Challenges to Consensual Politics Democracy, Identity, and Populist Protest in the Alpine Region

The Editors: Daniele Caramani has recently joined the University of Birmingham. During the making of this book he was a research professor at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. He taught previously in Florence and Geneva, and has been a fellow of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (EUI). He is the author of the book and CD-ROM Elections in Western Europe since 1815 (2000) and The Nationalization of Politics (2004) awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize in Comparative Social Science.
Yves Mény is President of the European University Institute (Florence). Previously, he was the founding director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (EUI) and professor at the Universities of Rennes, Paris 2, and the Institut d’Études Politiques (Paris). His recent publications include Par le Peuple, Pour le Peuple: Le Populisme et les Démocraties, co-authored with Yves Surel (2000), and The Future of European Welfare, co-edited with Martin Rhodes (1998).