European Politics

This book examines the linkage strategies that South European radical left parties address to civil society in comparative perspective. Its aim is to contribute to the debate on the changing role of party organisations and to the new research agenda that examines contemporary developments in the rad..

In this book, first published in 1981, the authors trace and analyse the growth of transnational party co-operation and the factors important to it during the years before and immediately following direct elections. They recognise three major dimensions of transnational co-operation: the Euro-parlia..

What has been achieved regarding Turkey’s efforts at integration to the EU and what obstacles remain to it achieving full membership? Charting the political, legal and economic relations between Turkey and the European Union since 1959 this book explores the relationship through phases such as assoc..

Since the first edition, EU-Turkey relations have clearly taken different directions. This extended and revised edition addresses these major developments and assesses the implications of Turkish membership for the current EU structures...

Using extensive, previously undiscovered archival documentation, the author provides an analysis of the history and techniques of nationalist mapping in inter-War Germany and challenges the belief that national self-determination is a just cause...

Presenting a multi-disciplinary approach, the comprehensive text analyses a range of challenges that governments are facing with the growth of e-government, spanning from those of a technological and managerial nature to those of a more political and legal nature...

Presenting a multi-disciplinary approach, the comprehensive text analyses a range of challenges that governments are facing with the growth of e-government, spanning from those of a technological and managerial nature to those of a more political and legal nature...

This book systematically links the EU's external relations to existing political theories, showing how existing theories need to be modified in order to deal with specific characteristics of the EU as an international actor...

This book examines the growing trend towards far and extreme right populism that has emerged prominently in Northern (Finland), Western (Austria, Denmark, France, the UK), Southern (Greece, Italy) and Central/Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Bulgaria) since the 1990s...

This wide-ranging and comparative text reviews the major theoretical and substantive debates on social inequality in Europe. It provides a valuable dual focus on European society and individual societies while placing Europe in its wider global context. This book will be of great interest to student..

This wide-ranging and comparative text reviews the major theoretical and substantive debates on social inequality in Europe. It provides a valuable dual focus on European society and individual societies while placing Europe in its wider global context. This book will be of great interest to student..

This title was first published in 2003.Urban Policy in the European Union examines the growing involvement of the European Union (EU), namely the Commission, in urban policy matters. It is particularly relevant for courses on European studies, regional studies, public policy and politics and for pol..