Hanspeter Kriesi is Professor for Comparative Politics in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Edgar Grande is Professor for Comparative Politics in the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the University of Munich. Romain Lachat is a visiting scholar at the Department of Politics of New York University. Martin Dolezal is a researcher in the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the University of Munich. Simon Bornscher is a researcher in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Timotheos Frey is a researcher in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich.

• Part I. Theory and Methods: 1. Globalization and its impact on national spaces of competition; 2. Contexts of party mobilization; 3. The design of the study: the distinguishing characteristics of our approach; Part II. Country Studies: 4. France: the model case of party system transformation; 5. Austria: transformation driven by an established party; 6. Switzerland: another case of transformation driven by an established party; 7. The Netherlands: a challenge that was slow in coming; 8. The United Kingdom: moving parties in a stable configuration; 9. Germany: the dog that didn't bark; Part III. Comparative Analyses: 10. Demand side: dealignment and realignment of the structural political potentials; 11. Supply side: the positioning of the political parties in a restructuring space; 12. The electoral consequences of the integration-demarcation cleavage; 13. Globalizing West European politics: the change of cleavage structures, parties and party systems in comparative perspective; Appendix A. Technical appendix; Appendix B. Detailed statistical results.

'This book provides the best analysis I have seen of the political repercussions of globalization for voters, for political parties, and for the structure of political competition. The authors explain why different countries experience globalization in different ways, and they underpin their conclusions with an impressive diversity of data. A tour de force that will shape the study of European politics for years to come.' Gary Marks, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Free University of Amsterdam