scholarly journals A Matter of Supply and Demand: The Electoral Performance of Populist Parties in Three European Countries

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stijn van Kessel
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Electoral Performance

This article assesses the electoral performance of populist parties in three European countries: the Netherlands, Poland and the United Kingdom. In explaining the electoral performance of the populist parties in the three countries, the article considers the agency of political parties in particular. More specifically, it examines the responsiveness of established parties and the credibility of the populist parties. Whereas the agency of populist parties, or other radical outsiders, has often been overlooked in previous comparative studies, this article argues that the credibility of the populist parties themselves plays a crucial role in understanding their electoral success and failure.

Article 198 TFEU

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitry Kochenov
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Member States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Special Relations

Article 182 EC The Member States agree to associate with the Union the non-European countries and territories which have special relations with Denmark, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. These countries and territories (hereinafter called the ‘countries and territories’) are listed in Annex II.

scholarly journals Care revolutions in the making? A comparison of cash-for-care programmes in four European countries

2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
VIRPI TIMONEN ◽  
JANET CONVERY ◽  
SUZANNE CAHILL
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Formal Service ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Efficiency Cost ◽  
Source Of Care ◽  
Care Regimes

This article describes and evaluates cash-for-care programmes for older people in four European countries, namely Home-Care Grants in Ireland, Direct Payments in the United Kingdom (England), Service Vouchers in Finland and Personal Budgets in The Netherlands. The purpose is to raise understanding of the background and reasons for the introduction of cash-for-care programmes and their impact on the countries' care regimes. It is argued that while the motives for introducing cash-for-care programmes in the four countries are similar, namely to promote choice and autonomy, to plug gaps in existing provision, to create jobs, and to promote efficiency, cost savings and domiciliary care, the relative importance of these goals varies. Current cash-for-care programmes have comparatively modest coverage as compared with direct service provision and provide no more than an optional, supplementary source of care in three of the studied countries. Cash-for-care schemes have not radically transformed the care regimes in Finland, The Netherlands or the United Kingdom. In Ireland, however, the restricted availability of alternative forms of formal service provision means that the expansion of cash-for-care might shift care provision significantly towards private provision and financing.

Size and Electoral Participation in Local Elections

10.1068/c0228 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 853-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Gaardsted Frandsen
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Local Election ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Motivation To Participate ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

This paper reviews local election turnout for the period since the 1970s in five European countries: Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. It explores especially the relationship between size of municipality and turnout in local elections. The author seeks to explore this issue in the light of Dahl and Tufte's 1973 classic study Size and Democracy (Stanford University Press) which claimed that citizens' motivation to participate is greater in small governmental units than in large ones. This study confirms the Dahl and Tufte hypothesis, in that turnout is consistently higher over time in small municipalities in all the countries reviewed, although the strength of the relationship varies between the different countries. The paper also shows that other factors, such as the type of electoral system used or whether voting is compulsory or not, also have an effect on turnout.

Convergence in European Nations’ Legal Rules Concerning the Use of Human Embryos in Research?

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 454-472
Author(s):  
Nicolle Zeegers
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Human Embryos ◽  
Funding Policy ◽  
Moral Regulation ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
The United Kingdom

In this article convergence in European countries’ legislative rules concerning the use of embryos in research is studied by looking at how such rules have been formulated in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. An answer will be given as to whether these countries’ rules concerning the use of embryos in research have converged and if so what direction this convergence has taken, either liberalization or an extension of moral regulation by the state. This analysis shows to some extent that liberalization of the legislative rules concerning the use of embryos in research has taken place in these countries but also exposes how eu research funding policy has slowed it down. Subsequently, attention will be paid to the driving forces behind the liberalization as well as the countering forces it evokes.

scholarly journals More Gender Equality, More Homogamy? A Cohort Comparison in Six European Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-480
Author(s):  
Julie Falcon ◽  
Dominique Joye
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Educational Homogamy ◽  
The United Kingdom

Abstract We study whether educational homogamy has increased following the rise of women’s educational attainment and of egalitarian couples in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. From the analysis of data from the European Union and Swiss Labour Force Surveys over a 15-year period (1999–2013), we observe that educational homogamy did not increase across cohorts, although we find substantial differences in the degree of homogamy according to couple arrangements.

scholarly journals Parliamentary Questions

2019 ◽  
pp. 282-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Borghetto ◽  
Laura Chaqués-Bonafont
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Issue Attention ◽  
Legislative Activity ◽  
Intense Debate

Do political parties increasingly engage in non-legislative parliamentary activities? To what extent is the range of issues addressed through parliamentary questioning becoming more diverse? Is overtime change in issue attention during question time incremental or rather stable and occasionally interspersed with radical changes? These questions have generated an intense debate in legislative and agenda-setting studies during the last decades. The goal of this chapter is to explore these trends by focusing on a specific type of non-legislative activity: oral questions to the cabinet in the plenary. The analysis relies on the data available in eight countries of the Comparative Agendas Project: Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals Granice i miasta graniczne Królestwa Belgii

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-124
Author(s):  
Ryszard Żelichowski
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The 19Th Century

The Kingdom of Belgium appeared on the map of European countries relatively late, namely in 1830, as a result of the division of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands into two sovereign states. As the Kingdom of Belgium transformed from a unitary state into a federal state in the 19th century, in addition to the external (state) borders, it also has internal borders, which separate three autonomous regions, three linguistic communities and four linguistic regions. The basis of internal divisions is the linguistic conflict of two cultures colliding in the territory of the Kingdom of Belgium: French and Dutch-speaking (Roman and Germanic). These divisions also pass through towns and villages. This conflict was resolved in the 1960s by applying a unique concept of communes with linguistic facilities, where two different languages were allowed to function officially. Linguistic divisions were especially sharp in the two world wars, when the occupiers set these two separate cultures against one another. In this article, the author analyses particularly dramatic cases of this type of borders and their consequences for the residents of the borderland.

scholarly journals From Homo’poly to Openup! lessons learned on LGB in education in schools across Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Lotte Geunis ◽  
Oliver Holz
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Political Support ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Project Partner

This paper captures the lessons learned from Homo’poly, an ERASMUS+ project on awareness and understanding of homosexuality in schools. Homo’poly was implemented between 2016 and 2019 in eight European countries: Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Hungary and the United Kingdom. Throughout the project, partner institutions noted that homophobia, a lack of wider community engagement and (notably in Central and Eastern Eruope) limited political support proved to be significant stumbling blocks. The authors build on a survey of partner institutions to further explore these challenges and set out proposed directions for future activities and research.

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