Books in the West European Politics series

This book - previously published as a special issue of the journal West European Politics - analyzes the EU accession referendums that took place in eight countries in 2003.

The books contributes to understanding institutional change in the European Union by examining how shifts in the inter-institutional Treaty rules and procedures affect intra-institutional politics within the EU institutions. This book was originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the place of accountability in European governance. This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics.

This book addresses why changing the democratic rules of the game has become acceptable after decades of treating electoral systems as fixed elements in stable democracies. This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics.

This issue of the journal West European Politics examines when and how discourse matters at times of major political institutional change, contemplating the power of Europeanization in the domestic and international arenas.

Peter Mair demonstrated that political parties have traditionally been central actors in European politics and an essential focus of comparative European political science. Though the nature of political parties and the manner in which they operate has been subject to significant change in recent decades, parties remain a crucial factor in the working of European liberal democracies. This volume analyses recent developments and current challenges that European parties, party systems and democracy face.

The book examines how legislatures across the world monitor, oversee and control governments in external relations. The chapters origianally published as a special issue in West European Politics.

This book examines secrecy in European politics across a range of EU and national settings and policy domains, exploring the technological, social and political developments which appear to signal the end of privacy and the rapid expansion of political secrecy. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal West European Politics.

The European Union faces a set of inter-related crises that it struggles to contain and address. By exploring how the EU responds to crises and conflict, this volume addresses both its resilience and vulnerability. This book was originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.

Democracy was for long considered 'unthinkable' without parties. Is it still so? The main question at the beginning of the 21st century is whether the political parties will manage to retain their role of crucial mediator between state and society and at the same time to uphold the normative expectation of democratic theory. This

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of how politics shape housing markets and vice-versa. It demonstrates how housing impacts a variety of social and political phenomenon including populist politics, generational divides, wealth inequality, monetary policy, and the welfare state.

This volume sheds light from different methodological and theoretical angles and offers evidence from a variety of cases on the 'why' and 'how' questions on populism's emergence and consolidation in Europe in the last 30 years.