DAN HOUGH is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex, UK. He has published widely on parties and party systems, devolution and constitutional change in the UK and German politics. His recent publications include The Politics of the New Germany (with Simon Green and Alister Miskimmon, 2007) and Devolution in Comparative Context (edited with Charlie Jeffery, 2006). MICHAEL KO is Visiting Scholar at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Germany. His research centres on party politics and party systems, party finance, comparative politics, federalism

'...scholars in search of a definitive assessment of this increasingly important political party need look no further than this excellent book.' - Simone Green, Political Studies Review

• Unification and the Fight for Survival Policies, Programmes and Personalities: The Post-1998 Left Party Aims and Ambitions: Policy, Office, Votes and the Left Party Haven't we been here before?: Comparing the Left Party and the Greens The Left Party in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania The Left Party in Berlin The Left Party in Opposition From the PDS to the Left Party Conclusion

DAN HOUGH is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex, UK. He has published widely on parties and party systems, devolution and constitutional change in the UK and German politics. His recent publications include The Politics of the New Germany (with Simon Green and Alister Miskimmon, 2007) and Devolution in Comparative Context (edited with Charlie Jeffery, 2006). MICHAEL KO is Visiting Scholar at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Germany. His research centres on party politics and party systems, party finance, comparative politics, federalism

'...scholars in search of a definitive assessment of this increasingly important political party need look no further than this excellent book.' - Simone Green, Political Studies Review

• Unification and the Fight for Survival Policies, Programmes and Personalities: The Post-1998 Left Party Aims and Ambitions: Policy, Office, Votes and the Left Party Haven't we been here before?: Comparing the Left Party and the Greens The Left Party in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania The Left Party in Berlin The Left Party in Opposition From the PDS to the Left Party Conclusion