Flemming Juul Christiansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3577491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Flemming Juul Christiansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Flemming Juul |
| FAMILY NAME | Christiansen |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTIANSEN F J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3257-9323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 271 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Is disloyalty rewarded? The electoral consequences of bloc changes of Scandinavian Centre Parties 1977–2019
Centre Parties (Agrarians, Christian Democrats and Liberals) used to be an established part of the Scandinavian party systems and have often been pivotal for government formation. With ongoing individualisation, secularisation, decline of traditional cleavages, and the rise of new ones such as immigration, as well as polarisation, these parties face the challenge of losing representation in parliament as already happened to the Danish Centre Demo…
The Polarization of Legislative Party Votes: Comparative Illustrations from Denmark and Portugal
This article introduces and demonstrate the use of a ‘legislative polarisation index’. This extends a current measure of party system polarisation, as developed by Dalton (2008), and makes it possible to include legislative behaviour in the form of roll call votes into the assessment of polarisation. The article selects Denmark and Portugal to illustrate how the index works. The cases show that increased fragmentation and increased polarisation o…
The 2019 Danish General Election – A Shift to the Centre‐Left
The pursuit of new citizenship by peri-urban residents in China: Status, rights, and individual choice
Although China did not announce any official urbanization policy until 2014, since the 1980s urbanization has been the core goal of China's unceasing push for modernization and national rejuvenation. Tens of millions of inhabitants living on the fringes of China's cities merely hold temporary permits with virtually no political and social rights and only a modicum of public policy benefit in the cities where they work. The rights and social entit…
Putting Party First? Constituency Service in Denmark
The electoral system chosen by Danish parties and politicians appears to create strong incentives for parliamentarians to undertake activities that can be labelled constituency service. In offering parties the option of running open lists—which most do—the MPs are encouraged to cultivate a personal vote to get elected. High party unity, moreover, might also be thought to be conducive towards a strong constituency focus, in that MPs will feel less…
Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia’s Chinatown. Space, Place and Struggle, written by Kathryn E. Wilson
Cooperation between counterparts in parliament from an agenda-setting perspective: Legislative Coalitions as a Trade of Criticism and Policy
Governments may bargain with parties in parliament to silence them. This insight follows from the agenda-setting literature, which emphasises the power of the opposition to criticise the government. The literature on legislatures points to the fear of loss of future voter support as a motivation for majority building. However, it does not name factors that can cause such uncertainty. One such factor is opposition criticism. This article argues th…
Dissolution Threats and Legislative Bargaining
Chief executives in many parliamentary democracies have the power to dissolve the legislature. Despite a well‐developed literature on the endogenous timing of parliamentary elections, political scientists know remarkably little about the strategic use of dissolution power to influence policymaking. To address this gap, we propose and empirically evaluate a theoretical model of legislative bargaining in the shadow of executive dissolution power. T…
Minority coalition governance in Denmark
Coalition governance is a challenge for political parties because it involves cooperation and compromises between parties that have different political goals and are competitors in political elections. Coalition coordination is crucial for the intra-coalitional cooperation of the governing parties. A key element in coalition coordination is coalition agreements, which to a varying degree constrain the behaviour of the coalition partners. This art…
Friendship, Courting, and Engagement: Pre-electoral Coalition Dynamics in Action
Thema dieser Ausgabe des Health System Watch ist – anlässlich der kommenden Finanzausgleichsverhandlungen – die Spitalsfinanzierung in Österreich. Wir bringen aktuelle Zahlen und eine kompakte Zusammenfassung des Status quo. Zudem analysieren wir die Finanzierung des Spitalswesens in anderen Gesundheitssystemen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass in keinem der betrachteten modernen Gesundheitssysteme die Spitalsfinanzierung auch nur annähernd so kompliziert …
Dismantling by Default? The Indexation of Social Benefits in Four Countries
This chapter focuses on the indexation of social benefits (i.e. adjustments in line with inflation or real wage development) in Denmark, Sweden, the UK, and Germany. It is argued that studying indexation rules is central to a fuller understanding of the changing substantial intensity of welfare benefits. It offers insights into politicians' preferences and their strategies of dismantling in that changing indexation rules is attractive because it …
The Impact of the European Union on Coalition Formation in a Minority System: The Case of Denmark
