West European Politics articles from October 1994

West European Politics archives from October 1994

Democracy and symbiosis in the European Union: towards a confederal consociation?
October 1, 1994... It seems fair to suggest that since its very inception on 1 November 1993, the European Union (EU) has been constantly in search of an efficient and pragmatic response to the multiple challenges that an ever-more complex and interdependent...

Policy networks, networks and European Union policy making: a sceptical view.
October 1, 1994... In a recent issue of this journal, Simon Hix undertook a comparison of the merits of the various approaches developed by international relations and political science (or 'comparative politics'), and concluded that those from political science...

The chancellor as manager: Helmut Kohl, the CDU and governance in Germany. (Christian Democratic Union)
October 1, 1994... Helmut Kohl is a weak chancellor. Adrian Zielcke, Stuttgarter Zeitung . . . in Bonn, no one doubts that Kohl is a strong chancellor. Rolf Zundel, Die Zeit.(1) Despite ample opportunity to assess Helmut Kohl's performance as German chancellor...

Accommodation or 'cleansing': Germany's state employees from the old regime.
October 1, 1994... Recent studies have begun to address the regime crises, breakdowns, and transitions in East Central Europe in 1989-90. Initial comparative forays -- driven by obviously observable commonalities like a close temporal clustering, close geographical...

Continuing politics by other means: defence policy under the French fifth republic.
October 1, 1994... DEFENCE AS DIFFERENT Defence has received little attention in the public policy literature. Many politics text books fail to refer to defence at all, and whilst policy making case studies abound on a host of other policy sectors, defence is...

The correlates of consensus democracy and the puzzle of Dutch politics.
October 1, 1994... Non-Dutch students of comparative politics, including even those who specialise in comparative West European politics, often know little of the details or nuances of politics in the Netherlands. At the same time, however, all are usually...

The search for the centre: pivot parties in West European party systems.
October 1, 1994... The central question of this article(1) is whether or not in multiparty systems the so-called parties of the 'centre' can be defined and observed in isolation. In much of the literature on party behaviour these parties are derived simply from...

Electoral volatility and the structure of competition: a reassessment of voting patterns in Britain 1959-1992.
October 1, 1994... Recent political events have rocked Europe's seemingly stable party systems. In France and Germany, right-wing, anti-immigrant movements have erupted on to the political plane to threaten the dominance of the right-of-centre party groupings in...

Three worlds of welfare capitalism? The welfare state and the post-industrial trajectory in the Netherlands after 1980.
October 1, 1994... It all seemed to be so simple a few decades ago. The evolving welfare states in the advanced countries were just the inevitable outcome of the logic of the process of socio-economic development. This latter long-term process of modernisation led...

The 1994 Finnish presidential election: honesty was not the best policy!
October 1, 1994... The candidate of the leading opposition Social Democratic Party, Martti Ahtisaari, became the tenth, and first directly-elected Finnish president, having comfortably beaten the Swedish People's Party candidate and Minister of Defence, Elisabeth...

The 1994 election in Italy: normalisation or continuing exceptionalism?
October 1, 1994... Italy's March 1994 election, coming just two turbulent years after the previous contest in April 1992, was outstanding in many respects. The wholesale transformation of the party system, already adumbrated in 1992,(1) took a decisive step...

Handworterbuch zur deutschen Einheit.
October 1, 1994... 'Of making many books there is no end' -- at least on the topic of German reunification.(1) One recent review, for example, listed nearly 30 publications from 1992 alone on the single topic of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung (overcoming the past).(2)...

Political Culture in Germany.
October 1, 1994... It is a great idea to bring together between two covers the broadest possible treatment of the political culture of a country, including also its past, as well as various aspects of it and subcultures of varying description. With Germany, such an...

The National Question in Europe in Historical Context.
October 1, 1994... The painful and contradictory process of creation of a new supranational political union and identity in Western Europe, coinciding with the emergence of new precarious 'national' political unions and 'delayed-nationalisms' in the other part of...

European Revolutions: 1492-1992.
October 1, 1994... This volume forms part of new series 'The Making of Europe' designed to present the reflections of historians on aspects of European history which are relevant to contemporary issues on European integration. The series is promoted by five...

Fascist Europe: The Rise of Racism and Xenophobia.
October 1, 1994... Both these publications deal with themes increasingly in the public eye: the contemporary extreme fight and the associated problem of escalating racism and xenophobia. Glyn Ford's book is basically the 1990 Report of the European Parliament's...

Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-seven Democracies, 1945-1990.
October 1, 1994... An ideal accompaniment to Rein Taagepera and Matthew Shugart's Seats and Votes (Yale 1989). The principal strength of the Taagepera and Shugart study was how it developed the methodology for assessing electoral systems and their effects;...

How Ireland Voted: 1992.
October 1, 1994... This is the third in a series of election books that began with the 1987 and 1989 general elections, and which, in the absence of a full-scale election study, is by far the best academic account available. The book appeared well within a year of...

Grune Parteien in Westeuropa. Entwicklungsphasen und Erfolgsbedingungen.
October 1, 1994... This text is an application of comparative quantitative methods to explaining the success of European Green parties during the 1980s. The author uses national parliamentary election results in 17 European countries as his dependent variable. He...

French Constitutional Law.
October 1, 1994... The 1958 Constitution of the Fifth Republic marks an important departure from the constitutions of previous republics in several respects, particularly that of parliamentary sovereignty. Formal constitutional limits were introduced specifying in...

Europe and America in the 1990s: The Prospects for Partnership.
October 1, 1994... There is no set of relations in the global arena that outranks the transatlantic partnership in terms of its political, economic or strategic significance. In the context of the post-Cold War world, the centrality of the relationship is...

National Public and Private EC Lobbying.
October 1, 1994... The most recent estimates suggest that there may now be more than 3,000 lobby organisations and 10,000 lobbyists based in Brussels representing both private and public organisations. This development reflects the importance of legislation,...