William E Paterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1124769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William E Paterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | William E |
| FAMILY NAME | Paterson |
| SIGNATURE | PATERSON W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 270 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The European Union in Crisis
The European Union in Crisis (The European Union Series)
Developments in German Politics 4
The new German state that emerged after reunification in October 1990 is Europe's defining power, and the manner in which it evolves will have a profound effect on all other European states. Built on the foundations of the old Federal Republic, it is operating today in a changed economic and international environment and there is some doubt as to whether the new Germany will be able to sustain the economic and foreign policies that brought the Fe…
Rethinking Social Democracy in Western Europe
The continuing relevance of Germany’s engine for CEE and the EU
The article looks first into the nature of the relations between Germany and the CEE countries a decade since the accession of the CEE countries to the EU. The relations are characterized as normalised and intensive with diverse levels of closeness and cooperation reflecting of the conceptual and ideological compatibility/differences. Next, the article focuses on the German attitude to the euro zone crisis. Germany has become a hegemon in the res…
The German Parliament
German parliamentarism remained a sickly creature in the century from the stillbirth of the Frankfurt Assembly in 1849, through the failure to establish parliamentary government in the Imperial Per
Germany as the EU's reluctant hegemon? Of economic strength and political constraints
This article explores the growing perception, prompted by the eurozone crisis, of Germany as a hegemonic power in the European Union. The article explores the realignments in the power balance within the European Union (EU) by making an original application of the insights from the literature on hegemony. It reviews the evidence for Germany playing a hegemonic role, but then emphasizes three sets of constraints. First, German pre-eminence is larg…
The Reluctant Hegemon? Germany Moves Centre Stage in the European Union
Germany at a crossroads
Germany and the European Union
Germany has traditionally played a key role in promoting European Union solutions to domestic policy problems. In doing so it gained a reputation as a ‘tamed power’ (Katzenstein). This article reviews Germany's diplomacy two decades after unification. It explores the ‘tamed power’ hypothesis with reference to three policy areas: constitutional reform in the EU; Justice and Home Affairs policy; and an issue that has made German European policy ver…
Does Germany Still Have a European Vocation
The narrative of Germany's European vocation falls into three stages. In the first stage – constituting Germany in Europe – European integration was a vital secondary arena for ensuring that the Federal Republic was able to develop economically, and to become a stable democracy. The second stage, of ever closer union accompanied by institutional export, was already evident under Helmut Schmidt, but became really manifest during the Kohl Chancello…
An Appreciation
Foreign Policy in the Grand Coalition
There is a strongly rooted assumption that foreign policy is an executive domain and rarely plays a role in the electoral struggle. Germany is something of an exception and this paper looks at the way foreign policy has provided a site for electoral competition in Germany. Its principal focus is on the two Grand Coalitions with an especial emphasis on the contest between Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier to turn foreign policy pro…
The SPD and the Debacle of the 2009 German Federal Election
The 2009 German federal election marked a devastating defeat for the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). The debacle led some commentators to speculate about the end of the SPD as a "catch-all party" and-given the recent poor performance of center-left parties across Europe-"the end of social democracy." In this article, we contextualize the result of the 2009 Bundestag election within the settings of German party politics and European social d…
Governance in Contemporary Germany
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, West Germany was considered to be one of the world's most successful economic and political systems. In his seminal 1987 analysis of West Germany's 'semisovereign' system of governance, Peter Katzenstein attributed this success to a combination of a fragmented polity, consensus politics and incremental policy changes. However, unification in 1990 has both changed Germany's institutional configuration and created ec…
Learning from the west
Policy transfer or policy learning between political parties has become more likely in the context of recent European integration. Parties are now keener to learn from their sister parties in other European countries. The need for new policy programmes was particularly acute for the communist successor parties (CSPs) of Eastern and Central Europe, which had to adapt their policies to new political and socio-economic structures. The subsequent tra…
The Future of the German Economy. An End to the Miracle
Germany in a global era economic reform of Modell Deutschland alliance for jobs - labour market policy and industrial relations after the 1998 elections the tale of the hare and the tortoise - globalization and the restructuring of the German model a pattern of light and shade for the German economy the end of the innovation economy? German corporatism - dead or alive? an end to the miracle
From the Bonn to the Berlin republic
