The Europeanization of Politics: The Formation of a European Electorate and Party System in Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781107118676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 300 str.

Daniele Caramani

Opis

This book offers a broadly comparative, historical, and quantitative analysis of electorates and party systems in Western and Central Eastern Europe since the nineteenth century.

Recenzje

'In the tradition of Stein Rokkan, Caramani's work seeks broad scope and long reach in portraying the development of party system configurations in Europe. Caramani's study is a necessary and welcome foundation to more fine-grained analysis of strategic interaction among parties. His research uncovers lasting patterns and slow-moving trends across European democracies, such as the early development of matching cleavage alignments and cohesion within party families or over-time swings in the fortunes of party families across Europe, as well as the correspondence of programmatic configurations of parties at both the European and the national system levels. Any investigation of democratic party competition will have to draw on Caramani's findings.' Herbert Kitschelt, George V. Allen Professor of International Relations, Duke University

Spis treści

Introduction: electoral integration in Europe; Part I. Framework: 1. Theoretical framework: Europeanization in historical perspective; 2. Research design: European party families and party systems; Part II. Analysis: 3. Homogeneity: convergence and deviation in European electoral development, 1848–2012; 4. Uniformity: electoral waves and electoral swings across Europe, 1848–2012; 5. Correspondence: overlapping vs distinctive electorates in national and European elections, 1974‒2012; 6. Cohesion: ideological convergence within European party families, 1945–2009; 7. Closure: the Europeanization of cabinet and coalition politics, 1945‒2009; Part III. Assessment: 8. Sources of Europeanization: supra-, within-, and trans-national; Explanations; Conclusion: toward European-wide representation.