West European Politics articles from July 1995

West European Politics archives from July 1995

European democracy and its critique.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... The output of European governance is like that of a state, even a super state: an endless stream of laws in increasingly varied areas of public and private life. They are binding on governments and individuals as part of the law of the land....

Political parties, popular legitimacy and public privilege.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... When the nobles had real power as well as privileges, when they governed and administered, their rights could be at once greater and less open to attack... True, the nobles enjoyed invidious privileges and rights that weighed heavily on the...

The reshaping of naional party systems.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... Political Parties at the European level are an important factor for integration within the Union. They contribute to forming a European awareness and to expressing the political will of the citizens of the Union. Article 138a of the...

The failure of national parliaments.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... National parliaments have gradually lost substantial legislative functions to the European Community, now the European Union... Generally speaking, the national parliaments underestimated very much, for a long time, the impact of the EC's...

Referendum outcomes and trust in government: public support for Europe in the wake of Maastricht.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... The referenda conducted in France and Denmark in 1992 to ratify the Treaty of European Union are often seen as giving evidence of the 'true' attitudes of voters in these countries towards Europe--attitudes apparently at odds with those obtained...

Constitutional reform in the European Community: are there alternatives to the majoritarian avenue?(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... With the conclusion of the Single European Act, it can be said that the European Community (EC) (1) has entered into an era of what Canadian political scientist Peter Russell has called 'mega-constitutional politics': a phase of major...

Democracy or technocracy? European integration and the problem of popular consent.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... Ideas of popular participation and democratic accountability above the level of the nation state have been themes of idealist approaches to international relations since the time of Kant and the French Revolution. The troops of revolutionary...

Economic recession and disenchantment with Europe.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... The process of European integration acquired a new momentum in the 1980s with the signing of first the Single European Act in February 1986 and then the Maastricht Treaty on European Union (EU) in February 1992. The satisfaction which accompanied...

Subnational mobilization in the European Union.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... Interests can be represented on the European arena through various channels. One form of representation--through state executives and unelected European institutions--has been heavily criticised during the Maastricht debate. Another way to...

The 1994 European elections: twelve into one won't go.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... European elections, which were first held in 1979, can be seen as an attempt to extend representative democracy 'beyond the nation state'. However, as Deutsch points out, theorists have typically confined their considerations to the nation state....

An island of stability? The German political party system and the elections of 1994.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... The Federal Republic of Germany remains a beacon of stability in an unsettled continent in the eyes of many observers. On 16 October 1994 re-election of the governing conservative-liberal coalition, in power for 12 years, conveyed an impression...

Figli di un benessere minore. La lega, 1979-93.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... After the 1994 election the Northern League was widely perceived as rapidly moving from the right to a position on the left of the new Berlusconi-led coalition. This shift may reflect the inadequacy of political labels in the turbulent conditions...

La Lega. Geografia, storia e sociologia di un nuovo soggetto politico.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... Since the first League appeared Italian bookshops have been stocked with publications which are either apologetic histories of the Leagues, and interviews with their leaders, or dismissive accounts. The first serious book was a collection of...

The End of Post-War Politics in Italy: The Landmark 1992 Elections.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... For many years, Italianists have had it relatively easy. The political system was superficially very confusing, which encouraged all but the chronically curious or professionally involved to leave it to aficionados. It was also remarkably stable,...

Destra e sinistra: Ragioni e significanti di una distinzione politica.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... Norberto Bobbio has long been one of the Italian Left's most tenacious interlocutors, almost replacing Gramsci as the guru of progressive thinking. In this most recent, brief study he confronts from a largely analytical point of view the...

Magistratura e politica in Italia.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... The study of the relationship between the judiciary and political institutions is, regrettably, an underdeveloped field in European political science. The great majority of work is written by lawyers more interested in formalistic or prescriptive...

Cattolici e Democristiani.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... In this short book, Gianni Baget Bozzo not only analyses the phases in the evolution of Italy's most influential political party, but also takes the reader through 60 years of Italian history. The key to Bozzo's analysis of the DC is the...

Italiens Nahostpolitik von 1980 bis 1990.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... Annette Junemann delivers both more and less than her title promises. She surrounds Italy's Near East policy with discussions of the history of Italy's (formerly) major parties, Catholic anti-Semitism, and Italy foreign relations since...

The Referendum: Direct Democracy in Switzerland.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... Of several new books on the subject, this comes closest to a manual, albeit more on the political impact of Swiss semi-direct democracy than on its workings. After a brief introduction to the history and mechanisms of federal level referenda in...

Elites politiques et peuple en Suisse. Analyse des votations federales: 1970-87.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... Although the idea of plebiscites on matters European has been much in the news of late, my immediate response to such talk was 'what know they of referenda who only British elections know'. Reading this product of a Geneva politics department...

Women and Social Policies in Europe. Work, Family and the State.(Special Issue on The Crisis of Representation in Europe)
July 1, 1995... The construction of typologies on the basis of variations in the organising logics and outcomes of welfare systems could be said to be the current fashion in welfare state research. The general principles linking welfare systems across national,...