Does European Union membership influence coalition patterns in national parliaments? For governments in the Scandinavian countries – with their relatively high share of minority governments requiring external parliamentary support to form parliamentary majorities – the question of ‘coalition management’ is highly relevant. This article provides an empirical test of three central arguments in the Europeanisation literature on the impact of EU memb…
Organizational de-integration of political parties and interest groups in Denmark
Political parties and major economic interest groups often used to be closely linked, but over recent decades they seem to have become more and more detached. Until now, this process has primarily been described in almost deterministic structural models that tell us little about how this detachment takes place and imply that it affects all players at around the same time. The article analyses this development with a simple exchange model that exp…
Chinese consumers: The Romantic reappraisal
Drawing on evidence from Anshan City, Liaoning Province, the People's Republic of China, we argue that the recent commodification and proliferation of idyllicized representations of rurality, a trend that runs directly counter to the symbolic infrastructure of China's mass urbanization and industrialization, indicates a paradigm shift in Chinese consumer perceptions. We explore a theory of the 'Romantic reappraisal of Chinese consumer values', dr…
China's Urban-Rural Integration Policies
The analysis presented here is based on the keynote speech discussing the most recent developments in rural policy on urban-rural integration in China delivered in Chinese by Professor Ye Xingqing at the Ninth European Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development in China (ECARDC9) held at the University of Leeds in the UK on 3–5 April 2009. Professor Ye's paper provides a comprehensive overview of the main initiatives, their rationale and the…
Food Security, Urbanization and Social Stability in China
Chinese development in both the planned economy and reform periods was determined within narrow constraints of food security, agricultural productivity and social organization of production. The reforms and their effects, most prominently rapid urbanization while ensuring food security also caused the loss of cultivable land to agriculture, environmental decline, and new dietary demands on food production. The institutional trajectories and dynam…
The Industrialization of Rural China
Parliamentary Opposition under Minority Parliamentarism: Scandinavia
Opposition parties are essential to parliamentary democracy. Through parliament and electorate they are the means of holding government accountable. However, as noted by Robert Dahl, opposition is found in very different patterns. In this paper we assess how opposition parties perform under minority government in the three countries of Scandinavia by looking at four aspects of those parties: their composition in terms of strength, ideology and fr…
Chinese Women in Rural–Urban Transition: Surrogate brothers or agents of their own fate
How has the joint family structure—one of the basic institutions of rural organisation in China—been used by families in the transition from rural to urban reality since the early 1980s? During the 1960s and 1970s, the rural people's communes consolidated the role of patrilocal marriage patterns and the shared inheritance and responsibilities of brothers (both hallmarks of the joint family), while in the 1980s and 1990s, the joint family was used…
Social Democrats and trade unions in Scandinavia: The decline and persistence of institutional relationships
This article examines the institutional arrangements between Social Democratic parties and trade unions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. First, the authors show how these relations have weakened at a varying pace. Party–union ties are now quite distant in Denmark, but remain relatively close in Norway and, especially, Sweden. Second, the authors explore this variation using a simple model of political exchange. The finding is that the intensity of …
A Political Explanation of Economic Growth: State Survival, Bureaucratic Politics, and Private Enterprises in the Making of Taiwan's Economy, 1950-1985 . Yongping Wu
Chinatown, Europe: An Exploration of Overseas Chinese Identity in the 1990s
Is Chinatown a ghetto, an area of exotic sensations or a business venture? What makes a European Chinese, Chinese?The histories of Chinese communities in Europe are diverse, spanning (amongst others) Teochiu speaking migrants from French Indochina to France, and Hakka and Cantonese speaking migrants from Hong Kong to Britain. This book explores how such a wide range of people tends to be - indiscriminately - regarded as 'Chinese'.Christiansen exp…
Model Rebels: The Rise and Fall of China's Richest Village . Bruce Gilley
Chinese Identity in Europe
When one seeks to understand the Chinese communities as communities, the issue of identity becomes paramount. Identity (meaning the characteristics that bind people together as a group) is evasive, and yet a well established concept (see, among others, Eriksen, 1993). Ethnic identity among overseas Chinese in Europe simultaneously reflects and influences their modes of social interaction. It manifests itself in how people deal with each other; th…
A panoramic view of the future
Social Democrats and trade unions in Scandinavia: The decline and persistence of institutional relationships
This article examines the institutional arrangements between Social Democratic parties and trade unions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. First, the authors show how these relations have weakened at a varying pace. Party–union ties are now quite distant in Denmark, but remain relatively close in Norway and, especially, Sweden. Second, the authors explore this variation using a simple model of political exchange. The finding is that the intensity of …
