An unpredictable race ultimately gave the governing Social Democratic Party its best showing in two decades, though analysts said it looked set to form a more centrist government.
The country heads to the polls on Tuesday in a snap vote precipitated by a scandal about a government-mandated mink cull during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Denmark is often held up as an ideal society with a well-functioning welfare state, low levels of corruption, and high levels of social and political stability. But behind this perception, the country is facing up to a number of important challenges. Drawing on a new book,
Rune Stubager, Kasper M. Hansen, Michael S. Lewis-Beck
and
Richard Nadeau
explain how voters have responded to key macrosocial challenges since the 1970s and assess where this leaves the future of the Danish ideal.
Of late, Denmark has been much in the political news. During the 2016 American presidential campaign, it became an ideological lightning rod among Democratic candidates, with Bernie Sanders praising Denmark as a role model for American society, a goal Hillary Clinton claimed was impossible. In her words, “I love Denmark… But we are not Denmark.”