The age of party democracy has passed, argues Peter Mair in Ruling the Void. The major parties have become so disconnected from society that they no longer seem capable of sustaining democracy in its present form.First published in 2013, Ruling the Void presciently observed that the widening gap between citizens and their political leaders posed a crisis of legitimacy for the governing class, and was fuelling populist mobilizations against it. Europe's political e...

Peter Mair fue uno de los autores contemporáneos más influyente entre los que investigaron y estudiaron los partidos políticos. Las transformaciones organizativas de los partidos, la articulación entre cambio y persistencia en las dinámicas de la competencia inter-partidaria, y la situación actual de la democracia a la luz de aquellos cambios vertebran el recorrido del libro. En la mejor tradición de los grandes comparativistas europeos –como Giovanni Sartori, Arend Lijphart o Stein Rokkan...

Published in the year 1990, Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe is a valuable contribution to the field of Politics.

El sistema de partidos políticos se consagró, desde su concepción, como el instrumento clave de mediación en las democracias representativas. En las últimas décadas, sin embargo, la conexión de los partidos con sus bases y con la sociedad civil ha sufrido un innegable retraimiento, que se expresa en el decrecimiento de las tasas de afiliación e identificación con los partidos, el auge del absentismo electoral y la implantación de una atmósfera generalizada de desafección con la política in...

Political parties have long been recognized as essential institutions of democratic governance. Both the organization of parties, and their relationships with citizens, the state, and each other have evolved since the rise of liberal democracy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Going into the 21st century, it appears that parties losing popular support, putting both parties, and potentially democracy, in peril. This book traces the evolution of parties from the model of the mass party, ...

This edited collection, in honour of the late political scientist Peter Mair, contains original chapters that are directly linked to his theoretical and/or methodological ideas and approaches.Peter Mair demonstrated that political parties have traditionally been central actors in European politics and an essential focus of comparative European political science. Though the nature of political parties and the manner in which they operate has been subject to significant change in rec...

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical recordsHumans began to settle the area we know as Polynesia between 3,000 and 800 years ago, bringing with them material culture, including plants and animals, and ideas about societal organization, and then adapting to the specific biophysical features of the islands they discovered. The authors of this book analyze the...

Die Zahl der Paare, die mit über 40 Eltern werden, steigt von Jahr zu Jahr. Was bedeutet das eigentlich für die Kinder? Sie profitieren zwar davon, dass ihre Mütter und Väter oft mehr Zeit und Aufmerksamkeit für sie haben, müssen aber den großen Altersabstand in Kauf nehmen. Häufig fehlen auch Großeltern oder Geschwister. Ein Kind später Eltern zu sein, hat Vor- und Nachteile. In jedem Fall prägt es für das ganze Leben.Eric Breitinger versammelt zum ersten Mal Erfahrungen erwachsene...

Wolfhart Pannenberg was one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, and his work has much to offer contemporary theologians. In this book, the contributors analyze and discusses a component of Pannenberg’s theology with an eye to demonstrating its enduring promise for contemporary and future theological construction. Topics discussed include Pannenberg’s theological method, defense of the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection, doctrine of God, doctrine of the Trinity, theo...

Die Zahl der Paare, die mit über 40 Eltern werden, steigt von Jahr zu Jahr. Was bedeutet das eigentlich für die Kinder? Sie profitieren zwar davon, dass ihre Mütter und Väter oft mehr Zeit und Aufmerksamkeit für sie haben, müssen aber den großen Altersabstand in Kauf nehmen. Häufig fehlen auch Großeltern oder Geschwister. Ein Kind später Eltern zu sein, hat Vor- und Nachteile. In jedem Fall prägt es für das ganze Leben.Eric Breitinger versammelt zum ersten Mal Erfahrungen erwachsene...

This edited collection on the politics and society of Northern Ireland includes original material on the background to, and patterns of, conflict; its main protagonists; the social structure of Northern Irish society; popular culture and representations of the conflict; the memory and legacy of political violence, and discussions and debates concerning the future of Northern Ireland. It presents theoretically informed real-life case studies and charts the conflict’s many dimensions, tracin...

A must-buy for any student of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Policing, An Introduction to Criminology will guide you through the historical development and contemporary operation of criminal justice, and the role played by politics, power, policy, procedure, and people in shaping its past and present form.This second edition examines the agencies, institutions and organisations that deliver criminal justice in England and Wales, and assesses their impact on crime, offen...