Parliamentary Opposition under Minority Parliamentarism: Scandinavia
Opposition parties are essential to parliamentary democracy. Through parliament and electorate they are the means of holding government accountable. However, as noted by Robert Dahl, opposition is found in very different patterns. In this paper we assess how opposition parties perform under minority government in the three countries of Scandinavia by looking at four aspects of those parties: their composition in terms of strength, ideology and fr…
Minority coalition governance in Denmark
Coalition governance is a challenge for political parties because it involves cooperation and compromises between parties that have different political goals and are competitors in political elections. Coalition coordination is crucial for the intra-coalitional cooperation of the governing parties. A key element in coalition coordination is coalition agreements, which to a varying degree constrain the behaviour of the coalition partners. This art…
Dissolution Threats and Legislative Bargaining
Chief executives in many parliamentary democracies have the power to dissolve the legislature. Despite a well‐developed literature on the endogenous timing of parliamentary elections, political scientists know remarkably little about the strategic use of dissolution power to influence policymaking. To address this gap, we propose and empirically evaluate a theoretical model of legislative bargaining in the shadow of executive dissolution power. T…
Organizational de-integration of political parties and interest groups in Denmark
Political parties and major economic interest groups often used to be closely linked, but over recent decades they seem to have become more and more detached. Until now, this process has primarily been described in almost deterministic structural models that tell us little about how this detachment takes place and imply that it affects all players at around the same time. The article analyses this development with a simple exchange model that exp…
Cooperation between counterparts in parliament from an agenda-setting perspective: Legislative Coalitions as a Trade of Criticism and Policy
Governments may bargain with parties in parliament to silence them. This insight follows from the agenda-setting literature, which emphasises the power of the opposition to criticise the government. The literature on legislatures points to the fear of loss of future voter support as a motivation for majority building. However, it does not name factors that can cause such uncertainty. One such factor is opposition criticism. This article argues th…
China's Urban-Rural Integration Policies
The analysis presented here is based on the keynote speech discussing the most recent developments in rural policy on urban-rural integration in China delivered in Chinese by Professor Ye Xingqing at the Ninth European Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development in China (ECARDC9) held at the University of Leeds in the UK on 3–5 April 2009. Professor Ye's paper provides a comprehensive overview of the main initiatives, their rationale and the…
"Market Transition " in China: The Case of the Jiangsu Labor Market, 1978-1990
Chinese consumers: The Romantic reappraisal
Drawing on evidence from Anshan City, Liaoning Province, the People's Republic of China, we argue that the recent commodification and proliferation of idyllicized representations of rurality, a trend that runs directly counter to the symbolic infrastructure of China's mass urbanization and industrialization, indicates a paradigm shift in Chinese consumer perceptions. We explore a theory of the 'Romantic reappraisal of Chinese consumer values', dr…
Food Security, Urbanization and Social Stability in China
Chinese development in both the planned economy and reform periods was determined within narrow constraints of food security, agricultural productivity and social organization of production. The reforms and their effects, most prominently rapid urbanization while ensuring food security also caused the loss of cultivable land to agriculture, environmental decline, and new dietary demands on food production. The institutional trajectories and dynam…
Putting Party First? Constituency Service in Denmark
The electoral system chosen by Danish parties and politicians appears to create strong incentives for parliamentarians to undertake activities that can be labelled constituency service. In offering parties the option of running open lists—which most do—the MPs are encouraged to cultivate a personal vote to get elected. High party unity, moreover, might also be thought to be conducive towards a strong constituency focus, in that MPs will feel less…
The Justification and Legalization of Private Enterprises in China, 1983-1988
Friendship, Courting, and Engagement: Pre-electoral Coalition Dynamics in Action
Thema dieser Ausgabe des Health System Watch ist – anlässlich der kommenden Finanzausgleichsverhandlungen – die Spitalsfinanzierung in Österreich. Wir bringen aktuelle Zahlen und eine kompakte Zusammenfassung des Status quo. Zudem analysieren wir die Finanzierung des Spitalswesens in anderen Gesundheitssystemen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass in keinem der betrachteten modernen Gesundheitssysteme die Spitalsfinanzierung auch nur annähernd so kompliziert …
The legacy of the mock dual economy: Chinese labour in transition 1978-1992
