Klaus von Beyme
Klaus von Beyme

Author: Klaus Beyme

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 3319015354

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Klaus von Beyme, a highly distinguished German political scientist, has been recognised as a “Pioneer in the Study of Political Theory and Comparative Politics”. When he received the highly esteemed Mattei Dogan Award during the XXII World Congress of Political Science in Madrid on 12 July 2012, in his laudatio Rainer Eisfeld portrayed Klaus v. Beyme as a “Global Scholar and Public Intellectual”. On the occasion of Klaus v. Beyme’s 80th birthday this book offers a selection of his major previously published and new texts focusing on “Empirical Political Theory”, “The Evolution of Comparative Politics, Revival of Normative Political Theory in Empirical Research”, “Theodor W. Adorno - Political Theory as Theory of Aesthetics”, “Historical Forerunners of Policy Studies”, “Political Institutions – Old and New”, “Representative Democracy and the Populist Temptation”, “Political Advisors to Politicians”, and on “The Concept of Political Class: A New Dimension of Research on Elites?”.

Right-wing Extremism in Western Europe
Right-wing Extremism in Western Europe

Author: Klaus von Beyme

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1135180814

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First Published in 1988. This is a collection of articles covering right-wing extremism in Post-war Europe, including the countries of Italy, West Germany, France, Great Britain and Spain.

Political Parties in Western Democracies
Political Parties in Western Democracies

Author: Klaus von Beyme

Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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Comparison, political partys, democracy, Western Europe, USA - political theories, historical development, political ideology, membership, institutional framework, dispute settlement, political behaviour in elections, political system. Bibliography, diagram, graph, map,statistical tables.

Rightwing Populism
Rightwing Populism

Author: Klaus von Beyme

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-19

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 3030031772

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This book, written by a prominent German political scientist and specialist for political theory and comparative government, analyses right-wing populism as a topical theme of postmodern party systems in Europe and the United States.

From Post-Democracy to Neo-Democracy
From Post-Democracy to Neo-Democracy

Author: Klaus von Beyme

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-27

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 3319666614

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This book of a renowned political scientist and specialist in political theory fundamentally challenges the new fashion of post-democracy by offering an outlook on ‘neo-democracy’. The political periods are similar to epochs in modern art, where ‘neo’ succeeded Post-impressionism and Post-expressionism. This book reviews the topical debate on postdemocracy and scenarios of decline in democratic theory without the alternative of dictatorship. It discusses criticism of politics in the old and new media and a new culture of protest. It addresses new forms of participation and the dangers of populism and right-wing extremism. It proposes institutional reforms of democracy, of the parliamentary system and the party state, in negotiations of coalition-building, in governmental declarations and for the policy output. The book concludes with a debate of normative models of democracy from ‘Post-democracy’ to ‘Neo-democracy’, models of justice and theories of democratic reform.

The Future of Representative Democracy
The Future of Representative Democracy

Author: Sonia Alonso

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1139501178

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The Future of Representative Democracy poses important questions about representation, representative democracy and their future. Inspired by the last major investigation of the subject by Hanna Pitkin over four decades ago, this ambitious volume fills a major gap in the literature by examining the future of representative forms of democracy in terms of present-day trends and past theories of representative democracy. Aware of the pressing need for clarifying key concepts and institutional trends, the volume aims to break down barriers among disciplines and to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars. The contributors emphasise that representative democracy and its future is a subject of pressing scholarly concern and public importance. Paying close attention to the unfinished, two-centuries-old relationship between democracy and representation, this book offers a fresh perspective on current problems and dilemmas of representative democracy and the possible future development of new forms of democratic representation.

New Authoritarianism
New Authoritarianism

Author: Jerzy J. Wiatr

Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich

Published: 2019-01-14

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 3847412493

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The authos deal with comparative aspects of contemporary authoritarianism. Authoritarian tendencies have appeared in several “old democracies” but their main successes take place in several states which departed from dictatorial regimes recently. The book contains case-studies of contemporary Hungarian, Kenyan, Polish, Russian and Turkish regimes.

On Political Culture, Cultural Policy, Art and Politics
On Political Culture, Cultural Policy, Art and Politics

Author: Klaus Beyme

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 3319015591

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Klaus von Beyme is a distinguished German political scientist and recipient of the Mattei Dogan Award of Political Science (2012). In honour of his 80th birthday this book addresses political culture, cultural policy, art and politics. The first part on transformation theory analyses: “Historical Memories in Political Theories”, “Historical Memory in Nation-Building and the Building of Ethnic Subsystems”, “The Concept of Totalitarianism – A Reassessment After the Breakdown of Soviet Rule”, “Political Culture – A Concept from Ideological Refutation to Acceptance in the Soviet Social Sciences”, “Institutions and Political Culture in Post-Soviet Russia” and “Political and Economic Consolidation in Eastern Europe. Evidence from Empirical Data”. The second part on cultural policies addresses “Why is There No Political Science of the Arts?”, “Historical Memory and the Arts in the Era of the Avantgardes: Archaisme and Passéisme as a ‘passéisme of the future’”, and “Capital-building in Post-war Germany”.

Comparing Party System Change
Comparing Party System Change

Author: Jan-Erik Lane

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1134708505

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This volume examines the recent changes which have occurred in party systems across Europe. It concludes that parties in many countries are no longer bare reflections of traditional social groups. Rather, the structure in which parties compete is increasingly open and flexible, and subject to on-going change. The combination of comparative and individual case-studies provides strong evidence that political parties remain a potent, if changing, force in politics throughout Europe.