Professor Paul Furlong
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Publications
Books
Power in Capitalist Society: Theory, Explanation and Cases, (with A.W.Cox and E.C.Page), Wheatsheaf Press, Brighton, 1985, 235pp.
The European Community: a Modern Companion, (with A.W.Cox) Aldershot, Edward Elgar Press, 1992.
Modern Italy: Representation and Reform, London, Routledge, 1994, xii + 294pp.
The European Procurement Directory and The European Utilities Procurement Directory (with A.W.Cox and P.Coleman, Stratford, Earlsgate Press, 1995, 4 vols.)
The Church faces the Modern World - Rerum Novarum and its impact, (ed., with D.C.Curtis) Stratford, Earlsgate Press, 1994, 256pp. with chapters by (among others) Jonathan Boswell, Paul Luykx, James O’Connell, Emile Poulat, and Michael Schuck.
The European Union at the crossroads (ed., with A.W.Cox, Stratford, Earlsgate Press, 1995) with chapters by (among others), Stephen George, Keith Hartley, George Mackenzie, William Paterson, John Redmond, Albert Weale and Stephen Woolcock
Articles in refereed journals
'Il referendum di divorzio - presupposte politiche del intervento religioso' in Proposte Interdisciplinari luglio 1976 v2 n2 pp.23-48.
'Il voto di preferenza e l'elettorato romano - elezioni politiche1976', Rivista Italiana di Scienze Politiche, 7(3), dicembre 1977, pp. 393-409.
'La Signora Thatcher: un liberale dell'Ottocento?', Quaderni Costituzionali, IV(1), aprile 1984, pp. 183-190.
'Le elezioni europee: una consultazione trascurata', Quaderni Costituzionali, V(2), agosto 1985, pp. 447-453.
'La cittadinanza ed il diritto al voto', Quaderni Costituzionali, VII(2), agosto 1987, pp. 418-425.
'The Constitutional Court in Italian Politics', West European Politics, 11(3), July 1988, pp. 7-23.
'Parliament in Italian Politics', in West European Politics, 13(3), July 1990, Special Issue on Parliaments in Western Europe, ed. P. Norton, pp. 52-67.
'Government stability and electoral reform in Italy', Parliamentary Affairs v.44 January 1991 pp. 50-59.
'The Last Congress of the Italian Communist Party', Government and Opposition April 1991.
'The extreme right in Italy - old orders and dangerous novelties' Parliamentary Affairs, Summer 1992.
'Sviluppi recenti nella forma di governo della Gran Bretagna', Quaderni Costituzionali, XIII (2) agosto 1993
'Partnership or Competition? - the reform of public procurement in Humberside,' (with F.Lamont and A.W.Cox) European Journal of Purchasing and Supply v.1 n.1 March 1994
‘Utilities contracting and the EU procurement rules’ (with A.W.Cox) Utilities Policy 1995 v5 n3/4 pp199-206
‘The Italian Parliament and European Integration: responsibilities, failures and successes’ Journal of Legislative Studies v.1 n.3 Autumn 1995 pp.35-45
‘European procurement rules and national preference: explaining the local sourcing of public works contracts in the EU in 1993’, (with A.W.Cox) Journal of Construction Procurement v 1 n 2 November 1995 pp.87-99
‘The Jury is still out for Utilities Procurement - the impact of the EU Procurement directives on the location of Utility contract awards in the ‘Twelve’ member states’, (with A.W.Cox ) Public Procurement Law Review 1996 no3 pp. 57-66
‘British Higher Education and the Bologna Process: an interim assessment’, Politics February 2005 v25 n1, pp. 53-61
‘Institutional fragmentation in Parliamentary control: the Italian case’, Journal of Legislative Studies v10 nos 2 & 3, 2004, pp 174-192
‘Authoritarian conservatism after the war: Julius Evola and Europe’, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies v11 n2 2005 pp. 5-26
Chapters in edited books
'Political Terrorism in Italy: Responses, Reactions and Immobilism', in J. Lodge (ed.), Terrorism - a challenge to the state, Martin Robertson, Oxford, 1981, pp. 57-90.