The article looks at labour transition in China as resulting from the gradually disintegrating institutional dualism (formed by the planned economy), and modified by various social dynamics. The structure of the planned economy is explained as a ‘mock dual economy’, an institutional framework aimed at achieving growth without creating poverty (a precondition for the socialist leadership) by appropriating rural surpluses for planned, targeted inve…
The Impact of the European Union on Coalition Formation in a Minority System: The Case of Denmark
Does European Union membership influence coalition patterns in national parliaments? For governments in the Scandinavian countries – with their relatively high share of minority governments requiring external parliamentary support to form parliamentary majorities – the question of ‘coalition management’ is highly relevant. This article provides an empirical test of three central arguments in the Europeanisation literature on the impact of EU memb…
The pursuit of new citizenship by peri-urban residents in China: Status, rights, and individual choice
Although China did not announce any official urbanization policy until 2014, since the 1980s urbanization has been the core goal of China's unceasing push for modernization and national rejuvenation. Tens of millions of inhabitants living on the fringes of China's cities merely hold temporary permits with virtually no political and social rights and only a modicum of public policy benefit in the cities where they work. The rights and social entit…
The Polarization of Legislative Party Votes: Comparative Illustrations from Denmark and Portugal
This article introduces and demonstrate the use of a ‘legislative polarisation index’. This extends a current measure of party system polarisation, as developed by Dalton (2008), and makes it possible to include legislative behaviour in the form of roll call votes into the assessment of polarisation. The article selects Denmark and Portugal to illustrate how the index works. The cases show that increased fragmentation and increased polarisation o…
Chinese Politics and Society: An Introduction
An introduction to Chinese Politics which provides an accessible overview of the structures and dynamics of Chinese politics today. Concentrating on the era since 1949, the text takes a look at politics in the widest sense, analysing political institutions within the crucial broader context of Chinese history and the pressures of social, economic and cultural changes
The Justification and Legalization of Private Enterprises in China, 1983-1988
The 1989 Student Demonstrations and the Limits of the Chinese Political Bargaining Machine: An Essay
"Market Transition " in China: The Case of the Jiangsu Labor Market, 1978-1990
The legacy of the mock dual economy: Chinese labour in transition 1978-1992
The article looks at labour transition in China as resulting from the gradually disintegrating institutional dualism (formed by the planned economy), and modified by various social dynamics. The structure of the planned economy is explained as a ‘mock dual economy’, an institutional framework aimed at achieving growth without creating poverty (a precondition for the socialist leadership) by appropriating rural surpluses for planned, targeted inve…
Book notes
Jean‐Pierre Cabestan, Le système politique de la Chine Populaire (No. 2863 in the series Que sais‐je) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994. 127 pp. ISBN 2–13–046516–1. Frederick C. Teiwes Politics and Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms 1950–1965 Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1993. 593 pp. $70.00, ISBN 1–56324–226–5. Paperback $27.95, ISBN 1–56324–227–3. Erroll Hodge Radio Wars: Truth, Propaganda and the S…
Chinese Identity in Europe
When one seeks to understand the Chinese communities as communities, the issue of identity becomes paramount. Identity (meaning the characteristics that bind people together as a group) is evasive, and yet a well established concept (see, among others, Eriksen, 1993). Ethnic identity among overseas Chinese in Europe simultaneously reflects and influences their modes of social interaction. It manifests itself in how people deal with each other; th…
A panoramic view of the future
Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era . David Zweig
Chinese Rural Policy Between Social Change and State Planning
Flemming Christiansen, ‘Chinese Rural Policy Between Social Change and State Planning’, Forum for Development Studies, 1998:1, pp. 67–95. Chinese rural policy since 1978 has followed several different paradigms. Two of these are examined: the ‘social transformation’ and the ‘planning and programming’ paradigms. The former aimed to change irrational forms of social and economic organisation, while the latter sought to achieve more rational overall…
Model Rebels: The Rise and Fall of China's Richest Village . Bruce Gilley
Chinatown, Europe: An Exploration of Overseas Chinese Identity in the 1990s
Is Chinatown a ghetto, an area of exotic sensations or a business venture? What makes a European Chinese, Chinese?The histories of Chinese communities in Europe are diverse, spanning (amongst others) Teochiu speaking migrants from French Indochina to France, and Hakka and Cantonese speaking migrants from Hong Kong to Britain. This book explores how such a wide range of people tends to be - indiscriminately - regarded as 'Chinese'.Christiansen exp…
A Political Explanation of Economic Growth: State Survival, Bureaucratic Politics, and Private Enterprises in the Making of Taiwan's Economy, 1950-1985 . Yongping Wu
Chinese Women in Rural–Urban Transition: Surrogate brothers or agents of their own fate
