Peter Mair
Political scientist
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Peter Mair's Degrees
- PhD Political Science National University of Ireland
- Masters Political Science National University of Ireland
- Bachelors Political Science National University of Ireland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Mair was an Irish political scientist. He was a professor of comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence. Career Peter Mair was born in Rosses Point, County Sligo, Ireland, and studied history and politics at University College Dublin. He continued to work as assistant professor at the University of Limerick, Strathclyde, Manchester and the European University Institute in Florence during the 1980s. In 1987 at Leiden University he gained a doctorate, which as The changing Irish party system became a standard work on the Irish party system. In 1990, he co-authored the book Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability with Stefano Bartolini. It was awarded the ISSC/Unesco Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. He continued to work at Leiden University becoming professor of comparative politics in 1994 when he held an inaugural address entitled "Party democracies and their difficulties". In 2001 he became co-editor of the journal West European Politics. In 2005 he returned to the European University Institute to invest time in his research into democracy, indifference and populist parties.
Peter Mair's Published Works
Published Works
- Changing Models of Party Organization and Party Democracy (1995) (2710)
- Ruling The Void: The Hollowing Of Western Democracy (2013) (1004)
- Left Right Political Scales - Some Expert Judgments (1984) (834)
- Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability: The Stabilisation of European Electorates 1885-1985 (1990) (829)
- Going, Going, ...Gone? The Decline of Party Membership in Contemporary Europe (2012) (770)
- Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations (1997) (750)
- Party Membership in Twenty European Democracies, 1980-2000 (2001) (722)
- The limited impact of Europe on national party systems (2000) (536)
- Representative Government in Modern Europe (1995) (528)
- How Parties Organize : Change and Adaptation in Party Organizations in Western Democracies (1994) (527)
- The Cartel Party Thesis: A Restatement (2009) (469)
- THE PARTY FAMILY AND ITS STUDY (1998) (405)
- The Evolution of Party Organizations in Europe: The Three Faces of Party Organization (1994) (352)
- Biophotovoltaics: Natural pigments in dye-sensitized solar cells (2014) (348)
- Language and politics (1982) (296)
- Party System Change (1998) (289)
- Political Opposition and the European Union 1 (2007) (265)
- Populist Democracy vs Party Democracy (2002) (248)
- The Challenge to Party Government (2008) (245)
- Party Organizations: From Civil Society to the State (1994) (234)
- The membership of political parties in European democracies, 1960-1990 (1992) (233)
- Representative versus Responsible Government (2009) (189)
- The West European party system (1990) (179)
- 5. The Ascendancy of the Party in Public Office: Party Organizational Change in Tweentieth-Century Democracies (2003) (164)
- Left–Right Orientations (2007) (161)
- Electoral Volatility and the Dutch Party System: A Comparative Perspective (2008) (155)
- Searching for the positions of political actors: A review of approaches and a critical evaluation of expert surveys (2001) (155)
- Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies (2012) (153)
- Cadre, Catch-All or Cartel? (1996) (138)
- Political Parties and Electoral Change: Party Responses to Electoral Markets (2004) (128)
- Myths of electoral change and the survival of traditional parties (1993) (125)
- Party Organizations: A Data Handbook on Party Organizations in Western Democracies, 1960-90 (1992) (124)
- Popular Democracy and the European Union Polity (2005) (112)
- The Parameters of Party Systems (2008) (111)
- Representative Government in Western Europe (1991) (111)
- When Parties (Also) Position Themselves: An Introduction to the EU Profiler (2011) (110)
- Democracy Beyond Parties (2005) (105)
- Political representation and government in the European Union (2010) (101)
- Ideology and Politics (1980) (99)
- The Party System (2009) (97)
- Representative Government in Modern Europe: Institutions, Parties, and Governments (2005) (89)
