Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Unthinkable Democracy: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies -- PART I. PARTIES IN THE ELECTORATE -- 2. The Decline of Party Identifications -- 3. The Consequences of Partisan Dealignment -- 4. The Decline of Party Mobilization -- PART II. PARTIES AS POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS -- 5. Parties without Members? Party Organization in a Changing Electoral Environment -- 6. Political Parties as Campaign Organizations -- 7. From Social Integration to Electoral Contestation: The Changing Distribution of Power within Political Parties -- PART III. PARTIES IN GOVERNMENT -- 8. Parties in Legislature: Two Competing Explanations -- 9. Parties at the Core of Government -- 10. From Platform Declarations to Policy Outcomes: Changing Party Profiles and Partisan Influence over Policy -- 11. On the Primacy of Party in Government: Why Legislative Parties Can Survive Party Decline in the Electorate -- CONCLUSION -- 12. Partisan Change and the Democratic Process -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.