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This 2001 book charts the evolution of clientelist practices in several western European countries. Through the historical and comparative analysis of countries as diverse as Sweden and Greece, England and Spain, France and Italy, Iceland and the Netherlands, the authors study both the 'supply-side' - the institutional context in which party leaders devise and implement their political strategies - and the 'demand-side' - the degree of 'empowerment' of civil society - of clientelism. This approach contends that clientelism is a particular mix of particularism and universalism, in which interests are aggregated at the level of the individual and his family 'particularism', but in which all interests can potentially find expression and accommodation 'universalism'. In contrast, 'consociationalism' and 'corporatism' are systems of interest representation in which interests are aggregated at the level of 'social pillar' or the functional association 'universalism', but in which not all interests can find representation and accommodation 'particularism'.

History of Europe --- Patronage, Political --- History --- -Patronage, Political --- -#SBIB:022.IOS --- #SBIB:324H45 --- #SBIB:324H30 --- Political patronage --- Spoils system --- Civil service reform --- Politieke sociologie: stratificatie en machtshiërarchie --- Politieke cultuur --- #A0507PO --- History. --- #SBIB:022.IOS --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Patronage, Political - Europe - History --- Patronage, Political - Europe - Cross-cultural studies --- Clientelism, Political --- Patron-client politics --- Political clientelism --- Political sociology

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This title answers the question 'which institutional architecture for which kind of democracy for the EU?' by bringing two debates together - the institutional analysis of the Union and its democratic assessment. The authors examine a series of institutional architectures in light of the democratic quality of the processes and decisions generated by them. The discussion of these various institutional architectures is preceded by an analysis of the democratic values and principles according to which institutional architectures and governance structures should be assessed.

Democracy --- European Union. --- E.U.

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Democracy --- Political planning --- Committee of the Regions. --- Europe Union countrires --- Politics and government. --- Political systems --- Political sociology --- European Union

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This book addresses an issue of paramount importance concerning the politics of the European Union : aspects of governance and policy making in the EU that are labelled "informal". Much of the literature on the EU focuses on the formal facets of EU politics, but uniquely, the subject matter within this books deals with informal aspects such as : the role of personal relationships, the presence of non-hierarchical policy-networks and non-institutional channels of interest representation, and the relevance of the unwritten rules and routines which govern these aspects of EU politics.

European union --- Government --- International relations. Foreign policy --- European Union --- European Union countries --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Politics and government --- Economic policy --- Politique et gouvernement --- Politique économique --- #SBIB:043.IOS --- #SBIB:327.7H220 --- #SBIB:35H400 --- 341.2422 --- Europese Unie: instellingen en besluitvorming --- Beleid: algemeen --- -European Union countries --- -EU countries --- Euroland --- Europe --- European Union. --- European Union countries - Politics and government --- European Union countries - Economic policy --- -Economic policy

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The contributors to this volume address an issue of paramount importance concerning the politics of the European Union: aspects of governance and policy making in the EU that are labelled 'informal'.

European Union. --- European Union countries --- Politics and government. --- Economic policy.