Publications

PAPPAS T. S. (2011), Political Charisma Revisited, and Reclaimed for Political Science.  EUI Working Papers RSCAS; 2011/60; EUDO - European Democracy Observatory.

GAGATEK W. and VAN HECKE S. (2011), Towards Policy-Seeking Europarties? The Development of European Political Foundations.  EUI Working Papers RSCAS; 2011/57; EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory.

RADAELLI C. M.  and DOSSI S. (2011), Four Funerals and a Party? The Political Repertoire of the Italian Radicals.  EUI Working Papers RSCAS; 2011/57; EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory.

PIZZIMENTI E., IGNAZI P. (2011). Finanziamento pubblico e mutamenti organizzativi nei partiti italiani.  in Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Agosto 2011: 41 (2), pp. 199-236. [Party Financing and Party Organisational Change: the Italian Case]

In the last decade, one of the major veins in political science has been the development of empirical researches on the impact of public funding on political competition. To a lesser extent, academic debate has focused on the effects of political finance regimes on party organisations. In this respect, scholars have hypothesised the existence of a relationship between the increasing need for public funding and a progressive shift of internal power from the Party in Central Office to the Party in Public Office, at the expense of the Party on the Ground. The aim of this article is to test this hypothesis by analysing the evolution of budget and organisation of four Italian political parties (Pds-Ds, Ppi-Dl, Fi, An) from 1994 to 2004: what we expect to find is a massive need for public subsidies to survive environmental changes accompanied by a tendency to centralisation of power within their organisations.

 MAIR, P. (2011). Bini Smaghi vs. the Parties: Representative Government and Institutional Constraints.  Working Paper EUI RSCAS; 2011/22; EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory.

 VAN BIEZEN I., MAIR P., POGUNTKE T. (2011). Going, going,...gone? The Decline of Party Membership in Contemporary Europe  in European Journal of Political Research

Abstract 

 CALOSSI E. (2011). Organizzazione e funzioni degli Europartiti. Il Caso di Sinistra Europea . PLUS. [Organization and Functions of Europarties. The Case of European Left]. Political Parties has been important actors in the European integration process. Since 2003 new EU regulations has facilitated (and funded) the development of Political Parties at the European Level. This book, after having drawn the general organizational framework and the functions of all the other Europarties, focuses on the Party of the European Left. This Europarty, despite its aspirations, is still quite far to include all the national parties of the alternative left. This demonstrates the weak homogeneity of this political family in comparison to the popular (the former Christian-Democrats), the socialist, the liberal, and the green family. This book reveals that the main points of distinction amongst the alternative left parties are based on the different ideas they have about the integration process, and the soviet experience.

 CHRYSSOGELOS A. S. (2011). Old Ghosts in New Sheets: European Populist Parties and Foreign Policy . Centre for European Studies

 MAIR P., J. THOMASSEN (2010). Political Representation and European Union Governance . Routledge  

BARDI L., E. BRESSANELLI, E. CALOSSI, W. GAGATEK, P. MAIR, E. PIZZIMENTI (2010). How to Create a Transnational Party System . Report for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament     

Journal of European Public Policy

Special  Issue on Political Representation and EU Governance  edited by Peter Mair and Jacques Thomassen   

Volume 17, Issue n.1 2010

 KATZ, Richard S. and MAIR, Peter (2009), The Cartel Party Thesis: A Restatement , Perspectives On Politics, Volume 7, Issue 4, pp. 753-766

 EUDO eBook: The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament – Country Reports , edited by Wojciech Gagatek .

GAGATEK, Wojciech (2009), The European People's Party and the Party of European Socialists: Government and Opposition ?, European View, Volume 8, Number 2.

Other Publications, Recent Working Papers, and Reports by the EUI research community (since 2008)

