West European Politics articles from January 1994

West European Politics archives from January 1994

The study of the European Community: the challenge to comparative politics.
January 1, 1994... Although the political system of the European Community (EC) may only be 'part formed' and largely sui generis, politics in the EC is not inherently different to the practice of government in any democratic system. As in all modern polities, EC...

Interest groups in the European Community: newly emerging dynamics and forms.
January 1, 1994... It is often tempting to start an article with a general observation about the absence of research into what appears, at first glance at least, to be a relatively new dimension. The Single European Act, the enhanced competence of the EC, and...

Central bank independence and the Westminster model.
January 1, 1994... The purpose of this article is to try to give an explanation for the evident problems the United Kingdom is experiencing with European Monetary Union and the European System of Central Banks as planned by the Maastricht Treaty in general and...

German foreign policy after unification: the end of cheque book diplomacy?
January 1, 1994... Post-Yalta Europe has forced the Germans to reconsider both their foreign policy objectives and the means of achieving those objectives. The costs of reconstructing eastern Germany have increasingly circumscribed German domestic economic policy...

Modern times: institutional dynamics in Belgian and French labor market policies.
January 1, 1994... During the first quarter of 1993, in the twelve member states of the European Community there were 17.4 million people unemployed, representing 10.3 per cent of the total workforce. Just three months earlier the number was 14.6 million. While...

Union participation in economic policy-making in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland, 1970-1992.
January 1, 1994... The concept of trade union participation in economic policy-making is an important component of several theories of political economy, in particular corporatist theories.(1) Despite this, the relevant literature does not contain any comparative...

Trade unionism in France since the Second World War.
January 1, 1994... Today about one French worker in ten is a member of a trade union, by far the lowest proportion amongst the large industrialised countries.(1) This statement needs supplementing by two other remarks. First, in no other country is there a degree...

'Tangentopoli' and the emergence of a new political order in Italy.
January 1, 1994... Commentators on Italian politics frequently remark on the existence of 'perpetual crisis' within the system.(2) Tarrow, in his appropriately entitled La Crisi Italiana poses the question as to whether Italy is experiencing a crisis, crises,...

A new phase for Spanish democracy? The general election of June 1993.
January 1, 1994... Since the transition to democracy, two distinct phases have marked the electoral politics of Spain's current constitutional monarchy. The first phase consisted of victories in 1977 and 1979 by Adolfo Suarez's Union of the Democratic Center...

The Extreme Right in Europe and the USA.
January 1, 1994... It is not an exaggeration, Paul Hainsworth observes at the end of his thoughtful introduction to this timely collection of essays, 'to claim that at no time since 1945 has the extreme right been so successful within and across nations as in the...

Zuwanderung und Asyl in der Konkurrenzgesellschaft.
January 1, 1994... On 1 July 1993 Germany's new asylum laws came into effect. This book's 14 papers, based on talks given in 1992, are contributions to the heated debate that preceded the revision of article 16 of Germany's Basic Law. Additionally, the positions...

Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics.
January 1, 1994... Which is the best form of government? The authors tackle this issue frontally and provide a detailed, highly documented, greatly stimulating comparative analysis of presidentialisms and of what they define as premier-presidential experiences....

The Politics of Antagonism: Understanding Northern Ireland.
January 1, 1994... This is an important book, not so much for the many original insights which it indeed contains as for its signal success in drawing together between two covers a lot of the extended and extensive argumentation that has gone on over the last two...

Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy.
January 1, 1994... This book makes a substantial contribution to the debate on liberal democracy and in particular on the role played by history, institutions and political culture. Whether querying the conditions which make democracy viable or unviable, or the...

Governing Italy: The Politics of Bargained Pluralism.
January 1, 1994... Publishing a textbook on a country currently under the spotlight has its advantages and disadvantages. David Hine's 'long-awaited textbook on Italian politics' (as the blurb has it) could not have been timed better from the perspective of...

