Party Distances in the Danish Folketing 1945–1968

The Positions of Irish Parliamentary Parties 1937–2006

“…Moreover, methodological advances have exclusively taken place in a US context, with the development of both the NOMINATE and the Bayesian approaches based on studies of the Congress. The few studies of European national parliaments using some form of recorded votes have hitherto used the index of distances (Pedersen, 1967;Hansen, 2008) or multi-dimensional scaling (Pedersen et al ., 1971). In recent years, however, the studies by Rosenthal and Voeten (2004) on the French fourth republic, by Schonhardt-Bailey (2003) on the House of Commons 1841-1847, and by Spirling and McLean (2006;2007) on the modern House of Commons have used NOMINATE or Optimal Classification.…”

Modelling Government Formation in Denmark and Beyond

“…For the period 1953 to 1971, the article builds on previously published results which are based on similar but less rigorous techniques (Damgaard and Rusk, 1976;Pedersen et al, 1971). 9 The parties' voting behaviour in a particular session is considered to be one-dimensional if the R 2 goodness-of-fit measure is 0.9 or higher.…”

Politics, parties, and parliaments: political change in Norway

“…Quite some time ago, Pedersen, Damgaard, and Olsen (1971), on the basis of a MDS analysis of 6 Danish parties' parliamentary votes on government bills and agenda motions, concluded that a two-dimensional spatial configuration is more realistic than the classic unidimensional one.…”

“…Nevertheless, multidimensional explanations have found favor in some quarters (Clausen and Holmberg, 1977;Stjernquist and Bjurulf, 1970;Nyholm, 1972;Pedersen, Damgaard, and Olsen, 1971;Damgaard and Rusk, 1976;Valen, 1992), and with secondary influences such as postmaterial val ues (Inglehart, 1971a, 1979a, 1979b, Inglehart and Flanagan, 1987 finding greater and greater expression in Scandinavian politics, identifying interparty spatial relationships and potential coalition partnerships may be possible only in multidimensional terms.…”