University of Minnesota Press, 1993• , Statistics Finland in Finnish : Eurostat ranking is 6th | People, material, culture and environment in the north |
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By Salla Korpela May 2005 | It is 3rd when conscription is accounted |
Formerly a semi-presidential republic, it's now a parliamentary republic according to David Arter, First Chair of Politics at Aberdeen University, who in his "Scandinavian Politics Today" Manchester University Press, revised 2008 , quotes Jaakko Nousiainen in "From semi-presidentialism to parliamentary government" in Scandinavian Political Studies 24 2 p95-109 as follows: "There are hardly any grounds for the epithet 'semi-presidential' | Finland Promotion Board; Produced by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department for Communications and Culture |
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BirdLife International 2004 Birds in Europe: population estimates, trends and conservation status | Professor Frank Horn of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law University of Lappland writing for Virtual Finland on |
Finnish Institute of Marine Research.
The Finnish Audit Bureau of Circulations Levikintarkastus Oy | Sawyer and Sawyer: Medieval Scandinavia, page 67 |
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Helsinki: The Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities | According to the Finnish Constitution, the President has no possibility to rule the government without the ministerial approval, and substantially has not the power to disband the parliament under its own desire |