Minority Governments and Party Politics: The Political and Institutional Background to the “Danish Miracle”
Minority Governments and Party Politics: The Political and Institutional Background to the “Danish Miracle”
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少数派政府与政党政治：“丹麦奇迹”的政治与制度背景
作者：
C. Green
20世纪90年代丹麦经济的成功表现让学者们谈论“丹麦奇迹”。本文探讨了丹麦政府为何能够在 20 世纪 90 年代如此成功地治理经济。它认为有两个因素很重要。首先，少数派政府的议价地位得到加强。如今，由于丹麦政党政治和丹麦议会制运作的变化，丹麦少数派政府可以与丹麦议会中不断变化的联盟达成协议。因此，这篇文章对少数派政府治理能力薄弱的传统观点提出了挑战。其次，1993年社会民主党重新掌权后改变的社会经济战略非常重要，因为它围绕一些有争议的改革达成了政治共识。
The successful performance of the Danish economy in the 1990s has encouraged scholars to talk about a “Danish miracle”. This article investigates why Danish governments have been able to govern the economy so successfully in the 1990s. It argues that two factors have been important. First, the bargaining position of minority governments has been strengthened. Today, Danish minority governments can enter agreements with changing coalitions in the Danish parliament, as a result of changes in Danish party politics and in the functioning of Danish parliamentarianism. The article thus challenges the conventional wisdom about minority governments as weak in terms of governing capacity. Second, the changed socio-economic strategy of the Social Democrats returning to power in 1993 has been important, because it has created a political consensus around a number of controversial reforms.