This article identifies semi‐sovereignty as the defining characteristic of the Bonn Republic. This is associated with an external role of reflexive multilateralism, a concentrated party system, a co‐operative opposition and a moderate policy style. The article then looks at these defining characteristics in relation to the Berlin Republic. Germany's role in external security provision is seen as the biggest change
Developments in German Politics 2
Helmut kohl, ‘the vision thing’ and escaping the semi‐sovereignty trap
Internal semi‐sovereignty acts to constrain German chancellors in domestic politics, while the Richtlinienkompetenz (Article 65) and the Adenauer legacy in the public mind presuppose a chancellor who determines the guidelines of policy. German chancellors have typically responded by taking a selective interest in foreign and European policy where the restraints are less pressing and articulating a foreign policy vision which mobilises internally …
Developments in German Politics 2
Germany in the European Union
The 1996 intergovernmental conference on the European Union will represent an important test of German influence in the European Union. The two preceding reforms—the Single European Act and the Maastricht treaty—were undertaken under different circumstances. The Single European Act preceded German unification, whereas the Maastricht treaty negotiations were partly a response to German unification and the end of the Cold War. The IGC negotiations …
Beyond Semi‐sovereignty
Semi‐sovereignty was identified by Peter Katzenstein as an external condition of West German Politics. Semi‐sovereignty persists as an internal condition of the new German state, but externally Germany is less semi‐sovereign as a result of the disappearance of external restrictions and its increasing economic and political power which is now allied to its greater freedom of manoeuvre in the security area. While less semi‐sovereign in objective te…
A History of Social Democracy in Postwar Europe
Part 1 Social democratic ideology: working class socialism and programmatic social democracy the road to ideological revision the era of managed growth and the challenge of the New Left the transformation of socialism in France and Italy social democracy in the recession social democratic ideology on the southern European periphery. Part 2 The internal life of social democratic parties: the solidarity community the victory of the catch-all party?…
Developments in German Politics
Germany as the EU's reluctant hegemon? Of economic strength and political constraints
This article explores the growing perception, prompted by the eurozone crisis, of Germany as a hegemonic power in the European Union. The article explores the realignments in the power balance within the European Union (EU) by making an original application of the insights from the literature on hegemony. It reviews the evidence for Germany playing a hegemonic role, but then emphasizes three sets of constraints. First, German pre-eminence is larg…
The Reluctant Hegemon? Germany Moves Centre Stage in the European Union
Does Germany Still Have a European Vocation
The narrative of Germany's European vocation falls into three stages. In the first stage – constituting Germany in Europe – European integration was a vital secondary arena for ensuring that the Federal Republic was able to develop economically, and to become a stable democracy. The second stage, of ever closer union accompanied by institutional export, was already evident under Helmut Schmidt, but became really manifest during the Kohl Chancello…
Beyond Semi‐sovereignty
Semi‐sovereignty was identified by Peter Katzenstein as an external condition of West German Politics. Semi‐sovereignty persists as an internal condition of the new German state, but externally Germany is less semi‐sovereign as a result of the disappearance of external restrictions and its increasing economic and political power which is now allied to its greater freedom of manoeuvre in the security area. While less semi‐sovereign in objective te…
Germany and the European Union
Germany has traditionally played a key role in promoting European Union solutions to domestic policy problems. In doing so it gained a reputation as a ‘tamed power’ (Katzenstein). This article reviews Germany's diplomacy two decades after unification. It explores the ‘tamed power’ hypothesis with reference to three policy areas: constitutional reform in the EU; Justice and Home Affairs policy; and an issue that has made German European policy ver…
Germany in the European Union
The 1996 intergovernmental conference on the European Union will represent an important test of German influence in the European Union. The two preceding reforms—the Single European Act and the Maastricht treaty—were undertaken under different circumstances. The Single European Act preceded German unification, whereas the Maastricht treaty negotiations were partly a response to German unification and the end of the Cold War. The IGC negotiations …
Small States in International Politics
Learning from the west
Policy transfer or policy learning between political parties has become more likely in the context of recent European integration. Parties are now keener to learn from their sister parties in other European countries. The need for new policy programmes was particularly acute for the communist successor parties (CSPs) of Eastern and Central Europe, which had to adapt their policies to new political and socio-economic structures. The subsequent tra…
Helmut kohl, ‘the vision thing’ and escaping the semi‐sovereignty trap
Internal semi‐sovereignty acts to constrain German chancellors in domestic politics, while the Richtlinienkompetenz (Article 65) and the Adenauer legacy in the public mind presuppose a chancellor who determines the guidelines of policy. German chancellors have typically responded by taking a selective interest in foreign and European policy where the restraints are less pressing and articulating a foreign policy vision which mobilises internally …
Developments in German Politics
The chancellor and his party
