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: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: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:Positioning Accountability in European Governance: An Introduction
Author(s):CURTIN, Deirdre; MAIR, Peter; PAPADOPOULOS, YannisDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The special issue of which this paper forms the introduction takes as its central focus one particular aspect of democratic governance: accountability. It attempts to position a broad understanding of the notion of ...
Title:Картельная партия: Возвращение к тезису
Author(s):KATZ, Richard S.; MAIR, PeterDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We restate and clarify the idea of the «cartel party», a concept that has found considerable traction in studies of parties throughout the democratic world, including those far from the original research site and data on ...
Title:The Way We Work Now
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Two aspects of the training and status of the contemporary Ph.D. process are dealt with. First, I assess the growing importance of the new doctoral programmes in Political Science and suggest that it is now almost impossible ...
Title:The Cartel Party Thesis: A Restatement
Author(s):MAIR, Peter; KATZ, Richard S.Date:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We restate and clarify the idea of the “cartel party,” a concept that has found considerable traction in studies of parties throughout the democratic world, including those far from the original research site and data on ...
Title:Trajectories of European Politics: An Introduction
Author(s):GOETZ, Klaus H.; MAIR, Peter; SMITH, GordonDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article introduces a specially commissioned issue of West European Politics marking the journal's 30th anniversary. It highlights profound changes in the European political landscape over the last three decades, ...
Title:The Parameters of Party Systems
Author(s):BARDI, Luciano; MAIR, PeterDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the scepticism that increasingly surrounds their role and standing in contemporary democracies, scholarly interest in political parties continues unabated. But this interest is also proving uneven, with relatively ...
Title:The Challenge to Party Government
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:At a time when the literature on political parties is brimming with health and vitality, the parties themselves seem to be experiencing potentially severe legitimacy problems and to be suffering from a quite massive ...
Title:¿Gobernar el vacío?
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:El vaciamiento de las democracias a medida que las elites dominantes se retiran y los votantes se abstienen de la política electoral de masas. Peter Mair analiza las paradojas del triunfo de la «tercera vía» y la emergencia ...
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 ...