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Der Beitrag beschreibt die seit Ende der 80er Jahre unternommenen Schritte sozialdemokratischer Parteien aus EG-Mitgliedsländern zur Stärkung der transnationalen Zusammenarbeit der Parteien und ihrer politischen Handlungsfähigkeit auf EG-Ebene. In diesem Kontext werden programmatische und organisatorische Veränderungen bei der französischen Parti Socialiste, der britischen Labour Party, der SPD sowie der Gruppe der sozialistischen Parteien im Europäischen Parlament und dem Bündnis Sozialistischer Parteien der EG analysiert. (AuD-Pls)

Focuses on relations between the Socialist Party and feminist and ecology movements. Argues that in their bid for hegemony among the left they effectively undercut post-material value-oriented support for a 'new politics' party. (Abstract amended)

Cover -- Social Democratic Partiesin the European Union -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Abbreviations andParty/Union Acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: European Social Democracy in Situ -- 1 The Social Democratic Party of Austria -- 2 The Belgian Socialist Party -- 3 The Danish Social Democratic Party -- 4 The Finnish Social Democratic Party -- 5 The French Socialist Party -- 6 The German Social Democratic Party -- 7 The British Labour Party -- 8 The Panhellenic Socialist Movement -- 9 The Irish Labour Party -- 10 The Italian Democrats of the Left -- 11 The Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party -- 12 The Dutch Labour Party -- 13 The Portuguese Socialist Party -- 14 The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party -- 15 The Swedish Social Democratic Party -- 16 The Party of European Socialists -- Postscript: Social Democratic Parties and the European Union -- Index.

Political parties are important actors in domestic climate politics. What drives variation in parties' climate policy preferences? To contribute to a growing literature on the party politics of climate change, we focus on the roles of public opinion, party competition, and parties' traditional policy preferences in shaping parties' climate policy preferences in Denmark and Ireland. In case studies that draw on in-depth interviews with policy practitioners, we show how parties respond to public opinion, accommodate issue-owners, and are powerfully constrained and enabled by their existing preferences. These mechanisms also help to explain different responses on climate policy across the left-right spectrum. Competition between mainstream parties is particularly powerful, but can constrain as much as it enables 'greener' climate policy preferences. While climate change may be a distinctive problem, the party politics of climate change features similar incentives and constraints as other domains.

This study presents an innovative approach to hand-coding parties' policy preferences in the relatively new, cross-sectoral field of climate change mitigation policy. It applies this approach to party manifestos in six countries, comparing the preferences of parties in Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom over the past two decades. It probes the data for evidence of validity through content validation and convergent/discriminant validation and engages with the debate on position-taking in environmental policy by developing a positional measure that incorporates 'pro' and 'anti' climate policy preferences. The analysis provides evidence for the validity of the new measures, shows that they are distinct from comparable measures of environmental policy preferences and argues that they are more comprehensive than existing climate policy measures. The new measures strengthen the basis for answering questions that are central to climate politics and to party politics. The approach developed here has important implications for the study of new, complex or cross-cutting policy issues and issues that include both valence and positional aspects.