Browsing Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) by Author "MAIR, Peter"
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Title:Towards a European politics Author(s):BARDI, Luciano; KATZ, Richard S.; MAIR, PeterDate:2015Citation:Richard JOHNSTON and Campbell SHARMAN (eds), Parties and party systems : structure and context, Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, 2015, pp. 127-147Type:Contribution to book
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Title:Partidos, sistemas de partidos y democracia : la obra esencial de Peter Mair Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2015Citation:Buenos Aires : Eudeba, 2015Type:BookAbstract:Este libro presenta por primera vez en idioma español una selección de la obra de Peter Mair, seguramente el autor contemporáneo más influyente entre los estudiosos de los partidos políticos. Las transformaciones organizativas ... -
Title:Party preferences in the digital age : the impact of voting advice applications Author(s):ALVAREZ, Michael R.; LEVIN, Ines; MAIR, Peter; TRECHSEL, Alexander H.Date:2014Citation:Party politics, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 2 SI, pp. 227-236Type:ArticleAbstract:Election campaigns in modern democracies are increasingly affected by the rise of Internet-based information and communication technologies. Here, one of the most significant developments concerns the rapidly spreading ...
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Title:On parties, party systems and democracy : selected writings of Peter Mair Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2014Citation:Colchester : ECPR Press, 2014, ECPR EssaysType:BookAbstract:This collection brings together some of the most significant and influential work by leading comparativist Peter Mair (1951–2011). The selection ranges from considerations on the relevance of concept formation to the study ... -
Title:Ruling the void : the hollowing of western democracy Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2013Citation:London ; New York : Verso, 2013Type: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:Smaghi vs. the parties : representative government and institutional constraints Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2013Citation:Armin SCHÄFER and Wolfgang STREECK (eds), Politics in the age of austerity, Cambridge : Polity Press, 2013, pp. 143-168Type:Contribution to book
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Title:Party Patronage as an Organizational Resource Author(s):KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, PeterDate:2012Citation:Petr KOPECKÝ, Peter MAIR and Maria SPIROVA (eds), Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, Comparative Politics, 3-16Type:Contribution to book
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Title:Conclusion: Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe Author(s):KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, PeterDate:2012Citation:Petr KOPECKÝ, Peter MAIR and Maria SPIROVA (eds), Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, Comparative Politics, 357-374Type:Contribution to book
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Title:Party Patronage in Ireland: Changing Parameters Author(s):QUINLAN, Stephen; O'MALLEY, Eoin; MAIR, PeterDate:2012Citation:Petr KOPECKÝ, Peter MAIR and Maria SPIROVA (eds), Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, Comparative Politics, 206-228Type:Contribution to book
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Title:Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies Editor(s):KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, Peter; SPIROVA, MariaDate:2012Citation:Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, Comparative PoliticsType: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:Party System Institutionalisation Across Time in Post-communist Europe Author(s):CASAL BÉRTOA, Fernando; MAIR, PeterDate:2012Citation:Hans KEMAN and Ferdinand MÜLLER-ROMMEL (eds), Party Government in the New Europe, Abingdon/New York, Routledge, 2012, 85-112Type:Contribution to book
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Title:Going, Going, ...Gone? The Decline of Party Membership in Contemporary Europe Author(s):VAN BIEZEN, Ingrid; MAIR, Peter; POGUNTKE, ThomasDate:2012Citation:European Journal of Political Research, 2012, 51, 1, 24-56Type: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 ...
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Title:Miten hallita tyhjää tilaa? Länsimainen demokratia kumisee tyhjää Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Citation:Poulue Peruste, 2011, 1, 9-41Type:Article
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Title:Verso una politica europea Author(s):BARDI, Luciano; KATZ, Richard S.; MAIR, PeterDate:2011Citation:Rivista italiana di scienza politica, 2011, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 347-368Type:ArticleAbstract:This article addresses the issue of the growing concern surrounding the EU's «democratic deficit» resulting from the expansion of the EU's competences. In particular it raises the question of whether the development of ...
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Title:The state of Ireland Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Citation:European political science, 2011, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 432-440Type:ArticleAbstract:The conventional political wisdom in Ireland, shared by both government and opposition, is that it is only through austerity that the economy can be righted and the books eventually balanced. In other words, it is only ...
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Title:Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe: Principles and practices Author(s):KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type:Working PaperSeries/Number: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:Bini Smaghi vs. the Parties: Representative government and institutional constraints Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type:Working PaperSeries/Number: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, ...
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Title:Does the number of parties to place affect the placement of parties? Results from an expert survey experiment Author(s):ALBRIGHT, Jeremy J.; MAIR, PeterDate:2011Citation:Electoral Studies, 2011, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 858–864Type:ArticleAbstract:Expert surveys are frequently used in comparative politics to measure the ideological locations of political parties. However, it is possible that increasing the number of parties to place systematically biases results as ...
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Title:Is Governing Becoming More Contentious? Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Citation:Martin ROSEMA, Bas DENTERS and Kees AARTS (eds), How Democracy Works: Political Representation and Policy Congruence in Modern Societies, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, Pallas Publications, 2011, 77-86Type: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 ...
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Title:Representative Government in Modern Europe, 5th revised edition Author(s):GALLAGHER, Michael; LAVER, Michael; MAIR, PeterDate:2011Citation:London, McGraw-Hill, 2011Type: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 ...
