Europeanisation and Party Politics: How the EU affects Domestic Actors, Patterns and Systems [Hardcover]

This book covers a range of contemporary topics: party systems, policy stances of political parties, opposition/co-operation over European integration, cleavage theory of party response to European integration, domestic depoliticisation and EU representation.A sophisticated theoretical framework and up-to-date analysis of the Europeanisation of domestic party systems and political parties' policy stances. This book covers a range of contemporary topics: party systems, policy stances of political parties, opposition/co-operation over European integration, cleavage theory of party response to European integration, domestic depoliticisation and EU representation. It presents a sophisticated political analysis of Europe, and an exceptional amount of factual information about European countries and parties.ContentsChapter One: Introduction to European Integration, Party Systemsand Political PartiesErol K?lahci 1Chapter Two: The European Integration  Cleavage in the PartySystem: The French CaseDavid S. Bell 17Chapter Three: The Europeanisation of the German Party SystemIsabelle Hertner and James Sloam 35Chapter Four: Europeanisation and Partisan Structure in ItalyNicol? Conti and Luca Verzichelli 55Chapter Five: A Differential Europeanisation? The Political Partiesof the United KingdomDavid Hanley and John Loughlin 77Chapter Six: Europeanisation and the Party System in GreeceChristoforos Vernardakis and Iosif Botetzagias 95Chapter Seven: The Spanish Party System and European Integration a Consensual EuropeanisationRafael V?zquez-Garc?a 109Chapter Eight: The Europeanisation of Polands Political Partiesand Party SystemJean-Michel De Waele and Anna Pacze[niak 125Chapter Nine: The Romanian Party Systems Europeanisation:An Open BetSorina Soare 145Chapter Ten: The Strange Case of the European PartiesStefano Bartolini 157Chapter Eleven: Conclusion: Country ComparisonErol K?lahci 171Erol K?lahci's research focuses on comparative European politics and in particular domestilJ