West European Politics articles from October 2000

West European Politics archives from October 2000

Introduction: European Integration and National Political Systems.
October 1, 2000... EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND DOMESTIC POLITICAL CHANGE The process of European integration has been studied and analysed at great length in a variety of academic disciplines. The main focus of this endeavour is usually to try to explain...

The Limited Impact of Europe on National Party Systems.
October 1, 2000... This study is intended to offer a brief assessment of the impact of Europeanisation on the national party systems of the member states of the European Union (EU). This implies quite serious limitations in the focus of the analysis. In the first...

European Integration, Voters and National Politics.
October 1, 2000... By joining the European Union (EU), member states accept a particular set of policy choices regarding a broad range of economic and social issues (the acquis communautaire) and a supranational political authority to govern these policies. A...

Political Contention in a Europeanising Polity.
October 1, 2000... EUROSTRIKE! On 27 February 1997, the President of the ailing French Renault firm announced the imminent closure of the company's plant in Vilvoorde, Belgium. Louis Schweitzer, a former aide to Socialist Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, would...

Policy Networks in a Multi-Level System: Convergence Towards Moderate Diversity?
October 1, 2000... Does the European Union (EU) represent a case of transnational pluralism which will trickle down through the European multi-level system? Or is it a 'statist pluralist' model, which impinges on both statist and corporatist national polities? Or...

Europeanised Politics - Europeanised Media? European Integration and Political Communication.
October 1, 2000... THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON POLITICAL COMMUNICATION While the processes of European integration have advanced in terms of a common currency, a common parliament, and policy and legislative harmonisation and convergence, there has...

Backbenchers Learn to Fight Back: European Integration and Parliamentary Government.
October 1, 2000... Supporters of parliaments are bound to feel dejected by academic interpretations of the impact of European integration on parliamentary government in the domestic arena in Europe. According to the so-called 'standard version' of the 'democratic...

The Positioning of EU Judicial Politics within the United Kingdom.(European Union)
October 1, 2000... Any lawyer can, at best, be ambivalent about the study of judicial politics. The treatment of courts 'as one governmental agency among many -- as part of the... political process rather than as a unique body of impervious legal technicians...

European Integration and National Executives: A Cause in Search of an Effect?
October 1, 2000... EXECUTIVE EUROPEANISATION IN MEMBER STATES: LINKAGE, IMPLEMENTATION AND ECOLOGY The impact of European integration on national executives -- here understood as national central administrations, comprising both the political and the...

Wither Welfare? Partisan Politics, Globalisation and Social Transformation.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Comparative Public Policy: Patterns of Post-war Transformation. FRANCIS G. CASTLES. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998. Pp.ix + 352, 29 tables, 12 figures, biblio, index. [pound]59.95 (cloth) ISBN 1-85898-816-0; [pound]19.95 (paper) ISBN...

In the Name of Liberalism.(Review)
October 1, 2000... In the Name of Liberalism. DESMOND KING. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999. Pp.xiii + 340, biblio, index. [pound]40 (cloth) ISBN 0-19-829609-6; [pound]14.99 (paper) ISBN 0-19-829629-0. This remarkably rich book treats two key themes that...

Doing Research in Political Science. An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Doing Research in Political Science. An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics. PAUL PENNINGS, HANS KEMAN and JAN KLEINNIJENHUIS. London: Sage Publication, 1999. Pp.368, appendix, biblio, index. [pound]55 (cloth) ISBN 0-...

Democracy, Accountability, and Representation.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Democracy, Accountability, and Representation. Edited by A. PRZEWORSKI, S.C. STOKES and B. MANIN. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, Pp.351, author and subject index. [pound]13.95 (paper) ISBN 0-521-64616-2; [pound]37.50 (cloth) ISBN...

Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform. S. ROSE- ACKERMAN. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xiv + 266, biblio., name and subject indexes. [pound]35 (cloth) ISBN 0-521-63293-5; [pound]11.95 (paper)...

Semi-Presidentialism in Europe.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Semi-Presidentialism in Europe. Edited by R. ELGIE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.xiv + 320, 7 figs, 5 tables, biblio, index. [pound]48 (cloth) ISBN 0-19-829386-0. This edited volume addresses the concept of semi-presidentialism...

Report from the Democratic Audit of Sweden 1999: Democracy the Swedish Way.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Report from the Democratic Audit of Sweden 1999: Democracy the Swedish Way. O. PETERSSON, K. von BEYME, L. KARVONEN, B. NEDELMANN and E. SMITH. Stockholm: SNS Forlag, 1999. Pp.165, biblio, index. SEK 300 (paper) ISBN 91-7150-761-2. The...

French Politics: Debates and Controversies.(Review)
October 1, 2000... French Politics: Debates and Controversies. R. ELGIE and S. GRIGGS. London: Routledge, 2000, Pp.xx + 216, 15 tables/4 figs, biblio, index. [pound]55 (cloth) ISBN 0-415-17478-3; [pound]18.99 (paper) ISBN 0-415-17479-1. By introducing...

Spanish Politics Today.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Spanish Politics Today. JOHN GIBBONS. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp.xvii + 174, map, index. [pound]40 (cloth) ISBN 0-7190-4945-8; [pound]9.99 (paper) ISBN 0-7190-4946-6. This is a welcome new undergraduate textbook. In...

International Fascism. Theories, Causes and the New Consensus.(Review)
October 1, 2000... International Fascism. Theories, Causes and the New Consensus. Edited by R. GRIFFIN. London: Arnold, 1998. Pp.vi + 334, biblio, index. [pound]45 (cloth) ISBN 0-3400-70614-7; [pound]15.99 (paper) ISBN 0-340-70613-9. Since the early 1990s...

Europe in the World: The Persistence of Power Politics.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Europe in the World: The Persistence of Power Politics. MAURICE KEENS-SOPER. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999. Pp.xiv + 205. [pound]45 (cloth) ISBN 0-33-71921-1. Paperback edition forthcoming. The great merit of Dr Keens-Soper's book is that it...