West European Politics articles from January 1996

West European Politics archives from January 1996

German responses to regime change: culture, class, economy or context?
January 1, 1996... The German Democratic Republic is a special case in the transition to democracy because the German question is too important to be left to the Germans alone. Klaus von Beyme(1) The re-unification of Germany poses fundamental questions for...

New social movements and changes in political participation in Western Europe.
January 1, 1996... The rise of new social movements (NSMs) since the 1960s is seen by many authors as an expression of, or even as a cause of, major changes in patterns of political participation. First, the rise of the NSMs is said to have led to changes in the...

'Events' and 'causes' in cabinet termination and survival: is explanation still possible?
January 1, 1996... It is the desire for explanations which are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive...

The concept of political class: a new dimension of research on elites?
January 1, 1996... An examination of classical texts(1) makes it clear that meaningful analysis of the term 'political class' is possible only under two conditions: (1) Modern analysis has had to accept the differentiation of spheres of society. Political class...

National parliamentary control of EU policy in the three new member states. (European Union)
January 1, 1996... The most recent enlargement of the European Union in January 1995, to include Austria, Sweden and Finland, has brought in three new political cultures. The two Scandinavian countries at least have a very strong parliamentary tradition and all...

Penelope's suitors: administrative modernisation and party competition in Greece.
January 1, 1996... Since the country's foundation in 1830, administrative reform has been one of the most enduring topics of political debate in Greece. Still, the inadequacies of public administration and the need for modernisation continue to be at the forefront...

The unholy social trinity: modelling social dumping under conditions of capital mobility and free trade.
January 1, 1996... The globalisation of the economy, characterised in part by steady growth in world trade and a rapid increase in foreign direct investment (FDI), has presented serious challenges for national policy-makers. In western developed countries there is...

The winning of the 1995 French presidential election.
January 1, 1996... Whilst the outcome of the 1995 presidential election - the election of Jacques Chirac - had been widely expected from late February onwards, the result was not a foregone conclusion, nor should the importance of the contest itself be...

Federalism achieved: the Belgian elections of May 1995.
January 1, 1996... [TABULAR DATA FOR TABLE 1 OMITTED] The Christian Democrat-Socialist (CVP/PSC+SP/PS) coalition that had governed since 1992 managed 80 seats in the 150-member lower house, enough for a new majority which, unlike its predecessors, should not...

The Politics of Immigration in Western Europe.(Of Free Movement and the Fortress: Recent Books on European Migration)
January 1, 1996... Books on migration, like migrants themselves, tend to come in waves. Since the end of World War II, two main waves of international migration in Europe, and of accompanying literature, can be identified. These two waves can be clearly...

Beyond Borders: Western European Migration Policy towards the 21st Century.(Of Free Movement and the Fortress: Recent Books on European Migration)
January 1, 1996... Books on migration, like migrants themselves, tend to come in waves. Since the end of World War II, two main waves of international migration in Europe, and of accompanying literature, can be identified. These two waves can be clearly...

Europe and International Migration. (Of Free Movement and the Fortress: Recent Books on European Migration)
January 1, 1996... Books on migration, like migrants themselves, tend to come in waves. Since the end of World War II, two main waves of international migration in Europe, and of accompanying literature, can be identified. These two waves can be clearly...

European Migration in the Late Twentieth Century.(Of Free Movement and the Fortress: Recent Books on European Migration)
January 1, 1996... Books on migration, like migrants themselves, tend to come in waves. Since the end of World War II, two main waves of international migration in Europe, and of accompanying literature, can be identified. These two waves can be clearly...

Migration and European Integration: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion.(Of Free Movement and the Fortress: Recent Books on European Migration)
January 1, 1996... Books on migration, like migrants themselves, tend to come in waves. Since the end of World War II, two main waves of international migration in Europe, and of accompanying literature, can be identified. These two waves can be clearly...

Europe's International Migrants.(Of Free Movement and the Fortress: Recent Books on European Migration)
January 1, 1996... Books on migration, like migrants themselves, tend to come in waves. Since the end of World War II, two main waves of international migration in Europe, and of accompanying literature, can be identified. These two waves can be clearly...

Racism and Migration in Western Europe.(Of Free Movement and the Fortress: Recent Books on European Migration)
January 1, 1996... Books on migration, like migrants themselves, tend to come in waves. Since the end of World War II, two main waves of international migration in Europe, and of accompanying literature, can be identified. These two waves can be clearly...

Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracies.
January 1, 1996... This is the first full-length treatment of government survival in the political science literature, written by someone who knows more than anyone about why some governments last longer than others. The book provides a revised and extended...

Ideas and Ideals: Essays on Politics in Honor of Stanley Hoffmann.
January 1, 1996... The Festschrift is a form of publication that seems peculiarly suited to demonstrate that the disciples of the scholar honoured are not usually capable of producing work of the elevated standard which he attained. This feature of the academic...

Einfuhrung in den europaischen Gesellschaftsvergleich: Ansatze, Problemstellungen, Befunde.
January 1, 1996... European studies have been a steadily growing area of research over the last decades, not least within the political sciences. It has, however, been evident that the meaning of Europe has varied and various sub-disciplines have evolved. One such...

The Green Rainbow: Environmental Groups in Western Europe.
January 1, 1996... Both of these books offer an overview and assessment of the state of contemporary environmental politics, but in all other respects they are very different sorts of books. Bramwell deals with what she sees as the decline of Green parties and...

