David Borughton og Mark Donovan, (eds.), Changing Party Systems in Western Europe, xix + 315 s., London: Pinter^ 16.99(pb).

David London

CP violation in the B system [1] has been established by the recent measurements of sin 2β, with a world average of sin 2β = 0.78 ± 0.08 [2]. The main B decay used to probe the weak phase β is the so-called “gold-plated” mode B d(t) → J/ψKS. In order to extract weak-phase information cleanly, i.e. with no hadronic uncertainties, a given B decay must be dominated by a single weak decay amplitude...

The Rise of Party/Leader Identification in Western Europe

This paper investigates the attitudinal drivers of partisanship in Western Europe, focusing in particular on the role exerted by voters’ evaluation of party leaders. The crosssectional analysis is performed on pooled national election study data from three established parliamentary democracies (Britain, Germany, and The Netherlands). Results highlight the growing statistical association between...

Book Review: R. Dingwall and S. Frost (eds.), Health and Safety in a Changing World, Routledge, London, 2017

Roger Martin, David Michaels Juan Uriagereka (eds.)

This book contains 10 essays written in honor of Howard Lasnik, as well as an introduction by two of the editors, a list of Lasnik's publications, a list of dissertations supervised by Lasnik, and an index. The dust jacket describes the contents asàn up-to-date overview of research in the minimalist program of linguistic theory'. As such, this review considers the book as a window onto current ...

Electoral Systems and Party System Stability in Post-Communist Europe

This paper analyses the impact of electoral institutions on party system stability and change in twelve countries of post-communist Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It argues that in the post-communist context it is necessary to break party system change down into two components: volatility and replacement. Volatility, a concept already well developed in the literature, refers to cha...