Parliamentary Change in Nordic Countries.
January 1, 1994... This very useful book consists of chapters on Denmark (Erik Damgaard), Norway (Hilmar Rommetvedt), Sweden (Anders Sannerstedt and Mats Sjolin) and Finland (Dag Anckar), plus an introduction and conclusion by editor Damgaard. After briefly...

Le Federalisme en Europe.
January 1, 1994... This slim book consists of five short essays devoted to the working of federalism in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Spain respectively. It is a pity that the opening chapter, on Switzerland, is quite different in structure and...

Normal Vote Analysis.
January 1, 1994... Hans Anker has attempted to rescue 'Normal Vote Analysis' from a premature death. He argues that such analysis need not necessarily be based upon party identification, but can be based upon other long-term factors that are related to the vote....

De opkomst van de moderne kaderpartij: Veranderende partijorganisatie in Nederland 1960-1990.
January 1, 1994... Despite the plethora of political parties in the Netherlands, systematic study of party organisation has been relatively sparse. One who has devoted his career to the study of parties and party organisation is Ruud Koole, who has now combined...

Come cambiano i partiti.
January 1, 1994... The contributions of 12 leading American, British, German and Italian scholars to a conference on party government in its broadest sense are published here, with the author of one of these also furnishing a substantial introduction as the...

The Future of Labour Movements.
January 1, 1994... The Future of Labour Movements has been produced by the International Sociological Association Research Committee on 'Labour Movements' and originates in a 1989 conference. The book is, however, much more than a collection of conference papers....

Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies.
January 1, 1994... The Future of Labour Movements has been produced by the International Sociological Association Research Committee on 'Labour Movements' and originates in a 1989 conference. The book is, however, much more than a collection of conference papers....

Searching for the New France.
January 1, 1994... The editors' opening and concluding articles in this collection of contributions by predominantly North American scholars re-examine the domination-crisis model of French political culture popularized by Stanley Hoffmann and his colleagues 25...

Spanien. Wirtschaft - Gesselschaft - Politik.
January 1, 1994... The authors of this book make several contributions to our knowledge on Spain: they offer a comprehensive and systematically organised array of basic information on the economy, society, and politics of the country; they trace the enormous...

Der Staat der Autonomen Gemeinschaften in Spanien.
January 1, 1994... This book presents a multifaceted evaluation of the theoretical problematique and empirical development of the Spanish 'State of the Autonomies' via eight well-chosen and complementary contributions from Spanish and German constitutionalists...

A Concise History of Greece.
January 1, 1994... This is a brief political history of the modern Greek state; it combines an expert summary with relevant background information. It has extensive monochrome illustrations and maps. It is part of a new series from Cambridge University Press,...

Health Politics: Interests and Institutions in Western Europe.
January 1, 1994... Immergut provides a comparative analysis of a major aspect of health politics in France, Sweden and Switzerland: the issue of insurance funding and the impact of interest group activity on policy resolution. The book is based on a doctoral...

Families and Policies: Evolutions and Trends in 1989-1990.
January 1, 1994... For the present audience this, the second of an annual publication will be valued principally as a compendium of useful up-to-date statistics and edited documentary material. The format is largely a descriptive chronology. It has been prepared...

The United Kingdom and EC Membership Evaluated.
January 1, 1994... Although these two books appear at first sight to have much in common and do indeed have some overlap in terms of contributors, the approach and focus of each is different. United Kingdom and the EC Membership Evaluated is part of the...

Britain and the European Community.
January 1, 1994... Although these two books appear at first sight to have much in common and do indeed have some overlap in terms of contributors, the approach and focus of each is different. United Kingdom and the EC Membership Evaluated is part of the...

Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan and Western Europe.
January 1, 1994... The large and growing literature on national policies for international trade competitiveness has, in Jeffrey Hart's Rival Capitalists, another first-rate volume of integrated comparative studies. The book combines a manageable sample of cases...

Shepherd of Democracy? America and Germany in the Twentieth Century.
January 1, 1994... The editors introduce this collection by explaining that it 'is not intended primarily for the specialist, but for the more general reader interested in the workings of democratic foreign policy'. Specifically, it aims to assess how far...