Die Parteiensysteme der deutschen Länder

Party competition in Germany has become more fluid and unclear. In the recent past, the party systems of the federal states have lived up to their reputation as a laboratory for experimentation and innovation in party competition. But how have the state party systems developed and how regionalised have they been over the decades? And what does this mean for the German multi-level party system?
This book addresses these questions and analyses the dynamics of the party systems in the German states over more than seven decades in terms of their temporal and spatial dimensions based on a systematic review of political science theory on party systems.