Politics in Western Europe Today: Perspectives, Politics and Problems since 1980 / Edition 1

by Derek W. Urwin, William E. Paterson

Overview

Examining such issues as the welfare state, the politics of unemployment and government-industry relations, this work looks at the developments in western European politics up to and during the 1980s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582002951
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/19/1990
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

D. W. Urwin, W. E. Paterson

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Western European Developments, Derek W. Urwin, William E. Paterson; Part 1 Policy Areas and Issues; Chapter 2 The viability of the welfare state, Richard Parry; Chapter 3 The politics of unemployment, Stan Taylor; Chapter 4 Government–industry Relations, Wyn Grant; Chapter 5 The Re-emergence of Defence as a Political Issue, Peter J. Byrd; Part 2 Challenges to Established Political Patterns; Chapter 6 The Wearing of the Green: Issues, Movements and Parties, Derek W. Urwin; Chapter 7 Feminism and West European politics: an overview, Joni Lovenduski; Chapter 8 Race and Immigration, Zig Layton-Henry; Part 3 Changing Structures; Chapter 9 Britain, France, West Germany and the Development of the European community, William E. Paterson; Chapter 10 European Community Decision-making: towards the Single European Market., Juliet Lodge; Chapter 11 The Consolidation of New Democracies, Richard Gillespie; Chapter 12 Stages of European Development: Electoral Change and System Adaptation, Gordon Smith;