Elitism, populism, and European politics /
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...
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.