This is the first book-length comparison of the dynamics of electoral behaviour across a wide range of European countries over the past forty years. Leading scholars come together to assess how voting patterns have changed in six established democracies: Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.

• 1: Jacques Thomassen: The European Voter


• 2: Hans-Dieter Klingemann: Political Parties and Party Systems


• 3: Kees Aarts and Bernhard Wessels: Electoral Turnout


• 4: Maria Oskarson: Social Structure and Party Choice


• 5: Hermann Schmitt, Frode Berglund, Soren Homberg, Jacques Thomassen: Party Identification and Party Choice


• 6: Oddbjorn Knutsen and Staffan Kumlin: Value Orientations and Party Choice


• 7: Cees van der Eijk, Hermann Schmitt, and Tanja Binder: Left-Right Orientation and Party Choice


• 8: Bernt Aardal and Pieter Van Wijnen: Issue Voting


• 9: Ola Listhaug: Retrospective Voting


• 10: John Curtice, and Soren Homberg: Leadership and Voting Decision


• 11: Jacques Thomassen: Modernization or Polities?


• Appendix1: Parties, Elections, and Parliaments


• Appendix 2:The European Voter Database