Geoffrey Pridham
Biographic Data
| ID | 273572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Pridham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Pridham |
| SIGNATURE | PRIDHAM G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 320 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Latvia’s eastern region: International tensions and political system loyalty
Latgale’s frontier region status makes it vulnerable in a time of growing international tension, all the more because of its strong Russian minority and persistent socio-economic problems causing disaffection. A two-directional analysis of linkage interactions – inner-directed and outer-directed – highlights both external threats and also regional conditions that act as a check on ‘hybrid warfare’ activity, such as centripetal center–periphery re…
Latgale and Latvia’s post-Soviet democracy: The Territorial Dimension of Regime Consolidation
The state of centre-periphery relations reflects on the “depth” of democratic consolidation. This is tested by applying the territorial dimension of democratisation, a neglected theme in regime change studies, utilising the “partial regimes” approach, one especially justified with regard to regions disaffected with regime change. This approach is applied to the Latvian region of Latgale with a four-point analysis, looking in turn at the structura…
The Nature of the Italian Party System: A Regional Case Study
This study, first published in 1981, focuses on a single region of Italy – Tuscany, and examines the internal and external relationships of the parties, their evolution and their roles in the years 1975-1980. Looking in depth and detail at the activity of the parties in Tuscany, the book identifies and examines different factors of change and continuity and comes to the conclusion that there has been significant movement in the political position…
Securing Democracy: Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe
1. Southern European Democracies on the Road to Consolidation: A Comparative Assessment of the Role of Political Parties Geoffrey Pridham 2. Part Elites and Democratic Consolidation: Cross-national Comparison of Southern European Experience Gianfranco Pasquino 3. The Consolidation of Democracy in Post War Italy David Hine 4. The Role of the Italian Communist Party in the Consolidation of Parliamentary Democracy in Italy Donald Sassoon 5. Portugal…
New Mediterranean Democracies: Regime Transition in Spain, Greece and Portugal
Christian Democracy in Western Germany (RLE: (German Politics)
This important study analyses the developoment of the CDU/CSU as a political force in West Germany from the Second World War to the late 1970s, with special reference to its role both in Government (1949-69) and Opposition (1969-76) and considers how it was instrumental in the formulation of governmental policies. The first part of the book looks at the development of the CDU/CSU. The second part focuses on its composition and structure and consi…
Christian Democracy in Western Germany: The CDU/CSU in Government and Opposition, 1945-1976
Christian Democracy in Western Germany: The CDU/CSU in Government and Opposition, 1945-1976
Christian Democracy in Western Germany: The CDU/CSU in Government and Opposition, 1945-1976
Comparative perspectives on transnational party-building in new democracies: The case of Central and Eastern Europe
Political Parties and Coalitional Behaviour in Italy
Coalitional behaviour is central to the Italian system of government but has been largely neglected by research. As a result, coalitions in post-war Italy have been viewed as simply unstable, short-lived and incohesive. In this book, the author corrects this one-sidedness by analysing Italian coalition politics as a continuous and dynamic process. His comprehensive, interpretative approach takes account of other new developments in coalition stud…
Experimenting With Democracy: Regime Change in the Balkans
1. Democratisation in the Blakan countries: From theory to practice Geoffrey Pridham 2. Democratisation in Southeastern Europe: Theoretical considerations and evolving trends P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, University of Athens, Greece and Stephen Larrabee, RAND, Washington DC, USA 3. Political culture and democratisation in the Balkans Stefano Bianchini, University of Bologna, Italy 4. Nationalism and democracy in South-East Europe Tom Gallagher 5. T…
Securing the Only Game in Town: The EU's Political Conditionality and Democratic Consolidation in Post-Soviet Latvia
The state of democracy in post-communist Europe has been subject to some debate in recent years; but it needs to take account of longer-term trends. The focus here is on how far the EU's political conditionality has contributed to democratic consolidation using an in-depth case study of post-Soviet Latvia. The record of the impacts of conditionality up to EU entry is examined and then attention turns to whether post-accession tendencies have demo…
Post-Soviet Latvia–A Consolidated or Defective Democracy? The Interaction between Domestic and European Trajectories
Recent developments in post-communist Europe and Latvia in particular have raised questions about political stability in new democracies there. This article argues for taking a long-term perspective on this problem in place of short-term judgments. In doing so, it makes special reference to the EU's political conditionality and its impacts on Latvia and then applies comparative lessons on democratic consolidation based on the concept of ‘partial …
