Part 1 The partisan identities of voters: on party attachment in Western Europe and the utility of Eurobarometer data, Hermann Schmitt; European party loyalties revisited, Bradley M. Richardson; the place of "party" in post-Communist Europe, Matthew Wyman et al. Part 2 Social cleavages, new politics and value change: electoral change in Western countries - consequences of post-industrial social change, Mark N. Franklin and Thomas T. Mackie; the changing politics of women - gender, and political alignment in Western democracies, David DeVaus and Ian McAllister; economic security and value change, Ronald Inglehart and Paul R. Abramson; new party versus old left realignments - environmental attitudes, party policies and partisan affiliations in four West European countries, Robert Rohrschneider. Part 3 Economic voting: comparative economic voting - Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Michael Lewis-Beck; a cross-national analysis of economic voting - taking account of the political context, G. Bingham Powell Jr. and Guy D. Whitten; the political economy of competitive elections in the developing world, Alexander Pacek and Benjamin Radcliff. Part 4 The institutional context of electoral systems: the political consequences of electoral laws, 1945-85, Arend Lijphart; what voters teach us about Europe-wide elections - what Europe-wide elections teach us about voters, Caes van der Eijk et al. Part 5 Campaign communications: political balance on television - campaigns in the United States, Britain and Germany, Holli Semetko; 120 years of Swedish election campaigns, Peter Esaiasson. Part 6 Political participation: voter turnout in the industrial democracies during the 1980s, Robert Jackman and R.A. Miller; beyond SES - a resource model of political participation, Henry E. Brady et al; bowling alone - America's declining social capital, Robert D. Putnam. Part 7 Political representation: political parties and political representation, Russell J. Dalton; political representation in Sweden, Soren Holmberg; the public as thermostat - dynamics of preferences for spending, Christopher Wlezien; May's law of curvilinear disparity revisited - leaders, officers, members and voters in British political parties, Pippa Norris. Part 8 Elections and democratization: the social requisites of democracy revisited, Seymour Martin Lipset; the politics and economics of democratic commitment - support for democracy in transition societies, Geoffrey Evans and Stephen Whitefield.
