Browsing SPS Working Papers by Author "MAIR, Peter"

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    Title: Bini Smaghi vs. the Parties: Representative government and institutional constraints  Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: 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: Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe: Principles and practices  Author(s): KOPECKÝ, Petr; MAIR, Peter Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Two Decades On: How Institutionalized are the Post-Communist Party Systems?  Author(s): CASAL BÉRTOA, Fernando; MAIR, Peter Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: In a paper published soon after the transition to democracy in East Central Europe, it was suggested that post-communist party systems were expected to be characterized by an unstable and unpredictable structure of competition ...
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    Title: When Parties (also) Position Themselves: An Introduction to the EU Profiler  Author(s): TRECHSEL, Alexander H.; MAIR, Peter Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: This paper is intended to frame and describe a novel method of political party positioning within the European Union and beyond. Ever since the groundbreaking work by Downs in the 1950s, political scientists have derived ...
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    Title: Representative versus Responsible Government  Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne Abstract: The changing circumstances in which parties compete in contemporary democracies, coupled with the changing circumstances in which governments now govern, have led to a widening of the traditional gap between representative ...
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    Title: The Challenge to Party Government  Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Popular Democracy and the European Union Polity  Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: European Governance Papers
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    Title: Democracy Beyond Parties  Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Center for the Study of Democracy Abstract: This paper is concerned primarily with the way in which the changing character of political parties impacts upon their standing, legitimacy, and effectiveness. We see an emerging notion of democracy that is being steadily ...