Table 1
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 |
[i] Note: The number and type of jobs taken up by former Danish MPs from 1981 to 2015. The table indicates which types of jobs the politicians from a given election year take up after not being re-elected – or running for office – in the following election – e.g., the 49 politicians who were elected in 1981, but were not re-elected in 1984, have taken up a total of 132 jobs subsequently. (N=1094). The significant drop in the number of subsequent job positions held by the group of former MPs who have left the Folketing after the election in 2015 is due to the fact, that this group only consists of former prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and former minister of finance Bjarne Corydon, who were the only ones who had left office by the time the mapping was carried out (latest update April 4, 2016).
Table 2
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 |
[i] Note: Number of former Danish MPs who have taken up a minimum of one job position in either lobbying, think tanks, unions, or interest organizations distributed on political parties. (N=82).
Table 3
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 |
[i] Note: Number of former Danish MPs who have taken a minimum of one job position as a lobbyist distributed on political parties. (N=21)
Figure 1
Educational background of policy professionals
Note: 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).