change and democratization: You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
Drawing on evidence from first and second elections in emerging democracies, this article addresses issues pertinent to understanding the interplay between institutional design and change on the one hand and on the other hand the course of the democratization process, its background and concomitants. Because the electoral system (understood broadly, that is, not only as seat allocation rules) is often seen as an institution conducive to the legit…
Party politicisation of local councils: Cultural or institutional explanations for trends in Denmark, 1966–2005
Local government party systems are not necessarily copies of the national party system. In many countries, local party systems have come to resemble the national one more and more – a process Rokkan termed ‘party politicisation’. The traditional expectation has been that the take‐over of local politics by political parties, through a gradual process of societal modernisation, would eventually be complete. More recently, however, it has been sugge…
The Impact of Assembly Size on Representativeness
Choosing the number of seats in a legislature is a balancing act between efficiency and representativeness. This article focuses on representativeness and hypothesises that the larger the assembly, the higher the vote-seat proportionality, the higher the number of parties represented, and the higher the representation of otherwise under-represented groups. An approach using simulations of elections is introduced and applied in testing the hypothe…
Denmark Enters the European Communities
Judging elections and election management quality by process
In this paper, we propose and test a framework for analysing how 'free and fair' electoral processes are. We start from the assumption that a rational process must be capable of being reproduced by others according to a given standard of practice. The framework for analysis is based on eleven constituent parts of an electoral process, each of which can be gauged by performance indicators. Various methods of measuring these indicators are offered,…
Electoral malpractice
Are Danes More Inclined to Ticket Splitting than the Swedes and the English?1
The first ever simultaneous general and local elections in Denmark (November 2001) allow for a comparison of Danish voters’ inclination towards inter-level ticket splitting with similar phenomena in Sweden and England. Inter-level split-ticket voting occurs when voters cast their vote on two different parties in the two different (but simultaneous) elections; this happened far more often in Denmark in 2001 than in the two other countries. One hyp…
A category of its own? Four PR two‐tier compensatory member electoral systems in 1994
At first sight, the electoral systems in Denmark, Germany, South Africa and Sweden may seem different and an attempt to categorize them together odd. All four, however, belong to the same category, which Arend Lijphart calls ‘proportional representation two‐tier districting systems’, and the effects of these systems on the proportionality of the representation of political parties are, indeed, comparable. The four electoral systems were the basis…
The Chinese Village Committee Electoral System
Split‐ticket Voting in Times of Sub‐national Government Reorganisation: Evidence from Denmark
Local government amalgamations may have unintended consequences on electoral behaviour. Using the most recent local elections in Denmark as its case, this article demonstrates that inter‐level split‐ticket voting between three levels (national, regional and local) decreased slightly from 2001 to 2005 – that is, simultaneously with the implementation of a major reform, where many municipalities and all the counties were amalgamated. These amalgama…
The best of both worlds? The Danish electoral system 1915-20 in a comparative perspective
Electoral violence during party primaries in Kenya
Since the restoration of multi-party democracy in Kenya in 1991, elections have witnessed intra-party violence during the primaries for selecting parliamentary and civic seats candidates. This article addresses the question of why electoral violence occurs during party primaries in Kenya and argues that violence is an outcome of the organization of political parties, which has revolved around personalities identified with ethno-regional interests…
Simpler than its reputation: The electoral system in Denmark since 1920
Why Ballot Secrecy Still Matters
Human-rights declarations and various legal instruments state that elections must be conducted by secret ballot, but are silent about precisely what that means. This paper discusses two situations in long-established democracies—the 2018 Swedish general elections and the 2017 Australian "plebisurvey" on same-sex marriage—in which recognized principles of electoral secrecy were clearly violated. It then identifies the main objectives of ballot sec…
The Singapore general election 1997: Campaigning Strategy, Results, and Analysis
Ballot position and election results: New evidence from a natural experiment
Elements for a Structural Theory of Ethnic Segregation and Assimilation
The Role of International Organisations During Electoral Crises: The Case of Kenya 2007–08
International organisations play many different roles during election processes in new and emerging democracies (and in countries hoping to be seen as democracies). These roles—and their impact—become particularly interesting during situations that develop into ‘an electoral crisis’. An electoral crisis is some kind of humanitarian or political (or other) crisis, where administrative or other problems in relation to an electoral process function …
Local Voting Studies of Total Electorates: The Danish General Election of 1971
On the basis of voting data on total electorates in three polling districts, the main intentions of this article have been: first to describe the voting change patterns in the three districts and second to put forward supported hypotheses for a later, more rigorous testing on a representative sample of voters in the entire political system. Among these hypotheses we may mention: 1) the attitude on an important issue in an election campaign ‐ in t…
Denmark Enters the European Communities
The Danish Election to the European Parliament in June 1979: A New Referendum
Mobilization and Partisan Division: Open Voting in Fredericia, Denmark
The policies of majority groups towards national minorities in the Danish-German border region: Why the differences
Elements for a Structural Theory of Ethnic Segregation and Assimilation
Nominal Record Linkage and the Study of Non-Secret Voting: A Danish Case
Sub‐National Election Campaigns: The Danish Local Elections of November 1989
