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OverviewParty Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies brings together insights from the worlds of party politics and public administration in order to analyze the role of political parties in public appointments across contemporary Europe. Based on an extensive new data gathered through expert interviews in fifteen European countries, this book offers the first systematic comparative assessment of the scale of party patronage and its role in sustaining modern party governments. Among the key findings are: First, patronage appointments tend to be increasingly dominated by the party in public office rather than being used or controlled by the party organization outside parliament. Second, rather than using appointments as rewards, as used to be the case in more clientelistic systems in the past, parties are now more likely to emphasize appointments that can help them to manage the infrastructure of government and the state. In this way patronage becomes an organizational rather than an electoral resource. Third, patronage appointments are increasingly sourced from channels outside of the party, thus helping to make parties look increasingly like network organizations, primarily constituted by their leaders and their personal and political hinterlands.Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.essex.ac.uk/ecprThe Comparative Politics series is edited by Professor David M. Farrell, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Kenneth Carty, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia, and Professor Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Institute of Political Science, Philipps University, Marburg. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Petr Kopecký (, Professor of Comparative Politics, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University) , Peter Mair (, Former Professor of Comparative Politics and Dean of Graduate Studies, European University Institute, Florence) , Maria Spirova (, Assistant Professor, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.806kg ISBN: 9780199599370ISBN 10: 0199599378 Pages: 434 Publication Date: 26 July 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart I: Studying Party Patronage 1: Petr Kopecký and Peter Mair: Party Patronage as an Organizational Resource 2: Petr Kopecký and Maria Spirova: Measuring Party Patronage through Structured Expert Interviews Part II: Party Patronage In Europe 3: Oliver Treib: Party Patronage in Austria: From Reward to Control 4: Maria Spirova: 'A Tradition We Don't Mess With': Party Patronage in Bulgaria 5: Petr Kopecký: Give Me Trafika: Party Patronage in the Czech Republic 6: Carina Bischoff: Party Patronage in Denmark: The Merit State with Politics 'On the Side' 7: Stefanie John and Thomas Poguntke: Party Patronage in Germany: The Strategic use of Appointments 8: Takis Pappas and Zina Assimakopoulou: Party Patronage in Greece: Political Entrepreneurship in a Party Patronage Democracy 9: Jan Meyer-Sahling and Krisztina Jáger: Capturing the State: Party Patronage in Hungary 10: Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson: Party Patronage in Iceland: Rewards and Control Appointments 11: Stephen Quinlan, Eoin O'Malley, and Peter Mair: Party Patronage in Ireland: Changing Parameters 12: Fabrizio Di Mascio: Party Patronage in Italy: A Matter for Solitary Leaders 13: Sandra Van Thiel: Party Patronage in the Netherlands: Sharing Appointments to Maintain Consensus 14: Elin Haugsgjerd Allern: Party Patronage in Norway: No Room for Political Parties? 15: Carlos Jalali, Patricia Silva, and Diogo Moreira: Party Patronage in Portugal: Treading in Shallow Water 16: Raúl Gómez and Tània Verge: Party Patronage in Spain: Extensive But Not Pervasive use of Appointments as s Tool of Party Government 17: Matthew Flinders and Felicity Matthews: Party Patronage in the United Kingdom Part III: Conclusion Petr Kopecký and Peter Mair: Conclusion: Party Patronage in Contemporary EuropeReviewsAuthor InformationPetr Kopecký has published extensively in the fields of comparative politics, party politics and democratization. His books include Parliaments in the Czech and Slovak Republics (Ashgate 2001), Uncivil Society? Contentious Politics in Eastern Europe (co-edited, Routledge 2003), Political Parties and the State in Post-Communist Europe (edited, Routledge 2007). He is a co-editor of the journal East European Politics. He is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Leiden University, Netherlands. Peter Mair was Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of Graduate Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He was co-editor of the journal West European Politics, and an Honorary Professor in European Politics at Leiden University. He was a former winner of the Stein Rokkan Prize and co-director of the Observatory on Political Parties and Representation, based at the EUI in Florence. Maria Spirova has published on issues related to party development, minority policy, ethnic politics, and Europeanization in the post-communist world. She is the author of Political Parties in Post Communist Societies: Formation, Persistence and Change (Palgrave McMillan, 2007). She is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics and International Relations in the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University, Netherlands. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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