Political Institutions in EuropeJosep Maria Colomer This is a clear, lucid introduction to the institutional regimes of fifteen countries in western Europe written by an outstanding group of European political scientists. New to the revised second edition: * comprehensive coverage of the political institutions of 15 European countries, including Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Low Countries and the Nordic Countries * each chapter explores political parties, elections and electoral rules, parliaments and national, regional and local governments * a brand new chapter looking at the effect of the European Union * chapters written by leading figures in the field * annotated guides to further reading. The book should be an essential introduction for students of both comparative and European politics. |
Contents
Tables | 2 |
variations of party government | 17 |
Parties and party strategies | 25 |
Parliament | 31 |
Intergovernmental relations | 46 |
Institutional changes and reform 5252 | 52 |
the grand coalition state | 57 |
Parties and party strategies | 64 |
References | 132 |
rule by party leadership | 171 |
Political parties | 180 |
Parliament | 186 |
Intergovernmental relations | 195 |
confrontation and cooperation | 207 |
Party systems in a consociational environment | 217 |
Party government and accountable policymaking | 230 |
Government and bureaucracy | 74 |
Institutional reform | 87 |
the institutionalization of leadership | 95 |
Political parties | 105 |
Parliament | 112 |
Myths and paradoxes of decentralization | 125 |
Similar polities different trajectories | 240 |
federalism in the making | 279 |
The European Parliament | 290 |
Interinstitutional decisionmaking | 297 |
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administration Agrarian Autonomous Communities behaviour Belgium Benelux Berlusconi's Britain British Cabinet candidates CDU/CSU cent central government centre centre-left centre-right centrist Christian Christian-democrats cleavage co-operation coalition governments Commission Committee Communist Party consensus Conservative Constitutional Court corporatism Council decentralization decision-making decisions democracy Democratic Denmark economic elections electoral system Europe European Parliament European People's Party European Political Groups European Union favour Federal Republic Fianna Fail Fifth Republic Fine Gael Finland formation France Gaullists Germany governmental ideological important interest Ireland issues Italian Labour left-right legislation Liberal Luxembourg member-states Ministry nationalist Netherlands Nordic countries Norway opposition organized parliamentary majority party system People's Party period pluralism policy-making political institutions political parties politicians popular Portugal position President presidential Prime Minister proportional representation PSOE referendum reform regime regional representatives role rules seats sector social Social-democratic Socialist Spain strategies structure Sweden Swedish voters votes