Governing the New Europe

by Hayward, Jack; Page, Edward C.; Smith, Anthony (CON); Rose, Richard (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822317241
• ISBN10: 0822317249
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Governing the New Europeprovides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the changing political map of Europe as it emerges from the Cold War. Exploring the variations of liberal democracy and market economy among the European states, as well as current trends in these directions, the contributors to this volume, all leading authorities in European politics, consider whether a common political model has begun to emerge out of historic European diversity. Beginning with a discussion of the political, economic, and cultural development of Europe from a historical perspective, the focus of the book shifts to an examination of the changing forms of European democracy and the move from public ownership and planning to privatization and deregulated competition. Further essays analyze the challenge to national party systems and electoral performance from emerging social movements and organized interest groups. Political and bureaucratic structures are also examined as is the new European constitutionalism reflected in the increasingly significant role of the judiciary. Lastly, attention is turned to several major themes in European politics: the changing foundations of foreign and security policy, the function of industrial champion firms, and the retreat from the welfare state. Primarily comparative in its scope,Governing the New Europedoes devote particular attention to specific major states as well as to the importance of the European Union to the political life of member and non-member countries. Neither exaggerating the common features of the patterns that have emerged in contemporary Europe nor capitulating to the complexity of enduring differences and instabilities between states,Governing the New Europewill become one of the standard texts in its field.Contributors. Jack Hayward, Jolyon Howorth, Herbert Kitschelt, Marie Lavigne, Tom Mackie, Michael Mezey, Edward C. Page, Richard Parry, Richard Rose, Anthony Smith, Alec Stone

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

A Constellation of Sovereign States

Patterns and Diversity in European State Development

The Nations of Europe after the Cold War

Dynamics of Democratic Regimes

Market Economies as Project and Practice

The Political System at Work

A Silent Revolution in Europe?

Parties and Elections

Parliament in the New Europe

Organized Interests and Public Policies

Administering Europe

Governing with Judges: the New Constitutionalism

From Leader to Follower

Towards a European Foreign and Security Policy?

International Industrial Champions

Redefining the Welfare State

Governing the New Europe

Index

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