Status Quo Bias or Institutionalisation for Reversibility: The EU's Political Conditionality, Post-Accession Tendencies and Democratic Consolidation in Slovakia
The EU's political conditions have been a consistent and at times salient element in the accession process, since Brussels enlarged their scope and tightened procedures from the mid-1990s. But so far little attention has been given to post-accession compliance with these conditions. This is important, for while the European Commission no longer monitors them, the political conditions were imperfectly implemented by the time of the 2004 enlargemen…
The EU's Political Conditionality and Post‐Accession Tendencies: Comparisons from Slovakia and Latvia
The EU's political conditionality during the 2004 enlargement process recorded significant progress but imperfect implementation. But what has happened since post‐Communist countries joined the EU three years ago now that the leverage of Brussels has ceased? This article develops an analytical approach to answer this question and applies it to the two cases of Slovakia and Latvia during the first three years of membership, showing some further pr…
The Scope and Limitations of Political Conditionality: Romania's Accession to the European Union
Legitimating European Union Accession: Political Elites and Public Opinion in Latvia, 2003—2004
There is growing attention to problems of European Union (EU) legitimacy and, in particular, the lack of affective links between the political elites engaged in integration and public opinion. Political parties are in an influential position for helping to solve this problem. With the EU's largest ever enlargement in May 2004, it is important to establish whether these problems are likely to be magnified or not. Although there was a strong vote i…
Political Elites, Domestic Politics and Democratic Convergence with the European Union: The Case of Romania during Accession
Political elites are a crucial explanatory factor in European integration, as may be seen especially in the area of EU accession, as the case of Romania reveals. The deployment of political conditionality by the EU – indicating that the country would not be admitted to EU membership unless certain political conditions were met, evoked positive responses among Romania's politicians. They had particular motivations and a range of attitudes, and dom…
The Effects of the European Union's Democratic Conditionality: The Case of Romania during Accession
The EU's political conditionality has been a powerful although not always effective instrument for promoting democratic standards in accession countries. It has exploited the leverage that Brussels enjoys over them because a failure to comply can call EU entry into question. However, because of domestic constraints the implementation of the conditions has not been as straightforward as is sometimes assumed. In Romania's case, problems of state ca…
Change and Continuity in the European Union's Political Conditionality: Aims, Approach, and Priorities
The EU's political conditionality has acquired increasing importance with successive enlargements; this also goes for the period since 2004 compared with that before. The focus here is on change and continuity in conditionality policy with respect to its aims, approach, and priorities. The article presents and applies a three-dimensional analysis concerning the challenge to, the process of, and the management of that policy. Given the need for as…
Assessing Democratic Consolidation in Central & Eastern Europe: The European Dimension
European Union Accession Dynamics and Democratization in Central and Eastern Europe: Past and Future Perspectives
EU influence in encouraging and promoting democratic consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe has been extensive, though in a wide rather than deep sense. But, as shown by the enlargement process up to 2004, accession dynamics are the crucial force driving governments in the region to meet the EU's political conditionality. Despite the latter's deficiencies, it has by and large contributed towards democratic consolidation in the new member sta…
Designing Democracy: EU Enlargement and Regime Change in Post-Communist Europe
Designing Democracy is the first systematic and in-depth study of the effects of the EU's democratic conditionality, originally set out in the Copenhagen conditions of 1993, on the new political syste
Clinching the ‘Return to Europe: The Referendums on EU Accession in Estonia and Latvia
There are two salient features of the referendums on EU membership in Estonia and Latvia. Firstly, the results with decisive pro-EU majorities went easily beyond expectations based on previous opinion poll trends, where these two Baltic states had shown less public enthusiasm for integration than other Central and East European countries. This fact owed much to convincing arguments about abandoning international isolation and about geopolitical c…
International actors and democracy promotion in central and eastern Europe: The Integration Model and Its Limits
This article focuses on the key influence of international organizations, and specifically the European Union, in the process of democratization in central and eastern European (CEE) states. It argues that the process of accession to the EU by these post-communist states undergoing regime change, including the pressure to conform to the EU's pre-membership conditions, has led to the emergence of a unique model of democracy promotion through integ…
The EU's Political Conditionality and Post‐Accession Tendencies: Comparisons from Slovakia and Latvia