- Political parties, popular legitimacy and public privilege (1995) (84)
- Bini Smaghi vs. the Parties: Representative government and institutional constraints (2011) (80)
- In the Aggregate: Mass Electoral Behaviour in Western Europe, 1950–2000 (2002) (75)
- Party Systems and Structures of Competition (1998) (75)
- The changing Irish party system : organisation, ideology and electoral competition (1989) (74)
- Autonomy of the Political - Development of the Irish Party System (1979) (72)
- Democracy and the Cartelization of Political Parties (2018) (70)
- The Election in Context (2011) (66)
- Explaining the Absence of Class Politics in Ireland (1992) (62)
- Party preferences in the digital age (2014) (59)
- Comparative Politics: An Overview (1998) (57)
- The Problem of Party System Change (1989) (57)
- Continuity, change and the vulnerability of party (1989) (56)
- What is different about post-communist party systems? (1996) (55)
- Adaptation and control : towards an understanding of party and party system change (1983) (52)
- Emergence of the Cartel Party Changing Models of Party Organization and Party Democracy : The (2011) (51)
- Policy competition, spatial distance and electoral instability (1990) (50)
- Polity-Scepticism, Party Failings, and the Challenge to European Democracy (2006) (50)
- The Green Challenge and Political Competition: How Typical is the German Experience? (2001) (48)
- E. E. Schattschneider's The Semisovereign People (1997) (46)
- Positioning Accountability in European Governance: An Introduction (2010) (46)
- Political Parties and Party Systems (2008) (44)
- Political opposition and the European Union (the government and opposition/Leonard Schapiro memorial lecture, 2006) (2007) (44)
- Left–right political scales (1997) (44)
- How to Create a Transnational Party System (2010) (42)
- The Electoral Payoffs of Fission and Fusion (1990) (39)
- The enlarged European Union : diversity and adaptation (2002) (38)
- Party Patronage as an Organizational Resource (2012) (38)
- Introduction: Diversity and Adaptation in the Enlarged European Union (2002) (36)
- The changing Irish party system (1987) (36)
- Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe (1990) (31)
- How Ireland voted : the Irish general election, 1987 (1987) (28)
- Party politics in contemporary Europe: A challenge to party? (1984) (27)
- Party Systems and Alternation in Government, 1950-2000. Innovation and Institutionalisation (2007) (27)
- Ireland: Centralization, Professionalization and Competitive Pressures (1994) (25)
- Popular Democracy and EU Enlargement (2003) (25)
- Left-right political scales (1997) (25)
- Western European party systems : continuity & change (1983) (25)
- Political Parties in Electoral Markets in Postwar Ireland (2004) (21)
- Representation and participation in the changing world of party politics (1998) (21)
- The correlates of consensus democracy and the puzzle of Dutch politics (1994) (21)
- Institutional Change in Advanced European Democracies: An Exploratory Assessment (2012) (19)
- Two Decades On: How Institutionalized are the Post-Communist Party Systems? (2010) (19)
- Volatiles from naranjilla fruit (Solanum quitoense Lam.). GC/MS analysis and sensory evaluation using sniffing GC (1989) (18)
- 12 Critical Commentary: Four Perspectives on the End of Class Politics? (1999) (18)
- Concepts and concept formation (2008) (17)
- Parties, interest groups and cartels (2012) (16)
- Representative Government in Modern Europe (Second Edition) (1995) (16)
- Party Organization, Party Democracy, and the Emergence of the Cartel Party (With Richard S. Katz) (1998) (16)
- On Parties, Party Systems and Democracy: Selected writings of Peter Mair (2014) (15)
- Conclusion: Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe (2012) (15)
- Courting, but not always serving: Perverted Burkeanism and the puzzle of Irish Parliamentary Cohesion (2012) (14)
- Party System Institutionalisation Across Time in Post-communist Europe (2012) (14)
- Constituents of Dill (Anethum graveolens L.) with Sensory Importance (1991) (14)
- Locating Irish Political Parties on a Left-Right Dimension: An Empirical Enquiry (1986) (13)
- Trajectories of European Politics: An Introduction (2008) (12)
- 3-NOP: ADME studies in rats and ruminating animals. (2019) (12)
- Prelims and Editorial (2002) (11)
