A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
From Protest to Pragmatism: Stabilisation of the Green League into Finnish Political Culture and Party System during the 1990s
Authors: Karimäki Jenni
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Publishing place: Cambridge
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Contemporary European History
Journal name in source: CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY
Journal acronym: CONTEMP EUR HIST
Article number: PII S0960777321000382
Volume: 31
Issue: 3
First page : 456
Last page: 468
Number of pages: 13
ISSN: 0960-7773
eISSN: 1469-2171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777321000382
Abstract
Though not the forefathers of the Green party family, the Finnish Greens are an avantgarde when it comes to adapting to existing political culture and making their way from political margins to mainstream. The examination of the intra-party reasons and reasonings regarding adaptation and conformation reveals that it is never a question of either/or but a testament of conflicting interests. Although the compromise and consensus-seeking Finnish political culture and party system created external pressures on the Green League, forcing the party to conform with the existing procedures and traditions, the growing intra-party willingness to adapt was expressed in streamlining of the organisation and ideology as well as in the increasing office-seeking tendencies and accentuation of stability and credibility as preconditions of incumbency. Instead of pursuing radical changes to the existing political system, transforming growing adherence into incumbency required adaptation and conformation
Though not the forefathers of the Green party family, the Finnish Greens are an avantgarde when it comes to adapting to existing political culture and making their way from political margins to mainstream. The examination of the intra-party reasons and reasonings regarding adaptation and conformation reveals that it is never a question of either/or but a testament of conflicting interests. Although the compromise and consensus-seeking Finnish political culture and party system created external pressures on the Green League, forcing the party to conform with the existing procedures and traditions, the growing intra-party willingness to adapt was expressed in streamlining of the organisation and ideology as well as in the increasing office-seeking tendencies and accentuation of stability and credibility as preconditions of incumbency. Instead of pursuing radical changes to the existing political system, transforming growing adherence into incumbency required adaptation and conformation
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