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Campaigning in Radical Right Heartland
Immigration and ethnic diversity are contentious political issues in contemporary Europe. Both increasingly structure the campaigning strategies of political parties. This book provides insights into the processes driving party politicization. It presents findings from the heartland of the radical right studying competition on migration and diversity in Austria since the 1970s. It reveals how parties adapt their electoral priorities to changes in the party system and the socio-structural conditions. The findings document the evolution of a new dimension of political competition and how niche parties can impact on mainstream party politicization in the electoral arena. Oliver Gruber is post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck.
Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies
Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase, Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, International University Bremen, Germany; and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Southampton. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. Today, parliamentarism is the most common form of democratic government. Yet knowledge of this regime type has been incomplete and often unsystematic. Delegation and Accountability in Parliamenta...
The 'Militant Democracy' Principle in Modern Democracies
This collection provides an up-to-date analysis of key country approaches to Militant Democracy. Featuring contributions from some of the key people working in this area, including Mark Tushnet and Helen Irving, each chapter presents a stocktaking of the legal measures to protect the democracy against its enemies within. In addition to providing a description of the country's view of Militant Democracy and the current situation, it also examines the legal and political provisions to defend the democratic structure against attacks. The discussion also presents proposals for the development of the Militant Democracy principle or its alternatives in policy and legal practice. In the final chapter the editor compares the different arrangements and formulates a minimum consensus as to what measures are indispensable to protect a democracy. Highly topical, this book is a valuable resource for students, academics and policy-makers concerned with democratic principles.
Coalition Governments in Western Europe
This volume presents a detailed empirical analysis based on a large cross-national data collection, covering the entire post-war period from 1945 to 1999.
Tolerance through Law
The autonomous province of South Tyrol in Northern Italy is generally considered to be one of the most successful examples for the solution of ethnic conflicts. The autonomy arrangement is characterized by detailed legal safeguards and strong guarantees creating a special and unique position within the Italian legal system and in a comparative perspective. This book gives an analysis of the evolution of the legal instruments and institutions of self-government and minority protection through power-sharing as well as of the experience gathered during decades of the implementation of a "working autonomy". It thus provides insights regarding the state and the evolution of this specific case as well as for the general tendencies in the development of territorial autonomy and minority protection.
Constitutional Policy in Multilevel Government
This volume compares processes of constitutional reform in federal and regionalized states.
Emperor Maximilian II
Biografie van de Duitse keizer Maximilian II (1527-1576).
Legislatures
Explores the implications of recent research on the U.S. Congress for legislative research outside the United States
Evaluation
Evaluation als Instrument zur systematischen und transparenten Bewertung von Projekten, Massnahmen, Programmen, Gesetzen und anderen Gegenständen hat in den letzten zwei Dekaden in Kontinentaleuropa stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Evaluationstätigkeiten werden auf der Angebots- und Nachfrageseite professionalisiert. Die Gründung entsprechender Fachgesellschaften, die Schaffung spezifischer Aus- und Weiterbildungsangebote und die Etablierung fachlicher Standards belegen dies. Dieser Sammelband spiegelt Entwicklungsstand und Leistungsprofil der Evaluation in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz wider. Namhafte, mit der jeweiligen Landessituation vertraute Autorinnen und Autoren leisten Bei...
Mario Kunasek
Napoleon soll seinen Soldaten gesagt haben, jeder Tüchtige unter ihnen trage den Marschallstab in seinem Tornister. Als der damals zwanzigjährige Mario Kunasek sich 1996 für eine Laufbahn als Unteroffizier beim Österreichischen Bundesheer entschied, konnte er nicht ahnen, dass er zwei Jahrzehnte später Verteidigungsminister sein würde. Dieses Buch des Grazer Zeithistorikers Martin Moll zeichnet Kunaseks berufliche und politische Karriere nach: von den Anfängen im Ring Freiheitlicher Jugend und in der Gemeindepolitik Gössendorfs über den Nationalrat in Wien bis zum Landesparteiobmann der FPÖ Steiermark und Klubobmann ihrer Fraktion im Landtag. Freilich kommt auch das Privatleben des glücklich Verheirateten und stolzen Vaters eines Sohnes nicht zu kurz. Ein eigenes Kapitel beschreibt einen Politiker, der zugleich ein Mensch zum Anfassen ist. Zahlreiche Gespräche mit Weggefährten, interne Protokolle der FPÖ, Medienberichte und parlamentarische Materialien ergeben das facettenreiche Porträt eines außergewöhnlichen Politikers und vermitteln tiefe Einblicke in den Politikbetrieb – in seine ernsten, aber auch in seine heiteren Seiten.