- Japanese Political Realignment in Perspective (1998) (10)
- AS : “ From Private Organizations to Democratic Infrastructure : Political Parties and the State in Estonia (2009) (10)
- Does the number of parties to place affect the placement of parties? Results from an expert survey experiment (2011) (9)
- Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe: Principles and practices (2011) (9)
- Accountability and European Governance (2010) (9)
- The Way We Work Now (2009) (9)
- Electoral Markets and Stable States (1991) (9)
- Representative Government in Modern Europe, 5th revised edition (2011) (9)
- Patronage and Party Organization in Argentine: The Emergence of the Patronage-based Network Party (2007) (9)
- Proportionality, P.R. and S.T.V. in Ireland (1975) (8)
- The Political Crisis (2010) (8)
- Party Politics in Contemporary Western Europe (1985) (7)
- Diallate, triallate, and sulfallate herbicides: identification of thiocarbamate sulfoxides, chloroacroleins, and chloroallylthiols as mouse microsomal oxidase and glutathione S-transferase metabolites (1991) (7)
- Ireland: From predominance to moderate pluralism, and back again? (1989) (7)
- Is Governing Becoming More Contentious (2011) (7)
- The Department of Political and Social Sciences (2009) (6)
- Searching for the Positions of Political Actors: A Review of Approaches and an Evaluation of Expert Surveys in Particular (2013) (5)
- How Ireland Voted 2007: The Full Story of Ireland's General Election (2008) (5)
- Muffling the swing: STV and the Irish general election of 1981 (1982) (5)
- The periphery‐dominated centre (1997) (5)
- Introduction to Sartori's 1967 Manuscript on 'Party Types, Organisation and Functions' (2005) (5)
- Ideology, Strategy and Party Change: Spatial Analyses of Post-War Election Programmes in 19 Democracies: Ireland 1948–1981: issues, parties, strategies. (1987) (4)
- The break‐up of the United Kingdom: The Irish experience of regime change, 1918–1949 (1978) (4)
- Controlled release behaviour of polymeric pentachlorophenyl esters (1987) (4)
- Political Representation and European Union Governance (2011) (4)
- Party Patronage in Ireland: Changing Parameters (2012) (4)
- Labour and the Irish party system revisited - party competition in the 1920s (1977) (4)
- Cellulose bound chlorophenols II: Preparation and characterization of phenyloxycarbonylpentanoyl celluloses dependence of substitution on chlorophenol structure (1987) (4)
- Recent Writing on Irish Politics (1984) (3)
- Pentachlorophenylcellulose preparation and investigation on its applicability as a controlled release fungicide (1986) (3)
- [Accumulated incidence of idiopathic vocal cord paralysis]. (1971) (3)
- Political Data in 1993 (1994) (3)
- The Enlarged European Union: Unity and Diversity (2002) (3)
- Introduction: How are West European party systems changing? (1989) (3)
- Iet, wiet, waait, ... weg? De afname van partijlidmaatschap in hedendaags Europa (2012) (3)
- Institutional Change in Advanced European Democracies 1990-2008 (2011) (2)
- Published by Cambridge University Press 2012 Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen, The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP: Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions , Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011, xviii + 318 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8014-7682-2 (2012) (2)
- PARTIES AND THE STATE (2001) (2)
- I have asthma (2004) (2)
- Crisis and Choice in European Social Democracy. By Fritz W. Scharpf. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. 303p. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. (1992) (2)
- Campaign Strategies: The Selling of the Parties (1987) (2)
- Debating Europe's Future: The Political Setting of the European Convention (2003) (2)
- The European Welfare State: Golden Achievements, Silver Prospects Maurizio Ferrera (2013) (2)
- I have diabetes (2004) (2)
- POPULIST DEMOCRACY VS. PARTY DEMOCRACY (This is an unfinished draft of a chapter being prepared for eventual inclusion in Yves Mény (ed.), Populism.) (2013) (2)
- The Marxist Left (1979) (2)
- A Territorial versus a Class Appeal?: the Labour Parties of the British Isles' Periphery* (1982) (2)
- The Cartel Party (2018) (2)
- On the Freezing of Party Systems (1998) (2)
- Political Data in 1994 (1995) (2)
- Politics as Language: Some notes on the Marxist theory of the revolutionary party (1982) (2)