The EU's political conditionality during the 2004 enlargement process recorded significant progress but imperfect implementation. But what has happened since post‐Communist countries joined the EU three years ago now that the leverage of Brussels has ceased? This article develops an analytical approach to answer this question and applies it to the two cases of Slovakia and Latvia during the first three years of membership, showing some further pr…
Change and Continuity in the European Union's Political Conditionality: Aims, Approach, and Priorities
The EU's political conditionality has acquired increasing importance with successive enlargements; this also goes for the period since 2004 compared with that before. The focus here is on change and continuity in conditionality policy with respect to its aims, approach, and priorities. The article presents and applies a three-dimensional analysis concerning the challenge to, the process of, and the management of that policy. Given the need for as…
Environmental policies and problems of European legislation in Southern Europe
The southern European member states of the European Union have acquired a reputation for being 'laggards' in the implementation of environmental legislation. This is to some extent justified, but it is also exaggerated. Such a view, which poses a North/South dichotomy, ignores general problems of implementation in the EU and takes little notice of differences among the southern European states. The causes of implementation problems, both genetic …
Complying with the European Union's Democratic Conditionality: Transnational Party Linkages and Regime Change in Slovakia, 1993-1998
PRE-ACCESSION RELATIONS BETWEEN the EU and prospective member states involve a progression through a series of stages: policy reorientation towards Brussels leading to membership application, the formalisation of links (notably with an Association agreement), various pre-negotiation consultation procedures and then, finally, negotiations for entry. An obvious way in which prospective member states are affected is through policy choice, content an…
The coalitions of 1989–90 in Greece: Inter‐party relations and democratic consolidation
The Greek coalitions of 1989–90 were unusual by comparative European standards, given their political composition and ideological span. But, above all, they were significant as an historical departure in Greek politics, however much political expediency lay behind their formation. Coalitions are as such almost unknown in postwar Greece, and one‐party government has been the rule since the return to democracy in 1974. Even more significant was the…
European Union Accession Dynamics and Democratization in Central and Eastern Europe: Past and Future Perspectives
EU influence in encouraging and promoting democratic consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe has been extensive, though in a wide rather than deep sense. But, as shown by the enlargement process up to 2004, accession dynamics are the crucial force driving governments in the region to meet the EU's political conditionality. Despite the latter's deficiencies, it has by and large contributed towards democratic consolidation in the new member sta…
The European Union's Democratic Conditionality and Domestic Politics in Slovakia: (The Me ) iar and Dzurinda Governments Compared
THE PROCESS OF MONITORING CANDIDATE COUNTRIES for EU membership has in the past decade become much stricter than ever before, compared with previous enlargements, in terms not only of the scope but also the specificity of conditionality demands. This is evident with respect to both economic and political conditions, but it is the latter which is particularly visible and which has a wider significance for European integration. For the EU has moved…
Comparative perspectives on transnational party-building in new democracies: The case of Central and Eastern Europe
Confining conditions and breaking with the past: Historical legacies and political learning in transitions to democracy
Historical factors have more often been assumed than explored in democratization studies. Their importance has been acknowledged broadly in reference to matters of change and continuity, including the effects of predecessor dictatorships on transition trajectories. But historical factors can have varied and sometimes persistent influences on the democratization process as a whole. These influences therefore need examining in a systematic way that…
Comparative perspectives on the new Mediterranean democracies: A model of regime transition
Clinching the ‘Return to Europe: The Referendums on EU Accession in Estonia and Latvia
There are two salient features of the referendums on EU membership in Estonia and Latvia. Firstly, the results with decisive pro-EU majorities went easily beyond expectations based on previous opinion poll trends, where these two Baltic states had shown less public enthusiasm for integration than other Central and East European countries. This fact owed much to convincing arguments about abandoning international isolation and about geopolitical c…
The Effects of the European Union's Democratic Conditionality: The Case of Romania during Accession
The EU's political conditionality has been a powerful although not always effective instrument for promoting democratic standards in accession countries. It has exploited the leverage that Brussels enjoys over them because a failure to comply can call EU entry into question. However, because of domestic constraints the implementation of the conditions has not been as straightforward as is sometimes assumed. In Romania's case, problems of state ca…
EU Enlargement and Consolidating Democracy in Post–Communist States — Formality and Reality
