This article argues that the Corporatist Sisyphus is headed back up the hill, goaded as before by an architectonic national state. Moreover, he is just about on time. If previous speculation about a twenty to twenty-five year cycle was correct and if one traces their last downturn to the First...

In this paper we study value strategies for four European countries (France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom).We find an outperformance for all four value variables which are investigated: the earnings-to-price (E/P) ratio, the cash-flow-to-price (CF/P) ratio, the book-to-market...

For a long time, European integration has only occasionally and intermitently affected domestic politica, and onbly in few countries. The near future is likely to see the growing impact of this process on forms of political representation and patterns of competition, and on national political...

The paper presents in a simple model the possible choices and constraints facing democratic governments when confronting an anti-democratic party challenge that is able to seriously endanger the survival of the democratic system.

This article compares processes of nation-building at three historical junctures in the postwar period : postcolonialism, postcommunism, and postfacism. The comparison is organized around three analytical dimensions of nation-building : modular adaptation, state-making, and primordialization....

This article is part of ongoing research on the left in Italy, and attempts to explain the origins, significance and outcome of the key issue at the PDS's 2nd Congress: the future of the party itself.

The aim of this paper is to reflect theoretically on the current East-Central European "situation".

The first section of this paper will further define political conditionality and discuss some of the problems that arise with its use. The second section will review how conditionality came to be adopted by the union. The way in which the EU has implemented conditionality will be discussed in...