The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Politics in the West.
January 1, 1996... Both of these books offer an overview and assessment of the state of contemporary environmental politics, but in all other respects they are very different sorts of books. Bramwell deals with what she sees as the decline of Green parties and...

The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond.
January 1, 1996... There has been increasing attention to the rise and careers of European small parties. Of particular interest are the so-called 'new politics', 'left-libertarian', 'ecology' or 'green' parties. For example, the German FDP's recent party-internal...

Alternative Politics: The German Green Party.
January 1, 1996... There has been increasing attention to the rise and careers of European small parties. Of particular interest are the so-called 'new politics', 'left-libertarian', 'ecology' or 'green' parties. For example, the German FDP's recent party-internal...

The German Greens: Challenging the Consensus.
January 1, 1996... There has been increasing attention to the rise and careers of European small parties. Of particular interest are the so-called 'new politics', 'left-libertarian', 'ecology' or 'green' parties. For example, the German FDP's recent party-internal...

Environmetal Politics in France.
January 1, 1996... There has been increasing attention to the rise and careers of European small parties. Of particular interest are the so-called 'new politics', 'left-libertarian', 'ecology' or 'green' parties. For example, the German FDP's recent party-internal...

The Transformation of European Social Democracy.
January 1, 1996... Social democratic politics, it has been suggested, was no more than a mid-century phenomenon, a creature of the War, a child of the Blitz (in the British case) generating a statist agenda and a degree of social levelling and fraternity which late...

Social Democracy in a Post-Communist Europe.
January 1, 1996... Social democratic politics, it has been suggested, was no more than a mid-century phenomenon, a creature of the War, a child of the Blitz (in the British case) generating a statist agenda and a degree of social levelling and fraternity which late...

The German Social Democrats Since 1969.
January 1, 1996... Social democratic politics, it has been suggested, was no more than a mid-century phenomenon, a creature of the War, a child of the Blitz (in the British case) generating a statist agenda and a degree of social levelling and fraternity which late...

The Trammels of Tradition: Social Democracy in Britain, France, and Germany.
January 1, 1996... Social democratic politics, it has been suggested, was no more than a mid-century phenomenon, a creature of the War, a child of the Blitz (in the British case) generating a statist agenda and a degree of social levelling and fraternity which late...

La social-democratie de 1945 a nos jours.
January 1, 1996... Social democratic politics, it has been suggested, was no more than a mid-century phenomenon, a creature of the War, a child of the Blitz (in the British case) generating a statist agenda and a degree of social levelling and fraternity which late...

Western European Communist Parties After the Revolution of 1989.
January 1, 1996... Political parties have an amazingly long life. They discard their original ideologies, drastically modify their values, find that their social base has disappeared and their programmes irrelevant, and yet they go on. They change their name, purge...

Western European Communists and the Collapse of Communism.
January 1, 1996... Political parties have an amazingly long life. They discard their original ideologies, drastically modify their values, find that their social base has disappeared and their programmes irrelevant, and yet they go on. They change their name, purge...

The French Welfare State.
January 1, 1996... The welfare states examined in these two volumes share some important features beyond their geographical location in a particular part of Europe: both are examples of particularly generous welfare regimes; both are, in varying degrees, 'late...

The Development of the Dutch Welfare State: From Workers' Insurance to Universal Entitlement.
January 1, 1996... The welfare states examined in these two volumes share some important features beyond their geographical location in a particular part of Europe: both are examples of particularly generous welfare regimes; both are, in varying degrees, 'late...

Modern Italy: Representation and Reform.
January 1, 1996... Public policy rather than party politics is the focus of this book which makes it a path-breaking introductory text. Nor can it be written off as out-of-date 'merely' because of the dramatic ushering in, since the book was written, of a new party...

Britain's Emerging Euro-Elite? The British in the Directly-Elected European Parliament, 1979-1992.
January 1, 1996... These two very different books contribute to the welcome 'cultural turn' in the study of European integration. Westlake's scholarly study is concerned with the emergence of elements of a European elite political culture, whereas Preston's...

Europe, Democracy and the Dissolution of Britain: An Essay on the Issue of Europe in UK Public Discourse.
January 1, 1996... These two very different books contribute to the welcome 'cultural turn' in the study of European integration. Westlake's scholarly study is concerned with the emergence of elements of a European elite political culture, whereas Preston's...

Comparative Federalism and Federation: Competing Traditions and Future Directions.
January 1, 1996... This is a collection of essays which has some good nuggets in it. Those interested in the contemporary working of 'western' federal systems will almost inevitably find something useful among the 13 chapters. How far it carries forward the...

Policing Across National Boundaries.
January 1, 1996... The third pillar of the Maastricht Treaty - judicial and domestic affairs - raised considerable political controversy since critics of European integration judged it to be an attack on a core element of the national sovereignty of member states,...

The Return to Incomes Policy.
January 1, 1996... After a wide-ranging introduction by Ronald Dore, this useful book presents clear, concise and perceptive accounts of recent experiences with incomes policies in seven West European countries - Britain, France, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria...

Cornwall Since the War: The Contemporary History of a European Region.
January 1, 1996... This is an edited collection of essays covering the economic, political, social and cultural changes that have occurred in Cornwall since 1945. There is much within its pages that is of particular interest to students of Cornish studies. However,...