1981). The chancellor and his party: Political leadership in the federal republic. West European Politics: Vol. 4, The West German Model: Perspectives on a stable state, pp. 3-17
The West German General Election of 1987
Journal Article THE WEST GERMAN GENERAL ELECTION OF 1987 Get access R.E.M. Irving, R.E.M. Irving Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W.E. Paterson W.E. Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 40, Issue 3, July 1987, Pages 333–356, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052104 Published: 01 July 1987
The Machtwechsel of 1982-83
The Machtwechsel of 1982–83: A Significant Landmark in the Political and Constitutional History of West Germany Get access R. E. M. Irving, R. E. M. Irving Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. E. Paterson W. E. Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 417–435, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/36.4.417 Published: 01 Octo…
The SPD and the Debacle of the 2009 German Federal Election
The 2009 German federal election marked a devastating defeat for the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). The debacle led some commentators to speculate about the end of the SPD as a "catch-all party" and-given the recent poor performance of center-left parties across Europe-"the end of social democracy." In this article, we contextualize the result of the 2009 Bundestag election within the settings of German party politics and European social d…
From the Bonn to the Berlin republic
This article identifies semi‐sovereignty as the defining characteristic of the Bonn Republic. This is associated with an external role of reflexive multilateralism, a concentrated party system, a co‐operative opposition and a moderate policy style. The article then looks at these defining characteristics in relation to the Berlin Republic. Germany's role in external security provision is seen as the biggest change
Regulatory change and environmental protection in the British and German chemical industries
Business interest associations in the European chemical industry have traditionally been well organized and enjoyed a harmonious relationship with governments of various complexions. This very favourable balance for the industry has been disturbed by the salience of the environmental issue. This has led to a certain deregulation, or breakdown of existing regulatory mechanisms. Increasing concentration on the European Community level as the locus …
Foreign Policy and Stability in West Germany
Journal Article Foreign Policy and Stability in West Germany Get access W. E. Paterson W. E. Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 1973, Pages 413–430, https://doi.org/10.2307/2616841 Published: 01 July 1973
The West German Parliamentary Election of November 1972
Journal Article THE WEST GERMAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION OF NOVEMBER 1972 Get access R. E. M. Irving, R. E. M. Irving Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. E. Paterson W. E. Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 1972dec, December 1972, Pages 218–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051634 Published: 01 December 1972
The continuing relevance of Germany’s engine for CEE and the EU
The article looks first into the nature of the relations between Germany and the CEE countries a decade since the accession of the CEE countries to the EU. The relations are characterized as normalised and intensive with diverse levels of closeness and cooperation reflecting of the conceptual and ideological compatibility/differences. Next, the article focuses on the German attitude to the euro zone crisis. Germany has become a hegemon in the res…
Foreign Policy in the Grand Coalition
There is a strongly rooted assumption that foreign policy is an executive domain and rarely plays a role in the electoral struggle. Germany is something of an exception and this paper looks at the way foreign policy has provided a site for electoral competition in Germany. Its principal focus is on the two Grand Coalitions with an especial emphasis on the contest between Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier to turn foreign policy pro…
Reprogramming democratic socialism
A change of course
Journal Article A change of course: the West German Social Democrats and NATO, 1957–61 Get access A change of course: the West German Social Democrats and NATO, 1957–61. By S. J. Artner. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 1985. (Distrib. in UK by Eurospan, London.) 242pp. Index. £35.00. ISBN 0 313 24701 3. William E. Paterson William E. Paterson 1University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International…
Political parties and the making of foreign policy – the case of the Federal Republic
There have been three dominant approaches specific to the study of the foreign policy of the Federal Republic. Perhaps the most influential has concentrated on relating the dynamics of West German foreign policy to changing inter and intra bloc relationships. This approach has started from the premise that both German states are simultaneously embedded in their respective bloc systems and occupy a crucial strategic position at the point where the…
Western Europe's example of nationalism in an age of Internationalism
German Foreign Policy in Transition
Journal Article German Foreign Policy in Transition: Bonn between East and West, Reformpartei und Aussenpolitik: Die Aussenpolitik der SPD Berlin-Bonn and Trauma Deutscher Aussenpolitik: Die sowjetischen Bemühungen um die internationale Anerkennung der DDR Get access German Foreign Policy in Transition: Bonn between East and West. By Karl Kaiser. London, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Center for International…
Small States in International Politics
Die Militärpolitik der NPD
