Special Issue: Responsive and Responsible? The Role of Parties in Twenty-First Century Politics

Contents of this Special Issue of West European Politics are:

+ Responsive and Responsible? The Role of Parties in Twenty-First Century Politics
Luciano Bardi, Stefano Bartolini & Alexander H. Trechsel

+ Responsible Party Government in a World of Interdependence
Richard Rose

+ Testing Times: The Growing Primacy of Responsibility in the Euro Area
Brigid Laffan

+ Responsible Government and Capitalism’s Cycles
Dorothee Bohle

+ Democratic Performance of Parties and Legitimacy in Europe
Hans Keman

+ The Non-Procedural Determinants of Responsiveness
Leonardo Morlino & Mario Quaranta

+ The Populist Challenge
Hanspeter Kriesi

+ A Question of Time: Responsive and Responsible Democratic Politics
Klaus H. Goetz

+ Failing Political Representation or a Change in Kind? Models of Representation and Empirical Trends in Europe
Jacques Thomassen & Carolien van Ham

+ Ideology, Parties and Social Politics in Europe
Maurizio Ferrera

+ ‘Stripped Down’ or Reconfigured Democracy
David M. Farrell

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