West European Politics articles from January 1995

West European Politics archives from January 1995

Performance, leadership, factions and party change: an empirical analysis.
January 1, 1995... From the premises that political parties are large organisations and that large organisations are generally 'conservative' with regard to internal change, it is often inferred that parties will change only when their organisational survival is...

New populist parties in Western Europe.
January 1, 1995... THE NEW POPULISM The 1980s and early 1990s have witnessed, not without some sense of alarm, a rising tide of right-wing extremism.(1) Attacks on immigrants and racist violence have occurred with an ugly regularity across Europe. Anti-immigrant...

Parties under pressure: challenges to 'established' French parties.
January 1, 1995... This article examines recent developments in party politics in France that, it will be argued, point to two mutually reinforcing trends. The first (and most obvious) is the decline of the ability of the 'established' parties of the Fifth Republic...

The West European communist movement in the late twentieth century.
January 1, 1995... At one time the object of intense academic and political scrutiny West European communist parties have become, in the post-communist world of the 1990s, a relatively unstudied breed. While there has been avid attention focused on the transition...

Union participation in economic policy making in Scandinavia, 1970-1993.
January 1, 1995... Scandinavia is well known in the literature of modern political economy for the way in which trade unions are integrated into the processes of policy making and implementation, and Sweden and Norway in particular are often regarded as paradigm...

The market for political activism: interest groups as a challenge to political parties.
January 1, 1995... CITIZENSHIP AND THE MARKET FOR PARTICIPATION Something for the benefit of the country as a whole. What should it be I thought? Become a blood donor or join in Young Conservatives? But as I'm not looking for a wife and can't play table tennis,...

Political leadership and European integration: the case of Jacques Delors.
January 1, 1995... European political leadership, which here shall be taken to mean the political leadership emanating from and relating to the complex polity of the European Community (EC),(1) has been notoriously difficult to define. In the literature on European...

Citizenship and gender division in the Swiss direct democracy: from structures to political action.
January 1, 1995... Studies of citizenship conventionally insist on the multidimensional character of this concept. However, there is less agreement on how the linkages between the different dimensions of citizenship should be understood. In his famous 1949 study on...

The European elections of 1994.
January 1, 1995... Since the introduction of direct elections to the European Parliament in 1979, political scientists have scrutinised the campaigns, the themes, the candidates, the turnout and the results with two main sets of questions in mind. The first...

The Dutch parliamentary elections of 1994.
January 1, 1995... Parliamentary elections were held in the Netherlands on 3 May 1994. The two governing parties, the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and the Social Democrats (PvdA) lost heavily, while the opposition Democrats '66 (D'66) and Liberals (VVD)...

Luxembourg: European Parliament and national elections of 1994.
January 1, 1995... Luxembourg held both its national and European Parliament elections on the same day (12 June), continuing its practice since direct elections were instituted in 1979. Voting is compulsory, and the turnout for the European Parliament elections (90...

Can the Welfare State Compete? A Comparative Study of Five Advanced Capitalist Countries.
January 1, 1995... Now, perhaps more than ever, discussion of the welfare states lies close to the heart of the political process. In the world of political practice, it is a daily concern from the routine problems of the MP's surgery to the grandest strategies for...

Modelli di solidarieta: politica e riforme sociali nelle democrazie.
January 1, 1995... Welfare comes in two forms - financial support and practical services, and countries achieve their desired levels of provision in different ways. Historical studies of the development of welfare systems have been led by Flora and Albers in...

Government and Voluntary Organizations: A Relational Perspective.
January 1, 1995... Seven or more years ago anyone interested in the relationship between the state and voluntary organisations in Europe would have had a largely fruitless task trying to find research by political scientists on this topic. Even in the case of the...

Modern Governance: New Government - Society Interactions.
January 1, 1995... The editors of Do Institutions Matter? have no difficulty in answering with a qualified affirmative. The book compares the performance of US political institutions and a variety of parliamentary systems across ten policy fields. The performance...

Umweltpolitik als Modernisierungsproze(ss).
January 1, 1995... The collection of essays under review contains a survey of modern political science research and academic teaching on environmental policy in Germany, concentrating on theoretical, empirical, historical and didactic aspects of the analysis of...

Does Parliament Matter?
January 1, 1995... The 'decline of Parliament' thesis has enjoyed considerable intellectual support in recent decades, evinced, it seems, by multifarious trends of both a domestic and an international character. In Britain itself, during the 1960s and 1970s,...

Parliamentary Questions.
January 1, 1995... The latest offering from the Study of Parliament Group provides a concise overview of the role, functions, and development of Parliamentary Questions in the British Parliament since the 1960s. The result of five years work, Parliamentary...

Power on the Back Benches? The Growth of Select Committee Influence.
January 1, 1995... The House of Commons in 1979 established a series of departmental select committees. They constituted the most important reform within the House for more than 70 years. Various studies have since appeared which have sought to assess the impact of...

Ministers and Parliament: Accountability in Theory and Practice.
January 1, 1995... Dr Diana Woodhouse's book - in an ideal blend of constitutional theory and practice - gives a detailed account of all the ministerial resignations of the 1980s and 1990s that are attributable to the doctrine of individual ministerial...

The Rise of the British Presidency.
January 1, 1995... The debate about cabinet versus prime-ministerial government rumbles on in British political science. Though presidential allusions are not uncommon, referring to the extent of prime-ministerial power, analysis has been largely in the context of...

Managing the United Kingdom: An Introduction to Its Political Economy and Public Policy.
January 1, 1995... Those people who believe that the ideas of Michael Oakeshott influenced the practice of Conservative governments in the past decade must be mistaken. For here is the state-as-enterprise, the notorious misunderstanding discerned by Oakeshott in On...

High Technology and the Competition State: An Analysis of the Eureka Initiative.
January 1, 1995... Eureka began life in 1985 as Francois Mitterrand's rejoinder to Ronald Reagan's Star Wars (SDI - Strategic Defence Initiative) programme. His idea was that Europe should mount a civilian alternative, targeting it towards a series of ambitious...

The Politics of Economic Policy.
January 1, 1995... This book presents a brief, but invaluable introductory text to students and others who are interested in the issue of economic policy-making in Britain. Economic policy-making has become much more exacting to analyse and predict, as seen in the...

The Economic Emergence of a New Europe? The Political Economy of Cooperation and Competition in the 1990s.
January 1, 1995... The research literature in International Relations has been enriched in recent years by careful studies of business behaviour within and between industrial states. The linkages created by foreign direct investment (FDI) and company merger...

The New Germany Votes: Unification and the Creation of a New German Party System.
January 1, 1995... It is good to see that the tradition of studies of German elections by American political scientists, previously edited by Karl Cerny, is being continued. This volume investigates the 1990 Bundestag election in relation to the parties and to the...

A Concise History of Portugal.
January 1, 1995... This is a volume in the new Cambridge series of illustrated 'concise histories' intended as general introductions, not only for university and college students but also for general readers, travellers and members of the business community. To...