European integration’s impact on democratization in post–authoritarian societies has usually been considered in the academic literature to be of significance in the long term, in helping to firm up regime consolidation. It is important, however, to consider impacts which come earlier through the accession process. This is shown by focusing on the implementation of the EU’s political conditions by new democracies in post–communist Europe. The two …
Political actors, linkages and interactions: Democratic consolidation in Southern Europe
While it is assumed that the new regimes in Spain, Greece and Portugal are fully liberal democratic, the question of their consolidation remains to be assessed. Although this raises problems about the nature of that process, focusing on the role of political parties provides a crucial means for determining the extent to which democratic consolidation has been achieved so far and for identifying any problems here. This is done by constructing a co…
Assessing Democratic Consolidation in Central & Eastern Europe: The European Dimension
Status Quo Bias or Institutionalisation for Reversibility: The EU's Political Conditionality, Post-Accession Tendencies and Democratic Consolidation in Slovakia
The EU's political conditions have been a consistent and at times salient element in the accession process, since Brussels enlarged their scope and tightened procedures from the mid-1990s. But so far little attention has been given to post-accession compliance with these conditions. This is important, for while the European Commission no longer monitors them, the political conditions were imperfectly implemented by the time of the 2004 enlargemen…
Party systems, factionalism and patterns of democratization: Cross‐national comparisons in southern Europe
The significance of factionalism for democratization is established by starting with the general importance of political parties in that process. It follows that any positive or negative influence by factionalism on their performance at this formative stage is likely to affect the prospects for democratization. The problem is approached three‐dimensionally: the historical dimension; cultural and organizational continuity; and adaptation to the ne…
Environmental policy in Greece: Evolution, structures and process
Greece has been criticised for having ‘no environmental policy’. This is not true, and has not been for over a decade. Clearly, EU membership since 1981 is a major reason for this change. But Greek environmental policy is in many ways flawed, and it is still deeply affected by not only the inheritance of serious environmental degradation but also political, administrative, economic and cultural continuities. Greece is seen as a case of bureaucrat…
Parties and party systems in liberal democracies
Political Elites, Domestic Politics and Democratic Convergence with the European Union: The Case of Romania during Accession
Political elites are a crucial explanatory factor in European integration, as may be seen especially in the area of EU accession, as the case of Romania reveals. The deployment of political conditionality by the EU – indicating that the country would not be admitted to EU membership unless certain political conditions were met, evoked positive responses among Romania's politicians. They had particular motivations and a range of attitudes, and dom…
The Slovak Parliamentary Election of September 2002: Its Systemic Importance
The Concept of ‘Critical Elections’ is Justifiably Used in Two eventualities: when there is a significant turning-point arising from a particular election, such as dramatic changes in party strengths which are subsequently consolidated and affect the structure of the party system (e.g. the replacement of one party by another as major opposition or government party); and, when in new democracies an election has a decisive effect in confirming or d…
Anatomy of the SDP: Is the Party Structurally Top‐Heavy
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A ‘Nationalization’ Process? Federal Politics and State Elections in West Germany
ELECTIONINS THE FEDERAL STATES (Länder) OF WEST GERMANY are frequently interpreted as indicators of national political opinion in much the same way as by-elections in Britain are examined for pointers to trends in the fortunes of the major political parties. Similar factors seem to operate in both cases: a general swing against the party in office; a tendency to see these elections as confidence votes with consequent effects on the morale of the …
Securing the Only Game in Town: The EU's Political Conditionality and Democratic Consolidation in Post-Soviet Latvia
The state of democracy in post-communist Europe has been subject to some debate in recent years; but it needs to take account of longer-term trends. The focus here is on how far the EU's political conditionality has contributed to democratic consolidation using an in-depth case study of post-Soviet Latvia. The record of the impacts of conditionality up to EU entry is examined and then attention turns to whether post-accession tendencies have demo…
The Cdu/Csu Opposition in West Germany, 1969–1972: A Party in Search of an Organisation
Journal Article THE CDU/CSU OPPOSITION IN WEST GERMANY, 1969–1972: A PARTY IN SEARCH OF AN ORGANISATION Get access Geoffrey Pridham Geoffrey Pridham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 1972dec, December 1972, Pages 201–217, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051633 Published: 01 December 1972
Hitler's Rise to Power: The Nazi Movement in Bavaria, 1923-1933
