The Influence Of Party Cohesion On Subjective Political Representation In The European Union

Author : Maren Weiß
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783668974098

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The Influence of Party Cohesion on Subjective Political Representation in the European Union by Maren Weiß Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,7, University of Mannheim, course: Legislative Behaviour and Political Representation in the European Parliament, language: English, abstract: This research paper deals with the topic of the representation deficit in the European Parliament. It is observed, whether party cohesion as a form of legislative behaviour, influences the degree of citizens’ subjective perceptions of an adequate political representation. High levels of party cohesion are expected to create individual impressions of an adequate political representation. To test this theory, I generated a roll-call votes dataset to measure party cohesion since 2017. Together with the latest version of the Eurobarometer dataset of 2018, I observe the subjective level of political representation. The empirical analysis through an ordered logistic regression shows that the hypothesis can cautiously be confirmed, meaning that higher levels of party cohesiveness are associated with higher degrees of subjective political representation.

Author : Philippe C. Schmitter,Alexandre H. Trechsel,Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287155704

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Avenir de la Démocratie en Europe by Philippe C. Schmitter,Alexandre H. Trechsel,Council of Europe Pdf

This publication examines a number of challenges and opportunities for democracy and democratic institutions throughout Europe, and makes 28 recommendations for reforms intended to improve government efficiency, transparency and accountability. Topics discussed include the impact of forces such as globalisation, European integration, migration and technological change; as well as issues such as citizenship (political discontent, cultural identity and protest), representation (political parties and civil society) and decision-making.

Author : Hermann Schmitt,J. J. A. Thomassen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198296614

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Political Representation and Legitimacy in the European Union by Hermann Schmitt,J. J. A. Thomassen Pdf

How severe a problem is what may be called the democratic deficit of the European Union? This volume elaborates a conceptual framework for the empirical analysis of the alleged democratic deficit.

Author : Simon Hix
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 033396182X

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The Political System of the European Union, Second Edition by Simon Hix Pdf

A substantially revised and updated new edition of this highly-successful and ground-breaking text which analyzes the EU as a political system using the methods of comparative political science.

Author : Ernst B. Haas,Ernst Haas, Dr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0268201684

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Uniting of Europe by Ernst B. Haas,Ernst Haas, Dr Pdf

The University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to bring Ernst Haas's classic work on European integration, The Uniting of Europe, back into print. First published in 1958 and last printed in 1968, this seminal volume is the starting point for anyone interested in the pre-history of the European Union. Haas uses the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) as a case study of the community formation processes that occur across traditional national and state boundaries. Haas points to the ECSC as an example of an organization with the "power to redirect the loyalties and expectations of political actors." In this pathbreaking book Haas contends that, based on his observations of the actual integration process, the idea of a "united Europe" took root in the years immediately following World War II. His careful and rigorous analysis tracks the development of the ECSC, including, in his 1968 preface, a discussion of the eventual loss of the individual identity of the ECSC through its absorption into the new European Community. Featuring a new introduction by Haas analyzing the impact of his book over time, as well as an updated bibliography, The Uniting of Europe is a must-have for political scientists and historians of modern and contemporary Europe. This book is the inaugural volume of Notre Dame's new Contemporary European Politics and Society Series.

Author : Raul Gomez,Luis Ramiro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000728576

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Radical Left Voters in Western Europe by Raul Gomez,Luis Ramiro Pdf

Radical Left Voters in Western Europe explores who votes for Radical Left Parties in contemporary Western Europe, and why. Once considered a relic of the past which was doomed to disappear in affluent societies, Radical Left Parties were able to survive unprecedented electoral crises in the 1980s and 1990s to become a stable and significant feature of contemporary West European politics. Despite this, our knowledge of the electorate of contemporary Radical Left parties is extremely limited. To fill this gap, this book analyzes the radical left electorate in 17 West European countries (Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland) for a period of 18 years (2000–18). The research combines data from multiple sources (surveys, country-level data, and party-level data) to show how, amidst social and political change, Radical Left Parties have been able to maintain a relatively sizeable and clearly identifiable electorate with fairly similar socio-demographic and attitudinal features. Moreover, the book argues that in order to explain electoral support for Radical Left Parties it is important to consider not only voter characteristics but also the characteristics of the parties themselves and of the political and economic context in which they compete for votes. This book will be of interest to scholars of comparative politics, political sociology, electoral behaviour, and political parties.

