West European Politics articles from April 1994

West European Politics archives from April 1994

The politics of immigration: introduction. (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... Immigration has emerged as a powerful political issue throughout all of Western Europe during the past decade. Hardly a day passes without some new revelation of an act of violence, an electoral change, the emergence of a new political party or...

The politics of immigration to Britain: East-West migrations in the twentieth century. (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... Over the past 20 years, the focus of social science research on the politics of migration to Britain has been on responses to the entry and subsequent settlement of British subjects of colonial origin. The source of these colonial migrants...

Recent immigration politics in Italy: a short story. (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... Italy is a country with a century-long experience of mass emigration, for which the arrival of hundreds of thousands of immigrants since the mid-1970s has raised entirely new political questions. While this article focuses on the cycles,...

How to define a foreigner? The symbolic politics of immigration in German partisan discourse, 1978-1992. (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... THE PARADOX OF DE FACTO IMMIGRATION AND THE IDEOLOGY OF A NON-IMMIGRATION COUNTRY Between 1945 and 1989 net immigration into the old Federal Republic of Germany amounted to more than 18 million people. During the same period about 16...

National identity and immigration in Austria - historical framework and political dispute. (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... IMMIGRATION AND HISTORICAL TRADITION In 1992 several pieces of legislation concerning the rights and the legal status of asylum seekers and of foreigners were passed by the Austrian Federal Parliament. The implementation of a more...

Immigrants as political actors in France. (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... As political actors, immigrants have participated in politics in diverse ways, depending upon when they came to France, for what purpose, and where they were born. Different roles have emerged in different periods; some roles are now fading,...

Integration in theory and practice: a comparison of France and Britain. (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... An important strand of current European debate about the implications of mass migration is the perception that the process of 'integration' in the various countries has reached an impasse. Integration is a word derived from social and political...

The debate on immigration and the crisis of national identity. (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... Since the end of World War II, different peoples have migrated to the democracies of Western Europe: refugees and people displaced after the war, such as the Poles in Great Britain, or the tens of millions of Germans who fled from the eastern...

Towards understanding state capacity to prevent unwanted migration: employer sanctions enforcement in France, 1975-1990. (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... All Western democratic, industrial states confront challenges in regulating late twentieth century international migration. Globalisation of economies, demographic disequilibria, enormous disparities in wages, socio-economic opportunities and...

European Union immigration policy: phantom, fantasy or fact? (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... There has always been a social dimension in the developing process of European integration and specific recognition of social policy concerns is to be found in the founding treaties of the European Community starting with the European Coal and...

Briefing paper: naturalization policies in Western Europe. (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... Naturalisation procedures have become a hotly debated political issue in several European countries. Frequently naturalisation is seen as the most important legal instrument to facilitate the integration of resident immigrants and of subsequent...

Norway's 1993 election: the road to Europe blocked? (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... The vexatious issue of relations with Europe resurfaced with a vengeance during Norway's September 1993 election campaign, despite the best efforts of the leading parties of left and right to concentrate on the challenges of unemployment, the...

The Greek election of 1993: backwards or forwards? (Special Issue on the Politics of Immigration in Western Europe)
April 1, 1994... Early elections were called in Greece, as a result of a defections from the ruling Nea Dimokratia (ND) parliamentary group. The election again centred on a bitter contest between Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis and former Premier Andreas...

The Politics of Expert Advice: Creating, Using and Manipulating Scientific Knowledge for Public Policy.
April 1, 1994... These books have been published as a linked venture. Both concern the politics of expert advice to governments. The Politics of Expert Advice is seen as a more theoretical work, inasmuch as three of its eight essays are general in nature. The...

Advising West European Governments: Inquiries, Expertise and Public Policy.
April 1, 1994... These books have been published as a linked venture. Both concern the politics of expert advice to governments. The Politics of Expert Advice is seen as a more theoretical work, inasmuch as three of its eight essays are general in nature. The...

Coalition Politics and Parliamentary Power.
April 1, 1994... This welcome and highly competent study examines the central question of power relations in parliament and, by extension, the patterns of conflict and cooperation between the parties in legislative decision-making. The author argues two main...

Reform in the House of Commons: The Select Committee System.
April 1, 1994... Michael Jogerst's book is based on a survey of MPs -- 60 members of select committees and 24 non-committee members, 84 in all. The survey is a rich source of information not only about members' attitudes towards the departmental select...

What Europe Thinks: A Study of Western European Values.
April 1, 1994... This book is the fruit of a study carried out in 1990 under the auspices of the European Values Systems Study Group. The findings are derived from the responses of over 15,500 people to a questionnaire, which is rather curiously described as...

Western Europe, 1993: A Political and Economic Survey, 2d ed.
April 1, 1994... The first edition of this survey was published in 1988. What form might a third edition take? This question is provoked by the inevitable awkwardness of texts such as this which are both up-do-date (in this case to the end of 1992, with several...

Forever in the Shadow of Hitler? Original Documents of the Historikerstreit, the Controversy Concerning the Singularity of the Holocaust.
April 1, 1994... The German historians' dispute is now itself history. In its day it inflamed tempers inside Germany, while outside its frontiers it reinforced the worst suspicions of those who were sceptical about Germany's farewell to authoritarian...

The Netherlands and EC Membership Evaluated.
April 1, 1994... The Netherlands was an original member of the European Community, now Union. An assessment of the effects of membership, after a whole generation, is likely to be difficult. The authors of this volume have selected more than 20 policy areas for...

Breaking and Preserving the Mould: The Third Direct Elections to the European Parliament (1989) - The Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.
April 1, 1994... Two decades have passed since the peoples of Ireland joined the EC -- thereby becoming, as Philomena Murray argues in this informative collection, no longer 'an island behind an island'. Yet associated hopes of modernisation have not been fully...

Politique urbaine et Developpement local: An Independent Review of Politics and the Arts, Belfast.
April 1, 1994... This book reports the results of an excellent piece of research based on graduate work undertaken at Oxford. Based on detailed case studies of Rennes and Coventry, the author successfully tests three hypotheses concerning the impacts of...

La Police. Le cas des democraties occidentales.
April 1, 1994... Across virtually all Western liberal democracies, there has been a general trend of rising crime rates since the 1960s. It is therefore hardly surprising that there has also been a considerable growth in academic research about virtually all...

Mitterrand - A Political Biography.
April 1, 1994... Probably this book should have had a different title. It is less a biography than a detailed analysis of the achievements of the recent Mitterrand governments. The structure, though strictly chronological, testifies to this; only three chapters...

La CFDT: organisation et audience depuis 1945.
April 1, 1994... This study is a further part of the government-sponsored work on the labour movement undertaken by a team of political sociologists from Grenoble. Its approach is deliberately empirical, the aim being to try and establish some reasonably firm...

Finland and the United States: Diplomatic Relations Through Seventy Years.
April 1, 1994... This is an interesting but in many ways disappointing book. Based upon a conference on Finnish-United States diplomatic relations which convened in 1989, the book brings together academics and diplomats. The text is divided into two parts. The...