The Structure of Political Competition in Western Europe

1. Introduction: The Structure of Political Competition in Western Europe Zsolt Enyedi and Kevin Deegan-Krause 2. The New Cultural Divide and the Two-Dimensional Political Space in Western Europe Simon Bornschier 3. Elite-Level Conflict Salience and Dimensionality in Western Europe: Concepts and Empirical Findings Heather Stoll 4. Political Cleavages and Socio-economic Context: How Welfare Regimes and Historical Divisions Shape Political Cleavages Andrija Henjak 5. The Development of the Education Cleavage: Denmark as a Critical Case Rune Stubager 6. Exploring the Stabilization of a Political Force: The Social and Attitudinal Basis of Green Parties in the Age of Globalization Martin Dolezal 7. The Regional Cleavage in Western Europe: Can Social Composition, Value Orientations and Territorial Identities Explain the Impact of Region on Party Choice? Oddbjorn Knutsen 8. Structural and Ideological Voting in Age Cohorts Wouter van der Brug 9. Persistent Political Divides, Electoral Volatility and Citizen Involvement: The Freezing Hypothesis in the 2004 European Election Gabor Toka and Tania Gosselin 10. Models, Measures and Mechanisms: An Agenda for Progress in Cleavage Research Geoffrey Evans 11. Cleavage Research: A Critical Appraisal Mark N. Franklin 12. The Comparative Analysis of Electoral and Partisan Politics Herbert Kitschelt 13. Restructuration of Partisan Politics and the Emergence of a New Cleavage Based on Values Hanspeter Kriesi 14. Agency and the Structure of Party Competition: Alignment, Stability and the Role of Political Elites Kevin Deegan-Krause and Zsolt Enyedi