Author : Robert Michels
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780029212509

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Political Parties by Robert Michels Pdf

In this book Michels analyzes the tendencies that oppose the realization of democracy, and claims that these tendencies can be classified in three ways: dependence upon the nature of the individual; dependence upon the nature of the political structure; and dependence upon the nature of organization. This edition, described by Morris Janowitz as a "classic of modern social science" and by Melvin Tumin as "the beginning of a tradition", offers a landmark study in political science. Following its original publication in 1910, the study and analysis of political parties was established as a new branch of science. Political Parties continues to be a foundation work in the literature and is a necessary addition to the libraries of contemporary political scientists, sociologists, and historians. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Council of Europe. Directorate of Social and Economic Affairs
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287138915

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Political and Social Participation of Immigrants Through Consultative Bodies by Council of Europe. Directorate of Social and Economic Affairs Pdf

Proceedings of a seminar held in November 1997

Author : Sonja Zmerli,Marc Hooghe
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781907301582

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Political Trust by Sonja Zmerli,Marc Hooghe Pdf

This book, by Sonja Zmerli and Marc Hooghe, presents cutting-edge empirical research on political trust as a relational concept. From a European comparative perspective it addresses a broad range of contested issues. Can political trust be conceived as a one-dimensional concept and to what extent do international population surveys warrant the culturally equivalent measurement of political trust across European societies? Is there indeed an observable general trend of declining levels of political trust? What are the individual, societal and political prerequisites of political trust and how do they translate into trustful attitudes? Why do so many Eastern European citizens still distrust their political institutions and how does the implementation of welfare state policies both enhance and benefit from political trust? The comprehensive empirical evidence presented in this book by leading scholars provides valuable insights into the relational aspects of political trust and will certainly stimulate future research. This book features: a state-of-the-art European perspective on political trust; an analysis of the most recent trends with regard to the development of political trust; a comparison of traditional and emerging democracies in Europe; the consequences of political trust on political stability and the welfare state; a counterbalance to the gloomy American picture of declining political trust levels.

Author : Seymour Martin Lipset,Stein Rokkan
Publisher : New York : Free Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015000669930

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Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-national Perspectives by Seymour Martin Lipset,Stein Rokkan Pdf

Author : Jan Zielonka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199231867

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Europe as Empire by Jan Zielonka Pdf

This book offers a strikingly new perspective on EU enlargement. Basing his findings on substantial empirical evidence, Zielonka presents a carefully argued account of the kind of political entity the European Union is becoming, with particular reference to recent enlargement.

Author : Joseph Lacey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192517142

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Centripetal Democracy by Joseph Lacey Pdf

Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political identity formation. Partisan modes of political representation in the context of multifaceted electoral and direct democratic voting opportunities are emphasised on this model. There is, however, a strain of thought predominant in political theory that doubts the democratic capacities of political systems constituted by multiple public spheres. This view is referred to as the lingua franca thesis on sustainable democratic systems (LFT). Inadequate democratic institutions and acute demands to divide the political system (through devolution or secession), are predicted by this thesis. By combining an original normative democratic theory with a comparative analysis of how Belgium and Switzerland have variously managed to sustain themselves as multilingual democracies, this book identifies the main institutional features of a democratically legitimate European Union and the conditions required to bring it about. Part One presents a novel theory of democratic legitimacy and political identity formation on which subsequent analyses are based. Part Two defines the EU as a demoi-cracy and provides a thorough democratic assessment of this political system. Part Three explains why Belgium has largely succumbed to the centrifugal logic predicted by the LFT, while Switzerland apparently defies this logic. Part Four presents a model of centripetal democracy for the EU, one that would greatly reduce its democratic deficit and ensure that this political system does not succumb to the centrifugal forces expected by the LFT.

Author : Robert Rohrschneider,Jacques Thomassen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192558695

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies by Robert Rohrschneider,Jacques Thomassen Pdf

The Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies offers a state-of-the-art assessment of the functioning of political representation in liberal democracies. In 34 chapters the world's leading scholars on the various aspects of political representation address eight broad themes: The concept and theories of political representation, its history and the main requisites for its development; elite orientations and behavior; descriptive representation; party government and representation; non-electoral forms of political participation and how they relate to political representation; the challenges to representative democracy originating from the growing importance of non-majoritarian institutions and social media; the rise of populism and its consequences for the functioning of representative democracy; the challenge caused by economic and political globlization: what does it mean for the functioning of political representation at the national leval and is it possible to develop institutions of representative democracy at a level above the state that meet the normative criteria of representative democracy and are supported by the people? The various chapters offer a comprehensive review of the literature on the various aspects of political representation. The main organizing principle of the Handbook is the chain of political representation, the chain connecting the interests and policy preferences of the people to public policy via political parties, parliament, and government. Most of the chapters assessing the functioning of the chain of political representation and its various links are based on original comparative political research. Comparative research on political representation and its various subfields has developed dramatically over the last decades so that even ten years ago a Handbook like this would have looked totally different.

Author : Michael Emerson
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9789290795926

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Democratisation in the European Neighbourhood by Michael Emerson Pdf

Approaches democratization of the European neighbourhood from two sides, first exploring developments in the states themselves and then examining what the European Union has been doing to promote the process.

Author : Council of Europe. Council for Cultural Co-operation
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9287144435

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Education and Social Cohesion by Council of Europe. Council for Cultural Co-operation Pdf

The Education Committee conducts a forum on topical issues each year. This forum discussed some of the education problems facing European societies today: rising illiteracy rates; school dropouts and inadequately prepared school leavers; declining confidence in schools and other institutions; unequal access to education; pockets of gender inequality. Suggested measures to counteract these problems included: public-private partnerships, involving the business community and industry with schools; emphasis on social development rather than economic growth; promoting citizenship participation through curricula and the learning environment; education systems providing moral and ethical education and lifelong learning.