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

Name: Politics in Western Europe Today:Perspectives, Politics and Problems since 1980
ISBN: 9781315846941

doi:10.4324/9781315846941

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ABSTRACT

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.

Politics in Western Europe Today

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction: Western European developments

part |1 pages

Policy Areas and Issues

chapter 2|21 pages

The viability of the welfare state

chapter 3|26 pages

The politics of unemployment

chapter 4|26 pages

Government-industry relations

chapter 5|30 pages

The re-emergence of defence as a political issue

part |1 pages

Challenges to Established Political Patterns

chapter 6|21 pages

The wearing of the green: issues, movements and parties

chapter 7|25 pages

Feminism and West European politics: an overview

chapter 8|21 pages

Race and Immigration

part |1 pages

Changing Structures

chapter 9|22 pages

Britain, France, West Germany and the development of the European community

chapter 10|21 pages

European Community Decision-making: towards the Single European Market

chapter 11|24 pages

The consolidation of New Democracies

chapter 12|19 pages

Stages of European development: Electoral Change and System Adaptation