Dersom du lurer på hvorfor den rødgrønne alliansen i Norge mot alle odds ble gjenvalgt i 2009 kan du lese den nyeste artikkelen til forsker Elin H. Allern ved Institutt for statsvitenskap. Den har tittelen “The Survival of a Majority Coalition: The Norwegian 2009 Parliamentary Elections” og er publisert i nyeste utgave av tidsskriftet West European Politics.

Sammendrag på engelsk:

After an extremely close election race, which culminated on Monday September 14 in 2009, the incumbent coalition of the Labour, Centre and Socialist Left parties’ managed to win another parliamentary majority. The incumbent parties’ joint vote share had dropped since 2005 – yet only by 0.2 per cent. Both main parties on the right – the Conservatives and the Progress Party – increased their scores, but the centre-right opposition was left split and dissatisfied with their overall electoral performance. Hence, the historical red-green alliance of 2005 had survived four years in government and, for the first time since 1993, a sitting Norwegian government had retained power after an election. Why? In this article, the Norwegian parliamentary election of 2009 is described and tentatively explained.

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