West European Politics articles from April 1998

West European Politics archives from April 1998

Corporatism versus social democracy: divergent fortunes of the Austrian and Swedish labor movements.
April 1, 1998... This article addresses two related but distinct questions. The first question concerns the electoral fortunes of social-democratic parties and the ideological hegemony of social democracy in an era of internationalisation and liberalisation of...

Building party organizations and the relevance of past models: the Communist and Socialist Parties in Spain and Portugal.
April 1, 1998... THE PATH TOWARDS DEMOCRACY The classic typology of political regimes elaborated by Robert Dahl in 1971 not only provides a tool for the classification of political systems, but also allows us to depict the process of transformation from a...

Expert judgments of the left-right location of political parties: a comparative longitudinal study.
April 1, 1998... The language of 'left' and 'right' helps citizens as well as elites to orient themselves in a complex political landscape. It helps to reduce the complexity of the world of politics: for individuals it has primarily functions of orientation; for...

Postmaterialism and electoral choice before and after German unification.
April 1, 1998... The theory of postmaterial value change has had a fundamental affect on how analysts interpret political attitudes and behaviour in Germany (and other industrial democracies) in the post-war decades.(1) By the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989,...

Between deepening and widening: role conflict in Germany's enlargement policy.
April 1, 1998... Although it has become increasingly popular to argue that identities matter in the study of foreign policy and international relations, precisely how they do is often unclear.(1) In particular, little is known on how identities affect a state's...

Overlapping games and cross-cutting coalitions in the European Union.
April 1, 1998... COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS This journal has lately encouraged debate on the most suitable theoretical approach to the study of the European Union.(1) Yet, readers have the right to feel disappointed: there have been either...

Social capital and the public-private divide in Greek regions.
April 1, 1998... SUBSIDIARITY, PARTNERSHIP AND SYNERGY IN EUROPEAN REGIONAL POLICY The operationalisation of the principles of partnership and subsidiarity is considered to be the main component of European structural policy after the 1988 reforms of the...

Swapping the reins of the Emerald Tiger: the Irish general election of June 1997.
April 1, 1998... The defeat in the June 1997 election of the coalition government supports the 'prospective' version of the theory of economic-issue voting, and represents a hiatus in the trend towards realignment away from the catch-all centrism of the 'Civil...

The politics of embarrassment: Norway's 1997 election.
April 1, 1998... If a country's economic success can normally be expected to redound to the support and re-election of an incumbent government, then Norway is not normal. Of course its abnormality has been reflected in several areas where its status as a...

Citizens and the State.
April 1, 1998... Edited by HANS-DIETER KLINGEMANN and DIETER FUCHS. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp.xxi + 474, 35 figures, 93 tables, biblio., index. 35. ISBN 0-19-827955-8 BIG stands for Beliefs in Government, and this is a big project indeed. It...

Beliefs in Government.
April 1, 1998... Edited by MAX KAASE and KENNETH NEWTON. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp.xvii + 217, 4 figures, 21 tables, biblio., index. [pounds]25. ISBN 0-19-827956-6 BIG stands for Beliefs in Government, and this is a big project indeed. It had a...

Public Opinion and Internationalized Governance.
April 1, 1998... Edited by OSCAR NIEDERMAYER and RICHARD SINNOTT. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp.xx + 487, 64 figures, 95 tables, biblio., index. [pounds]40. ISBN 0-19-827958-2 This second review of three covers volumes two and four of the Beliefs...

The Impact of Values.
April 1, 1998... Edited by JAN W. VAN DETH and ELINOR SCARBROUGH. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp.xix + 588, 33 figures, 94 tables, biblio., index, [pounds]40. ISBN 0-19-827957-4 This second review of three covers volumes two and four of the Beliefs...

The Scope of Government.
April 1, 1998... Edited by OLE BORRE and ELINOR SCARBROUGH. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp.xviii + 437, 24 figures, 108 tables, biblio., index. [pounds]40. ISBN 0-19-827954-X This last review of three is devoted to the middle, or third, of the five...

