Download or read book Communism And Political Systems In Western Europe written by David Albright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments of the 1970s suggest the need for a new approach to the analysis of communism in Western Europe. During the early years after World War II, Western observers tended to look upon the West European Communist parties as fundamentally an extension of communism in the USSR-as national only in the narrow, formal sense. With the growing signs

Download or read book Communism and Political Systems in Western Europe written by Taylor & Francis Group and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Politics in Western Europe written by Gerald Allen Dorfman and published by Hoover Inst Press Publication. This book was released on 1991 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The close of the twentieth century has brought changes to Europe of such magnitude that some predict the return of the Age of Europe. In this timely update of Politics in Wesern Europe, editors Gerald A. Dorfman and Peter J. Duignan and numerous distinguished contributors examine the events leading to the tumultuous changes and the impact these changes will have on the peoples of Western Europe. This new edition includes a fresh study of the history of European efforts to defend and unite twelve independent nations into one common market from 1946 to 1992. Another essay examines the partitioning and reunification of Germany and how German unification will affect the rest of Europe and the United States. In addition, the authors analyze how the fall of the Iron Curtain and the demise of communism may affect the countries of Western Europe. This comprehensive work features new chapters on Ireland and Greece; updated chapters on Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Austria; in addition to chapters on the Nordic countries and Switzerland. Politics in Western Europe offers valuable insights for students, journalists, diplomats, and the international business community.

Download or read book Learning from the West written by Dan Hough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning from the West? brings insight into political life after the collapse of communism and the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s. For Communist parties and their successors (CSPs), the challenge was perhaps the greatest – to redefine themselves within new, ‘westernised’ political systems. As these parties sought to adapt their programmatic appeals to their new environments, they searched for policies from abroad that could fit these new political structures. The political parties of Western Europe provided a rich range of programmes from which policies could be drawn. This book analyses how, to what extent and under what conditions external influences came to bear on the programmatic development of CSPs. It argues that while some parties remain neo-communist in orientation, growling about the evils of capitalism on the far-left of their respective political systems, others have developed into social democratic actors, embracing programmatic ideals that often bear a strong resemblance to those of centre-left actors in Western Europe. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

Download or read book A Political History of Western Europe Since 1945 written by Derek W. Urwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a thematic approach, Derek Urwin addresses the major political and economic developments in western Europe since World War II, right up to the present day. The book covers issues and developments in national politics, and the movement towards greater unity in Western Europe and the role of Europe in global politics and in the international economy. The text has been revised throughout and updated to take account of the political consequences of the ending of the Cold War and the troubled progress of European integration since Maastricht. The Fifth Edition has lost nothing of its predecessor's clarity and accessibility and in its updated form will win the book a host of new admirers.

Download or read book Communism in Eastern Europe written by Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Comparing Political Systems written by Gary K. Bertsch and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Communist Parties of Western Europe written by R Neal Tannahill and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1978-12-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mapping the West European Left written by Perry Anderson and published by Verso. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized as a series of tightly linked, comparative assessments, Mapping the West European Left provides a guide to the state of the left in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain. While all the essays are detailed historical compositions setting recent crises and dilemmas in a longer perspective reaching back into the postwar settlement they articulate original insights into the contemporary political conjuncture. Why did Swedish social democracy lose hegemony and direction while its Norwegian counterpart showed unexpected resilience? What was the background to the Danish rebellion against Maastricht? What are the prospects for the SPD and the Greens in post-unification Germany? Should the British Labour Party embrace electoral reform? What propelled the French Socialist Party from triumph to disaster? And why did the Italian left fail to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of the Christian Democrats? Behind the questions explored by the contributors to Mapping the West European Left lie deeper issues concerning the future of radical politics in Europe after the repudiation of Keynsianism and the end of communism. With the individual country analyses synthesized by the editors in a concise and comprehensive introductory essay, this book provides key pointers to the social forces and ideological platforms that offer lines of advance to the left today. Contributors- Tobias Abse (Italy), Patrick Camiller (Spain), Adne Cappelen (Norway), Niels Finn Christiansen (Denmark), Jan Fagerberg (Norway), Jane Jenson (France), Peter Mair (Britain), Lars Mjoset (Norway), Stephen Padgett (Germany), William Paterson (Germany), Jonas Pontusson (Sweden), George Ross (France), Bent Sofus Tranoy (Norway).

Download or read book Politics in Western European Democracies Patterns and Problems written by Kenneth S. Pedersen and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Crisis of Socialism in Europe written by Christiane Lemke and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the recasting of socialism in Western Europe since 1989 have given rise to intense debate over the origins, character, and implications of the "crisis" of socialism. Is socialism in ideological, electoral, or organizational decline? Is the decline inevitable or can socialism be revitalized? This volume draws together historians and political scientists of Eastern and Western European politics to address these questions. The collection begins with an historical overview of socialism in Western Europe and moves toward the suggestion of a framework for a post-socialist discourse. Among the topics covered are: the birth and death of communism and a regime type in Eastern Europe; how different forms of national communism were smothered by Sovietization in the postwar period; the origins of revolutions in Eastern Europe; the potential for social democracy in Hungary; the role of the Left in a reunified German; and directions for the Left in general. Contributors. Geoff Eley, Konrad Jarausch, Herbert Kitschelt, Christiane Lemke, Andrei Markovits, Gary Marks, Wolfgang Merkel, Norman Naimark, Iván and Szonja Szelénya, Sharon Wolchik

Download or read book Western European Government and Politics written by Michael Curtis and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing comprehensive and up-to-date information about each country and Western Europe as a whole, the text includes a unique chapter on the European Union that discusses the latest developments and studies the drive towards a European Union.

Download or read book Communist Political Systems written by Stephen White and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-09-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this text provides a background to the politics of China, Eastern Europe and what was the Soviet Union. The book has been rewritten throughout to reflect the emergence of pluralist multi-party systems and non Communist governments are marked.

Download or read book The Other Western Europe written by Earl H. Fry and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book West European Communist Parties after the Revolutions of 1989 written by Martin J. Bull and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the impact of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union on the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Seven case-studies, covering the Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, British and German parties, provide a tightly-argued comparative perspective. The conclusion assesses the range of responses to the dramatic events of 1989-91 and likely future direction of the west European communist movement. It is argued that, whilst it is no longer possible to talk of a coherent 'family' of communist parties, various individual parties - some of them in revised form - may continue to prosper.

Download or read book Politics in Western Europe written by Gordon Smith and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Politics and Society in Western Europe written by Jan-Erik Lane and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-02-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and Society in Western Europe is a comprehensive introduction for students of West European politics and of comparative politics. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to meet with the new needs of undergraduate students as they come to terms with a changing social and political landscape in Europe. This textbook provides a full analysis of the political systems of 18 Western European countries, their political parties, elections, and party systems, as well as the structures of government at local, regional, national and European Union levels. Throughout the book, key theoretical ideas are accessibly introduced and examined against the very latest empirical data on civil society and the state.