European Politics
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European Politics

Pasts, presents, futures

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

European Politics

Pasts, presents, futures

About this book

This book arises out of a specially commissioned issue of West European Politics marking the journal's 30th anniversary. It examines the profound changes in the European political landscape over the last three decades, including the fall of Communism; progressive European integration; territorial restructuring; public sector reforms at European, national, regional and local levels; changes in democratic participation, protest, elections, political communication, political parties and party competition; and challenges to the welfare state. The book also discusses how political science has responded to these changes in terms of its substantive focus, concepts, methods and theories. Many of the 17 contributions included identify important challenges for the future, including those stemming from EU integration, the reduced electoral accountability of politicians, the problematic legitimation of party government and the sharpening of the edges of the state. Contributors include K. A. Anderson, F. C. Castles, C. Crouch, M. Egeberg. M. Ferrera, H. Goetz, L. Hooghe, E. M. Immergut, R. F. Inglehart, M. Keating, H.-D. Klingemann H. Kriesi, M. Lodge, J. Lovenduski, P. Mair, G. Marks, Y. Mény, L. Morlino, H. Obinger, V. A. Schmidt, P. C. Schmitter, and G. Smith.

This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Foreword
  8. Notes on Contributors
  9. Trajectories of European Politics: An Introduction
  10. 1. Change in European Societies since the 1970s
  11. 2. Democracy and Changes: How Research Tails Reality
  12. 3. Thirty Years of Territorial Politics
  13. 4. The European Welfare State: Golden Achievements, Silver Prospects
  14. 5. European Union?
  15. 6. Changing Values among Western Publics from 1970 to 2006
  16. 7. Political Mobilisation, Political Participation and the Power of the Vote
  17. 8. State Feminism and Women’s Movements
  18. 9. The Changing Politics of Organised Interests
  19. 10. The Challenge to Party Government
  20. 11. European Government(s): Executive Politics in Transition?
  21. 12. Governance as a Path to Government
  22. 13. Regulation, the Regulatory State and European Politics
  23. 14. European Political Economy: Labour Out, State Back In, Firm to the Fore
  24. 15. Worlds, Families, Regimes: Country Clusters in European and OECD Area Public Policy
  25. 16. Historical Institutionalism and West European Politics
  26. 17. Capacities: Political Science in Europe
  27. Index