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Abstract.This article reviews the place which the comparative study of European countries has occupied in the development of political science as an academic discipline, and discusses how single country studies can contribute towards the construction of new models for cross‐national research. Particular attention is paid to the contribution made by the late Stein Rokkan to this developmen

ISSN:0304-4130    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1987.tb00862.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract.To date there is no genuine cross‐national analysis of the world economic crisis of the 1930s. of the political turbulence it led to and of the economic and political measures that were taken. In this study the focus is on Great Britain, France. the Netherlands, Belgium. Germany and Austria from 1927 to 1938 or the collapse of the polity. Possible determinants of governmental instability are discussed and considered in preliminary bivariate testing. The main findings are: the survival measure of governments suggested by Sanders and Herman does not add any information at all; parliamentary variables in this analysis do not satisfactorily explain the duration of governments; though exempted from this verdict are variables like proportion of seats held by governing parties. parliamentary fractionalization. share of oppositional seats in parliament and percentage of seats held by anty‐system parties. It is suggested that the economic and political impact of the world economic crisis of the 1930s worked through linkages other than those spelled out in post‐World War II parliamentary and coalitional analyses on the determinants of government stab

ISSN:0304-4130    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1987.tb00863.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract.What constitutes the starting point of this analysis is the limitations of traditional coalition theories. A particular weakness of the traditional approach is its treatment of political parties as unitary actors, largely unaffected by less formal determinants of coalitional behaviour, and each making rational calculations about the utility of coalition formation.The alternative is a new multidimensional perspective of coalitional behaviour, based on a number of components. The aim of the article is a first and exploratory assessment of the relevance and usefulness of this multidimensional reorientation of coalition theory with regard to local politics (i.e. the municipal‐council arena).This assessment is based on a general analysis of the coalitional behaviour of political parties in Belgium (the Flemish part of the country) at the local level. The most important elements of both the formal and the multi‐dimensional approaches for a study of local‐coalition phenomena in Flanders are briefly summarized. It is along these lines that the results of the municipal‐council elections in 1982 are discussed. Finally, a provisional evaluation is made of what and how the multi‐dimensional alternative could contribute to a better understanding of coalition politics at the lo

ISSN:0304-4130    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1987.tb00864.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract.The paper examines public opinion about the political involvement of trade unions in the UK and Denmark. Both are systems in which trade unions are linked to a political party and both have high rates of union density. However, whereas British unions have contested governments of both parties and opposed regulation of industrial relations, Danish unions have a tradition of cooperation with government and are entangled in a web of institutionalized industrial relations. Results, however, are amazingly similar. Both the public at large and union members accept unions in general and also their political involvement, but oppose contestation of political authority. Irrespective of union behaviour, beliefs in the supremacy of parliament seems to be firmly rooted in public opinion.

ISSN:0304-4130    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1987.tb00865.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract.The utility of comparative politics has been questioned from time to time in two ways. Doubts have been cast upon its ability to offer genuine and useful generalisations, and these doubts have been reinforced by the appearance of studies which, while statistically adventurous, are not grounded upon a sufficiently sound theoretical base. In this paper we consider Alasdair MacIntyre's objections to the idea of a science of comparative politics, and discuss the nature of law‐like generalisations. We explore the extent to which MacIntyre's objections may be overcome, and indicate the form that generalisations about political stability could take. We also argue that studies of stability need a clear explanatory linkage between the empirical data they utilise and the hypotheses of a theory about political stability. This is often lacking in such studies, which seem to substitute a sophisticated statistical technique for genuine political theor

ISSN:0304-4130    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1987.tb00866.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0304-4130    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1987.tb00867.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY