

Political science
Research
How has the internal unity of political parties evolved, both historically and currently? Do parties of the present see less internal dissent than previously in history? My research concerns how party unity has evolved since the early 1900s. I study how we can use parliamentary debates to explore this topic. Currently, I am diving into Scandinavian parliamentary speeches of the last century, using quantitative text analysis to investigate party unity.
Moreover, I also study how foreign events have affected national political developments. I have recently looked at how communist revolutions of the 1910s or the fall of the Berlin Wall were exploited by Scandinavian politicians to advance their political goals.
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Publications
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“This is what the Bolsheviks do” : How Democratic Politicians Use Foreign Revolutions to Attract Voters
Nicholas Buhmann-Holmes
(2025) Comparative Political Studies, 58 p.2902-2938
Journal articlePush, ignore or surrender? : Party responses to the ideational momentum of foreign events
Nicholas Buhmann-Holmes, Martin Bæk Carstensen
(2025) Journal of European Public Policy
Journal articleThe Executive Revolving Door : New Dataset on the Career Moves of Former Danish Ministers and Permanent Secretaries☆
Anne Rasmussen, Nicholas Buhmann-Holmes, Benjamin C.K. Egerod
(2021) Scandinavian Political Studies, 44 p.487-502
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Introduction
I will be at Lund University for a year on a postdoc financed by the Carlsberg Foundation. I will primarily be working on how to use legislative debates to study the evolution of party unity in Scandinavia over the last century, mainly through quantitative text analysis.