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.
The Politics of Supranational Banking Supervision in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By David Howarth, Huw Macartney
December 12, 2019
Europe’s sovereign debt crisis and the accompanying national bank crises in the European Union brought bank regulation and supervision to the top of the EU policy agenda. In a few short years, we have witnessed a ‘great leap forward’ for European integration marked by over a dozen pieces of EU ...
Europe's Union in Crisis: Tested and Contested
1st Edition
Edited
By Brigid Laffan
January 31, 2019
The European Union faces a set of inter-related crises that it struggles to contain and address. By exploring how the EU responds to crises and conflict, this volume addresses both its resilience and vulnerability. The EU faces significant challenges: European integration is increasingly ...
Assessing Political Representation in Europe
1st Edition
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By Christine Arnold, Mark N. Franklin
August 23, 2018
It has long been realized that democratic governance requires a two-way flow of influence. Governments must be able to respond to what people want and people must be able to react to what governments do. These mechanisms of democratic governance have contributed to two research traditions: one, the...
Understanding Electoral Reform
1st Edition
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By Reuven Hazan, Monique Leyenaar
August 23, 2018
The field of elections and electoral systems, and particularly electoral reform, has exhibited tremendous growth and cross-national appeal over the last two decades. However, beyond an increased knowledge of voting rules and their consequences for political representation, little attention has been...
The Differentiated Politicisation of European Governance
1st Edition
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By Pieter de Wilde, Anna Leupold, Henning Schmidtke
January 08, 2018
This book on the differentiated politicisation of European governance provides an overview of research on the growing salience of EU governance, polarisation of opinion and expansion of actors and audiences engaged in monitoring and influencing EU affairs in the national context. The contributors ...
Party Politics and Democracy in Europe: Essays in honour of Peter Mair
1st Edition
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By Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Fernando Casal Bértoa
June 30, 2017
This edited collection, in honour of the late political scientist Peter Mair, contains original chapters that are directly linked to his theoretical and/or methodological ideas and approaches. Peter Mair demonstrated that political parties have traditionally been central actors in European ...
After Lisbon: National Parliaments in the European Union
1st Edition
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By Katrin Auel, Thomas Christiansen
June 16, 2017
The role of national parliaments in EU matters has become an important subject in the debate over the democratic legitimacy of European Union decision-making. Strengthening parliamentary scrutiny and participation rights at both the domestic and the European level is often seen as an effective ...
Implementing Social Europe in Times of Crises: Re-established Boundaries of Welfare?
1st Edition
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By Dorte Martinsen, Hans Vollaard
May 31, 2017
While the EU legitimacy crisis and the Great Recession prevail, certain European Union principles and policies have to be implemented in the member states. This volume explores the diverse processes, stages and subjects of implementation in a variety of social policies to identify different ...
Decision making in the EU before and after the Lisbon Treaty
1st Edition
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By Madeleine Hosli, Amie Kreppel, Bĕla Plechanovová, Amy Verdun
May 24, 2017
This book aims to assess what the changes of the Treaty of Lisbon envisaged and whether these ambitions have materialised since the Treaty entered into force. It offers analyses of the past, as well as what might be the future (because some provisions will only enter into effect in the years to ...
Dynamics of Change in the European Union
1st Edition
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By Daniel Naurin, Anne Rasmussen
May 24, 2017
Agreements concerning inter-institutional rules in the treaties of the European Union often give rise to reactions and processes of adaptation within the EU institutions. Recent literature on EU legislative politics has increasingly examined decision-making within the EU institutions, but has ...
France’s Political Institutions at 50
1st Edition
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By Emiliano Grossman, Nicolas Sauger
August 03, 2016
Fifty years after the creation of the Fifth Republic, French politics is undergoing profound changes. The election of Nicolas Sarkozy has announced a general review of the French political system. A special committee – the comité constitutionnel – is currently drafting a catalogue of ...
Italy - A Contested Polity
1st Edition
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By Martin Bull, Martin Rhodes
August 03, 2016
Despite the promise of the new "Second Republic" launched in the early 1990s, Italy remains Europe’s least well-governed country. Fifteen years ago, politicians on the take and mafiosi on the make were supposedly pushed aside by a new generation of reformers and crusading magistrates. However, in ...