Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Do parties respond? : challenges to political parties and their consequences / Thomas Poguntke -- 2. Speaking for whom? : from 'old' to 'New' Labour / James E. Cronin -- 3. From disaster to landslide : the case of the Britsh Labour Party / Patrick Seyd and Paul Whiteley -- 4. From people's movements to electoral machines? : interest aggregation and the social democratic parties of Scandinavia / Nicholas Aylott -- 5. From aggregation to cartel? : the Danish case / Karina Pedersen -- 6. How parties in government respond : distributive policy in post-Wall Berlin / Louise K. Davidson-Schmich -- 7. Reaggregating interests? : how the break-up of the Union for French Democracy has changed the response of the French moderate right / Nicolas Sauger -- 8. Radicals, technocrats and traditionalists : interest aggregation in two provincial social democratic parties in Canada / A. Brian Tanguay -- 9. Paying for party response : parties of the centre-right in post-war Italy / Jonathan Hopkin -- 10. Latecomers but 'early-adapters' : the adaptation and response of Spanish parties to social changes / Luis Ramiro and Laura Morales -- 11. Representative rule or the rule of representations : the case of Russian political parties / Susanna Pshizova -- 12. Five variations on a theme : interest aggregation by party today / Kay Lawson.

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