West European Politics
About the Book Series
West European Politics has established itself as the foremost journal for the comparative analysis of European political institutions, politics and public policy. Its comprehensive scope, which includes the European Union, makes it essential reading for both academics and political practitioners. The books in this series have originated from special issues published by West European Politics.
Democracy at the Crossroads - Challenges for Governance and Representation: Essays in Honour of Thomas Saalfeld
1st Edition
Edited
By Jorge M. Fernandes, Javier Martínez-Cantó
March 25, 2026
This book examines the complex challenges confronting modern democratic systems. Amid rising political fragmentation, polarization, societal diversity, democratic backsliding, technological advances, economic stagnation, and environmental crises, it explores the nuances of democratic governance and...
The Party Politics of Territorial Reforms in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Emanuele Massetti, Simon Toubeau
October 14, 2024
The book analyses how political parties compete and strategise on the issue of territorial reform using case-studies that include countries from both Western (Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain) and Central-Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia and Romania). Each case-study considers different drivers of...
Bricks in the Wall: The Politics of Housing in Europe
1st Edition
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By Alison Johnston, Paulette Kurzer
September 25, 2023
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of how politics shape housing markets and vice-versa. It demonstrates how housing impacts a variety of social and political phenomenon including populist politics, generational divides, wealth inequality, monetary policy, and the welfare state. Housing ...
Conflict Mobilisation or Problem-Solving?: Issue Competition in Western Europe
1st Edition
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By Lorenzo De Sio, Romain Lachat
September 25, 2023
In the aftermath of disruptive electoral and political developments such as the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump, six important European countries went to the polls between 2017 and 2018. This book presents the results of the Issue Competition Comparative Project (ICCP), which ...
Varieties of Populism in Europe in Times of Crises
1st Edition
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By Manuela Caiani, Paolo Graziano
September 25, 2023
Populism is booming across all the nuances of the political spectrum. It occupies relevant positions in national parliaments, in governmental coalitions with mainstream parties or as successful challengers of the political status quo. This volume sheds new light on the topic from different ...
Collective Securitisation and Security Governance in the European Union
1st Edition
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By Sonia Lucarelli, James Sperling, Mark Webber
June 30, 2021
Collective Securitisation and Security Governance in the European Union presents an integrated theory of collective securitisation – a theoretical foundation for explaining how the process of collective securitisation sustains and makes effective an identifiable system of regional security ...
Democratic Representation in Multi-level Systems: The Vices and Virtues of Regionalisation
1st Edition
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By Thomas Däubler, Jochen Müller, Christian Stecker
December 18, 2020
This comprehensive volume studies the vices and virtues of regionalisation in comparative perspective, including countries such as Belgium, Germany, Spain, and the UK, and discusses conditions that might facilitate or hamper responsiveness in regional democracies. It follows the entire chain of ...
The Role of Parties in Twenty-First Century Politics: Responsive and Responsible?
1st Edition
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By Luciano Bardi, Stefano Bartolini, Alexander H. Trechsel
December 18, 2020
For a long time analyses of political parties were framed within the usual context of democracy and of the historical transformation of the forms of democratic government. More recently several authors, among which eminently Peter Mair, progressively began to question the relationship between the ...
Secrecy in European Politics
1st Edition
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By Berthold Rittberger, Klaus H. Goetz
September 30, 2020
Secrecy is a prevalent feature of politics within and among liberal democratic states, as well as in the relations between states and international organisations. However, surprisingly little research in political science has explored the effects of secrecy on policy making; the evolution of the ...
National Interest Organizations in the EU Multilevel System
1st Edition
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By Rainer Eising, Daniel Rasch, Patrycja Rozbicka
June 30, 2020
Political scientists have always accorded interest organizations a prominent place in European Union (EU) policy-making because they connect the EU institutions to citizens, provide important information to EU policy-makers, and control resources that impact on the problem-solving capacity of EU ...
Challenging Executive Dominance: Legislatures and Foreign Affairs
1st Edition
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By Tapio Raunio, Wolfgang Wagner
December 17, 2019
Bringing together scholars from Europe and North America, this book examines the engagement of legislatures across the world in foreign and security policy. The articles are specifically chosen to cover the whole range of foreign affairs questions from crisis management and military missions, arms ...
Electoral Rules and Electoral Behaviour: The Scope of Effects
1st Edition
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By Ruth Dassonneville, Marc Hooghe, Michael S. Lewis-Beck
December 17, 2019
Across representative democracies, there is a strong variation in the rules that govern the electoral process. A classic insight in political science is that these rules, e.g., the presence of a majoritarian or a proportional system have a profound effect on the way a democracy functions. We know ...