West European Politics articles from January 1998

West European Politics archives from January 1998

Britain in the nineties: the politics of paradox.(Special Issue on Britain in the Nineties: The Politics of Paradox)
January 1, 1998... The orator bustled up to him, and drawing him partly aside, inquired 'On which side he voted?' Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and, rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear, 'Whether he was...

Power in the parties: R.T. McKenzie and after.(Special Issue on Britain in the Nineties: The Politics of Paradox)
January 1, 1998... One of the most paradoxical developments in British parties has been the shift in the contrasting internal relations of the Labour and Conservative parties. Debate over the distribution power, fired by the sociological insights of Robert Michels...

The judicial dimension in British politics.(Special Issue on Britain in the Nineties: The Politics of Paradox)
January 1, 1998... During the past 20 years or more the decisions of judges and of other officeholders and institutions with adjudicatory functions have begun to impinge more often and more insistently on the spheres of political and administrative discretion in...

The periphery and its paradoxes.(Special Issue on Britain in the Nineties: The Politics of Paradox)
January 1, 1998... PARADOX: seemingly self-contradictory or absurd but perhaps well founded Oxford English Dictionary Paradox on the periphery? Manifest absurdities with a grain, or more than a grain, of truth in them? There is something about the territorial...

The British electorate in the 1990s.(Special Issue on Britain in the Nineties: The Politics of Paradox)
January 1, 1998... During the 1990s the British electorate has displayed a remarkable capacity to surprise and confound media commentators, political pollsters and academic psephologists. Before the 1992 general election it was widely expected that the result would...

Governing the UK in the 1990s.
January 1, 1998... This most worthy text comprises chapters originally written as short articles by some of Britain's leading academics, for the journal Talking Politics. 'Here, they have been updated and expanded to provide a clear and contemporary overview of...

The Conservative Party and the Trade Unions.
January 1, 1998... Some of the key events in British trade unionism and industrial relations have occurred during periods of Conservative government and yet, as Dorey reminds us, there is a 'paucity of literature on the Conservative Party and the trade unions'....

Local Government in the 1990s.
January 1, 1998... Local Government in the 1990s is effectively a new edition of the editors' 1989 work, The Future of Local Government. Being reviewed three years after its initial publication, when much of its material had been originally written in 1992-93, it...

Quangos and Local Government: A Changing World.
January 1, 1998... Local Government in the 1990s is effectively a new edition of the editors' 1989 work, The Future of Local Government. Being reviewed three years after its initial publication, when much of its material had been originally written in 1992-93, it...

Parliaments and Parties: The European Parliament in the Political Life of Europe.
January 1, 1998... The process of integration in Europe is frequently likened to a train journey. One of the many problems confronting academics studying the progress of this 'train' is that by the time their work is published the train has moved on up the track....

National Parliaments and the European Union.
January 1, 1998... The process of integration in Europe is frequently likened to a train journey. One of the many problems confronting academics studying the progress of this 'train' is that by the time their work is published the train has moved on up the track....

Public Policy.
January 1, 1998... Public Policy is ambitious. By British standards, it is a long textbook covering a vast number of theoretical debates and topics. Its comprehensiveness is a major achievement in such a diffuse and broad subject. The book gives full treatment to...

One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century.
January 1, 1998... This is an excellent volume: it is well-written, well-produced and very clear in its format. The scholarship is impressive, the achievement enviable. It offers a lucid and comprehensive survey; it highlights all the major themes, and it provides...

The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis.
January 1, 1998... Herbert Kitschelt, who in the past has written on the dynamics of the left, seeks in this work to analyse the recent revival of the European 'radical right'. Five of the book's nine chapters are case studies, with single-country chapters on...

The Far Right in Western and Eastern Europe.
January 1, 1998... This is a revised edition of a book which first appeared in 1991 under the title NeoFascism in Europe. It contains nine wholly new chapters which extend the coverage to Belgium, Poland, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the former...

Threats to Democracy: The Radical Right in Italy After the War.
January 1, 1998... This analysis of Italy's post-war radical fight is a valuable counter to the emphasis on the left's more easily-researched contribution to Italy's extraordinary experience of political violence. The book is richly documented, with endnotes,...