The Europeanization of Politics

Daniele Caramani is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Zurich. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, where he has also been a Jean Monnet Fellow. He has held positions at the University of Mannheim in Germany, the University of Birmingham in England, and the University of St Gallen in Switzerland. He is the author of Elections in Western Europe since 1815: Electoral Results by Constituencies (2000), The Nationalization of Politics (2004), and Introduction to the Comparative Method with Boolean Algebra (2009). He edited the textbook Comparative Politics, 3rd edition (2014) and regularly publishes in leading political science journals. He received the UNESCO's Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences in 2004 and the Data Set Award for the Constituency-Level Data Archive (CLEA) in 2012.

• Introduction: electoral integration in Europe; Part I. Framework: 1. Theoretical framework: Europeanization in historical perspective; 2. Research design: European party families and party systems; Part II. Analysis: 3. Homogeneity: convergence and deviation in European electoral development, 1848–2012; 4. Uniformity: electoral waves and electoral swings across Europe, 1848–2012; 5. Correspondence: overlapping vs distinctive electorates in national and European elections, 1974‒2012; 6. Cohesion: ideological convergence within European party families, 1945–2009; 7. Closure: the Europeanization of cabinet and coalition politics, 1945‒2009; Part III. Assessment: 8. Sources of Europeanization: supra-, within-, and trans-national; Explanations; Conclusion: toward European-wide representation.

'To what degree have political ideologies in different European nations converged over time? Are national politics becoming European politics? In this book, Daniele Caramani provides a deeply informed, insightful, and persuasive account of how national cleavages, party politics, and electoral behavior have been transformed across Europe since the nineteenth century. The result is an immense contribution to our understanding of the political development of Europe.' Gary Marks, Burton Craige Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Research Chair in Multilevel Governance, VU Amsterdam