Special issue on European politics: Pasts, presents, futures

This special issue of West European Politics has been compiled to mark the 30th anniversary of the journal. The articles comprise:

Trajectories of European Politics: An Introduction
Authors: Klaus H. Goetz; Peter Mair; Gordon Smith

Change in European Societies since the 1970s
Author: Colin Crouch

Democracy and Changes: How Research Tails Reality
Author: Leonardo Morlino

Thirty Years of Territorial Politics
Author: Michael Keating

The European Welfare State: Golden Achievements, Silver Prospects
Author: Maurizio Ferrera

European Union?
Authors: Liesbet Hooghe; Gary Marks

Changing Values among Western Publics from 1970 to 2006
Author: Ronald F. Inglehart
DOI: 10.1080/01402380701834747

Political Mobilisation, Political Participation and the Power of the Vote
Author: Hanspeter Kriesi

State Feminism and Women's Movements
Author: Joni Lovenduski

The Changing Politics of Organised Interests
Author: Philippe C. Schmitter

The Challenge to Party Government
Author: Peter Mair

European Government(s): Executive Politics in Transition?
Author: Morten Egeberg

Governance as a Path to Government
Author: Klaus H. Goetz

Regulation, the Regulatory State and European Politics
Author: Martin Lodge

European Political Economy: Labour Out, State Back In, Firm to the Fore
Author: Vivien A. Schmidt

Worlds, Families, Regimes: Country Clusters in European and OECD Area Public Policy
Authors: Francis G. Castles; Herbert Obinger

Historical Institutionalism and West European Politics
Authors: Ellen M. Immergut; Karen M. Anderson

Capacities: Political Science in Europe
Author: Hans-Dieter Klingemann