Europe, a Political Profile : An American Companion to European Politics [2 Volumes].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slomp, Hans, 1945-

Contributor:

Slomp, Hans, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Politics and government--Encyclopedias.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (895 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2011.

Contents:

Cover

VOLUME 1

Contents

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables

Preface

Introduction to Volume 1

1 Politics: Basic Concepts

Politics in and among Nations

Power

2 Democracy

From Greece to the Labor Movement

Civil Society

Representative Democracy Challenged

3 Europe

Europe: A Quick Geographical Note

One Europe or Many Europes?

A Quick Note on the European Economies

A Brief Note on Social and Political Life

4 The European Experience: A Historical Note

From Ancient Times to the 20th Century

The 20th Century

Comparison of US and European Historical Developments

The European Identity

5 The Nature of European Nations

Kosovo

Language and Nationhood

Religion

The Center and the Periphery

Social Class

Coping with Division: Integration versus Exclusion

The Decline of the Traditional Sources of Division

Immigrants: A New Divide?

6 The Design of European Democracy

Division versus Diversity

Parliamentarism versus Presidentialism

Continental Democracy versus Westminster Democracy

Germanic Democracy and Latin Democracy

Unitarism versus Federalism

New Developments

7 European Liberals Are Not American Liberals: The European Ideologies

The European Political Spectrum

Conservatism

Liberalism

Labor Ideologies: Anarchism, Social Democracy, and Communism

Christian Democracy

Fascism and Nazism

New Ideologies

Social Characteristics and Ideologies

Regional Variations in Coping with Ideological Division

Americanization of European Politics?

8 From Elections to Governments: The Long Way

Where the Votes Are: Elections

Where the Power Is: Political Parties

Coalition Governments and Party Systems

Regional Variations in Elections, Parties, and Government

9 Government and Parliament

The Real Legislator: Government.

The Final Say: Parliament

Head of State: President or Monarch

The Constitution and the Judiciary

The Bureaucracy

Regional Variations in Parliamentary and Governmental Power

The Semi-presidential System

Challenging Representative Democracy

10 Civil Society

Civil Society European Style

One of Europe's Favorites: Business/Labor/Government Tripartism

From Doctors to Students: Other Interest Associations and Movements

Regional Variation in Civil Society

The Commercial Revolution: The Mass Media

11 Local and Regional Government

Local and Regional Politics

Federalism

12 Public Policy

Policy Styles

Welfare Is Not Welfare: The European Welfare State

Education

Immigration and Citizenship Policies

Left and Right: Does It Make a Difference?

Life and Death

13 Supranational Politics: The European Union

The Euro

Toward European Integration

Two Founding Fathers and One Active Leader

EU Policies

The EU Structure

Intergovernmental Decision Making

The Supranational Structures

Eurosclerosis?

Comparison with the United States

14 International Politics

Marking Territories in Multipolar Europe

The Bipolar World during the Cold War

Europe in the New Unipolar World

A Divided Continent in Search of Unity

Even Good Neighbors Have Their Quarrels

The EU's Foreign Policy

15 European Nations by Region

The British Isles

The Big Three of Continental Western Europe

The Other Germanic and Latin Nations

Central Europe

The Balkan Peninsula

Eastern Europe

Southeastern Europe

The Other Countries

16 Europe and the United States: Social Class and Race-Convergence or Divergence?

Sources Quoted in Volume 1

Appendix A: 1992 EU Treaty on European Union (Maastricht Treaty), Preamble, Titles I and II.

Appendix B: The 1999 Blair/Schröder Manifesto: Europe: The Third Way/Die Neue Mitte

Appendix C: List of European Nations and the United States

VOLUME 2

Introduction to Volume 2

1 British Isles: Ireland, Great Britain

2 The Big Three of Continental Western Europe: Germany, France, Italy

3 Scandinavia: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland

4 The Low Countries: The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg

5 The Alpine Nations: Switzerland, Austria

6 Iberian Peninsula: Portugal, Spain

7 The Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

8 Mid-Central Europe: Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary

9 Balkan Peninsula: The Former Yugoslavia-Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia

10 The Other Balkan Countries: Albania, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece

11 Eastern Europe: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine

12 Southeastern Europe: Turkey, Caucasian Countries (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan)

13 The Other Countries: Iceland, Malta, Cyprus

14 The Ministates: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City State

Glossary

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Sources and Further Reading

Appendix A: List of European Nations and the United States

Index

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Notes:

Volume 1 is a revised and updated version of: European politics into the twenty-first century. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Slomp, Hans, 1945- European politics into the twenty-first century.

Other Format:

Print version: Slomp, Hans Europe, a Political Profile

ISBN:

9780313391828

OCLC:

763159262