Browsing Institutt for statsvitenskap by Author "Otjes, Simon"

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  • A policy like no other? The populist radical right challenge in the field of democracy reform 
    Bedock, Camille; Best, Volker; Otjes, Simon; Weisskircher, Manes Elias (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    The literature on the populist radical right has underlined the party family’s influence on a variety of issues, such as immigration, welfare, and the EU. However, scholars have hardly studied its influence in the field ...
  • All about the money? A cross-national study of parties’ relations with trade unions in 12 western democracies 
    Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Hansen, Vibeke Wøien; Otjes, Simon; Rasmussen, Anne; Røed, Maiken; Bale, Tim (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    This article examines political parties’ approach to trade unions and the role of private and public party finance in contemporary democracies. We suggest that both unions’ direct donations and states’ party finance regimes ...
  • Conceptualizing and measuring party-interest group relationships 
    Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Otjes, Simon; Poguntke, Thomas; Hansen, Vibeke Wøien; Saurugger, Sabine; Marshall, David (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Relationships between political parties and interest groups form structures that enable and constrain political action. Yet there is a lack of consensus on what ‘party-group relationships’ means. We propose a conceptualization ...
  • Introducing the Party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets 
    Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Hansen, Vibeke Wøien; Rødland, Lise; Maiken, Røed; Klüver, Heike; Le Gall, Cal; Marshall, David; Otjes, Simon; Poguntke, Thomas; Rasmussen, Anne; Saurugger, Sabine; Witko, Christopher (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Few existing datasets on parties and interest groups include data from both sides and a wide variety of interest groups and parties. We contribute to filling this gap by making several interconnected new datasets publicly ...
  • Party-interest group ties: The resource exchange model revisited 
    Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Hansen, Vibeke Wøien; Marshall, David; Otjes, Simon (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    We examine the existence and strength of organizational ties between parties and interest groups by innovating on classic resource exchange theory. First, we propose that the nature of interest groups’ policy orientation ...
  • Policy positions, power and interest group-party lobby routines 
    Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Klüver, Heike; Marshall, David; Otjes, Simon; Rasmussen, Anne; Witko, Christopher (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Prior literature points to the importance of party power and ideology for interest group-party contacts in the legislative arena. But interest groups do not often have ideologies – they are typically active in a small ...