Title:Ruling the void : the hollowing of western democracy
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract: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:Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe: Principles and practices
Author(s):KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS; 2011/41; EUDO - European Union Democracy ObservatoryAbstract: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: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:Bini Smaghi vs. the Parties: Representative government and institutional constraints
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS; 2011/22; EUDO - European Union Democracy ObservatoryAbstract: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: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: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 ...