How has the joint family structure—one of the basic institutions of rural organisation in China—been used by families in the transition from rural to urban reality since the early 1980s? During the 1960s and 1970s, the rural people's communes consolidated the role of patrilocal marriage patterns and the shared inheritance and responsibilities of brothers (both hallmarks of the joint family), while in the 1980s and 1990s, the joint family was used…
Social Democrats and trade unions in Scandinavia: The decline and persistence of institutional relationships
This article examines the institutional arrangements between Social Democratic parties and trade unions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. First, the authors show how these relations have weakened at a varying pace. Party–union ties are now quite distant in Denmark, but remain relatively close in Norway and, especially, Sweden. Second, the authors explore this variation using a simple model of political exchange. The finding is that the intensity of …
Parliamentary Opposition under Minority Parliamentarism: Scandinavia
Opposition parties are essential to parliamentary democracy. Through parliament and electorate they are the means of holding government accountable. However, as noted by Robert Dahl, opposition is found in very different patterns. In this paper we assess how opposition parties perform under minority government in the three countries of Scandinavia by looking at four aspects of those parties: their composition in terms of strength, ideology and fr…
China's Urban-Rural Integration Policies
The analysis presented here is based on the keynote speech discussing the most recent developments in rural policy on urban-rural integration in China delivered in Chinese by Professor Ye Xingqing at the Ninth European Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development in China (ECARDC9) held at the University of Leeds in the UK on 3–5 April 2009. Professor Ye's paper provides a comprehensive overview of the main initiatives, their rationale and the…
Food Security, Urbanization and Social Stability in China
Chinese development in both the planned economy and reform periods was determined within narrow constraints of food security, agricultural productivity and social organization of production. The reforms and their effects, most prominently rapid urbanization while ensuring food security also caused the loss of cultivable land to agriculture, environmental decline, and new dietary demands on food production. The institutional trajectories and dynam…
The Industrialization of Rural China
Chinese consumers: The Romantic reappraisal
Drawing on evidence from Anshan City, Liaoning Province, the People's Republic of China, we argue that the recent commodification and proliferation of idyllicized representations of rurality, a trend that runs directly counter to the symbolic infrastructure of China's mass urbanization and industrialization, indicates a paradigm shift in Chinese consumer perceptions. We explore a theory of the 'Romantic reappraisal of Chinese consumer values', dr…
Dismantling by Default? The Indexation of Social Benefits in Four Countries
This chapter focuses on the indexation of social benefits (i.e. adjustments in line with inflation or real wage development) in Denmark, Sweden, the UK, and Germany. It is argued that studying indexation rules is central to a fuller understanding of the changing substantial intensity of welfare benefits. It offers insights into politicians' preferences and their strategies of dismantling in that changing indexation rules is attractive because it …
The Impact of the European Union on Coalition Formation in a Minority System: The Case of Denmark
Does European Union membership influence coalition patterns in national parliaments? For governments in the Scandinavian countries – with their relatively high share of minority governments requiring external parliamentary support to form parliamentary majorities – the question of ‘coalition management’ is highly relevant. This article provides an empirical test of three central arguments in the Europeanisation literature on the impact of EU memb…
Organizational de-integration of political parties and interest groups in Denmark
Political parties and major economic interest groups often used to be closely linked, but over recent decades they seem to have become more and more detached. Until now, this process has primarily been described in almost deterministic structural models that tell us little about how this detachment takes place and imply that it affects all players at around the same time. The article analyses this development with a simple exchange model that exp…
Minority coalition governance in Denmark
Coalition governance is a challenge for political parties because it involves cooperation and compromises between parties that have different political goals and are competitors in political elections. Coalition coordination is crucial for the intra-coalitional cooperation of the governing parties. A key element in coalition coordination is coalition agreements, which to a varying degree constrain the behaviour of the coalition partners. This art…
Friendship, Courting, and Engagement: Pre-electoral Coalition Dynamics in Action
Thema dieser Ausgabe des Health System Watch ist – anlässlich der kommenden Finanzausgleichsverhandlungen – die Spitalsfinanzierung in Österreich. Wir bringen aktuelle Zahlen und eine kompakte Zusammenfassung des Status quo. Zudem analysieren wir die Finanzierung des Spitalswesens in anderen Gesundheitssystemen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass in keinem der betrachteten modernen Gesundheitssysteme die Spitalsfinanzierung auch nur annähernd so kompliziert …
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