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1 online resource (viii, 265 pages) |
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Introduction: Mediocre Elites Elected by Mediocre Peoples / Ralf Dahrendorf -- 1. The Populist Challenge to Elitist Democracy in Europe / Jack Hayward -- 2. 'Losing Touch' in a Democracy: Demands versus Needs / Robert E. Lane -- 3. Freedom from the Press / William Miller, Annis-May Timpson and Michael Lessnoff -- 4. From Representative to Responsive Government? / Jean Charlot -- 5. The European Union, the Political Class, and the People / Vernon Bogdanor -- 6. Political Parties and the Public Accountability of Leaders / David Hine -- 7. Elite-Mass Linkages in Europe: Legitimacy Crisis or Party Crisis? / Rudy B. Andeweg -- 8. Organized Interests as Intermediaries / Jeremy Richardson -- 9. Mediating between the Powerless and the Powerful / Gianfranco Pasquino -- 10. Public Demands and Economic Constraints: All Italians Now? / Nicholas Bosanquet -- 11. The Fluctuating Rationale of Monetary Union / James Forder and Peter Oppenheimer |
| Summary |
In the 1990s there has been an increasingly widespread sense that the governing elites are losing touch with their peoples. Leaders are no longer able to count upon the acquiescence of their citizens to which they were accustomed. The disenchantment has resulted in the loss of public support for the political institutions of both the individual European nation states and of the European Union |
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Taking elitism and populism as the opposite poles between which the political leaders need to steer, the contributors successively consider why there appears to have been a degeneration in the quality of elite leaders, with civil societies turning against their governments and the elite mediators between the powerless and the powerful |
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The agenda-setting role of the media, the rival appeals to representation and referendum, the problems encountered by political parties and organised interests, and the tensions between public demand and economic constraints are all discussed. The chapters suggest that the need to lead from the front rather than from behind remains indispensable in elitist democracies |
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Politics |
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Europe |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Europe
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Populism -- Europe
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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UE/CE Union européenne.
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Régimes politiques.
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UE/CE Etats membres.
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Elite.
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Populisme.
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Politics and government
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Populism
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Politieke elites.
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Populisme.
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Élite (sciences sociales)
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Populisme -- Europe.
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Elite (sciences sociales) -- Pays de l'Union européenne.
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004797
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Europe
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Europe -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1989- ...
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Europe de l'Ouest -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1990- ...
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hayward, Jack Ernest Shalom
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| ISBN |
9780191599422 |
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0191599425 |
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9780191521102 |
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0191521108 |
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9786611978105 |
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6611978100 |
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