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Overview

David Arter is affiliated with Tampere University in Finland. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a strong emphasis on political science and international relations. Their work also intersects with strategy and management, communication, sociology, and general agricultural and biological sciences.

Their main research topics include electoral systems and political participation, political influence and corporate strategies, populism and right-wing movements, social media and politics, European and international law studies, political systems and governance, as well as religion and society interactions.

David Arter has published extensively in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Scandinavian Political Studies
  • Party Politics
  • European Security
  • West European Politics
  • Acta Politica

Recent papers by David Arter include:

  • "From Finlandisation and post-Finlandisation to the end of Finlandisation? Finland's road to a NATO application" (2022, European Security)
  • "The making of an 'unhappy marriage'? The 2023 Finnish general election" (2023, West European Politics)
  • "When even the prime minister sits on the municipal council. Analysing the value of 'localness' and Finnish MPs' incentives to 'cumulate' in an open-list voting system" (2022, Acta Politica)
  • "'It's a Long Way from Kuusamo to Kuhmo': Mapping Candidates' Electoral Constituencies in the Finnish Open-List Single Preference Voting System" (2021, Political Studies Review)
  • "Digging in the 'Secret Garden of Politics': The Institutionalisation and De-institutionalisation of Membership Ballots in the Selection of Finnish Parliamentary Candidates" (2021, Scandinavian Political Studies)

David Arter has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Peter Söderlund and Corentin Poyet.

Best Publications

  • Scandinavian Politics Today

    David Arter

  • Small State Influence Within the EU: The Case of Finland's ‘Northern Dimension Initiative’

    David Arter

  • Democracy in Scandinavia: Consensual, majoritarian or mixed?

    David Arter

  • Measuring the Extent of Party Institutionalisation: The Case of a Populist Entrepreneur Party

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  • Introduction: Comparing the legislative performance of legislatures

    David Arter

  • The EU Referendum in Finland on 16 October 1994: A Vote for the West, not for Maastricht

    David Arter

  • The ‘Hows’, not the ‘Whys’ or the ‘Wherefores’: The Role of Intra‐party Competition in the 2011 Breakthrough of the True Finns

    David Arter

  • Analysing ‘Successor Parties': The Case of the True Finns

    David Arter

  • When new party X has the ‘X factor’ On resilient entrepreneurial parties

    David Arter

  • The Scottish committees and the goal of a ‘New Politics’: a verdict on the first four years of the devolved Scottish parliament

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  • Parliamentary Democracy in Scandinavia

    David Arter

  • The What, Why’s and How’s of Constituency Service

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  • Taking the Gilt off the Conservatives' Gingerbread: The April 2011 Finnish General Election

    David Arter

  • The Scottish Parliament: A Scandinavian-Style Assembly?

    David Arter

  • Scandinavia: What's Left is the Social Democratic Welfare Consensus

    David Arter

  • The Nordic Parliaments: A Comparative Analysis

    David Arter

  • Comparing and Classifying Legislatures

    David Arter

  • When a pariah party exploits its demonised status: the 2019 Finnish general election

    David Arter

  • 'Big Bang' Elections and Party System Change in Scandinavia: Farewell to the 'Enduring Party System'?

    David Arter

  • Conclusion. Questioning the ‘mezey question’: An interrogatory framework for the comparative study of legislatures

    David Arter

  • The Michael Marsh Question: How do Finns do Constituency Service?

    David Arter

  • The Nordic parliaments

    David Arter

  • On Assessing Strength and Weakness in Parliamentary Committee Systems: Some Preliminary Observations on the New Scottish Parliament

    David Arter

  • From a Contingent Party System to Party System Convergence? Mapping Party System Change in Postwar Finland

    David Arter

  • Committee cohesion and the ‘corporate dimension’ of parliamentary committees: A comparative analysis

    David Arter

  • The Madisonian Turn: Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe

    David Arter

  • Black Faces in the Blond Crowd: Populist Racialism In Scandinavia

    David Arter

  • Kekkonen's finland: Enlightened despotism or consensual democracy?

    David Arter

  • Extreme Right Parties in Scandinavia

    David Arter

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