West European Politics articles from April 1995

West European Politics archives from April 1995

The Europeanisation of conflict: reflections from a social movement perspective.
April 1, 1995... Many European social scientists - and even some in North America - are currently fascinated with the question of whether something resembling a European polity is emerging.(1) One of the conditions of a polity is the establishment of routine and...

The non-reform of the German federal system after unification.
April 1, 1995... COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM IN GERMANY On its creation in 1949 the German federal system was an unusual hybrid. It was based in part on a 'classic', US-type model of federalism characterised by the dual and separate sovereignty of federation and...

Privatisation in France 1993-94: new departures, or a case of plus ca change?
April 1, 1995... When the house is on fire, the top priority is to put out the flames Edouard Balladur(1) Je te tiens, Tu me tiens, Par la barbichette. Le premier De nous deux Qui rira Aura une tapette Anon. FROM 1986 TO 1993: ET LA FETE CONTINUE?...

Welfare state development in Southern Europe.
April 1, 1995... This article reports the summary findings of research which seeks to illuminate the factors associated with social security development in the new democracies of Greece, Portugal and Spain. In addition, the article seeks to establish the extent...

Union participation in economic policy making in France, Italy, Germany and Britain, 1970-1993.
April 1, 1995... Historically, one of the principal objectives of trade union movements has been to influence the content of government economic policy in directions thought to be beneficial to union members, such as by establishing full employment as the top...

Constructing the post-Fordist state? The politics of labour market flexibility in Spain.
April 1, 1995... In January 1994 approximately half the workforce of Spain took part in a 24-hour strike over government proposals for labour market reform. These proposals sought particularly to extend further the possibility of temporary contracting and also to...

Issue saliency, policy distances and coalition bargaining.
April 1, 1995... This article concerns policy as a constraint for coalition building in multiparty systems. Theoretically it is possible to form any number of coalitions in multiparty systems. Taking into account policy differences between parties, however,...

Policy networks and European Union policy making: a reply to Kassim. (response to Hussein Kassim, West European Politics, vol. 17, p. 15, 1994)
April 1, 1995... As the European Union (EU) has accumulated responsibilities, political scientists of all hues have become attracted to its study. Policy analysts are no exception. It has become increasingly difficult to find any area of public policy in Europe...

A comment on Robert Leonardi, 'Cohesion in the European Community: Illusion or Reality?' (response to Robert Leonardi, West European Politics, vol. 16, p. 492, Oct. 1993)
April 1, 1995... Robert Leonardi's article, 'Cohesion in the European Community: Illusion or Reality?' (West European Politics 16/4, Oct. 1993, pp.492-517) claims to refute the received wisdom that European integration increases territorial economic disparities....

A response to Michael Keating. (response to article by Michael Keating in this issue, p. 408)
April 1, 1995... In reading Michael Keating's comment on my article, it is difficult to believe that he read the article carefully or looked at the literature cited. Originally, the article was much longer, and in the shortened version it left out a lot of the...

The Danish general election of September 1994.
April 1, 1995... The Danish General Election of 21 September 1994 confirmed the now well-established rule that general elections in Denmark rarely lead to changes of government. Indeed, the last two changes of government in 1982 and 1990(1) took place as a result...

The return of Swedish social democracy: phoenix or ostrich?
April 1, 1995... It is only three years since Sweden's Social Democratic Party (SAP) suffered its worst electoral defeat for over 60 years and Ingvar Carlsson was required to relinquish office in favour of a non-socialist coalition headed by the Conservatives'...

Small earthquake in Austria: the national election of 9 October 1994.
April 1, 1995... The 1994 parliamentary election marked an abrupt, though not unexpected end to the assumptions about stability and continuity in post-1945 Austrian politics. Three main principles have characterised Austrian public life since the end of the...

Political Traditions in Modern France.
April 1, 1995... As Jack Hayward's review of Francoise Melonio's Tocqueville et les Francais illustrates, the intellectual climate in France has shifted dramatically in the last two decades. Tocqueville's comeback goes hand in hand with Marx's sorry demise,...

Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956.
April 1, 1995... As Jack Hayward's review of Francoise Melonio's Tocqueville et les Francais illustrates, the intellectual climate in France has shifted dramatically in the last two decades. Tocqueville's comeback goes hand in hand with Marx's sorry demise,...

Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France.
April 1, 1995... As Jack Hayward's review of Francoise Melonio's Tocqueville et les Francais illustrates, the intellectual climate in France has shifted dramatically in the last two decades. Tocqueville's comeback goes hand in hand with Marx's sorry demise,...

Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization.
April 1, 1995... As Jack Hayward's review of Francoise Melonio's Tocqueville et les Francais illustrates, the intellectual climate in France has shifted dramatically in the last two decades. Tocqueville's comeback goes hand in hand with Marx's sorry demise,...

