‘Democracy’ and ‘People’s Power’ in the Finnish Parliament – the Struggle between Representative, Participatory and Direct Democracy
Matti Hyvärinen,
Jussi Kurunmäki,
Risto Turunen
et al.
Abstract:The Finnish language is one that offers two translations of the concept 'democracy,' demokratia and kansanvalta (people's power), which have remained in active political use. We analyse the existence of two terms as a linguistic affordance, providing political agents with possibilities for resisting and supporting the prevailing interpretations of democracy. We ask how and where the different versions occur in parliamentary speech and in the MPs' interviews . In quantitative analysis, we study the relative ap… Show more
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