West European Politics articles from April 1999

West European Politics archives from April 1999

The compounding effect: the impact of federalism on the concept of representation.(Special Issue: Compounded Representation in West European Federations)
April 1, 1999... How does federalism affect institutions and methods of political representation? These two familiar political science concepts deal with similar issues such as problems of societal diversity and cohesion or the separation and aggregation of...

Confederal federalism and citizen representation in the European Union.(Special Issue: Compounded Representation in West European Federations)
April 1, 1999... The European Union (EU) offers fascinating opportunities to observe the limits and potentials of confederal and federal governance during an era in which efforts to achieve regional integration are evident worldwide. New forms of governance are...

Complex self-identification and compounded representation in federal systems.(Special Issue: Compounded Representation in West European Federations)
April 1, 1999... Two characteristics of a democratic system profoundly affect the impact of an individual's self-identification on electoral preferences: the state's institutional configuration and the party system. Federalism is one configuration that...

Federalism and the paradox of corporatism.(Special Issue: Compounded Representation in West European Federations)
April 1, 1999... THE PARADOX This essay seeks to help unravel an apparent paradox in contemporary politics: the prevalence of pronounced corporatist practices within federalist systems of governance. To be sure, not all federal systems exhibit corporatist...

The (in)compatibility of corporatism and federalism: Austrian social partnership and the EU.(Special Issue: Compounded Representation in West European Federations)(European Union)
April 1, 1999... Federalism has to be seen in different perspectives. According to the general understanding, federalism is a variation of the concept of the separation of powers: Government is to be divided between different political agencies. This...

Party politics and territorial representation in the Federal Republic of Germany.(Special Issue: Compounded Representation in West European Federations)
April 1, 1999... The concept of compounded representation has an immediate relevance to contemporary politics in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Throughout the 1990s considerable attention has been given to the potential for conflict between two...

Reform gridlock and the role of the Bundesrat in German politics.(Special Issue: Compounded Representation in West European Federations)
April 1, 1999... Throughout much of the 1990s, the Bundesrat (Federal Council) - the second house of the German parliament - played an unusually important role in German politics. This era of prominence, however, brought the Bundesrat far more admonishment than...

Portugal's 1998 referendums.(Special Issue: Compounded Representation in West European Federations)
April 1, 1999... The European trend in favour of administrative devolution, nurtured by structural and other European funding, came to a juddering halt when Portuguese voters decisively rejected government-backed regionalisation proposals in the November 1998...

The 1998 Maltese election.(Special Issue: Compounded Representation in West European Federations)
April 1, 1999... On 5 September 1998, the Maltese returned to office the Nationalist Party (PN), in a snap election precipitated by dissent within the governing Labour Party (MLP). Under certain aspects, the circumstances in which the election was called, as...