West European Politics articles from April 1993

West European Politics archives from April 1993

Roots of success of the Lega Lombarda: mobilisation dynamics and the media.
April 1, 1993... The principal Italian newspapers, commenting on the results of the April 1992 national election, spoke of an |electoral earthquake'. The traditional parties on both the left and the right lost significant portions of their electorate.(1) Whilst...

Left behind: the Social Democratic Party in Eastern Germany.
April 1, 1993... At first glance, it appears that the poor performance of the SPD, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, in the four elections held east of the Elbe during 1990 (including the first postwar pan-German election on 2 December) simply derived...

The presidential party and the Fifth Republic.
April 1, 1993... The French Fifth Republic was created in 1958 on the basis of an official antipathy towards political parties. This repugnance to the spirit of party was predicated upon the gaullien critique of political parties during the Fourth Republic...

Party leadership and party institutionalisation: three phases of development.
April 1, 1993... Based on the assumption that parties of |external leadership' origins develop through three functionally distinct phases on their way from birth to |relevance',(1) the Purpose of this article is to develop and provide an initial test of two...

The rise of the 'new agenda' and the decline of partisanship.
April 1, 1993... One of the most widely discussed political trends in nations is the alleged decline in the strength of political parties. Numerous scholars have seen parties playing a smaller role in the electoral decision, in traditional functions such as...

Reforming corporatism: the French banking policy community, 1941-1990.
April 1, 1993... In the period following the Second World War, particularly after 1,960, the banking sector in advanced capitalist countries experienced profound changes. Within most countries, segmented markets for commercial lending, residential mortgages,...

The Spanish peace movement in a European context.
April 1, 1993... The Spanish peace movement of the 1980s had its roots in the controversy that surrounded the entry of Spain into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Movement reached its peak during 1985-86 When the Socialist government of Felipe...

Views from the periphery: changing the political agenda for women in the Republic of Ireland and in Scotland.
April 1, 1993... Recent political developments in the Republic of Ireland and in Scotland have brought the issue of the representation of women on to the political agenda in a unique way. The object of this article is to examine these developments and assess...

The EC Social Charter: an alternative prospectus - a response to Christopher Lingle.
April 1, 1993... An article by Christopher Lingle in West European Politics 14/1 (Jan. 1991) raises important issues about the development of the European Community.(1) Briefly his argument is that the EC Social Charter is a species of social democracy, and as...

The 1992 British general election: pollsters despair.
April 1, 1993... WHERE DID IT START: THE 1987 RESULT The 1987 election[2] had left the 1983 Conservative vote almost intact at 42.3 per cent and Labour improved from its disastrously low point of 1983 to 30.8 per cent. The south of England remained...

Representative Government in Western Europe.
April 1, 1993... Is there a West European state? Those who favour the European Union would evidently believe that the similarities are larger than the differences between some 19 states, depending on how one counts. The anti-federalists would take the opposite...

Governance Without Government: Order and Change in World Politics.
April 1, 1993... Order is coming back into fashion. After a period when it virtually disappeared from the list of topics perceived to be important the upheavals in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War have helped to emphasise its importance and permanence...

Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe.
April 1, 1993... This welcome study follows the pattern of the 1986 Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy volume (edited by O'Donnell, Schmitter and Whitehead; reviewed in WEP 11/3, July 1988, pp.162-4) in comparing the two areas or...

Europeans on Europe: Transnational Visions of a New Continent.
April 1, 1993... These are good volumes, topical enough to merit paperbacks. They are too expensive for pedagogic purposes, and probably beyond the reach of many institutional buyers, let alone scholars. Europeans on Europe is, of the two volumes, more...

Multinationals and Europe 1992: Strategies for the Future.
April 1, 1993... These are good volumes, topical enough to merit paperbacks. They are too expensive for pedagogic purposes, and probably beyond the reach of many institutional buyers, let alone scholars. Europeans on Europe is, of the two volumes, more...

