Magnus Blomgren – författare

This book gathers the most influential authors on role research and legislative studies to examine the different roles that MPs are playing in modern-day legislatures. It provides a comprehensive and critical overview of current research on legislative roles, summarises previous research, presents a large variety of methodological approaches and also explores the latest developing approaches to role theory.

The concept of political roles has become increasingly relevant for understanding contemporary political systems. Parliamentary, legislative and representative roles are professional roles that provide a way of connecting the individual legislator to their institution that can also explain a legislator’s attitude and behaviour. Drawing upon case studies with as much as 40 years of data that include Germany, the Netherlands, UK, Austria, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand and the European Parliament, this book examines the link between representative roles, different institutional settings and parliamentary behaviour. It argues that the roles MPs play depend of who they think they should represent; between their voters, their party, the people of their country and also themselves, conflicts of loyalty can occur. This book provides a framework to analyse MPs’ choices by searching both the reasons for their views about representation, and the consequences of those views in parliament.

Parliamentary Roles in Modern Legislatures will be of strong interest to students and scholars of government, legislative studies, political parties, comparative politics, political sociology and deliberative democracy.

This book gathers the most influential authors on role research and legislative studies to examine the different roles that MPs are playing in modern-day legislatures. It provides a comprehensive and critical overview of current research on legislative roles, summarises previous research, presents a large variety of methodological approaches and also explores the latest developing approaches to role theory.

The concept of political roles has become increasingly relevant for understanding contemporary political systems. Parliamentary, legislative and representative roles are professional roles that provide a way of connecting the individual legislator to their institution that can also explain a legislator’s attitude and behaviour. Drawing upon case studies with as much as 40 years of data that include Germany, the Netherlands, UK, Austria, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand and the European Parliament, this book examines the link between representative roles, different institutional settings and parliamentary behaviour. It argues that the roles MPs play depend of who they think they should represent; between their voters, their party, the people of their country and also themselves, conflicts of loyalty can occur. This book provides a framework to analyse MPs’ choices by searching both the reasons for their views about representation, and the consequences of those views in parliament.

Parliamentary Roles in Modern Legislatures will be of strong interest to students and scholars of government, legislative studies, political parties, comparative politics, political sociology and deliberative democracy.

Demokrati är ingen självklarhet.

Idén om demokrati i betydelsen folkstyre går tillbaka till antikens Aten, men vilka som ska utgöra folket och hur styret ska bedrivas har debatterats alltsedan dess. Över tid har allt fler grupper av människor inkluderats i demos. Samtidigt har det under demokratins hela historia funnits ett motstånd mot att gemene man och kvinna ska ha inflytande över politiska angelägenheter. Borde int­e styret skötas av experter? Räcker det inte med att en upplyst ledare eller ett parti med bred förankring kanaliserar folkviljan?

Bokens redaktörer, Jonny Hjelm och Christer Nordlund, är professorer i historia respektive idéhistoria vid Umeå universitet. Övriga med­verkande är: Magnus Blomgren, Anders Burman, S­andra Grahn, Staffa­n I. Lindberg, Anna Lührman, Erland Mårald, Malin Rönn­blom och Josefi­n Rönnbäck.

Över 70 år efter andra världskrigets slut utmanas europeiska unionssträvanden av nationalstatens återkomst. Denna utveckling ställer en rad frågor på sin spets. Hur ska efterlevnaden för EU-rätten säkerställas om fler medlemsländer åberopar undantag med hänvisning till nationell suveränitet? Sker det en aveuropeisering av den politiska och ekonomiska utvecklingen inom EU och vad betyder Brexit för utvecklingen i EU? Hur ser maktfördelningen ut mellan EU och medlemsländerna och vilken möjlighet har dessa att utforma politik som gagnar EU:s medborgare? Vad betyder det för utveckling inom EU och dess medlemsländer på områden som migration-, skatte-, arbetsmarknads-, samt regional- och strukturpolitik att nationella intressen i allt högre grad främjas på bekostnad av det gemensamma? Hur påverkas EU-samarbetet av regional separatism i EU:s medlemsstater?

Detta är den tjugoandra årgången av Europaperspektiv. Boken är tvärvetenskaplig och innehåller nio kapitel skrivna av forskare inom juridik, statskunskap och ekonomiska ämnen, som ur olika perspektiv förenar historiska tillbakablickar med analys av framtida utmaningar som EU och europeiskt samgående står inför i en tid då nationalstaten tycks vara på väg tillbaka.