Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining: The Democratic Life Cycle in Western Europe
In: The journal of legislative studies, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 274-275
ISSN: 1357-2334
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In: The journal of legislative studies, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 274-275
ISSN: 1357-2334
In: European political science: EPS, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 143-150
ISSN: 1682-0983
In: West European politics, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 230-231
ISSN: 0140-2382
In: West European politics, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 627-628
ISSN: 1743-9655
In: West European politics, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 211-234
ISSN: 1743-9655
At a time when the literature on political parties is brimming with health and vitality, the parties themselves seem to be experiencing potentially severe legitimacy problems and to be suffering from a quite massive withdrawal of popular support and affection. This article addresses one key aspect of the problems facing contemporary parties in Europe, which is the challenge to party government. I begin by reviewing the changing pattern of party competition, in which I discuss the decline of partisanship in policy-making and the convergence of parties into a mainstream consensus. I then look again at the familiar 'parties-do-matter' thesis and at the evidence for declining partisanship within the electorate. In the third section of the paper I explore the various attempts to specify the conditions for party government, before going on in the final section to argue that these conditions have been undermined in such a way that it is now almost impossible to imagine party government in contemporary Europe either functioning effectively or sustaining complete legitimacy. Adapted from the source document.
In: West European politics, Band 31, Heft 1-2, S. 211-234
ISSN: 0140-2382
In: West European politics, Band 31, Heft 1-2, S. 211-234
ISSN: 1743-9655
In: Acta politica: AP ; international journal of political science ; official journal of the Dutch Political Science Association (Nederlandse Kring voor Wetenschap der Politiek), Band 43, Heft 2, S. 235-253
ISSN: 0001-6810
In: Acta politica: AP ; international journal of political Science, Band 43, Heft 2-3, S. 235-253
ISSN: 1741-1416
In: West European politics, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 627
ISSN: 0140-2382
In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 1-17
ISSN: 1477-7053
AbstractThis paper applies categories developed in the classic literature on political opposition to the developing European Union. It is clear that the EU has never developed the third great milestone identified by Dahl in his analysis of the path to democratic institutions. That is, we still lack the capacity to organize opposition within the European polity. This failure to allow for opposition within the polity is likely to lead either (a) to the elimination of opposition altogether, or (b) to the mobilization of an opposition of principle against the EU polity. This problem is also beginning to reach down into the domestic sphere, in that the growing weight of the EU, through its indirect impact on national politics, helps to encourage domestic democratic deficits, hence limiting the scope for classical opposition at the national level. Here too, then, we might expect to see either the elimination of opposition or the mobilization of a new – perhaps populist – opposition of principle.
In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 1-17
ISSN: 0017-257X
In: West European politics, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 834-836
ISSN: 0140-2382
In: West European politics, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 1-5
ISSN: 1743-9655