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The West European communist movement in the late twentieth century (1995)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (1995). The West European communist movement in the late twentieth century. West European Politics, 18(1), 78-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402389508425058

This article evaluates the impact of the revolutions in central and eastern Europe in 1989 on west European communist parties, identifying three broad different trajectories of development that these parties have pursued, and signalling the end of th... Read More about The West European communist movement in the late twentieth century.

The Scottish national party and the Italian lega nord: a lesson for their rivals? (1994)
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Newell, J. (1994). The Scottish national party and the Italian lega nord: a lesson for their rivals?. European Journal of Political Research, 26(2), 135-153. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.1994.tb00437.x

As European regional autonomy parties, the Scottish National Party and the Italian Lega Nord present important similarities in the way they appeal to voters. Both parties, too, have recently been favoured by very similar social and political changes.... Read More about The Scottish national party and the Italian lega nord: a lesson for their rivals?.

Review of Claude Muller (1991) La négation en français: syntaxe, sémantique et éléments de comparaison avec les autres langues romanes. (Publications romanes et françaises, vol. 198. Geneva: Droz.) (1994)
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Rowlett, P. (1994). Review of Claude Muller (1991) La négation en français: syntaxe, sémantique et éléments de comparaison avec les autres langues romanes. (Publications romanes et françaises, vol. 198. Geneva: Droz.). Journal of French Language Studies, 4(1), 120-122. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269500002131

The crisis of socialism in Europe : Searching for a (really) big idea (1993)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (1993). The crisis of socialism in Europe : Searching for a (really) big idea. West European Politics, 16(3), 413-423. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402389308424982

This Review Article reviews a number of books which are a product of the collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe in 1989. The article evaluates the impact of the revolutions in central and eastern Europe not only on the regimes themselves... Read More about The crisis of socialism in Europe : Searching for a (really) big idea.

Review of Karine Baschung (1991) Grammaires d’unification à traits et contrôle des infinitives en français. (Langues naturelles et traitement de l’information, vol. 2. Clermont–Ferrand: Adosa.) (1993)
Journal Article
Rowlett, P. (1993). Review of Karine Baschung (1991) Grammaires d’unification à traits et contrôle des infinitives en français. (Langues naturelles et traitement de l’information, vol. 2. Clermont–Ferrand: Adosa.). Journal of French Language Studies, 3(1), 107-108. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269500000375

On the syntactic derivation of negative sentence adverbials (1993)
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Rowlett, P. (1993). On the syntactic derivation of negative sentence adverbials. Journal of French Language Studies, 3(1), 39-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095926950000034X

We consider recent Government-Binding work on sentential negation, e.g. by Pollock, and evaluate a fundamental assumption made about the syntax of negative clauses. While accepting that ne is generated as the head of NegP, we reject the dual claim t... Read More about On the syntactic derivation of negative sentence adverbials.

Pas de deux: further thoughts on the syntax of sentential negation in French (1993)
Journal Article
Rowlett, P. (1993). Pas de deux: further thoughts on the syntax of sentential negation in French

This article supports earlier work by arguing that French negative pas functions as the specifier of NegP at S-structure (at the earliest) rather than at D-structure, as proposed in Pollock's (1989) original formulation of the NegP hypothesis. After... Read More about Pas de deux: further thoughts on the syntax of sentential negation in French.

Remarks on sentential negation in French (1993)
Journal Article
Rowlett, P. (1993). Remarks on sentential negation in French. Catalan working papers in linguistics, 3(1), 153-169

The goal of this article is to present a brief overview of the main arguments used (i.e., in Rowlett 1992a/b, 1993a/b/c) to cast doubt on an aspect of Pollock's (1989) analysis of sentential negation in French, namely his claim that the element pas... Read More about Remarks on sentential negation in French.

Review of Yves Roberge & Marie-Thérèse Vinet (1989) La variation dialectale en grammaire universelle. (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal/Les Editions de l’Université de Sherbrooke.) (1992)
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Rowlett, P. (1992). Review of Yves Roberge & Marie-Thérèse Vinet (1989) La variation dialectale en grammaire universelle. (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal/Les Editions de l’Université de Sherbrooke.). Journal of French Language Studies, 2(2), 283-285. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269500001447

The corporatist ideal-type and political exchange (1992)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (1992). The corporatist ideal-type and political exchange. Political Studies, XL(2), 255-272. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1992.tb01383.x

This article challenges the consistency and coherence of the concept of neo-corporatism by exploring its characteristics as an ideal-type and relating it to the concept of political exchange. It argues that, in its existing form, it has limited use v... Read More about The corporatist ideal-type and political exchange.

On the D-structure position of negative sentence adverbials in French (1992)
Journal Article
Rowlett, P. (1992). On the D-structure position of negative sentence adverbials in French

The author evaluates aspects of recent work by Pollock (1989), Belletti (1990) and Zanuttini (1991), in particular one fundamental assumption made there about the syntax of negative clauses in French. While accepting Pollock's claim that the clitic... Read More about On the D-structure position of negative sentence adverbials in French.

Distant thunder at a picnic : the Sicilian regional elections of June 1991 (1992)
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Bull, M. (1992). Distant thunder at a picnic : the Sicilian regional elections of June 1991. Regional and Federal Studies, 2(3), 76-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597569208420850

This article analyses the outcome of the Sicilian regional elections of June 1991 which, it is argued, were a harbinger of the dramatic changes that would occur in the Italian general election nearly a year later, and which would mark the biggest uph... Read More about Distant thunder at a picnic : the Sicilian regional elections of June 1991.

Whatever happened to Italian communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest communist party in the west (1991)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (1991). Whatever happened to Italian communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest communist party in the west. West European Politics, 14(4), 96-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402389108424878

This article, by analysing three different approaches to west European communism in the political science literature, attempts to explain how and why the largest communist party in the West, the Italian Communist Party, took the decision to dissolve... Read More about Whatever happened to Italian communism? Explaining the dissolution of the largest communist party in the west.

The Italian Communist Party's twentieth congress and the painful birth of the Democratic Party of the left (1991)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (1991). The Italian Communist Party's twentieth congress and the painful birth of the Democratic Party of the left. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 7(2), 257-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279108415087

This article analyses the final congress of the largest communist party in the West (the Italian Communist Party), marking its transformation into the non-communist Democratic Party of the Left. The article analyses the transformation process as well... Read More about The Italian Communist Party's twentieth congress and the painful birth of the Democratic Party of the left.

A new era for the non-rulers too : West European communist parties, Perestroika and the revolution in Eastern Europe (1991)
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Bull, M. (1991). A new era for the non-rulers too : West European communist parties, Perestroika and the revolution in Eastern Europe. Politics, 11(1), 17-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.1991.tb00188.x

The revolutions in central and eastern Europe have naturally focused attention on the collapse of the ruling parties of these regimes and the regimes themselves. This has tended to overlook the impact of this collapse on the non-ruling communist part... Read More about A new era for the non-rulers too : West European communist parties, Perestroika and the revolution in Eastern Europe.