Nicholas Aylott comments on British election
On May 11, Nicholas Aylott, leader of the Nordic Democracy project, participated in a radio show at Sveriges Radio, discussing the current state of affair in British politics.
The aim of the research programme Nordic Spaces: Formation of States, Societies and Regions, Cultural Encounters, and Idea and Identity Production in Northern Europe after 1800 is to generate new research on Northern Europe and research collaboration within the region.

Senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University. Leader of The Nordic Model of Democracy project.
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
nicholas.aylott@sh.se
2006 to present: senior lecturer (docent, lektor), School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden
2006-2006: senior lecturer (docent, lektor), Department of Political Science, Umeå University, Sweden
2002-2005: research fellow (forskarassistent), Department of Political Science, Umeå University, Sweden
1995-2002: lecturer, Department of Politics, Keele University, UK
Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd and Nicholas Aylott (2009), “Overcoming the Fear of Commitment: Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Norway and Sweden”, Acta Politica 44, 259-85.
Poguntke, Thomas, Nicholas Aylott, Robert Ladrech and Kurt Richard Luther (2007), “The Europeanization of National Party Organizations: A Conceptual Analysis”, European Journal of Political Research 46:6, 747-851.
Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd, Nicholas Aylott and Flemming Juul Christiansen (2007), “Social Democrats and Trade Unions in Scandinavia: The Decline and Persistence of Institutional Relationships”, European Journal of Political Research 46:5, 607-35.
Aylott, Michael and Nicholas Aylott (2007), “A Meeting of Social Science and Football: Measuring the Effects of Three Points for a Win”, Sport in Society 10:2, 205-22.
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Aylott, Nicholas (2005), “Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten: The Swedish Referendum on EMU of September 2003″, Government and Opposition 40:4, 540-64.
– (2003), “After the Divorce: Social Democrats and Trade Unions in Sweden”, Party Politics 9:3, 369-90.
– (2002), “Let’s Discuss This Later: Party Responses to Euro-Division in Scandinavia”, Party Politics 8:4, 441-61.
– (1999), “Paradoxes and Opportunism: The Danish Election of March 1998″, Government and Opposition 34:1, 59-77.
– (1997), “Between Europe and Unity: The Case of the Swedish Social Democrats”, West European Politics 20:2, 119-36.
Tallberg, Jonas, Nicholas Aylott, Carl Fredrik Bergström, Åsa Casula Vifell and Joakim Palme (2010), Demokratirådets rapport 2010. Europeiseringen av Sverige (Stockholm: SNS Förlag).
Poguntke, Thomas, Nicholas Aylott, Elisabeth Carter, Robert Ladrech and Kurt Richard Luther (eds) (2007), The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation (London: Routledge).
Aylott, Nicholas (1999), Swedish Social Democracy and European Integration: The People’s Home on the Market (Aldershot: Ashgate). [This book is a revised version of my doctoral thesis (Leeds Metropolitan University, 1998): Strategy, Ideology and Party Behaviour: The Swedish Social Democrats and the Issue of European Integration.]
Aylott, Nicholas (2010, forthcoming), “Parties and Party Systems in the North”, in Torbjörn Bergman and Kaare Strøm (eds), Democratic Institutions in Decline? (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press).
Aylott, Nicholas and Torbjörn Bergman (forthcoming), “When Median-Legislator Theory Fails: Why the Swedish Greens Allowed Themselves to be Kept Out of Power in 1998 and 2002″, in Rudy W. Andeweg and Lieven De Winter (eds), Government Formation: Coalition Theory and Deviant Cases (London: Routledge).
Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd, Nicholas Aylott and Flemming Juul Christiansen (2008), “Scener fra et æktenskab: Socialdemokratiske partier og fagforeninger i Skandinavien”, in Karina Kosiara-Pedersen and Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard (eds), Partier og partisystemer i forandring: Festskrift til Lars Bille (Odense: Syddansk universitetsforlag).
Aylott, Nicholas (2008), “Softer But Strong: Euroscepticism and Party Politics in Sweden”, in Paul Taggart and Aleks Szczerbiak (eds), Opposing Europe? The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism, Volume 1: Case Studies and Country Surveys (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
– (2007), “A Long, Slow March to Europe: The Europeanization of Swedish Political Parties”, in Thomas Poguntke et al (eds), The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation (London: Routledge).
–, Laura Morales and Luis Ramiro (2007), “Some Things Change, A Lot Stays the Same: Comparing the Country Studies”, in Thomas Poguntke et al (eds), The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation (London: Routledge).
Aylott, Nicholas (2005), “Politiska partier”, in Magnus Blomgren and Torbjörn Bergman (eds), EU och Sverige – ett sammanlänkat statsskick (Malmö: Liber).
– (2005), “‘President Persson’ – How Did Sweden Get Him?”, in Thomas Poguntke and Paul Webb (eds), The Presidentialization of Politics: A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
– (2004), “From People’s Movements to Electoral Machines? Interest Aggregation and the Social Democratic Parties of Scandinavia”, in Kay Lawson and Thomas Poguntke (eds), How Political Parties Respond: Interest Aggregation Revisited (London: Routledge).
– (2001), “The Swedish Social Democrats”, in Ton Notermans (ed.), Social Democratic Parties and EMU (Oxford: Berghahn).
– (1999), “The Swedish Social Democratic Party”, in Robert Ladrech and Philippe Marlière (eds), Social Democratic Parties in the European Union: History, Organization, Policies (London: Macmillan).
On May 11, Nicholas Aylott, leader of the Nordic Democracy project, participated in a radio show at Sveriges Radio, discussing the current state of affair in British politics.
The project concerns the Nordic "model" of democracy – defined in terms of both institutional patterns and the values with which political discourse is laden – and its relation to the Baltic states.