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| Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| One Europe or Many Europes? | |
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| Major Differences with American Politics | |
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| A Quick Historical Note | |
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| The Main Lines of Social Division | |
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| Language and National Culture | |
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| Religion | |
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| Region | |
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| Social Class | |
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| Coping with Division: Exclusion versus Integration | |
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| The Decline of the Traditional Sources of Division | |
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| Immigrants: A New Divide? | |
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| Liberals Are Not Liberals: The European Ideologies | |
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| The European Political Spectrum | |
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| Conservatism | |
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| Liberalism | |
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| Anarchism, Social Democracy, and Communism | |
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| Christian Democracy | |
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| Fascism and Nazism | |
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| New Ideologies | |
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| Regional Variations in Coping with Ideological Division | |
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| Americanization of European Politics? | |
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| From Elections to Governments: The Long Way | |
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| The European State | |
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| Where the Votes Are: Elections | |
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| Where the Power Is: Political Parties | |
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| Coalition Governments and Party Systems | |
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| Regional Variations in Elections, Parties, and Government | |
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| Government and Parliament | |
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| The Real Legislator: Government | |
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| The Final Say: Parliament | |
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| Other State Institutions | |
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| Regional Variations in Parliamentary and Government Power | |
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| Political Innovation to Cope with Division | |
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| The Short Way to a New Government: Presidential Systems | |
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| Between State and Society | |
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| New Talks Announced by the White House | |
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| Civil Society European Style | |
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| One of Europe's Favorites: Business-Labor-Government Tripartism | |
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| From Doctors to Students: Other Pressure Groups | |
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| The Commercial Revolution: The Mass Media | |
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| Regional Variations in Civil Society | |
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| Local Government and Politics | |
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| Federalism | |
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| Public Policy in Europe | |
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| Policy Styles in Europe | |
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| Welfare is Not Welfare | |
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| The Welfare State and Its Redefinition in Western Europe | |
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| Left and Right: Does It Make a Difference? | |
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| Redefining the Welfare State: Central and Eastern Europe | |
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| Education | |
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| Life and Death | |
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| Supranational Politics: The European Union | |
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| Catching the EMU-Train: EU Policies | |
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| Toward European Integration | |
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| The European Union's Structure | |
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| International Politics | |
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| Marking Territories in Multipolar Europe | |
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| The Bipolar World during the Cold War | |
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| Europe in the New Unipolar World | |
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| A Divided Continent in Search of Unity | |
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| Even Good Neighbors Have Their Quarrels | |
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| Europe by Region | |
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| Western Europe | |
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| Central Europe | |
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| Eastern Europe | |
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| Other Countries | |
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| Scientific Terms | |
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| The European Nations | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |