1st Edition

The Role of Parties in Twenty-First Century Politics Responsive and Responsible?

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

For a long time analyses of political parties were framed within the usual context of democracy and of the historical transformation of the forms of democratic government. More recently several authors, among which eminently Peter Mair, progressively began to question the relationship between the normative definition of democratic government and the actual operation of parties. These new concerns... Read more

1. Responsive and Responsible? The Role of Parties in Twenty-First Century Politics Luciano Bardi, Stefano Bartolini and Alexander H. Trechsel  Section 1: The Interdependence Challenge  2. Responsible Party Government in a World of Interdependence Richard Rose  3. Testing Times: The Growing Primacy of Responsibility in the Euro Area Brigid Laffan  4. Responsible Government and Capitalism’s Cycles Dorothee Bohle  Section 2: The Domestic Challenge  5. Democratic Performance of Parties and Legitimacy in Europe Hans Keman  6. The Non-Procedural Determinants of Responsiveness Leonardo Morlino and Mario Quaranta  7. The Populist Challenge Hanspeter Kriesi  8. A Question of Time: Responsive and Responsible Democratic Politics Klaus H. Goetz  Section 3: Adaptation or Failure?  9. Failing Political Representation or a Change in Kind? Models of Representation and Empirical Trends in Europe Jacques Thomassen and Carolien van Ham  10. Ideology, Parties and Social Politics in Europe Maurizio Ferrera  11. ‘Stripped Down’ or Reconfigured Democracy David M. Farrell

Biography

Luciano Bardi is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pisa and part-time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (EUI, Florence), where he co-founded, with Peter Mair, the Observatory on Political Parties and Representation (OPPR). He has published extensively in the field of Comparative European Politics and on EU Parties and Party Systems.



Stefano Bartolini is ‘Peter Mair Professor of Comparative Politics’ at the European University Institute. He was previously Professor at the universities of Florence, Trieste, Geneva, and Bologna. From 2006 to 2013, he directed the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence. In 1990, he was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize and in 2001 the Gregory Luebbert APSA Prize.



Alexander H. Trechsel is Swiss Chair Professor in Federalism and Democracy and Head of the EUI SPS Department, Florence. A Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard University), he is also Director of the European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO) at the RSCAS. His research interests include e-democracy, direct democracy, federalism, European integration and political behaviour