European Political Parties between Cooperation and Integration

This volume conceptualizes political parties on an European level in terms of their constitutional and institutional regulation as well as their organizational foundation and evolution. The emerging European political parties are thus treated as organizations in their own right.
Scholars from Britain, Finland, Germany and Sweden sharing this field of expertise came together at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs to confront a series of guiding research questions.
The book originates from a project coordinated by the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) with the support of the Constitutional Project of the Center for Business and Policy Studies (SNS) in Stockholm.
Table of Contents:
Framing European Political Parties: Historical-Institutional Framework – Constitutional Framework – Organizing European Political Parties: European People’s Party – Party of European Socialists – European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party – European Federation of Green Parties – Electoral Dimension: Party-Electoral Linkage – Party Landscape after the 1999 European Elections