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Browsing SPS Books by Author "MAIR, Peter"
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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: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:How to Create a Transnational Party System
Author(s):BARDI, Luciano; BRESSANELLI, Edoardo; CALOSSI, Enrico; GAGATEK, Wojciech; MAIR, Peter; PIZZIMENTI, EugenioDate:2010Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Political Parties and Representation Observatory]Abstract:This study has been prepared by the Observatory on Political Parties and Representation (OPPR), part of the European Democracy Observatory (EUDO) at the European University Institute (EUI). It covers four aspects: 1) An ...
Title:Political Representation and European Union Governance
Author(s):MAIR, Peter; THOMASSEN, JacquesDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. Political representation is an essentially ...
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 ...
Title:European Politics: Pasts, Presents, Futures
Author(s):GOETZ, Klaus H.; MAIR, Peter; SMITH, GordonDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book arises out of a specially commissioned issue of West European Politics marking the journal's 30th anniversary. It examines the profound changes in the European political landscape over the last three decades, ...
