Chapter 1 Party Democracies in Europe Under Threat?

Chapter 2 Why Parties Narrow Their Representative Profile: Evidence from Six European Democracies

Chapter 3 The Origins of Party System Polarisation: How Parties and Voters Shape the Ideological Spread in Party Systems

Chapter 4 The Limits of Cartelization: Can Parties Cope with Vulnerability?

Chapter 5 What ‘Moves’ Party Systems in Times of Crisis?

Chapter 6 From Brussels to the Capital: New Parties’ Paths into National Parliaments

Chapter 7 More or Less Vulnerable?

Chapter 8 Democracy Reform as a Populist Policy Supply

Chapter 10 No Need for Wider Selectorates? Party Members’ Preferences for Reforming the Nomination of District and List Candidates for the German Bundestag

Chapter 11 Oppositional Strategies Between Cooperation and Conflict: An Analysis of Opposition Party Voting in the German Bundestag, 1949–2013

Chapter 12 Friends and Foes: How Coalition Formats Shape Voters’ Perceptions of the Party System