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1st Edition

Opposition in Western Europe

Edited By Eva Kolinsky Copyright 1987
400 Pages
by Routledge

414 Pages
by Routledge

414 Pages
by Routledge
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This book, first published in 1987, analysed the state and changing nature of political opposition in Western Europe at the time. For each country covered, it discusses the concept of opposition and the approach adopted by opposition parties. It explores the institutional framework that was in place at the time, the electoral support for opposition, attitudes towards opposition and the criteria... Read more

List of Contributors;  Preface;  Acknowledgements;  Introduction;  Part 1: Concepts of Opposition;  1. Is There Life After Dahl?  2. Parliamentary Oppositions in Europe  3. Party and Protest: The Two Faces of Opposition in Western Europe;  Part 2: Opposition and Political Change;  4. Great Britain: From ‘Opposition with a Capital "O" to Fragmented Opposition  5. France: Legitimacy Attained  6. The Federal Republic of Germany: The Re-emergent Opposition?  7. Opposition in Italy: From Polarised Pluralism to Centripetal Pluralism  8. Opposition in the Netherlands  9. Opposition in Contemporary Spain: Tradition against Modernity;  Part 3: Opposition Outside Parliament;  10. Non-Parliamentary Opposition in Great Britain: The Case of the Trade Unions  11. The Wrong Right in France  12. The Transformation of Extra-Parliamentary Opposition in West Germany, and the Peace Movement  13. Non-Parliamentary Opposition in Italy: The New Social Movements;  Select Bibliography;  Index

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Eva Kolinsky

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