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Democratized Socialism Makes Gains in Norway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Ben A. Arneson
Affiliation:
Ohio Wesleyan University

Extract

In no part of the world is there greater devotion to the principle of representative government than in the Scandinavian countries. Nowhere, too, are there more homogeneous, intelligent, and literate electorates. And in none of the three are party lines more sharply drawn or issues more clearly defined and presented than in Norway, where, as in all Scandinavia, there is complete freedom of discussion. Probably there is no better example in recent years of a bitterly fought election over clear-cut issues, yet conducted in a most orderly fashion, than the triennial election of October 16,1933, in which were chosen 150 members of the Norwegian Storthing.

Type
Foreign Governments and Politics
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1934

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References

1 See this Review, February, 1931, p. 152Google Scholar.

2 Although the members of the Storthing are seated according to districts and not by parties, the terms right and left are used in this article—as they are by Norwegian writers—in the same sense as in French politics.

3 The members of the Storthing are elected by the list system of proportional representation.

4 Includes the small Independent Liberal party (Frisinnede), which coöperates closely with the Conservatives.

5 Much of the information on which this note is based has been obtained from recent issues of two Oslo newspapers, i.e., Ukens Nytt (Conservative semi-weekly) and Arbeiderbladet (Labor daily).

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