West European Politics articles from January 1999

West European Politics archives from January 1999

The regulatory state and its legitimacy problems.
January 1, 1999... Not so long ago the term 'regulatory state' was considered a neologism of American origin and of dubious relevance to the European context. The scepticism was understandable since statutory regulation hardly played a role in the political...

The Franco-German relationship and economic and monetary union: using Europe to 'bind Leviathan.'.
January 1, 1999... From the outset of EC-level negotiations about Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), indeed earlier, French and German policy makers recognised that the Franco-German relationship had a special informal role to play in preparing the ground for a...

Franco-German bilateralism and agricultural politics in the European Union: the neglected level.
January 1, 1999... Recent years have seen an explosion of theoretical reflection on the European integration process and EU politics and policy making.(1) Despite their many other differences, almost all the newer theories, models, approaches, paradigms or...

European banking: five modes of governance.
January 1, 1999... With the revival of the single financial market process in the second half of the 1980s, a European Union (EU) effort was initiated for the convergence of European banking systems under a common regulatory umbrella. Since then, banking has been...

Coalition composition and legislative outcomes in Italy.
January 1, 1999... Parliamentary democracies are often analysed from the perspective of coalition behaviour, since policy formation and implementation are presumably the result of a joint effort by executives and legislatures, linked by a coalition agreement....

Core executives and party policies: privatisation in the Netherlands.
January 1, 1999... PRIVATISATION Privatisation, broadly defined as the reduction of the scope and scale of government, is on the political agenda of most Western-European governments, albeit under different labels and in different forms. All forms -...

Facing the European challenge: Finnish parties adjust to the integration process.
January 1, 1999... What are the positions of political parties in Finland on the European Union (EU)? Is there a broad consensus between the parties or do parties offer competing visions on Europe? Which factors explain party positions on the integration process?...

'Appointment with history': the referenda on the Stormont Peace Agreement, May 1998.
January 1, 1999... All is changed, utterly changed. W. B. Yeats (Easter, 1916) THE 'PATH TO PEACE' AGREEMENT The multi-party talks initiated by the governments of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in a Framework document(January 1995, and...

The 1998 Danish parliamentary election: Social Democrats muddle through to victory.
January 1, 1999... The Danish Prime Minister and leader of the Social Democrats, Mr. Paul Nyryp Rasmussen, called a snap parliamentary election, to be held on 11 March 1998. The announcement caught most commentators and opposition politicians by surprise. The...

Floating voters or wandering parties? The Dutch national elections of 1998.
January 1, 1999... Between 1994 and 1998 a coalition cabinet of PvdA (Labour), VVD (Conservative Liberals) and D66 (Social Liberals) governed the Netherlands. It was the first government since 1917, when the suffrage was extended to all male adults, without...

The 1998 Riksdag election: Hobson's choice and Sweden's voice.
January 1, 1999... In September 1998 the Swedish electorate was faced with Hobson's choice: it was evident from the start of the election campaign that, short of the most unexpected turn-up, the next government would be led by the incumbent prime minister, the...

European Integration and Local Government.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by M. J. F. GOLDSMITH and K. K. KLAUSEN. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1997. Pp.xii + 266, biblio., index. [pounds]49.95. ISBN 1-85898-492-0. Multi-Level Government? Federalism? Confederalism? Symbiotic Consociationalism?...

The Eurosceptical Reader.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by MARTIN HOLMES. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.xv + 410, biblio, index. [pounds]45 (cloth); [pounds]15.99 (paper). ISBN 0-333-66942-8 and -66943-6. Multi-Level Government? Federalism? Confederalism? Symbiotic Consociationalism?...

The Regional Dimension of the European Union Towards a Third Level in Europe?(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by CHARLIE JEFFERY. London: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xiv + 223, biblio., index. [pounds]29.50/$42.50 (cloth); [pounds]16.50/$22.50 (paper). ISBN 0-7146-4348-9 and -4306-8. Multi-Level Government? Federalism? Confederalism? Symbiotic...

The European Union, the United Nations, and the Revival of Confederal Governance.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By FREDERICK K. LISTER. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1996. Pp.xi + 182, biblio., index. [pounds]43.95. ISBN 0-313-29890-4. Multi-Level Government? Federalism? Confederalism? Symbiotic Consociationalism? Nation-building? The mass of...

Rush to Union: Understanding the Federal Bargain.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By DAVID McKAY. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp.viii + 192, biblio., index. [pounds]30. ISBN 0-19-828058-0. Multi-Level Government? Federalism? Confederalism? Symbiotic Consociationalism? Nation-building? The mass of 'facts' that make up...

The European Union in the 1990s.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By PAUL TAYLOR. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.204, biblio., index, [pounds]35 (cloth); [pounds]13.99 (paper). ISBN 0-19-878186-5 and -878185-7. Multi-Level Government? Federalism? Confederalism? Symbiotic Consociationalism?...

The nature of multi-level government: analysing the European Union.
January 1, 1999... Multi-Level Government? Federalism? Confederalism? Symbiotic Consociationalism? Nation-building? The mass of 'facts' that make up the European Union (EU) take on a different meaning depending on how one defines the whole. There is, however,...

Federalizing Europe? The Costs, Benefits, and Preconditions of Federal Political Systems.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by J. J. HESSE and V. WRIGHT. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.403, index. [pounds]45. ISBN 0-19-827992-2. This book consists of papers presented at a Conference in 1992. Much work must have gone into transforming the papers...

Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By GARY W. COX. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv+340, 28 tables, biblio., subject index. [pounds]40/US$59.95 (cloth); [pounds]14.95/US$18.95 (paper). ISBN 0-521-58527-9 and -58516-3. It is not easy to 'make votes count'....

West European Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: The Evolving Dynamic.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By PETER CHALK. London, Macmillan Press, 1996. Pp.232, app. of tables, index. [pounds]42.50. ISBN 0-312-12971-8. This book, originally a doctoral dissertation by an Australian, recounts the efforts of 12 European Community members in coping...

Les partis politiques en Belgique.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by PASCAL DELWIT and JEAN-MICHEL DE WAELE. Brussels: Editions de l'Universite de Bruxelles, 1996. Pp.279, biblio., no index. 650 Belgian francs. ISBN 2-8004-1152-X. Initially, postwar Belgian politics corresponded completely to the...

British Political Parties.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By JUSTIN FISHER. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996. Pp.x+223, tables, biblio., index. [pounds]12.50. ISBN 0-13-353806-0. Considering the extent to which the British political system is structured by political parties there are...

The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By S. P. Monsma and J. C. Soper. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1997. Pp.x +228, biblio., index. $52.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8476-8568-3 and 8569-1. This book is unusual in at least three ways: it is a genuine...

Democracy and Corruption in Europe.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by DONATELLA DELLA PORTA and YVES MENY. London: Pinter, 1997, Pp.viii + 208, index. [pounds]45 (cloth); [pounds]13.99 (paper). ISBN 1-85567-366-5 and 367-3. The challenge that corruption poses to democratic institutions in Europe...

1945-96. Archivio della politica in Italia.(Evaluation)
January 1, 1999... CD-ROM edited by GIANFRANCO PASQUINO with the collaboration of MARZIA ZANNINI, plus Profilo della politica in Italia. Rome, Laterza, 1996. Pp.xvi+118. L.49,000 (whole package). ISBN 88-4205101-2. This package comprises a short book and,...

Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by BRIAN JENKINS and SPYROS A. SOFOS. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp.x+ 294, index. [pounds]45 (cloth); [pounds]13.99 (paper). ISBN 0-415-12312-7 and -12313-5. This is the first in a series of books on the topic of nationalism and...