A ‘Nationalization’ Process? Federal Politics and State Elections in West Germany
ELECTIONINS THE FEDERAL STATES (Länder) OF WEST GERMANY are frequently interpreted as indicators of national political opinion in much the same way as by-elections in Britain are examined for pointers to trends in the fortunes of the major political parties. Similar factors seem to operate in both cases: a general swing against the party in office; a tendency to see these elections as confidence votes with consequent effects on the morale of the …
Transnational Party Groups in the European Parliament
Government in the Federal Republic of Germany: The Executive at Work
Berlin im geteilten Deutschland
Journal Article Berlin im geteilten Deutschland Get access Berlin im geteilten Deutschland. By Dieter Mahncke. Munich, Vienna: Oldenbourg. 1973. 325 pp. Bibliogs. Index. (Schriften des Forschungsinstituts der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V. Band 34.) DM 42.00. Geoffrey Pridham Geoffrey Pridham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 1975, Pages …
Ecologists in Politics: The West German Case
Journal Article ECOLOGISTS IN POLITICS: THE WEST GERMAN CASE Get access Geoffrey Pridham Geoffrey Pridham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXXI, Issue 4, Autumn 1978, Pages 436–444, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054281 Published: 01 October 1978
The Italian christian democrats after Moro— crisis or compromise
The DCs development from the mid‐1970s is examined in the light of its overall characteristics as a political party. A sceptical viewpoint is expressed about its prospects for change, in spite of talk of party reform since 1975 under Zaccagnini's secretaryship, if only because the ‘historic compromise’ confirms the DCs governing role even though in a modified policy setting. The main consequence of Moro's death is likely to be an accelerated chan…
Concepts of Italy's approach to the European Community
Christian democracy in Western Europe: A bibliographical survey
The European Policy of Franz Josef Strauss and its Implications for the Community
West Germany: Politics and Society
Journal Article West Germany: Politics and Society Get access West Germany: Politics and Society. By David Childs and Jeffrey Johnson. London: Croom Helm. 1981. 231 pp. £10.95. Pb: £5.95. Geoffrey Pridham Geoffrey Pridham 1University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 4, Autumn 1981, Pages 661–662, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619891 Published: 01 October 1981
The 1980 bundestag election: A case of ‘normality
A Framework for Development: The EEC and the ACP
Journal Article A Framework for Development: the EEC and the ACP Get access A Framework for Development: the EEC and the ACP, by Carol Cosgrove Twitchett. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1981. 160pp. £12. L'Europe et la Coopération au Développement—un bilan: la Convention de Lomé, by Paule Bouvier. Brussels, Editions de l'Universite de Bruxelles, 1980. 191pp. 450FB. Europe and Africa: issues in post-colonial relations, edited by Margaret Cornell. L…
Not So Much a Programme—more a Way of Life: European Perspectives on the British SDP/Liberal Alliance
NOT SO MUCH A PROGRAMME—MORE A WAY OF LIFE: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE BRITISH SDP/LIBERAL ALLIANCE Get access Geoffrey Pridham Geoffrey Pridham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 183–200, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051877 Published: 01 January 1983
New theories for old in party studies? A case for an area studies approach
Western European Party Systems: Continuity and Change. Edited by Hans Daalder and Peter Mair. London: Sage Publications, 1983. Pp.465. £22.95. Modelli di partito: organizzazione e potere nei partiti politici. By Angelo Panebianco. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1982. Pp.505. L.25,000. Die Volkspartei: Typus und Wirklichkeit. By Alf Mintzel. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1984. Pp.388. NP
Comparative perspectives on the new Mediterranean democracies: A model of regime transition
Parties and Coalitional Behaviour in Italian Local Politics: Conflict or Convergence
Conventional coalition theories have applied only to formal or executive coalitions and have tended to be very one‐dimensional in their approach. They do not do justice to the strongly informal element in Italian coalitional behaviour, where a multi‐dimensional framework of analysis is required. Because of Italy's system as a partitocrazia the key variables are inevitably party‐political in nature. In this context, there is a strong case for look…
Hitlers politische Soldaten: Die Waffen-SS 1933-1945. Bernd Wegner
European Elections, Political Parties and Trends of Internalization in Community Affairs
Anatomy of the SDP: Is the Party Structurally Top‐Heavy
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Italy, 1943-1945 . David W. Ellwood
Coalition Behavior and Party Systems in Western Europe: A Comparative Approach
Journal Article COALITION BEHAVIOR AND PARTY SYSTEMS IN WESTERN EUROPE: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH * Get access Geoffrey Pridham Geoffrey Pridham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 40, Issue 3, July 1987, Pages 374–387, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052106 Published: 01 July 1987
Political Science and Contemporary History: Research Trends and Documentary Sources on Postwar Germany
Nazism 1919-1945: A Documentary Reader. Vol. 3: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination
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