'Political Underdevelopment and Economic Recession in Italy', in A.W.Cox (ed.), Politics, Policy and the European Recession, MacMillan, London, 1982, pp. 167-194.
'Italy', in F.F.Ridley (ed.), Policies and Politics in Western Europe, Croom Helm, Beckenham, 1984, pp. 115-154.
'The Changing Role of the Vatican in Italian Politics', in L. Quartermaine (ed.), Italy Today, Exeter University Press, Exeter,1985 and 1987 ( 1st and 2nd ed.), pp. 59-75.
'State Finance and Industrial Policy in Italy', in A.W.Cox (ed.), State Finance and Industry: A Comparative Analysis of Post-war Trends in Six Advanced Industrial Economies, Wheatsheaf Press, Brighton, 1986, pp. 142-171.
'Authority, Change and Conflict in Italian Catholicism', in T.M.Gannon (ed.), World Catholicism in Transition, Macmillan, London, 1989, pp. 116-132.
'Italy', in Religion and Politics - a World Guide, ed. S. Mews, Longman, London, 1989, pp. 138-141.
'Malta', in Religion and Politics - a World Guide, ed. S. Mews, (London, Longman, 1989), pp. 176-178.
'Parliament in Italian Politics', in Parliaments in Western Europe, ed. P. Norton (London, Frank Cass, 1990) pp. 52-67.
‘The Midlands in the European elections’, in Butler D., and Westlake, M., (eds), British Politics and European elections 1994 (London, MacMillan 1995) pp.232-235
‘Europe at the Crossroads - implementing the Single Market project’ (with A.W.Cox) in Furlong P. and Cox A.W., (eds.) The European Union at the Crossroads - problems in implementing the Single Market project (Boston, Earlsgate Press, 1995) pp.3-10
‘The impact of the public procurement directives on EU contract awards in 1993’, (with A.W.Cox) in Mayes, D.G., (eds.) The evolution of rules for the single European market: part 2 Rules democracy and the environment (Brussels, European Commission DGXII, 1995) pp.115-142
‘Political Catholicism and the strange death of the Christian Democrats’ pp.59-71 in Gundle S. and Parker S., (eds.) The new Italian Republic - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi (London, Routledge, 1996)
biographical entries on Giulio Andreotti, Enrico Berlinguer, Silvio Berlusconi, Bettino Craxi, Alcide de Gasperi, Amintore Fanfani, Giovanni Giolitti, and Benito Mussolini in Dictionary of Political Biography ed. D. Kavanagh, (Oxford, OUP, 1998)
‘A skin not a sweater: ontology and epistemology in Political Science’ in Theory and Methods in Political Science 2nd edition, ed. D. Marsh and G. Stoker, (London, Palgrave 2002), pp17-44
‘Stabilising Italy: 1945-1989’ in C.Levy and M. Roseman eds., Three postwar eras in comparison: Western Europe 1918-1945-1989 (London, Palgrave, 2002) pp. 120-148
‘The Italian political system in 2001: radical change and work in progress’ in J. Newell ed., The Italian General election of 2001: Berlusconi’s victory (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002)
Published papers and articles in non-refereed journals
The Italian Christian Democrats - From Catholic Movement to Conservative Party, Hull Papers in Politics no. 25, Hull, 1982, 45 pp.
Film and Politics, British Film Year Ltd, London 1985, 6 pp.
“Italy and the idea of Europe: the Catholic View”, ASMI Newsletter no.19 Spring 1991 pp.13-16.
'Proportional Representation and Stable Government: Lessons from Italy', Talking Politics Autumn 1991, v.4 no.1, pp. 34-38.
‘Doctoral Studies in the United Kingdom’, EpsNET Reports no.10, ed. Goldsmith, M., Doctoral Studies in Political Science – a European comparison, EpsNET, Sciences Po Paris, 2005
