West European Politics articles from October 1993

West European Politics archives from October 1993

Rebuilding public administration in the new German Lander: transfer and differentiation.
October 1, 1993... The transformation of their institutional frameworks of governance is a challenge common to all post-Communist countries in Europe.(1) In its defining elements -- legal foundations, tasks, structures, procedures, personnel -- the system of...

Social coalitions, political strategies, and German unification, 1990-1993.
October 1, 1993... On 1 October 1992 Helmut Kohl celebrated the tenth anniversary of his assumption of the German Chancellorship amid a chorus of domestic and international criticism. Two days later, he celebrated the second anniversary of German unity, also amid a...

Cohesion in the European Community: illusion or reality?
October 1, 1993... Since the passage of the Single European Act, the goal of economic and social cohesion has become a central part of the debate on the prospect for and impact of economic integration and monetary union on member states and regions in the European...

Executive power and policy-making patterns in France: gauging the impact of Fifth Republic institutions.
October 1, 1993... The replacement of France's Fourth Republic with the Fifth Republic remains one of the most remarkable experiments in constitutional engineering ever attempted in postwar Europe. The degree of institutional restructuring involved in this case...

Remaking the Italian party system: how Lijphart got it wrong by saying it right. (Arendt Lijphart)
October 1, 1993... CHANGING PARTY SYSTEMS Party systems have been both the object of widespread research and growing theoretical agreement, a rare combination in political science. A major reason has been the exceptional stability of party systems: while...

The Basel chemical multinationals: corporate action within structures of corporatism in Switzerland.
October 1, 1993... The Swiss political economy has been characterised by Peter Katzenstein as one of 'liberal corporatism': organised groups engage in continuous, institutionalised bargaining in consensual fashion; but such corporatist arrangements are weighted...

Majority summits: decision-making inside the cabinet and out: Italy, 1970-1990.
October 1, 1993... Historically, the weakness of Italian governments has been related to the inability of the Prime Minister fully to master his own cabinet. As a result, governmental decision-making in republican Italy has been seen as showing a low degree of...

How the Socialists lost the 1993 elections to the French Parliament.
October 1, 1993... The General Election of 21 and 28 March 1993 replaced the Socialist-led minority by a huge majority of the Centre-Right coalition in the National Assembly and thereby opened a new period of 'cohabitation'. President Francois Mitterrand remained...

The Italian referenda of April 1993: real change at last?
October 1, 1993... On 18 April 1993 the widest popular consultation in postwar Italy took place when voters were asked to express their judgements on eight referenda concerning issues regarded as fundamental to achieving long-needed change in the Italian political...

Gli Stati Uniti d'Italia, Antologia dei Federalisti Italiani.
October 1, 1993... The rise of regional leagues wishing to make the north of Italy effectively self-governing within a radically decentralised Italian state is perhaps the most surprising of the challenges that have overtaken established political forces in Western...

Comparative Politics: New Directions in Theory and Method.
October 1, 1993... Scholars have long debated the relative weights we should place on comparative politics in the field of political science, its theoretical potential for political science and its methodology. In Comparative Politics, these three topics are...

Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability: The Stabilization of European Electorates, 1885-1985.
October 1, 1993... One intriguing puzzle of comparative politics is the sharply opposing evaluations of the evidence presented by contemporary changes in electoral behaviour. On the one side there are those who hold that that over the past 20 years or so there has...

Who's Who in European Politics, 2d ed.
October 1, 1993... This second edition is updated to September 1992, and is notable for its new pan-European embrace. There are entries for a whole list of new countries including the Russian Federation, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the separate Czech and Slovak...

Monetary Sovereignty: The Politics of Central Banking in Western Europe.
October 1, 1993... These are two books dealing with the political economy of central banking in Western Europe. Both books address issues relating to the construction of a European Central Bank and the move to European Monetary Union. The first book is the...

The Political Executive: Politicians and Management in European Local Government.
October 1, 1993... The purpose of this book, a hardback version of a 1992 special issue of the quarterly journal Local Government Studies, is to contribute to the debate about the internal structure of local government by looking at how political leadership is...

Regieren in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
October 1, 1993... By focusing on the relationships between 'polity' (the institutions of the state), 'politics' (the processes of conflict resolution and consensus-building) and 'policy', Manfred Schmidt seeks to explain the special nature of central government,...

The Internationalization of the German Political Economy: Evolution of a Hegemonic Project.
October 1, 1993... Over the last 40 years, most of the English-language publications on German political economy have been concerned with describing the nature of the so-called 'economic miracle' of the 1950s, or with particular aspects of economic thought (the...

Frankreich Jahrbuch, 1991: Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Geschichte, Kultur, vol. 4.
October 1, 1993... The fourth volume of this yearbook, produced under the auspices of the Deutsch-Franzosisches Institut with a mind to keeping a general audience abreast of change in contemporary France, is true to the interdisciplinary approach established with...

Tempete sur la Justice.
October 1, 1993... At least four key questions have been at the centre of recent public controversy surrounding the operation of the French legal system and the Ministry of Justice: the independence of the judiciary in principle -- whether to remove from the...

Italian Politics: A Review, vol. 7.
October 1, 1993... This volume is as informative and wide-ranging as its predecessors and it is no fault of its contributors that political events in Italy have unfolded at such a fast pace since 1991 -- one has only to think of Tangentopoli and the demise of...

British External Policy-Making in the 1990s.
October 1, 1993... Michael Clarke has produced a text which updates and effectively replaces William Wallace's Foreign Policy Process in Britain which was published in 1975. Clarke covers the end of the Cold War but, unfortunately, not the Maastricht Treaty and the...

Organized Interests and the European Community.
October 1, 1993... This edited collection deals with an area of the political science literature on the European Community (EC) that, in recent years, has lagged behind the renewed dynamic of integration dating from the mid-1980s. The editors' introduction gives...

Liberalism and Modern Science.
October 1, 1993... The central character in this book is 'ethical liberalism'. The theme is a historical tragedy, namely, the demise of ethical liberalism in Europe and America over the period 1870 to the present. The aims of the book are to outline the basic...