1st Edition

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

    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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;

    Biography

    D. W. Urwin, W. E. Paterson