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Author(s): Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal, Simon Bornschier, Timotheos Frey
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Author: Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal, Simon Bornschier, Timotheos

Over the past three decades the effects of globalization and denationalization have created a division between ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ in Western Europe. This study examines the transformation of party political systems in six countries (Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK) using opinion surveys, as well as newly collected data on election campaigns. The authors argue that, as a result of structural transformations and the strategic repositioning of political parties, Europe has observed the emergence of a tripolar configuration of political power, comprising the left, the moderate right, and the new populist right. They suggest that, through an emphasis on cultural issues such as mass immigration and resistance to European integration, the traditional focus of political debate – the economy – has been downplayed or reinterpreted in terms of this new political cleavage. This new analysis of Western European politics will interest all students of European politics and political sociology.

Table of contents: 

PART I Theory and methods
1 Globalization and its impact on national spaces of competition
A new structural conflict between ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ of globalization
The impact of the new structural conflict on the structure of the political space
The positioning of the parties within the transformed space
An overview of the volume
2 Contexts of party mobilization
The societal context
The relative strength of the traditional cleavages and the new cleavage
Economic context conditions
Cultural context conditions
The political context
The general framework: processes of dealignment and the established structure of the party systems
Institutional opportunity structures: the electoral system and its consequences
The interaction context and the dynamics of adjustment: strategies of mainstream parties
Conclusion
3 The design of the study: the distinguishing characteristics of our approach
Selection of countries and elections
Two sides of party competition: data collection and analysis
Twelve issue categories
Analysis of the demand side
Analysis of the supply side
Conclusion
PART II Country studies
4 France: the model case of party system transformation
Introduction
Context conditions
Traditional cleavages and dealignment in the party system
Economic context conditions
Cultural context conditions
Immigration
European integration
Political context conditions
Institutional structures
Organizational capacity and leadership quality
Strategies of the mainstream parties
Analysis of the demand side: voters’ political potentials
Analysis of the supply side: structures of competition in the party system
Conclusion
5 Austria: transformation driven by an established party
Introduction
Social-economic and political context conditions
Relative strength of traditional cleavages
Economic context conditions
Cultural context conditions
Political context conditions
Dealignment
Institutional structures: the end of consensus democracy?
The new right-wing populist challenge
Analysis of the demand side: voters’ attitudes and issue-priorities
Analysis of the supply side: the parties’ programmatic offer
Conclusion
6 Switzerland: another case of transformation driven by an established party
Introduction
Traditional cleavages
Economic context conditions
Cultural context conditions
The political context
Analysis of the demand side: the electoral potential for a new cleavage
Analysis of the supply side: the articulation of the integration–demarcation cleavage
Conclusion
7 The Netherlands: a challenge that was slow in coming
Introduction
Social and economic context conditions
The relative strength of traditional cleavages
Economic context conditions
Cultural context conditions
Political context conditions
The new right-wing populist challenge
Analysis of the demand side: the voters’ political potentials
Analysis of the supply side: the party’s programmatic offer
Conclusion
8 The United Kingdom: moving parties in a stable configuration
Introduction
Social and economic context conditions
The relative strength of traditional cleavages
Economic context conditions
Cultural context conditions
Political context conditions
Dealignment and realignment
Difficulties for new challengers
Transformation of major parties
Analysis of the demand side: the voters’ political potentials
Analysis of the supply side: the parties’ programmatic offer
Conclusion
9 Germany: the dog that didn’t bark
Introduction
Social-economic and cultural context conditions
Relative strength of traditional cleavages
Economic context conditions
Cultural context conditions
Political context conditions
Dealignment
Institutional structure
Organizational capacity and leadership quality of the new challengers
Strategies of mainstream parties
Analysis of the demand side: voters’ attitudes and issue priorities
Analysis of the supply side: the parties’ programmatic offer
Conclusion
PART III Comparative analyses
10 Demand side: dealignment and realignment of the structural political potentials
Introduction
The structure of voters’ attitudes
The relationship between economic and cultural issues
Winners and losers of globalization
The configuration of partisan groups
The structural basis of the new divide
Conclusion
11 Supply side: the positioning of the political parties in a restructuring space
Introduction
The structure of the political space
The transformation of the basic dimensions of the space
The degree of integration of the two dimensions
The configuration of party positions
‘Tripolarity’
Party families
Comparing national party configurations
The determinants of parties’ issue-positions
Economic issues
European integration and immigration
Cultural liberalism and law and order
Conclusion
12 The electoral consequences of the integration–demarcation cleavage
Introduction
The issue basis of voting choices
Strategy of analysis
France
Austria
Switzerland
The Netherlands
United Kingdom
Germany
Conclusion
13 Globalizing West European politics: the change of cleavage structures, parties and party systems
Globalizing West European politics: dimensions of comparative analysis
The transformation of cleavage structures and political spaces
The rise of new parties and party families in Western Europe
The fragmentation and polarization of party systems in Western Europe
Fragmentation
Polarization
Still the age of moderate pluralism?
Conclusion
Appendix A: Technical appendix
Introduction
Analysis of the supply side of electoral competition: data collection
Analysis of the demand side: list of datasets used
Operationalization of social-structural variables
Social class
Education
Religion and religiosity
Measuring voters’ issue-positions
Statistical methods
Multidimensional scaling
Measuring the degree of integration of two axes in an MDS configuration
Polarization measure
Weighted Euclidian distance between parties in a multidimensional issue space

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