A-state-of-the-art and comprehensive survey covering all aspects of politics in Western Europe. The volume brings together the very best scholars in the field from the UK, continental Europe and North America.
Foreword,Anthony Atkinson Introduction: Grappling with Untidy Reality,Jack Hayward 1. Institutions and the Evolution of European Democracy,Peter A. Hall 2. National Courts and the Community Law,Paul P. Craig The Core Executive 3. On Studying Governments,Rudy B. Andeweg 4. What is New about Governance and Why does it Matter,Rod Rhodes 5. Executives in Comparative Context,Klaus Goetz 6. The Political System of the European Union,Neill Nugent and Willie Paterson Public Administration 7. Dismantling and Rebuilding the Weberian State,Guy Peters 8. The Age of Administrative Reforms,Sabino Cassese 9. The European Administration: Between Europeanization and Domostication,Hussein Kassim 10. Europeanization and the Persistence of Administrative Systems,Edward Page Parties and Organized Interest 11. The Decline of Party,Gordon Smith 12. Comparing Economic Interest Organizations,Colin Crouch 13. Interest Groups and the Brussels Bureaucracy,Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson Democracy and Popular Participation 14. Contentious Politics in Western Europe and the United States,Sidney Tarrow 15. From Popular Dissatisfaction to Populism: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Corruption,Yves M?ny 16. Democratizations in the European Periphery,Sonia Alonso and Jos? Maria Maravall Public Policy 17. The Politics of Regulation and European Regulatory Institutions,Giandomenico Majone 18. From Industrial Policy to a Regulatory State: constrasting institutional cls+