Title:Political Membership in the Contractarian Defense of Cosmopolitanism
Author(s):YPI, Lea LemanDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article assesses the recent use of contractarian strategies for the justification of cosmopolitan distributive principles. It deals in particular with the cosmopolitan critique of political membership and tries to ...
Title:Political Opposition and the European Union
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper applies categories developed in the classic literature on political opposition to the developing European Union. It is clear that the EU has never developed the third great milestone identified by Dahl in his ...
Title:Political Parties
Author(s):VAN BIEZEN, Ingrid; MAIR, PeterDate:2006Type of Publication:Contribution to book
Title:Political Parties and Corruption in Portugal
Author(s):DE SOUSA, LuísDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Portugal is often considered an example of successful democratic consolidation. Yet it has not been exempt from corruption scandals. By the mid-1990s, transparency and the moralisation of political life had come to dominate ...
Title:Political Parties and Democracy: Contemporary Western Europe and Asia
Author(s):INOGUCHI, Takashi; BLONDEL, JeanDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The role of political parties in a democracy is often under scrutiny. Rhetoric crying for more effective or reflective or representative democracy often lacks data to back up its claims. This book provides readers with a ...
Title:Political Regime Types and Varieties of Post-Socialist Capitalism in the Era of Globalization
Author(s):BRUSZT, LaszloDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:For the former state socialist countries 1989 was the year of the starting of the simultaneous transformation of their political regimes and economic systems. This entailed attempts at remaking simultaneously the political ...
Title:Political Representation and European Union Governance
Author(s):MAIR, Peter; THOMASSEN, JacquesDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. Political representation is an essentially ...
Title:Political representation and government in the European Union
Author(s):MAIR, Peter; THOMASSEN, JacquesDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper addresses two particular aspects of the much debated democratic deficit in European Union (EU) governance - the absence of a system of party government at the European level, whereby parties in the Parliament ...
Title:Political Representation and Income Inequality
Author(s):HAKHVERDIAN, ArmenDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Whose preferences determine the direction of government policy? Is it the political centre, formally known as the median or mean voter, or is government policy more responsive to socio-economic elites? This paper examines ...