Contents
Preface 7
PART ONE
Eli Skogerbø, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Lars Nord, & Øyvind Ihlen 1. Introduction: A Nordic model for political communication? 13 Nete Nørgaard Kristensen & Mark Blach-Ørsten
2. Media and politics in Denmark 29
Jón Gunnar Ólafsson & Valgerður Jóhannsdóttir
3. Media and politics in Iceland 51
Kim Strandberg & Tom Carlson
4. Media and politics in Finland 69
Eli Skogerbø & Rune Karlsen
5. Media and politics in Norway 91
Lars Nord & Marie Grusell
6. Media and politics in Sweden 113
PART TWO
Sigurd Allern, Mark Blach-Ørsten, Anu Kantola, & Ester Pollack
7. Development trends and challenges in Nordic political journalism 135 Carl-Gustav Lindén, Lisbeth Morlandstø, & Gunnar Nygren
8. Local political communication in a hybrid media system 155 Nete Nørgaard Kristensen & Anna Roosvall
9. Cultural communication as political communication 177 Eva Josefsen & Eli Skogerbø
10. Indigenous political communication in the Nordic countries 197 David Nicolas Hopmann & Rune Karlsen
11. Elections and political communication in the Nordic countries 219
Juha Herkman & Ann-Cathrine Jungar
12. Populism and media and communication studies in
the Nordic countries 241
Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk & Silje Nygaard
13. Right-wing alternative media in the Scandinavian
political communication landscape 263
Bente Kalsnes, Kajsa Falasca, & Aske Kammer
14. Scandinavian political journalism in a time of fake news
and disinformation 283
Øyvind Ihlen, Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz, & PerOla Öberg
15. Lobbying in Scandinavia 305
Tine Ustad Figenschou, Magnus Fredriksson, Kristoffer Kolltveit,
& Josef Pallas
16. Public bureaucracies 325
Audun Beyer, Erik Knudsen, Kim Andersen, & Adam Shehata
17. Political media effects in a Nordic perspective 347 Jens E. Kjeldsen, Christian Kock, & Orla Vigsø
18. Political rhetoric in Scandinavia 365
Lars Nord, Eli Skogerbø, & Nete Nørgaard Kristensen 19. Conclusion: Nordic political communication between
change and continuity 385
