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From Protest to Pragmatism: Stabilisation of the Green League into Finnish Political Culture and Party System during the 1990s
Julkaisun tekijät: Karimäki Jenni
Kustantaja: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Paikka: Cambridge
Julkaisuvuosi: 2022
Journal: Contemporary European History
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY
Lehden akronyymi: CONTEMP EUR HIST
Artikkelin numero: PII S0960777321000382
Volyymi: 31
Julkaisunumero: 3
Aloitussivu: 456
Lopetussivun numero: 468
Sivujen määrä: 13
ISSN: 0960-7773
eISSN: 1469-2171
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0960777321000382
Tiivistelmä
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