Western European Economic Organisations: A Comprehensive Guide.
April 1, 1993... This guide is more than a list of names and addresses with thin sketches of purely economic organisations. Aimed at the macro-economic level it devotes much attention to the political and governmental contexts of |economic organisation'....

Europe and German Unification.
April 1, 1993... Renata Fritsch-Bournazel has written a lively and illuminating essay on Europe and German Unification. Completed on the morning of Unity in late 1990, it gives a very fresh account of the historical background and the events of 1989 and 1990....

Germany and European Integration: The Common Agricultural Policy.
April 1, 1993... Renata Fritsch-Bournazel has written a lively and illuminating essay on Europe and German Unification. Completed on the morning of Unity in late 1990, it gives a very fresh account of the historical background and the events of 1989 and 1990....

The Economy of United Germany.
April 1, 1993... Smyser's work offers a very readable account, written from a political economy/business studies standpoint. It places more emphasis on the economic evolution of recent decades and on the problematic of German unification but does, in sections,...

Die Industriepolitik der Bundeslander und die europaische Integration.
April 1, 1993... Smyser's work offers a very readable account, written from a political economy/business studies standpoint. It places more emphasis on the economic evolution of recent decades and on the problematic of German unification but does, in sections,...

Die Friedensbewegung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ursachen und Bedingungen der Mobilisierung einer neun sozialen Bewegung.
April 1, 1993... By its protests against the dual-track decision of NATO in the first half of the 1980s, the peace movement of the Federal Republic of Germany attracted considerable attention from beyond Germany's borders. Rudiger Schmitt (University of...

Bavaria and German Federalism: Reich to Republic, 1918-1933, 1945-1949.
April 1, 1993... Dorondo's work presents an intricately detailed discussion of the contributions to German constitutional debate provided in the Weimar Republic by the Bavarian People's Party (BVP) and during the period of Allied occupation of (western) Germany...

Italian Politics: A Review, vol. 6.
April 1, 1993... These two books are a tribute to Pinter Publishers' record of publishing empirical and monographic research in the field of West European politics. Italy specialists in particular will find the yearbook a useful tool for keeping up-to-date with...

Italy and EC Membership Evaluated.
April 1, 1993... These two books are a tribute to Pinter Publishers' record of publishing empirical and monographic research in the field of West European politics. Italy specialists in particular will find the yearbook a useful tool for keeping up-to-date with...

Voting, Parties and Social Change in Finland.
April 1, 1993... Following a series of disappointing performances, Finland has dropped into the relegation zone of the West European league of democracies by electoral turnout. At the March 1991 general election, only 72 per cent of eligible citizens voted, the...

France and Modernisation.
April 1, 1993... All these four books are concerned, albeit not exclusively, with the French Socialist Party's experience of office in the 1980s. Modernisation and change are the central themes permeating much of the content. Tuppen deals with change through...

The French Left and the Fifth Republic: The Discourses of Communism and Socialism in Contemporary France.
April 1, 1993... All these four books are concerned, albeit not exclusively, with the French Socialist Party's experience of office in the 1980s. Modernisation and change are the central themes permeating much of the content. Tuppen deals with change through...

France Under Recession 1981-86.
April 1, 1993... All these four books are concerned, albeit not exclusively, with the French Socialist Party's experience of office in the 1980s. Modernisation and change are the central themes permeating much of the content. Tuppen deals with change through...

French Land Use Planning in the Fifth Republic - Real or Imagined Decentralisation.
April 1, 1993... All these four books are concerned, albeit not exclusively, with the French Socialist Party's experience of office in the 1980s. Modernisation and change are the central themes permeating much of the content. Tuppen deals with change through...

La Fin des syndicats?
April 1, 1993... French trade unions were always weak; now they may even be losing most of the features usually associated with unions elsewhere. Such are the pessimistic conclusions of this study, based on a sample of ex-members of the Confederation francaise...

The Changing Labour Party.
April 1, 1993... If there is one feature of the British Labour Party which does not seem to change it is its attraction for academics. This is not the only book which deals principally with Labour's policy review but because it does so systematically and within...