Journal Article Die Militärpolitik der NPD: Rückendeckung für die UdSSR? Dokumentation und Analyse, Gegen die NPD: Argumente für die Democratic, Unrepentant Aggressors: An Examination of West German Policies, CDU und Mitbestimmung: Der Weg zur Mitbestimmungsformel der CDU auf dem Parteitag 1968 and Contemporary Governments of Germany Get access Die Militärpolitik der NPD: Rückendeckung für die UdSSR? Dokumentation und Analyse. By Rudolf H. Brandt…
Germany and the Management of Détente
The West German Parliamentary Election of November 1972
Journal Article THE WEST GERMAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION OF NOVEMBER 1972 Get access R. E. M. Irving, R. E. M. Irving Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. E. Paterson W. E. Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 1972dec, December 1972, Pages 218–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051634 Published: 01 December 1972
Foreign Policy and Stability in West Germany
Journal Article Foreign Policy and Stability in West Germany Get access W. E. Paterson W. E. Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 1973, Pages 413–430, https://doi.org/10.2307/2616841 Published: 01 July 1973
Western Europe's example of nationalism in an age of Internationalism
Social Democratic Parties of the European Community
The West German General Election
Journal Article THE WEST GERMAN GENERAL ELECTION Get access W. E. Paterson, W. E. Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar R. E. M. Irving R. E. M. Irving Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXX, Issue 2, Spring 1977, Pages 209–225, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054371 Published: 01 March 1977
Political parties and the making of foreign policy – the case of the Federal Republic
There have been three dominant approaches specific to the study of the foreign policy of the Federal Republic. Perhaps the most influential has concentrated on relating the dynamics of West German foreign policy to changing inter and intra bloc relationships. This approach has started from the premise that both German states are simultaneously embedded in their respective bloc systems and occupy a crucial strategic position at the point where the…
The chancellor and his party
1981). The chancellor and his party: Political leadership in the federal republic. West European Politics: Vol. 4, The West German Model: Perspectives on a stable state, pp. 3-17
The Machtwechsel of 1982-83
The Machtwechsel of 1982–83: A Significant Landmark in the Political and Constitutional History of West Germany Get access R. E. M. Irving, R. E. M. Irving Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W. E. Paterson W. E. Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 417–435, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/36.4.417 Published: 01 Octo…
The Federal Republic of Germany
The second election to the EP was held in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) on 17 June 1984. The date has a political significance in the FRG as the ‘day of national unity’ although this played no role in the election. As in 1979 the election was only held in the FRG for 78 MEPs, while the remaining one SPD and two CDU MEPs were selected from the Berlin Chamber of Deputies. The main distinction from 1979 lay in the intervening change of power…
A change of course
Journal Article A change of course: the West German Social Democrats and NATO, 1957–61 Get access A change of course: the West German Social Democrats and NATO, 1957–61. By S. J. Artner. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 1985. (Distrib. in UK by Eurospan, London.) 242pp. Index. £35.00. ISBN 0 313 24701 3. William E. Paterson William E. Paterson 1University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International…
The West German General Election of 1987
Journal Article THE WEST GERMAN GENERAL ELECTION OF 1987 Get access R.E.M. Irving, R.E.M. Irving Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W.E. Paterson W.E. Paterson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 40, Issue 3, July 1987, Pages 333–356, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052104 Published: 01 July 1987
Developments in West German Politics
This book gives up-to-date assessments of key trends and issues in the Federal Republic with sufficient background analysis to make the treatment of the various topics accessible to those without deta
Developments in West German Politics
Regulatory change and environmental protection in the British and German chemical industries
Business interest associations in the European chemical industry have traditionally been well organized and enjoyed a harmonious relationship with governments of various complexions. This very favourable balance for the industry has been disturbed by the salience of the environmental issue. This has led to a certain deregulation, or breakdown of existing regulatory mechanisms. Increasing concentration on the European Community level as the locus …
Developments in German Politics
Governing Germany
Reprogramming democratic socialism
A History of Social Democracy in Postwar Europe
Part 1 Social democratic ideology: working class socialism and programmatic social democracy the road to ideological revision the era of managed growth and the challenge of the New Left the transformation of socialism in France and Italy social democracy in the recession social democratic ideology on the southern European periphery. Part 2 The internal life of social democratic parties: the solidarity community the victory of the catch-all party?…
Developments in German Politics
Developments in German Politics 2
Germany in the European Union
The 1996 intergovernmental conference on the European Union will represent an important test of German influence in the European Union. The two preceding reforms—the Single European Act and the Maastricht treaty—were undertaken under different circumstances. The Single European Act preceded German unification, whereas the Maastricht treaty negotiations were partly a response to German unification and the end of the Cold War. The IGC negotiations …
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