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Title: Ruling the void : the hollowing of western democracy Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: Chilling account of the end of party democracy, by the leading political scientist. In the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, membership is shrinking in the major parties, ...
Title: Smaghi vs. the parties : representative government and institutional constraints Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Contribution to book
Title: Party Patronage as an Organizational Resource Author(s): KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, Peter Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Contribution to book
Title: Party System Institutionalisation Across Time in Post-communist Europe Author(s): CASAL BÉRTOA, Fernando; MAIR, Peter Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Contribution to book
Title: Going, Going, ...Gone? The Decline of Party Membership in Contemporary Europe Author(s): VAN BIEZEN, Ingrid; MAIR, Peter; POGUNTKE, Thomas Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This article offers an overview of levels of party membership in European democracies at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century and looks also at changes in these levels over time, comparing party membership ...
Title: Party Patronage in Ireland: Changing Parameters Author(s): QUINLAN, Stephen; O'MALLEY, Eoin; MAIR, Peter Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Contribution to book
Title: Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies Author(s): KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, Peter; SPIROVA, Maria Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: This book 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 ...
Title: Conclusion: Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe Author(s): KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, Peter Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Contribution to book
Title: Bini Smaghi vs. the Parties: Representative government and institutional constraints Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS; 2011/22; EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory Abstract: Although it is generally seen as desirable that parties in government are both responsive and responsible, these two characteristics are now in increasing tension with one another. Prudence and consistency in government, ...
Title: Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe: Principles and practices Author(s): KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, Peter Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS; 2011/41; EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory Abstract: This paper is based on the concluding chapter of a forthcoming volume reporting the results of a research project that has investigated the principles and practices of party patronage in contemporary European democracies ...
Title: The Election in Context Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: In present circumstances...democracy in Ireland is also becoming a democracy without choices, one in which elections might continue to be full of drama, sound and fury, but in which the outcomes signify little.
Title: When Parties (also) Position Themselves: An introduction to the EU Profiler Author(s): TRECHSEL, Alexander H.; MAIR, Peter Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [EUDO] Abstract: This article frames and describes a novel method of political party positioning within the European Union and beyond. The EU Profiler project, a large-scale, interdisciplinary, and pan-European research endeavor, takes a ...
Title: Is Governing Becoming More Contentious? Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Contribution to book Abstract: For a variety of reasons, political parties in European democracies are now more likely to be judged on how they govern rather than on the substantive policy programmes that they advocate. This is likely to have a number ...
Title: Miten hallita tyhjää tilaa? Länsimainen demokratia kumisee tyhjää Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article
Title: Representative Government in Modern Europe, 5th revised edition Author(s): GALLAGHER, Michael; LAVER, Michael; MAIR, Peter Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Book Abstract: With a total population of some 500 million, the unified countries of modern Europe constitute the world's largest collection of successful capitalist democracies. Yet within it, there are distinct clusters of states, each ...
Title: Gouvernement Représentatif v. Gouvernement Responsable Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: L’environnement dans lequel les partis agissent dans les démocraties contemporaines, et les circonstances changeantes dans lesquelles les gouvernements gouvernent aujourd’hui ont entrainé un élargissement du fossé traditionnel ...
Title: Accountability and European Governance Author(s): CURTIN, Deirdre; MAIR, Peter; PAPADOPOULOS, Yannis Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Other
Title: Political representation and government in the European Union Author(s): MAIR, Peter; THOMASSEN, Jacques Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: 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 EU Governance Author(s): MAIR, Peter; THOMASSEN, Jacques Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other
Title: The Parliamentary Peloton Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article