Political Parties in the New Europe Political and Analytical Challenges [Paperback]

The scope and intensity of the challenges currently faced by western European political parties is exceptionally large, threatening the viability of the manner in which they have traditionally operated and causing them to seek new behaviours and strategies. This volume brings together some of the foremost scholars of European party politics, whose evaluation of political parties in the new Europe is organised under four broad headings: Parties as Corporate Actors; Parties and Society; Parties and the State and Parties Beyond the Nation State. Each contributor not only provides a concise, critical review of the theoretical and methodological state of the art in respect of a specific aspect, but also reviews the latest empirical findings in that area.


I Introduction
1. Political Parties in a Changing Europe,Kurt Richard Luther and Ferdinand M?ller-Rommel
II Parties and Society
2. Political Parties and their Publics,Russel J. Dalton, Ian McAllister, and Martin Wattenberg
3. Party Organizational Linkage: Parties Without Firm Social Roots?,Thomas Poguntke
4. Campaign Modernization and the West European Party,David M. Farrell
III Parties as Purposive Organizations
5. The Internal Life of Parties,Richard S. Katz
6. Party Organizational Change: Competing Explanations ?,Robert Harmel
7. Parties, Ideologies, and Issues. Stability and Change in Fifteen European Party Systems 1945-1998,Andrea Volkens and Hans-Dieter Klingemann
IV Parties and National Government
8. Parties and Government Formation, Portfolio Allocation and Policy Definition,Lieven De Winter
9. Policy-Making Capacities of European Party Government,Hans Keman
V Parties, The Nation State And Beyond
10. Parties and the Institutional Framework,Wolfgang C. M?ller
11. Parties and PartylÃm