The long goodbye: the relationship between lleftist parties and the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) after the end of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) (1992-2017) by Mimmo Carrieri

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Call for Papers: How attractive are political parties and trade unions to young people? by IF and FRFG

“…What lessons can belearned from examples in which specific parties or unions have accomplished this, such as recently the British Labour Party? …”
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CORPORATISM IN WESTERN EUROPE: CURRENT STATE AND PROSPECTS FOR EVOLUTION by Р. Ja. Feldman

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Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…He discovers strong social ties between young party members and suggests that this indicates “a certain exclusivity in recruitment patterns of political parties”. …”
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‘Another brick in the wall’. On the origins of nationalism in the ‘new’ federal states of Germany by A. V. Belinskii, M. V. Khorol’skaya

“…A relatively broad support enjoyed by the populist and nationalist parties and movements (AfD, National Democratic Party of Germany, PEGIDA), as well as a higher rate of hate crimes in the eastern part of the Federal Republic of Germany raise a question on the nature of nationalism in this region. …”
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Les élections européennes de 2014 : une analyse comparative des résultats aux échelles nationale et régionale by Christian Vandermotten, Pablo Medina Lockhart

“…It opens on a classification of the political parties, leading to an elementary typology : parties developing a leftist critics of the ruling forms of the European policy ; parties agreeing with the ruling trends of the European agenda, either on a social-democratic or labour basis, or on a liberal, conservative or christian-democratic one ; eurosceptic or europhobic parties, on the basis of rightist and/or nationalistic attitudes. …”
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