Europeanisation and Party Politics: How the EU affects Domestic Actors, Patterns and Systems

This book provides a sophisticated theoretical framework and up-to-date analysis of the Europeanisation of domestic party systems and political parties' policy stances. It covers a range of contemporary topics: party systems, policy stances of political parties, opposition/co-operation over European integration in party systems, cleavage theory of party response to European integration, domestic depoliticisation and EU representation. It presents a sophisticated political analysis of Europe and provides an exceptional amount of factual information about European countries and parties.