Title:Going, Going, ...Gone? The Decline of Party Membership in Contemporary Europe
Author(s):VAN BIEZEN, Ingrid; MAIR, Peter; POGUNTKE, ThomasDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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 and Party Government in European Democracies
Author(s):KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, Peter; SPIROVA, MariaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract: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:Bini Smaghi vs. the Parties: Representative government and institutional constraints
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract: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, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract: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, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract: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:Is Governing Becoming More Contentious?
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract: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:Gouvernement Représentatif v. Gouvernement Responsable
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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:Representative Government in Modern Europe, 5th revised edition
Author(s):GALLAGHER, Michael; LAVER, Michael; MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract: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:When Parties (also) Position Themselves: An introduction to the EU Profiler
Author(s):TRECHSEL, Alexander H.; MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/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: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:Accountability and European Governance
Author(s):CURTIN, Deirdre; MAIR, Peter; PAPADOPOULOS, YannisDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In recent years there has been a considerable effort in some transnational organizations and institutions to confront a crisis of legitimacy by promising more accountability and openness. This volume takes as its central ...
