Stat, kris och demokrati : Lapporörelsens inflytande i Finland 1929-1932
The State, Crisis and Democracy : The influence of the Lapua Movement in Finland 1929-1932
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Summary, in English
The analytical model is then applied to the confrontation of the question of possible action with actual action. The second question of how state actors have acted aims at illustrating how the model can be applied. The Finnish democratic crisis during the inter-war period provides the empirical background for this illustration. The "Lapua-movement" was an extreme right-wing organization in Finland, founded as a reaction to communist activities in the late twenties and ending in an minor uprising at the village of Mantsala in 1932. Based on conservative standpoints emerging from the Finish civil war in 1918, the Lapua movement felt a strong fear for communist and semi-communist activities in society and tried to force the government to take action against Labor politicians and parties. Through close personal connections with bourgeois parties and leaders of the state and a rather hostile terror, the movement had the Parliament to forbid communist activities and ban communist from the Parliament. The Lapua-movement questioned parliamentarianism as an idea and were in strong favor of the Finish language but were not questioning the state legitimacy itself. The theoretical framework facilitate to emphasize the relationship between leaders in the movement and elites in the state. The model brings out institutional contradictions and shows how some state-actors autonomy was strengthened with the help of the movement.
Department/s
Publishing year
1996
Language
Swedish
Publication/Series
Lund Political Studies
Issue
90
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Arkiv
Topic
- Political Science
Keywords
- State
- New Institutionalism
- Autonomy
- Democratic institutions
- Crises of democracy
- Legitimacy
- Lapua Movement.
- Political and administrative sciences
- Statsvetenskap
- förvaltningskunskap
Status
Published
Supervisor
- [unknown] [unknown]
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 91-7924-089-5
- 91-7924-089-5
Defence date
5 June 1996
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Sal 116 (hörsalen) Eden
Opponent
- [unknown unknown]