Wolinetz, Steven B.
Steven Wolinetz is co-founder of the European Community Studies Association Canada (ECSAC) in 1995 and has chaired this organization ever since. His research interests relate to: Comparative and West European Politics; political parties; the politics of social partnership; smaller democracies; Netherlands, Ireland; and the European Union. Dr. Wolinetz is currently working on a book, Political Parties and Party Systems in the New Millennium. This text examines political parties and party systems in Europe and North America, what they do, and how we study them. Another of his current projects involves social partnership in Ireland and the Netherlands and coping with economic change.
Research Interests: Comparative politics, Political parties, Western Europe, and European Union
Listing Details
| Institution: | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Fields of Expertise: | EU Policies EU Politics Political Parties and Elections |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism,The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | swolin@mun.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | Dutch, English |
| Publications: | Wolinetz, Steven. (2007). The Dutch Parliamentary Elections of 1994. West European Politics. 18. 188-192. Wolinetz, Steven. (2007). Coping with Cornucopia: The Parties Literature in the New Millennium. International Political Science Review 28. 571-584. Wolinetz, Steven. (2003). Governance and Politics of the Netherlands. Acta Politica. 38. 161-164. “Canada: Executive Dominance and Presidentialization” (with Herman Bakvis), in Thomas Poguntke and Paul Webb, eds., The Presidentialization of Politics: A Study in Comparative Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 199-220. “Party Systems and Party System Types” in Richard Katz and William Crotty, eds., Handbook on Political Parties, (London: Sage, 2006), pp. 51-62. “Disconnected Competition in Canada (with R. Kenneth Carty), in Daniel Hough and Charlie Jeffery, eds. Devolution and Electoral Politics: A Comparative Exploration. Manchester University Press (2004) “Political parties and the Canadian Federation’s Coalition Politics” (with R. Kenneth Carty) in J. Peter Meekison, Hamish Telford and Harvey Lazar, eds. Canada: The State of the Federation 2002. Reconsidering the Institutions of Canadian Federalism. Queen’s University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 2004, pp. 57-76. |
