Date: 2008
Type: Article
Trajectories of European Politics: An Introduction
West European Politics, 2008, 31, 1-2, 1-13, Special 30th anniversary issue
GOETZ, Klaus H., MAIR, Peter, SMITH, Gordon, Trajectories of European Politics: An Introduction, West European Politics, 2008, 31, 1-2, 1-13, Special 30th anniversary issue
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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, including the fall of Communism; progressive European integration; territorial restructuring; public sector reforms at European, national, regional and local levels; changes in democratic participation, protest, elections, political communication, political parties and party competition; and challenges to the welfare state. The special issue also discusses how political science has responded to these changes in terms of its substantive focus, concepts, methods and theories. Many of the 17 contributions included in the special issue identify important challenges for the future, including those challenges stemming from EU integration, the reduced electoral accountability of politicians, the problematic legitimation of party government and the sharpening of the edges of the state.
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