Tim Haughton - Böcker

Why do some parties live fast and die young, but others endure? And why are some party systems more stable than others? Based on a blend of data derived from both qualitative and quantitative sources, The New Party Challenge develops new tools for mapping and measuring party systems, and develops conceptual frameworks to analyse the dynamics of party politics, particularly the birth and death of parties. In addition to highlighting the importance of agency and choice in explaining the fate of parties, the book underlines the salience of the clean versus corrupt dimension of politics, charts the flow of voters in the new party subsystem, and emphasizes the dimension of time and its role in shaping developments. The New Party Challenge not only provides the first systematic book length study of political parties across Central Europe in the three decades since the 1989 revolutions, charting and explaining the patterns of politics in that region, it also highlights that similar processes are at play on a far wider geographical canvas. The book concludes by reflecting on what the dynamics of party politics, especially the emergence of so many new parties, means for the health and quality of democracy, and what could and should be done.

What impact has EU membership had on party politics in Central and Eastern Europe? Although there is an emerging body of literature on the Europeanization of political parties, most of these accounts focus exclusively on Western Europe. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches including detailed studies of party programmes and manifestos, analysis of the media, semi-structured interviews and expert surveys, this collection provides not just conceptually informed, but also empirically rooted analyses of party politics in Central and Eastern Europe during the first four years of EU membership. In particular, the contributions assess the impact of EU membership on parties’ internal balance of power, the use of European issues in inter-party competition, the role of transnational party federations and the broader role the EU plays in party politics. The findings not only shed light on the impact of EU membership on party organization and programmes, they also inform broader debates concerning the dynamics, fluidity and motors of party politics in Central and Eastern Europe. This book was based on a special issue of Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

What impact has EU membership had on party politics in Central and Eastern Europe? Although there is an emerging body of literature on the Europeanization of political parties, most of these accounts focus exclusively on Western Europe. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches including detailed studies of party programmes and manifestos, analysis of the media, semi-structured interviews and expert surveys, this collection provides not just conceptually informed, but also empirically rooted analyses of party politics in Central and Eastern Europe during the first four years of EU membership. In particular, the contributions assess the impact of EU membership on parties’ internal balance of power, the use of European issues in inter-party competition, the role of transnational party federations and the broader role the EU plays in party politics. The findings not only shed light on the impact of EU membership on party organization and programmes, they also inform broader debates concerning the dynamics, fluidity and motors of party politics in Central and Eastern Europe. This book was based on a special issue of Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

The Annual Review, produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies, covers the key developments in the European Union, its member states, and acceding and/or applicant countries in 2012. Includes a keynote contribution by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, alongside specially commissioned articles by Gerda Falkner, Paul de Grauwe & Yuemei Ji, Christian Lequesne and Iveta RadicováContains analytical articles and keynote contributions written by leading experts in their respective fields covering political, economic and legal issuesThe most up-to-date and authoritative source of information for those engaged in teaching and research or who are simply interested in the European UnionIncludes an invaluable guide to EU documents and publications - and the various websites of the EU - together with a chronology of key events

The Annual Review, produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies, covers the key developments in the European Union, its member states, and acceding and/or applicant countries in 2013. Includes specially commissioned articles by Anand Menon on European foreign policy, Daniel Hamilton on EU-US relations, Heather Grabbe on the 'transformative power' of the EU, André Sapir's reflections on the recommendations of the Sapir Report 10 years after its publication and a contribution on David Cameron's EU Referendum pledgeContains analytical articles and keynote contributions written by leading experts in their respective fields covering political, economic and legal issuesThe most up-to-date and authoritative source of information for those engaged in teaching and research or who are simply interested in the European Union

Produced in association with the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), the Annual Review covers the major developments in the European Union in the past year.  Includes analytical articles written by leading experts in their respective fields covering a wide array of political, economic and legal issuesContains specially commissioned articles by Sara Hobolt on the elections to the European Parliament, Sonia Lucarelli on Italy and the EU, a review article written by David Phinnemore assessing recently published books on the EU, and Kathleen McNamara’s JCMS Annual Review lectureThe most up-to-date and authoritative source of information for practitioners, lecturers, students and researchers of European integration, as well as for general readers who simply want to know more about the European Union

Produced in association with the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), the Annual Review covers the major developments in the European Union in the past year.  Includes analytical articles written by leading experts in their respective fields covering a wide array of political, economic and legal issuesContains specially commissioned articles by Tanja Börzel on governance in the European Union, Hanspeter Kriesi on the politicization of Europe and Kevin Featherstone on Greece’s tumultuous yearThe most up-to-date and authoritative source of information for practitioners, lecturers, students and researchers of European integration, as well as for general readers who simply want to know more about the European Union