Electoral campaigning is studied almost without exception at the national level. This article has chosen another road, claiming that electoral campaigning can also be studied at the local election level. Campaigning before the Danish local elections of 21 November 1989 is studied. The design permits comparisons between the two levels (national/local) as well as between different units at the local level. It furthermore provides an opportunity for…
The best of both worlds? The Danish electoral system 1915-20 in a comparative perspective
Simpler than its reputation: The electoral system in Denmark since 1920
A category of its own? Four PR two‐tier compensatory member electoral systems in 1994
At first sight, the electoral systems in Denmark, Germany, South Africa and Sweden may seem different and an attempt to categorize them together odd. All four, however, belong to the same category, which Arend Lijphart calls ‘proportional representation two‐tier districting systems’, and the effects of these systems on the proportionality of the representation of political parties are, indeed, comparable. The four electoral systems were the basis…
The Rise of Election Monitoring: What Makes Elections Free and Fair
Udgivelsesdato: July
The Chinese Village Committee Electoral System
The Danish March 1998 parliamentary election
Electoral institutional change and democratization: You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
Drawing on evidence from first and second elections in emerging democracies, this article addresses issues pertinent to understanding the interplay between institutional design and change on the one hand and on the other hand the course of the democratization process, its background and concomitants. Because the electoral system (understood broadly, that is, not only as seat allocation rules) is often seen as an institution conducive to the legit…
The Singapore general election 1997: Campaigning Strategy, Results, and Analysis
The Impact of Election Administration on the Legitimacy of Emerging Democracies: A New Comparative Politics Research Agenda
This article seeks to push the development of a new sub-field of research in the field of democratisation and institutional design, namely the relationship between the institutionalisation of electoral politics - including the administration of elections - and the development of political legitimacy and democratic consolidation in new democracies. Focus is on the conduct of elections and research questions are formulated to enable us to gauge the…
Sleeping or Active Partners: Danish Party Members at the Turn of the Millennium
The article is based on a newly conducted survey of Danish party members. It shows that Danish party members enrol because of the ideology and national policies of the preferred party, and because they want to support the party. A significant number of members leave their party every year, and as many as one-fifth consider leaving, but new members also enrol. Compared to voters, members are not gender and age representative, but are to some exten…
Denmark: Simplicity Embedded in Complexity (or is it the Other Way Round)?
Denmark has a very inclusive electoral system, combining high proportionality, low thresholds, and meaningful voter choice among candidates. Its multi-party system results in coalition governments, many of them minority governments. Parliament is more representative socio-demographically of the population than most of its counterparts in other countries, with women forming a high percentage of MPs. The current system is widely regarded as working…
Minding the Polls
Minding the Polls Jørgen Elklit (bio) Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy. By Eric C. Bjornlund . Woodrow Wilson Center Press and the Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. 383 pp. Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy. By Eric C. Bjornlund. Woodrow Wilson Center Press and the Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. 383 pp. Eric Bjornlund opens his study of international and domestic election…
Are Danes More Inclined to Ticket Splitting than the Swedes and the English?1
The first ever simultaneous general and local elections in Denmark (November 2001) allow for a comparison of Danish voters’ inclination towards inter-level ticket splitting with similar phenomena in Sweden and England. Inter-level split-ticket voting occurs when voters cast their vote on two different parties in the two different (but simultaneous) elections; this happened far more often in Denmark in 2001 than in the two other countries. One hyp…
Judging elections and election management quality by process
In this paper, we propose and test a framework for analysing how 'free and fair' electoral processes are. We start from the assumption that a rational process must be capable of being reproduced by others according to a given standard of practice. The framework for analysis is based on eleven constituent parts of an electoral process, each of which can be gauged by performance indicators. Various methods of measuring these indicators are offered,…
A framework for the systematic study of election quality
This article offers the beginnings of a methodology for assessing the quality of a national election, its freeness, fairness and administrative efficacy. The historical lack of a comprehensive framework of analysis has compelled election observers to make pronouncements on the basis of incomplete evidence, usually gathered on the day of the vote and count. It has allowed international observation missions to 'call' the results of elections on the…
Divisor Methods for Sequential Portfolio Allocation in Multi‐Party Executive Bodies: Evidence from Northern Ireland and Denmark
Some proportional representation (PR) rules can also be used to specify the sequence in which each party in a parliament or each member in a multiparty governing coalition is given its choice about (unique) desired resources, e.g., “indivisible goods” such as cabinet ministries or executive positions, thus providing an algorithmic method for determining “fair” allocations. Divisor rule sequencing using the d'Hondt method was recently used to dete…
Divisor Methods for Sequential Portfolio Allocation in Multi-Party Executive Bodies: Evidence from Northern Ireland and Denmark
Some proportional representation (PR) rules can also be used to specify the sequence in which each party in a parliament or each member in a multiparty governing coalition is given its choice about (unique) desired resources, e.g., “indivisible goods” such as cabinet ministries or executive positions, thus providing an algorithmic method for determining “fair” allocations. Divisor rule sequencing using the d'Hondt method was recently used to dete…
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