Table of Contents

Part I: Studying Party Patronage
1: Petr Kopecký and Peter Mair: Party Patronage as an Organizational Resource
2: Petr Kopecký and Maria Spirova: Measuring Party Patronage through Structured Expert Interviews
Part II: Party Patronage In Europe
3: Oliver Treib: Party Patronage in Austria: From Reward to Control
4: Maria Spirova: 'A Tradition We Don't Mess With': Party Patronage in Bulgaria
5: Petr Kopecký: Give Me Trafika: Party Patronage in the Czech Republic
6: Carina Bischoff: Party Patronage in Denmark: The Merit State with Politics 'On the Side'
7: Stefanie John and Thomas Poguntke: Party Patronage in Germany: The Strategic use of Appointments
8: Takis Pappas and Zina Assimakopoulou: Party Patronage in Greece: Political Entrepreneurship in a Party Patronage Democracy
9: Jan Meyer-Sahling and Krisztina Jáger: Capturing the State: Party Patronage in Hungary
10: Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson: Party Patronage in Iceland: Rewards and Control Appointments
11: Stephen Quinlan, Eoin O'Malley, and Peter Mair: Party Patronage in Ireland: Changing Parameters
12: Fabrizio Di Mascio: Party Patronage in Italy: A Matter for Solitary Leaders
13: Sandra Van Thiel: Party Patronage in the Netherlands: Sharing Appointments to Maintain Consensus
14: Elin Haugsgjerd Allern: Party Patronage in Norway: No Room for Political Parties?
15: Carlos Jalali, Patricia Silva, and Diogo Moreira: Party Patronage in Portugal: Treading in Shallow Water
16: Raúl Gómez and Tània Verge: Party Patronage in Spain: Extensive But Not Pervasive use of Appointments as s Tool of Party Government
17: Matthew Flinders and Felicity Matthews: Party Patronage in the United Kingdom
Part III: Conclusion
Petr Kopecký and Peter Mair: Conclusion: Party Patronage in Contemporary Europe

About the Author

Petr Kopecký has published extensively in the fields of comparative politics, party politics and democratization. His books include Parliaments in the Czech and Slovak Republics (Ashgate 2001), Uncivil Society? Contentious Politics in Eastern Europe (co-edited, Routledge 2003), Political Parties and the State in Post-Communist Europe (edited, Routledge 2007). He is a co-editor of the journal East European Politics. He is
Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Leiden University, Netherlands. Peter Mair was Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of Graduate Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
He was co-editor of the journal West European Politics, and an Honorary Professor in European Politics at Leiden University. He was a former winner of the Stein Rokkan Prize and co-director of the Observatory on Political Parties and Representation, based at the EUI in Florence. Maria Spirova has published on issues related to party development, minority policy, ethnic politics, and Europeanization in the post-communist world. She is the author of Political Parties in Post
Communist Societies: Formation, Persistence and Change (Palgrave McMillan, 2007). She is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics and International Relations in the Institute of Political Science at Leiden
University, Netherlands.