The Politics of the New Europe: Atlantic to Urals

by Budge; Ian

• ISBN13: 9780582234345
• ISBN10: 0582234344
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-06-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A pioneering textbook which explains the dynamics of politics across Europe in the post-Cold war era. Comparing democratisation, transition to a market economy and increasing economic and political integration in the countries of central and eastern Europe with experiences in Scandinavia, and southern and western Europe, the book provides a wealth of information and analysis on the state of Europe at the end of a momentous century of European and World history.

Table of Contents

List of tables	vi	(2)
List of figures	viii	(1)
List of briefings	ix	(3)
List of maps	xii	(1)
List of abbreviations	xiii	(2)
Preface	xv
Introduction	1	(10)
Part I The new European order	11	(110)
1 Security and peace	11	(22)
2 European union and the European Union	33	(20)
3 The European states	53	(48)
4 States, territories and ethnonationalism: Variations on one, or two themes?	101	(20)
Part II Mediating internal conflicts	121	(106)
5 Support for democracy	121	(20)
6 Television, radio and press	141	(14)
7 Institutionalizing interests	155	(22)
8 Environment and peace: a new politics of social movements?	177	(16)
9 The old politics of political parties	193	(34)
Part III Steering states	227	(114)
10 Building the institutional framework: electoral systems, party systems and presidents	227	(18)
11 Parties, parliaments and governments	245	(20)
12 Parties, governments and bureaucracies	265	(26)
13 Regions and localities: power-sharing with the periphery	291	(24)
14 Judges and courts: interpreting rules or making policy?	315	(26)
Part IV Political economy	341	(34)
15 Reshaping the welfare state	341	(18)
16 Managing the economy	359	(16)
Part V The future of the new Europe	375	(20)
17 Minorities and migrants: European dilemmas	375	(14)
18 Strategic choices for Europe	389	(6)
Author index	395	(4)
Subject index	399