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


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Educational background of policy professionalsNote: Educational background of former Danish MP’s who have up taken up job positions in lobbying firms, think tanks, unions, and/or interest organizations. (N=82).
Educational background of policy professionalsNote: Educational background of former Danish MP’s who have up taken up job positions in lobbying firms, think tanks, unions, and/or interest organizations. (N=82).

Policy professionals and party association

Party Policy professionals
Liberal Party of Denmark (centre-right) 19
Danish Social Democrats (centre-left) 20
Danish People’s Party (right-wing) 0
Danish Social Liberal Party (centre-left) 8
New Alliance (now Liberal Alliance; centre-right) 1
Centre Democrats (centre-left) 3
Socialist People’s Party (centre-left) 10
Left Socialist (now Red-Green Alliance; left-wing) 4
Red-Green Alliance (left-wing) 1
Christian Democrats (centre-right) 2
Conservative People’s Party (centre-right) 10
Parties from Greenland or The Faroe Islands 1
Progress Party (right-wing) 1
Other 2

Job positions from 1981–2015

Type of job position Election Total
1981 1984 1987 1988 1990 1994 1998 2001 2005 2007 2011 2015
Lobbying position 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 1 8 4 5 1 24
Interest organization 1 6 1 8 0 3 6 6 8 10 7 1 57
Union 5 4 6 3 0 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 24
Think tank 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 4 1 0 10
Journalism 2 2 1 4 2 2 7 1 2 0 1 0 24
Communication 1 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 4 4 1 0 16
Bureaucrat 4 6 1 2 1 2 9 0 1 0 0 0 26
Other (non-policy professional jobs, education, ect.) 57 37 23 32 33 35 52 26 37 36 20 0 388
Elected member (municipality, region, EU, MP-substitute, etc.) 29 30 16 19 27 32 36 44 28 36 22 0 319
Political appointee (commitees, region, municipality, ect.) 33 36 18 26 22 14 19 11 9 10 8 0 206
Total 132 122 66 97 85 93 135 90 103 104 65 2 1 094
Number of politicians (with mapped subsequent careers) who were not re-elected or running for office in the following election 49 47 26 44 52 51 70 62 53 73 60 2 589

Lobbyism and party association

Party Lobbyists
Liberal Party of Denmark (centre-right) 7
Danish Social Democrats (centre-left) 4
Danish People’s Party (right-wing) 0
Danish Social Liberal Party (centre-left) 2
New Alliance (now Liberal Alliance; centre-right) 0
Centre Democrats (centre-left) 1
Socialist People’s Party (centre-left) 2
Left Socialist (now Red-Green Alliance; left-wing) 0
Red-Green Alliance (left-wing) 0
Christian Democrats (centre-right) 0
Conservative People’s Party (centre-right) 4
Parties from Greenland or The Faroe Islands 1
Progress Party (right-wing) 0
Other 0
Total 21
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