- Electoral Democracy and Political Representation in the European Union (2007) (1)
- Myths of Electoral Change and the Survival of the ‘Old’ Parties 1 (1998) (1)
- The Challenge to Party Government Peter Mair (2013) (1)
- The British Party System: A Comparative Perspective (2009) (1)
- Political Science Journals at the EUI (2009) (1)
- Single transferable vote and the Irish general election of 1977 (1978) (1)
- The State of Ireland (2011) (1)
- Acknowledgements (2010) (0)
- The Parliamentary Peloton (2010) (0)
- European Politics: Pasts, Presents, Futures (2009) (0)
- Philippe Schmitter: 2009 Johan Skytte Prize Recipient (2009) (0)
- voting alone (2005) (0)
- European Union? Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks (2013) (0)
- Representative Government vs. Responsible Government (2011) (0)
- I have cerebral palsy (2004) (0)
- Book Reviews (1998) (0)
- The Locus of Power in Parties (2018) (0)
- The implications of the European Union for citizenship in the Netherlands (1998) (0)
- Parties and Party Systems: Introduction (2005) (0)
- Acknowledgements (2002) (0)
- Issue-dimensions and party strategies in the Irish Republic,1948-1981 : the evidence of manifestos (1982) (0)
- Seclusion and Inclusion in Europe (2007) (0)
- European Political Economy: Labour Out, State Back In, Firm to the Fore Vivien A. Schmidt (2013) (0)
- Towards a European Politics (2015) (0)
- Politics and Representation Workshop (2011) (0)
- Institutional Change and Democratic Practices (2008) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- The Labour Party in Crisis . By Paul Whiteley. (New York: Menthuen, 1983. Pp. ix + 253. $25.00, cloth; $12.95, paper.) (1985) (0)
- Book Reviews (2001) (0)
- Summer 2009 APSA CP Vol 20 No. 2 (2009) (0)
- I have epilepsy/ written by Peter and Catherine Mair ; photographs by Mark Coote (2004) (0)
- The Rise and Decline of Parties (2018) (0)
- Political Representation and EU Governance (2010) (0)
- Editorial Board (2015) (0)
- Book Reviews (2010) (0)
- Foreword (2002) (0)
- The Changing Politics of Organised Interests Philippe C. Schmitter (2013) (0)
- Democracy and Changes: How Research Tails Reality Leonardo Morlino (2013) (0)
- Thirty Years of Territorial Politics Michael Keating (2013) (0)
- Howard R. Penniman (ed.), Israeli at the Polls: the Knesset of 1977 , Washington, D.C., American Enterprise Institute, 1979, 333 pp. (s.p.). (1981) (0)
- Prelims and Editorial (2002) (0)
- Editorial Board (2014) (0)
- Parties and One Another (2018) (0)
- Popular Legitimacy and Public Privileges: Party Organizations in Civil Society and the State (1998) (0)
- Editorial Board (2016) (0)
- The Problem (2018) (0)
- James E. Alt, The Politics of Economic Decline: Economic Management and Political Behaviour in Britain Since 1964, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp. viii-269 (s.p.). (1981) (0)
- Select bibliography of publications on Irish politics during 1986 (1987) (0)
- a response to liz carter (2002) (0)
- Regulation, the Regulatory State and European Politics Martin Lodge (2013) (0)
- Select bibliography of publications on Irish politics during 1987 (1988) (0)
- Vitamins, 12. Vitamin B9 (2019) (0)
- Closer to the People? Political parties and the decentralization of the state in Latin America (2005) (0)
- Personal data Name (2015) (0)
- Visiting Scholars: Enriching the EUI Community (2008) (0)
- Editorial Board (2010) (0)
- Do some forms of democracy consolidate more easily than others (2002) (0)
- Select bibliography of publications on Irish politics during 1985 (1986) (0)
- THE POLITICS OF EXIT (2014) (0)
- How Ireland voted 2002 (2003) (0)
- Worlds, Families, Regimes: Country Clusters in European Francis G. Castles and and OECD Area Public Policy Herbert Obinger (2013) (0)
- EUDO-EUROPEAN UNION DEMOCRACY OBSERVATORY Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe : Principles and Practices (2011) (0)
- Representative versus Responsible Government and May’s Law: The Case of the Czech Christian Democratic Party* (2012) (0)
- IPO volume 28 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1998) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- The Cartel Party and Populist Opposition (2018) (0)
- Book reviews (2001) (0)
- European Government(s): Executive Politics in Transition? Morten Egeberg (2013) (0)
- SPS Summer School (2007) (0)
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