Consensus project
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Project description
Our research project will focus on Finnish political decision-making in the fields of foreign, security and defence policy. The rationale of our project stems from the idea of political consensus that seems to be in a significant role in Finnish politics especially when foreign and defence policy is concerned, and from the idea of deliberative democracy in which decision-making should be preceded by a broad enough political discussion. In this project, we are interested to explore and analyze a variety of sources to understand how decision-makers themselves perceive decision-making as a process and the information they have during the decision-making.
We intend to interview Finnish Members of Parliament and explore various published sources to explore the views of the politicians towards the decision-making.
Some key themes in our project are the Finnish application process to NATO in 2022, military conscription and the Finnish willingness to defend.
Kone Foundation with a multiyear funding.
The project was launched in May 2023.
The staff of the project:
Dr. Teemu Häkkinen (principal investigator)
Dr. Anna Kronlund
Dr. Hannu Salomaa
Media contacts to Teemu Häkkinen (teemu.r.p.hakkinen@jyu.fi).
