Ruling the Void(Updated) The Hollowing of Western Democracy Ruling the Void by PeterMair, Francis Mulhern Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2013 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-324-7, ISBN: 1-84467-324-3
"Chilling account of the end of party democracy, by the leading political scientistThroughout the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, party membership is shrinking in the major parties, and those who remain loyal partisans are being sapped of enthusiasm. Peter Mair’s new book weighs the impact of these changes, which together show that, after a century of democratic aspiration, electorates a ..."
The West European Party System(1st Edition) (Oxford Readings in Politics and Government) by PeterMair Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 1990 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-827583-1, ISBN: 0-19-827583-8
"The analysis of party systems in Western Europe has long constituted a major focus of concern in comparative political science. Many of the classic writings in this field have here been collected into a single volume. "The West European Party System" contains seminal writings by Weber, Neuman, Duverger, Kirchheimer, Daalder, Rookan and Sartori, as well as a selection from the more recent debates on changes in European party systems, inc ..."
How Parties Organize(1st Edition) Change and Adaptation in Party Organizations in Western Democracies by Richard S. Katz, Editor-Dr PeterMair, PeterMair Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1995 by Sage Publications Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-8039-7961-1, ISBN: 0-8039-7961-4
"This book takes a close look inside political parties, bringing together the findings of an international team of leading scholars. Building on a unique set of cross-national data on party organizations, the contributors set out to explain how parties organize, how they have changed and how they have adapted to the changing political and organizational circumstances in which they find themselves. The contributors are recognized author ..."
Ruling the Void The Hollowing of Western Democracy by PeterMair Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2023 by Verso Books Jan 2023 ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-789-0, ISBN: 1-83976-789-8
"A classic account of democracy's crisis of legitimacy The age of party democracy has passed, argues Peter Mair in Ruling the Void."
Party System Change(Updated) Approaches and Interpretations by PeterMair Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2005 by Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-829549-5, ISBN: 0-19-829549-9
"This unique and important new book looks at how we interpret the evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Focusing primarily on processes of political adaptation and control, it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own momentum and 'freeze' themselves into place. Amidst the widespread contemporary discussion of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of p ..."
"Zielonka, Jan, 1955- 337.1 '42 ISBN 07 146 5287 3 (cloth) ISBN 07 146 8255 1 (
paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The enlarged
European Union : diversity and adaptation / [edited by] Peter Mair, Jan Zielonka.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7146-5287-3 (cloth)
- ISBN 0-7146-8255-1 (paper) 1 . European Union countries - Emigration and
immigration. 2. European Union - Ethnic relation ..."
"Political parties have long been recognized as essential institutions of democratic governance. Both the organization of parties, and their relationships with citizens, the state, and each other have evolved since the rise of liberal democracy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Going into the 21st century, it appears that parties losing popular support, putting both parties, and potentially democracy, in peril. This book traces the e ..."
"The fourth edition of this text continues to unite the theoretical analysis of representative government and its application to the real world of politics--with a unique focus on the core features of representative government as they manifest themselves across the whole of modern Europe. The book identifies and examines broad themes and patterns in the politics of the whole of “modern Europe”--not, as some other books do, only with rega ..."
Party System Change Approaches and Interpretations (Hardback) by PeterMair Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 1997 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-829235-7, ISBN: 0-19-829235-X
"Approaches and Interpretations Peter Mair. from attempting to update them or to
recast them in the light of developments subsequent to their publication. The
arguments are as they are. Chapter 2 is a merger of parts of two earlier pieces,
one of which was first published in the journal West European Politics, vol. 12, no
. 4, 1989, with the other being first published as my introduction to Peter Mair (ed.
), The West European Party S ..."
"Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies brings together insights from the worlds of party politics and public administration in order to analyze the role of political parties in public appointments across contemporary Europe. Based on an extensive new data gathered through expert interviews in fifteen European countries, this book offers the first systematic comparative assessment of the scale of party patronage an ..."
"Uniting theory and application, the third edition of Representative Government in Modern Europe continues the tradition of previous editions by first examining the themes, debates, developments and structures driving European politics, and then investigating the way in which the theories behind them are manifested, comparing the historical development, distinct interpretations and present condition of several major European govern ..."
"Formerly a text largely dedicated to Western Europe, this edition was skillfully revised to include substantial new material on the far-reaching changes of Eastern Europe. This expanded coverage, along with the spirited revision of the opening chapters offer students an accessible, modern guide to the politics of Europe. Unlike many rival texts in the field - which depend on a country-by-country listing of dates, places and people - thi ..."
"The question of whether Western party systems were becoming more unstable and electorates more volatile had already become central to the study of modern European by the end of the 1970s. Much of the literature at the time stressed how Western Europe was experiencing a phase of party breakdown, dealignment and decay, and how traditional mass politics was in the process of transformation. In this first book-length analysis of the subject ..."
"When calculating their strategies, parties have to take into account that their
relative success in one arena or at one level is ... in Emil Kirchner (ed), Liberal
Parties in Western Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp.
2l3-5l."
European Politics(1st Edition) Pasts, presents, futures (West European Politics) by Klaus H. Goetz, PeterMair, Gordon Smith Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 2010 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-60213-6, ISBN: 0-415-60213-0
"This book arises out of a specially commissioned issue of West European Politics marking the journal's 30th anniversary. It examines the profound changes in the European political landscape over the last three decades, including the fall of Communism; progressive European integration; territorial restructuring; public sector reforms at European, national, regional and local levels; changes in democratic participation, protest, elections ..."
"Caramani, Daniele (2004) The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of
National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe. Cambridge: ... Dos
Santos Ferreira, L.-A. Gérard-Varet (1991) “Pricing Schemes and Cournotian
Equilibria."
"Sartori, G. (2005) 'Party types, organisation and function', West European Politics
28(1): 5–32. Schattschneider, E.E. (1942) Party Government: American
Government in Action, New York: Rinehart & Co. Schmitt, H. and Thomassen,
J.J.A. (eds) (1999) Political Representation and Legitimacy in the European
Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Schmitt, H. and Thomassen, J.J.A. (2009)
'The European party system after enlargement', in J ..."
"Peter Mair, Gordon Smith. Introduction: How Are West European Party Systems
Changing? It has become almost commonplace to observe that West European
party systems are caught up in a process of change. The symptoms are varied:
the sudden entry of new parties, the rapid decline of others, rising levels of
electoral volatility, and generally the growing vulnerability of parties faced with
the increasing restlessness — rootlessness eve ..."
"How have Europe's mainstream political parties responded to the long-term decline in voter loyalties? What are the consequences of this change in the electoral markets in which parties now operate? Popular disengagement, disaffection, and withdrawal on the one hand, and increasing popular support for protest parties on the other, have become the hallmarks of modern European politics. This book provides an excellent account of how po ..."