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<p>The growth of PR in Scandinavia is linked both to the mediatisation of politics and to the decline of corporatism. Studies in Sweden and Norway suggest that one consequence of these changes is the increasing number of politicians who find new careers as lobbyists in the private sector. In this study, we have constructed a data set of all members of the Danish Parliament who have left politics from 1981 to 2015 (n = 613) and identified the number and type of job positions they have taken up subsequently (n = 1,094). We find that, especially from the 1990s, we can register revolving door activity. Still, 89 per cent of all the registered job positions fall outside of lobbyism. 11 per cent of the job positions fall within the wider field associated with the emerging field of policy professionals (including lobbyism), while lobbyism on its own accounts for two per cent of the job positions.</p>
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The growth of PR in Scandinavia is linked both to the mediatisation of politics and to the decline of corporatism. Studies in Sweden and Norway suggest that one consequence of these changes is the increasing number of politicians who find new careers as lobbyists in the private sector. In this study, we have constructed a data set of all members of the Danish Parliament who have left politics from 1981 to 2015 (n = 613) and identified the number and type of job positions they have taken up subsequently (n = 1,094). We find that, especially from the 1990s, we can register revolving door activity. Still, 89 per cent of all the registered job positions fall outside of lobbyism. 11 per cent of the job positions fall within the wider field associated with the emerging field of policy professionals (including lobbyism), while lobbyism on its own accounts for two per cent of the job positions.

PR, Lobbyism and Democracy: Mapping the revolving door in Denmark from 1981 to 2015

Nordicom Review

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The growth of PR in Scandinavia is linked both to the mediatisation of politics and to the decline of corporatism. Studies in Sweden and Norway suggest that...

PR, Lobbyism and Democracy: Mapping the revolving door in Denmark from 1981 to 2015

Published Online: Dec 08, 2017

Page range: 19 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0405

Keywords
mediatisation, corporatism, revolving doors, policy professionals, PR, lobbyism

© 2017 Mark Blach-Ørsten et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

PR, Lobbyism and Democracy: Mapping the revolving door in Denmark from 1981 to 2015

Published Online: Dec 08, 2017

Page range: 19 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0405

Keywordsmediatisation, corporatism, revolving doors, policy professionals, PR, lobbyism

© 2017 Mark Blach-Ørsten et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
mediatisation, corporatism, revolving doors, policy professionals, PR, lobbyism