
Jacob Christensen is an associate professor at the Centre for Welfare State Studies at the Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
Jacob Christensen
Jacob Christensen is an associate professor at the Centre for Welfare State Studies at the Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. His main fields of interest are social and labour market policy as well as parliamentary politics and Danish political history.
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Articles by Jacob Christensen
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While the centre-left as expected won the Danish election on 15 September 2011, the victory turned out to be much narrower than predicted and the two main parties of the Left, the Social Democrats (S) and SF both lost votes compared with the 2007 election.
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The 2011 election will differ from the previous elections in two important ways: First, there is a real likelihood for a change in government with Social Democratic leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt taking over as prime minister. Second, the campaign so far has been dominated by debates about the state of the economy while immigration and health care, the major themes of the three previous campaigns, have played only a minor role.
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