A New Handbook of Political Science.
April 1, 1998... Edited by R. E. GOODIN and H.-D. KLINGEMANN. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.xvii+845, index. [pounds]60. ISBN 0-19-828015-7. There is no way of synthesising what political science is today. There are several ways of presenting a...

Comparing Electoral Systems.
April 1, 1998... By DAVID M. FARRELL. London: Prentice-Hall, 1996. Pp.xi + 191, 35 tables, 13 figures, index. [pounds]13.99 (paper). ISBN 0-13-434077-9. The book compares five types of electoral systems: first-past-the-post, majoritarian (second ballot and the...

Principles of Electoral Reform.
April 1, 1998... By MICHAEL DUMMETT. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xi + 193, author and subject indexes, biblio. [pounds]35 (cloth); [pounds]12.99 (paper) ISBN 0-19-829247-3 and -829246-5 Once electoral systems have been formulated and utilised,...

Political Parties and Party Systems.
April 1, 1998... By ALAN WARE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xix + 435. [pounds]45 (cloth); [pounds]14.99 (paper). ISBN 0-19-878-076-1 and 076-1 Taking into account the very wide coverage of Political Parties and Party Systems, Alan Ware has been...

Party System Change. Approaches and Interpretations.
April 1, 1998... By PETER MAIR. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp.xi + 244, 154 tables, 4 figures, biblio., subject and author indexes. [pounds]35. (cloth). ISBN 0-19-829235-X. For the analysts of parties and party systems, the major empirical and theoretical...

Parties and Their Members: Organizing for Victory in Britain and Germany.
April 1, 1998... By SUSAN E. SCARROW. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.vii + 277, 12 tables, 9 figures, biblio., index. [pounds]37.50 ISBN 0-19827918-3 This very worthy volume makes an excellent contribution to the literature on party organisation and...

Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communism Europe.
April 1, 1998... By JUAN J. LINZ and ALFRED STEPAN. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp.xx + 479. [pounds]45.50 (cloth); [pounds]15.50 (paper). ISBN 0-8018-5157-2 and 5158-0. The study of the processes of transition from...

Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective, Vol. 1. The Politics of Democratic Consolidation.
April 1, 1998... (Vol. 1 of Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective). Edited by RICHARD GUNTHER, P. NIKIFOROS DIAMANDOUROS, and HANS-JURGEN PUHLE. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press 1995. Pp.xxxiii + 493, index. NP (cloth); [pounds]15...

Southern Europe Since 1945. Tradition and Modernity in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey.
April 1, 1998... By GIULIO SAPELLI. Harlow: Longman, 1995. Pp.x + 251, 4 figures, 17 tables, index. [pounds]35 (cloth); [pounds]12 (paper). ISBN 0-582-07064-3 and -070651. In recent times the number of studies on Southern Europe has increased considerably....

Regimes, Politics and Markets: Democratization and Economic Change in Southern and Eastern Europe.
April 1, 1998... By JOSE MARIA MARAVALL. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xi+269, 3 appendices, index. [pounds]30. ISBN 0-19-828083-1. Few are better qualified than Maravall to write on the relationships between democratisation and economic change. As...

German Politics: 1945-1995.
April 1, 1998... By PETER PULZER. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 195, 2 tables, 1 figure, index. [pounds]25 (cloth); [pounds]8.99 (paper) ISBN 0-19-878110-5 and 878111-3. German politics has changed substantially over the past few years....

The New Germany: Social, Political and Cultural Challenges of Unification.
April 1, 1998... Edited by DEREK LEWIS and JOHN R.P. McKENZIE. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 365, 6 maps, 5 tables, biblio., index. [pounds]30 (cloth); [pounds]12.95 (paper) ISBN 0-85989-494-0 and 442-8. German politics has changed...

Developments in German Politics 2.
April 1, 1998... Edited by GORDON SMITH, WILLIAM E. PATERSON and STEPHEN PADGETT. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp. xix + 348, 2 maps, 4 figures, 23 tables, biblio., index. c.[pounds]40/$59.95 (cloth); [pounds]14.50 (paper) ISBN 0333-65902-3 and 65903-1. German...