Contents: Introduction: Party Democracy in the new Germany, Stephen Padgett. Party System Dimensions: The new German electorate, Stephen Padgett; The first all-German elections, Hans-Joachim Veen; Dimensions of change in the German party system, Gordon Smith; The territorial dimension of the new party system, Roland Sturm. Party Perspectives: The Christian Democrats and the challenge of unity, William M. Chandler; The Free Democratic party and the new Germany, Geoffrey K. Roberts; Loosely coupled anarchy?: the fragmentation of the left, Stephen J. Silvia. Eastern German Dimensions: The vanishing opposition: the decline of the East German citizen movements, Mike Dennis; Concepts of party democracy in the East, Eva Kolinsky; Index.
