Browsing Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) by Author "MAIR, Peter"

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    Title: Institutional Change in Advanced European Democracies: An exploratory assessment  Author(s): BEDOCK, Camille; MAIR, Peter; WILSON, Alex Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: Recent decades have seen a wave of institutional changes of the core democratic rules in advanced democracies. These changes include reforms of electoral systems; decentralization of power to subnational governments; the ...
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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: When Parties (also) Position Themselves: An introduction to the EU Profiler  Author(s): TRECHSEL, Alexander H.; MAIR, Peter Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Series/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 ...
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    Title: How to Create a Transnational Party System  Author(s): BARDI, Luciano; BRESSANELLI, Edoardo; CALOSSI, Enrico; GAGATEK, Wojciech; MAIR, Peter; PIZZIMENTI, Eugenio Date: 2010-07-01 Type of Publication: Technical Report Series/Report no.: EUDO Report 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 ...
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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: Autonomy of the Political - Development of the Irish Party System  Author(s): MAIR, Peter Date: 1979 Type of Publication: Article