Extreme-Occident: French Intellectuals and America.
April 1, 1995... As Jack Hayward's review of Francoise Melonio's Tocqueville et les Francais illustrates, the intellectual climate in France has shifted dramatically in the last two decades. Tocqueville's comeback goes hand in hand with Marx's sorry demise,...

Face au scepticisme: Les Mutations du paysage intellectuel ou l'invention de l'intellectuel democratique.
April 1, 1995... As Jack Hayward's review of Francoise Melonio's Tocqueville et les Francais illustrates, the intellectual climate in France has shifted dramatically in the last two decades. Tocqueville's comeback goes hand in hand with Marx's sorry demise,...

La Tribu des clercs: Les intellectuels sous la Ve Republique.
April 1, 1995... As Jack Hayward's review of Francoise Melonio's Tocqueville et les Francais illustrates, the intellectual climate in France has shifted dramatically in the last two decades. Tocqueville's comeback goes hand in hand with Marx's sorry demise,...

Tocqueville et les Francais.
April 1, 1995... After his prolonged period of neglect in France - from 1880 to 1950 - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) was again recognised in his homeland as the advocate of an Anglo-American approach to politics that many of his countrymen would come by the...

Rechtsradikale Gewalt im vereinigten Deutschland: Jugend im gesellschaftlichen Umbruch.
April 1, 1995... The unexpected electoral successes of the right-wing 'Republikaner' and the National Democrats (NPD) in 1989 on the one hand, and, on the other hand, outbursts of partly murderous violence against refugees and people deemed 'foreigners' mainly...

Brandstifter: Deutschland zwischen Demokratie und volkischem Nationalismus.
April 1, 1995... The unexpected electoral successes of the right-wing 'Republikaner' and the National Democrats (NPD) in 1989 on the one hand, and, on the other hand, outbursts of partly murderous violence against refugees and people deemed 'foreigners' mainly...

Fremdenfeindliche Gewalt: Einstellungen, Tater, Konflikteskalation.
April 1, 1995... The unexpected electoral successes of the right-wing 'Republikaner' and the National Democrats (NPD) in 1989 on the one hand, and, on the other hand, outbursts of partly murderous violence against refugees and people deemed 'foreigners' mainly...

The Republikaner Party in Germany: Right-Wing Menace or Protest Catchall?
April 1, 1995... The unexpected electoral successes of the right-wing 'Republikaner' and the National Democrats (NPD) in 1989 on the one hand, and, on the other hand, outbursts of partly murderous violence against refugees and people deemed 'foreigners' mainly...

Die Bielefelder Rechtsextremismusstudie: Erste Langzeituntersuchung zur politischen Sozialisation mannlicher Jugendlicher.
April 1, 1995... The unexpected electoral successes of the right-wing 'Republikaner' and the National Democrats (NPD) in 1989 on the one hand, and, on the other hand, outbursts of partly murderous violence against refugees and people deemed 'foreigners' mainly...

Politics Against Democracy: Right-Wing Extremism in West Germany.
April 1, 1995... The unexpected electoral successes of the right-wing 'Republikaner' and the National Democrats (NPD) in 1989 on the one hand, and, on the other hand, outbursts of partly murderous violence against refugees and people deemed 'foreigners' mainly...

Southern European Studies Guide.
April 1, 1995... This bibliographical guide marks the coming of age of southern Europe as a focus for area studies. It is the first systematic guide to the region as a whole, with chapters devoted both to countries (Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, Malta)...

The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State.
April 1, 1995... This massive volume contains several advanced articles penetrating methodological problems in the comparative analysis of public policy, both policy programmes and policy outcomes. It is a 'must' for any student or scholar who does research on...

The Geography of Europe's Futures.
April 1, 1995... Potential readers of this book should pay rather more attention to the term futures than to geography in its title. For this is essentially an exercise in 'futurology', whose authors demonstrate scant interest in geographical theory or current...

Mass Migration in Europe: The Legacy and the Future.
April 1, 1995... Any student or observer of migration is immediately impressed (or oppressed) by the sheer scale and apparent complexity of the migration phenomenon. Mass migration, seasonal migration, return migration and step migration characterise distinctive...

Contemporary Feminist Politics: Women and Power in Britain.
April 1, 1995... This is a most welcome addition to the burgeoning feminist literature. It is distinctive in successfully tackling developments from the late 1970s to the present across the entire range of concern to women, the feminist movement and all those...

Control in Constitutional Law.
April 1, 1995... This collection of 14 essays is the result of an international symposium organized by the Center of Constitutional Law of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, in the autumn of 1991. The volume consists of five parts. The introductory chapter by C.M....