Table of Contents

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? Hans-Dieter Klingemann: Appendix1: Parties, Elections, and Parliaments Ingvill C. Mochmann and Wolfgang Zenk-Moeltgen: Appendix 2:The European Voter Database