Politics in Western Europe today : perspectives, policies and problems since 1980
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Politics in Western Europe today : perspectives, policies and problems since 1980
Longman, 1990
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Bibliography: p. 292-293
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780582002951
Description
Examining such issues as the welfare state, the politics of unemployment and government-industry relations, this work looks at the developments in western European politics up to and during the 1980s.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Western European Developments, Derek W. Urwin, William E. Paterson
- Part 1 Policy Areas and Issues
- Chapter 2 The viability of the welfare state, Richard Parry
- Chapter 3 The politics of unemployment, Stan Taylor
- Chapter 4 Government-industry Relations, Wyn Grant
- Chapter 5 The Re-emergence of Defence as a Political Issue, Peter J. Byrd
- Part 2 Challenges to Established Political Patterns
- Chapter 6 The Wearing of the Green: Issues, Movements and Parties, Derek W. Urwin
- Chapter 7 Feminism and West European politics: an overview, Joni Lovenduski
- Chapter 8 Race and Immigration, Zig Layton-Henry
- Part 3 Changing Structures
- Chapter 9 Britain, France, West Germany and the Development of the European community, William E. Paterson
- Chapter 10 European Community Decision-making: towards the Single European Market., Juliet Lodge
- Chapter 11 The Consolidation of New Democracies, Richard Gillespie
- Chapter 12 Stages of European Development: Electoral Change and System Adaptation, Gordon Smith
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: cased ISBN 9780582058248
Description
A compilation of 11 essays which offers an insight into the issues that came to dominate the political scene of the 1980s and form the political agenda of the 1990s. Topics covered include an assessment of specific policy areas affecting Europe, such as high unemployment and the welfare state.
Table of Contents
- Part I Policy areas and issues: the viability of the welfare state, Richard Parry
- the politics of unemployment, Stan Taylor
- government-industry relations, Wyn Grant
- the re-emergence of defence as a political issue, Peter Byrd. Part 2 Challenges to established political patterns: the wearing of the green - issues, movements and parties, Derek W. Urwin
- feminism and West European politics - an overview, Joni Lovenduski
- race and immigration, Zig Layton-Henry. Part 3 Changing structures: Britain, France, West Germany and the development of the European Community, William E. Paterson
- EC decision-making - towards the single European market, Juliet Lodge
- the consolidation of new democracies, Richard Gillespie
- stages of European development - electoral development - electoral change and system adaptation, Gordon Smith. Appendix - elections in Western Europe during the 1980s, Thomas T. Mackie.
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