West European Politics articles from January 1993

West European Politics archives from January 1993

Reprogramming democratic socialism. (Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe)
January 1, 1993... Socialism is what a Labour Government does. THE ERFURT MODEL The status, character and role of programmes in these parties was set by the Erfurt Programme (1891) of the German Social Democratic Party(SPD). The Erfurt Programme provided both...

The politics of programmatic renewal: postwar experiences in Britain and Germany. (Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe)
January 1, 1993... PROGRAMMING THE FUTURE, COMMEMORATING THE PAST The 1950s marked the beginning of a period of adjustment for the forces of social democracy in Western Europe. The sudden reorganisation of European affairs around the ideological polarities of...

The German Social Democrats; a redefinition of social democracy or Bad Godesberg Mark II? (Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe)
January 1, 1993... Programme review in the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was conceived in very ambitious terms. Its remit included radically reappraising and reformulating the basic values of the seminal 1959 Bad Godesberg programme. The objective was to...

The Swedish Social Democrats and the legacy of continuous reform: asset or dilemma? (Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe)
January 1, 1993... The longevity of the Swedish Social Democrats (Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti, SAP) as the party of government has intrigued many observers, and they have attributed the party's dominance to a variety of factors. Among the factors...

The Norwegian Labour Party: 'En attendant l'Europe.' (Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe)
January 1, 1993... My party's called Liberal, but it's basically quite socialist. With these Europeans, it's the other way around.(1) The search for ideology as well as identity has been an integral part of labour movement history since its beginning as an...

Reconstructing Dutch social democracy. (Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe)
January 1, 1993... Programmatic and organisational reviews are an effort to distance the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) from styles and postures assumed in the 1970s. Current efforts were stimulated by the economic situation, the failure of the polarisation strategy and...

Towards renewal? The British Labour Party's policy review. (Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe)
January 1, 1993... This contribution explores the process of programmatic renewal in the British Labour Party from 1987 to 1991, the so-called Policy Review. It considers the mechanics of the review, the key programmatic changes that occurred and the main factors...

Trade unions and the politics of social democratic renewal. (Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe)
January 1, 1993... (Paris: OECD, 1991), Tables 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, and 2.13. (pp. 40-8). One of the characteristic features of social democratic parties is their close political relationship with trade unions. For most of the twentieth century social democratic...

Programmatic renewal, and much more: from the PCI to the PDS. (Italian Communist Party) (Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe)
January 1, 1993... The Italian Communist Party has always believed in programmes, in their formulation, their dissemination and their almost therapeutic quality. In the 1980s it twice created an Office for the Programme and entrusted it to important political...

A programme for social democratic revival? (Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe)
January 1, 1993... The evidence presented in this volume amply demonstrates the existence of a European 'wave' of social democratic programmatic renewal effort during the 1980s, the sweep of which was if anything broader than the previous renewal wave in the 1950s....

A History of Social Democracy in Postwar Europe.
January 1, 1993... After several books and numerous articles on social democracy in Western Europe in general, and West Germany in particular, Stephen Padgett and William E. Paterson have jointly written a book which can be considered as a conclusive result of...

Language and Sexual Difference: Feminist Writing in France.
January 1, 1993... 'With the hindsight of approximately twenty years since the onset of the new-wave feminist movement, it is time to take stock of what women in Europe have achieved and might or will achieve in the future.' (Kaplan, p.xix) Contemporary feminism...

How Organisations Measure Success: The Use of Performance Indicators in Government.
January 1, 1993... At first glance these two books could hardly be less alike. Harrop's collection covers four major democratic states, surveys important issue areas and raises key general issues about the evaluation and implementation of policy. Carter, Klein and...

Britain and European Integration Since 1945.
January 1, 1993... A colleague of mine enquired recently as to the current situation regarding European Community legislation in the banking sector. On being able to reply to him in only rather general terms I was left with the clear impression that this was seen...

The European Community at the Crossroads.
January 1, 1993... The title that Emil Kirchner has chosen is in itself an interesting paradox. The Council is not usually considered as an engine of integration. He is though quite right to focus on the Council and the Council Presidency. It has become a central...

Towards a New Europe? Structural Change in the European Economy.
January 1, 1993... That profound changes are occurring in Europe is now beyond doubt: the integration process within the European Community continues to deepen; the old order of Cold War politics has been broken; EC member-states' economies are undergoing...

European Regional Incentives: 1991.
January 1, 1993... This is the 11th annual directory and review of regional incentives prepared by the European Policies Research Centre at the University of Strathclyde. The directory covers regional grants and aid available for industry, business expansion and...

The United States and the European Neutrals.
January 1, 1993... Thomas Schlesinger argues persuasively that US hostility to neutralism during the Cold War was damaging to its interests. Now that the Cold War is over, a rethink of neutralism, of European international politics and of the US role is required. A...

Southern European Security in the 1990s.
January 1, 1993... The Southern flank of NATO had for the first several postwar decades been regarded as a secondary concern for Western strategists; but this assumption began to change in the 1970s. The Mediterranean had in any case an obvious strategic...

Ursachen und Verlauf der deutschen Revolution 1989.
January 1, 1993... This is a collection of papers first presented at a conference of the Gesellschaft fur Deutschlandforschung held at Bayreuth in November 1990, shortly after German unification. Considering the rapidly changing nature of events in both Germany and...

The Federal Republic of Germany and NATO.
January 1, 1993... Nine contributors provide an historical discourse on the 'domestic, regional, and systemic factors impinging upon West Germany's relationship with its European neighbours, east and west, and its relationship with the US'. Overtaken by current...

Britische Besatzung in Deutschland. AktenerschlieBung und Forschungsfelder.
January 1, 1993... The volume consists of nine papers of surveys into ongoing research of different aspects of the British occupation of Germany, given at a conference which the German Historical Institute (GHI) in London organised in March 1991 to launch one of...

The Government and Politics of France.
January 1, 1993... Despite the title and back-cover marketing, this book will be of more interest to students of government than to those who want to read about French politics and society. Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7, on government structure, the administrative system,...