• AFONSO, Alexandre; FONTANA, Marie-Christine; PAPADOPOULOS, Yannis, (2010). Does Europeanisation Weaken the Left? Changing coalitions and veto power in Swiss decision-making processes. In “Policy and Politics”, 38, 4, 565-582.
• BARDI, Luciano; MAIR, Peter, (2008). The Parameters of Party Systems. In “Party Politics”, 14, 2, 147-166.
• BAUBOCK, Rainer; FAIST, Thomas, (2010), (eds.). Diaspora and Transnationalism. Concepts, Theories and Methods. Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press.
• BRESSANELLI, Edoardo, (2010). I partiti politici e le elezioni del Parlamento europeo. Un’analisi comparata dei programmi elettorali nell’Europa allargata. In “. In “Rivista Italiana di Analisi Elettorale”, 3, 25-46.
• CASAL BÉRTOA, Fernando, (2011). Sources of Party System Institutionalization in New Democracies: Lessons from East Central Europe . EUI SPS; 2011/01
• CASAL BÉRTOA, Fernando; MAIR, Peter, (2010). Two Decades On: How Institutionalized are the Post-Communist Party Systems? . EUI SPS; 2010/03.
• DEEGAN-KRAUSE, Kevin and ENYEDI, Zsolt (2010), Agency and the Atructure of Party Competition: Alignment, Stability and the Role of Political Elites , EUDO Working Paper Series.
• DINAS, Elias; GEMENIS, Kostas, (2010). Measuring Parties’ Ideological Positions with Manifesto data: A Critical Evaluation of the Competing Methods. In “Party Politics”, 16, 4, 427-450.
• DÖRING, Holger, (2010). Collaborative Data Collection in Political Science: a New Data Infrastructure on Parties, Elections and Governments . EUI MWP; 2010/21
• FRANKLIN, Mark N.; MACKIE, Thomas; VALEN, Henry; [et al.], (2009). Electoral Change: Responses to evolving social and attitudinal structures in western countries. Colchester, ECPR.
• GAGATEK, Wojciech, (2008). Political parties at the European level : their organization and activities : the case of the European People's Party and the Party of European Socialists. EUI PhD Theses.
• GAGATEK, Wojciech, (2009). European Political Parties as Campaign Organisations: Toward a Greater Politicisation of the European Parliament Elections . Centre for European Studies.
• GAGATEK, Wojciech, (2010). The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament. Country Reports .  Florence, European University Institute, 2010.
• GEMENIS, Kostas; DINAS, Elias, (2010).Confrontation still? Examining parties’ policy positions in Greece. In “Comparative European Politics”, 8, 179-201.
• GOETZ, Klaus H.; MAIR, Peter; SMITH, Gordon, (2008). Trajectories of European Politics: An Introduction. In “West European Politics”, 31, 1-2, 1-13, Special 30th anniversary issue.
• HANRETTY, Chris, (2008). Party mergers and vote shifts in Italy . EUI SPS; 2008/06.
• LEHMANN, Wilhelm (2011). Electoral Representation at the European level and its Institutional Design: A reappraisal of recent reform plans . Working Paper EUI RSCAS; 2011/23; EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory
• MAIR, Peter (2008). The Challenge to Party Government. In “West European Politics”, 31, 1-2, 211-234.
• MAIR, Peter, (2009). The British Party System: A Comparative Perspective. In Matthew Flinders (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British Politics. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 283-301.
• MAIR, Peter (2009), Representative Versus Responsible Government, MPIfG Working Paper 09/8. Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
• MAIR, Peter (2011), Bini Smaghi vs. the Parties: Representative Government and Institutional Constraints . Working Paper EUI RSCAS; 2011/22; EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory.
• MAIR, Peter; KATZ, Richard S., (2009). The Cartel Party Thesis: A Restatement. In “Perspectives on Politics”, 7, 4, 2009, 753-7 66.
• MAIR, Peter; THOMASSEN, Jacques, (2010). Political representation and government in the European Union . In “Journal of European Public Policy”, 17, 1, 20-35.
• MCELROY, Gail; BENOIT, Kenneth, (2010). Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament. In “British Journal of Political Science”, 40, 2, 377-398.
• PETITHOMME, Mathieu, (2010). Framing European Integration in mediated public spheres. An increasing nationalization and contestation of European issues in party political communication?. In “Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research”, 23, 2, 153-168
• POGUNTKE, Thomas, (2008). Party Government in the EU: On the Road to Presidentialization? . EUI SPS; 2008/10
• RODRIGUES SANCHES, Edalina; SANTANA PEREIRA, José, (2010). Which Europe do the Portuguese Political Parties Want? Identity, Representation and Scope of Governance in the Euromanifestos (1987-2004). In “Perspectives on European Politics and Society”, 11, 2, 183-200.
• STRATULAT, Corina, (2011). Europe as an Issue Dimension in the Party Politics of the Central East European Candidate States. EUI PhD Thesis.
• TOUBEAU, Simon, (2010). The Accommodation of Nationalism: Regional Nationalist Parties and Territorial Restructuring in Great Britain, Spain and Belgium . EUI PhD thesis
• TRECHSEL, Alexander H.; MAIR, Peter (2011). When Parties (Also) Position Themselves: An Introduction to the EU Profiler. In “ Journal of Information Technology & Politics”, 8, 1, 1-20.
• TRECHSEL, Alexander H. and MAIR, Peter (2009), When Parties (also) Position Themselves: An Introduction to the EU Profiler, EUDO Working Paper Series
• VAN SPANJE, Joost, (2009). Pariah Parties: On the origins and electoral consequences of the ostracism of political parties in established democracies. EUI PhD Thesis.
• VAN SPANJE, Joost, (2010). Contagious Parties: Anti-Immigration Parties and Their Impact on Other Parties’ Immigration Stances in Contemporary Western Europe In “Party Politics”, 16, 5, 563-586.
• WILSON, Alex (2010), Report on MEP Surveys , EUDO Reports
• WILSON, Alex, (2009). Multi-level Party Politics in Italy and Spain . EUI PhD theses
• WILSON, Alex, (2009). Party Competition in the Spanish Regions . EUI SPS; 2009/01