Representative Government in Modern Europe - Softcover

Gallagher, Michael; Mair, Peter; Laver, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071244433 ISBN 13: 9780071244435

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2005

Synopsis

The fourth edition of this text continues to unite the theoretical analysis of representative government and its application to the real world of politics--with a unique focus on the core features of representative government as they manifest themselves across the whole of modern Europe. The book identifies and examines broad themes and patterns in the politics of the whole of “modern Europe”--not, as some other books do, only with regard to a handful of often atypical countries. Europe has been transformed by the dramatic democratization of many of the former Communist states of central and eastern Europe; reflecting this change, the fourth edition has also been transformed: country coverage has been extended to include all of the eight post-communist states that are now members of the EU, and discussion of politics in these countries has been integrated into the main body of text and tables. The “modern Europe” discussed in this book is thus the Europe that came into being in May 2004, and the text reflects the ways in which thinking about representative government has changed as a result of these dramatic developments.

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About the Authors

Michael Gallagher is Professor of Comparative Politics at Trinity College, University of Dublin. He has also held Visiting Chairs at Sciences-Po, Lille, City University of Hong Kong, The Centre for Eurpean Studies, New York University.

Peter Mair holds the chair of Comparative Politics in Leiden University in the Netherlands and previously taught at the University of Limerick, the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, the University of Manchester, and the European University Institute, Florence. He is the author (with Stefano Bartolini) of Identity, Competition, and Electoral Availability (Cambridge, 1990), which was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize, and of Party System Change (Oxford, 1997). Recent co-edited books include How Parties Organize (London, 1994), and Partien auf komplexen Wahlermarkten (Vienna, 1999). He is co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research and is currently engaged in a project on the long-term development of elections, parties, and governments in Western Europe over the period from 1950 to 2000.

Michael Laver is Chair, Department of Politics, New York University, and was previously Professor of Politics at Trinity College, Dublin. He is Visiting Professor Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Bologna.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071244433
• ISBN 13: 9780071244435
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 480