Explores the views of political and economic elites alongside those of the wider population on the European Union based on recent questionnaire surveys conducted across 18 countries.
Explores the views of political and economic elites alongside those of the wider population on the European Union based on recent questionnaire survey...
At the end of the "founding" or initial decade, the new parliaments of post-Communist Europe had developed two distinct types: democratic and presidentially-dominated. Whilst in the early years, they had been characterised as "parliaments in adolescence," they have - through the second decade - continued to improvise but also elaborate their working relationships with both their chief executives and electorates.
This book examines these adaptations in seven parliaments, comparing both among them and with parliaments of west Europe. Their changes are traced through four...
At the end of the "founding" or initial decade, the new parliaments of post-Communist Europe had developed two distinct types: democratic and presi...
Democratic theory considers it fundamental for parties in government to be both responsive to their electorate and responsible to internal and international constraints. But recently these two roles have become more and more incompatible with Mair's growing divide in European party systems between parties which claim to represent, but don't deliver, and those which deliver, but are no longer seen to represent truer than ever.
The volume contains a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the behaviour of the opposition parties in eleven European democracies across Western and East...
Democratic theory considers it fundamental for parties in government to be both responsive to their electorate and responsible to internal and inte...
