Beschreibung:
For a long time analyses of political parties were framed within the usual context of democracy and of the historical transformation of the forms of democratic government. More recently several authors, among which eminently Peter Mair, progressively began to question the relationship between the normative definition of democratic government and the actual operation of parties. These new concerns are well epitomized by the tension between 'responsiveness' and 'responsibility' that gives the title to this book.
1. Responsive and Responsible? The Role of Parties in Twenty-First Century Politics 2. The Interdependence Challenge Responsible Party Government in a World of Interdependence 3. Testing Times: The Growing Primacy of Responsibility in the Euro Area 4. Responsible Government and Capitalism's Cycles 5. The Domestic Challenge Democratic Performance of Parties and Legitimacy in Europe 6. The Non-Procedural Determinants of Responsiveness 7. The Populist Challenge 8. A Question of Time: Responsive and Responsible Democratic Politics 9. Adaptation or Failure? Failing Political Representation or a Change in Kind? Models of Representation and Empirical Trends in Europe 10. Ideology, Parties and Social Politics in Europe 11. 'Stripped Down' or Reconfigured Democracy