Produced in association with the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), the Annual Review covers the major developments in the European Union in the past year. Contains specially commissioned articles and keynote contributions written by leading experts in their respective fields covering a wide array of political, economic and legal issuesThis year’s Annual Review includes specially commissioned contributions by John Curtice on the UK’s referendum to leave the EU, Catherine de Vries’s analysis of the impact of the Brexit vote on public opinion in the other member states and Helen Wallace’s JCMS Annual Review lecture ‘In the Name of Europe’The most up-to-date and authoritative source of information for those engaged in teaching and research or who are simply interested in the European Union

Focusing on three of the defining moments of the twentieth century - the end of the two World Wars and the collapse of the Iron Curtain - this volume presents a rich collection of authoritative essays, covering a wide range of thematic, regional, temporal and methodological perspectives. By re-examining the traumatic legacies of the century’s three major conflicts, the volume illuminates a number of recurrent yet differentiated ideas concerning memorialisation, mythologisation, mobilisation, commemoration and confrontation, reconstruction and representation in the aftermath of conflict. The post-conflict relationship between the living and the dead, the contestation of memories and legacies of war in cultural and political discourses, and the significance of generations are key threads binding the collection together. While not claiming to be the definitive study of so vast a subject, the collection nevertheless presents a series of enlightening historical and cultural perspectives from leading scholars in the field, and it pushes back the boundaries of the burgeoning field of the study of legacies and memories of war. Bringing together historians, literary scholars, political scientists and cultural studies experts to discuss the legacies and memories of war in Europe (1918-1945-1989), the collection makes an important contribution to the ongoing interdisciplinary conversation regarding the interwoven legacies of twentieth-century Europe’s three major conflicts.

The Annual Review, produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies, covers the key developments in the European Union, its member states, and acceding and/or applicant countries in 2007/2008. Contains analytical articles written by leading experts in their respective fields covering political, economic and legal issuesIncludes a keynote contribution by EU Commission President José Manuel BarrosoThe most up-to-date and authoritative source of information for those engaged in teaching and research or who are simply interested in the European UnionIncludes an invaluable guide to EU documents and publications - and the various websites of the EU - together with a chronology of key eventsSpecially commissioned articles by contributors such as Vivien Schmidt, Milada Anna Vachudova, Lucia Quaglia, Robert Eastwood and Peter Holmes.

The Annual Review, produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies, covers the key developments in the European Union, its member states, and acceding and/or applicant countries in 2009. Contains analytical articles and keynote contributions written by leading experts in their respective fields covering political, economic and legal issuesIncludes the JCMS Annual Review Lecture, by Kalypso NicolaidisThe most up-to-date and authoritative source of information for those engaged in teaching and research or who are simply interested in the European UnionIncludes an invaluable guide to EU documents and publications - and the various websites of the EU - together with a chronology of key eventsWide range of contributors including Lee Miles, Desmond Dinan, James Buckley, David Howarth, Michael Dougan, Richard G. Whitman, David Allen and Michael Smith

Focusing on three of the defining moments of the twentieth century - the end of the two World Wars and the collapse of the Iron Curtain - this volume presents a rich collection of authoritative essays, covering a wide range of thematic, regional, temporal and methodological perspectives. By re-examining the traumatic legacies of the century’s three major conflicts, the volume illuminates a number of recurrent yet differentiated ideas concerning memorialisation, mythologisation, mobilisation, commemoration and confrontation, reconstruction and representation in the aftermath of conflict. The post-conflict relationship between the living and the dead, the contestation of memories and legacies of war in cultural and political discourses, and the significance of generations are key threads binding the collection together. While not claiming to be the definitive study of so vast a subject, the collection nevertheless presents a series of enlightening historical and cultural perspectives from leading scholars in the field, and it pushes back the boundaries of the burgeoning field of the study of legacies and memories of war. Bringing together historians, literary scholars, political scientists and cultural studies experts to discuss the legacies and memories of war in Europe (1918-1945-1989), the collection makes an important contribution to the ongoing interdisciplinary conversation regarding the interwoven legacies of twentieth-century Europe’s three major conflicts.

The Annual Review, produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies, covers the key developments in the European Union, its member states, and acceding and/or applicant countries in 2010. Contains analytical articles and keynote contributions written by leading experts in their respective fields covering political, economic and legal issues Includes the JCMS Annual Review Lecture, by Loukas Tsoukalis Includes State of the Union article by President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek The most up-to-date and authoritative source of information for those engaged in teaching and research or who are simply interested in the European Union Specially commissioned articles by David Marsh on the turbulence in the eurozone and William E. Paterson on Germany as the 'reluctant hegemon' in the European Union Includes an invaluable guide to EU documents and publications - and the various websites of the EU - together with a chronology of key events