Michael Marsh is Head of the Department of Political Science and a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of a wide variety of articles on parties and electoral behaviour which have appeared in books and journals published in Europe and the United States. His co-edited books include Candidate Selection in Comparative Perspective: The Secret Garden of Politics (London, 1988) and Modern Irish Democracy (Dublin, 1993). Paul Mitchell is a lecturer in politics at the Queen's University, Belfast. He has published a range of articles and chapters on coalition politics and party competition as well as conflict regulation in ethnically divided societies. A book he co-edited (with Rick Wilford), Politics in Northern Ireland, was recently published by Westview Press.

• Part 1 The Campaign, 1 Political Competition, 1992-1997, 2 Organisational Preparation and Political Marketing, 3 Candidate Selection, 4 Party Manifestos, 5 On the Campaign Trail, Part 2 Results, Analysis, Aftermath, 6 The Results Analysed, 7 The Behaviour of the Irish Voter, 8 The Sodal and Political Characteristics of the Twenty-eighth Dail, 9 The Senate Elections, 10 The Making of the Eighth President, 11 Government Formation: A Tale of Two Coalitions, 12 The Irish Party System Approaching the Millennium

Michael Marsh is Head of the Department of Political Science and a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of a wide variety of articles on parties and electoral behaviour which have appeared in books and journals published in Europe and the United States. His co-edited books include Candidate Selection in Comparative Perspective: The Secret Garden of Politics (London, 1988) and Modern Irish Democracy (Dublin, 1993). Paul Mitchell is a lecturer in politics at the Queen's University, Belfast. He has published a range of articles and chapters on coalition politics and party competition as well as conflict regulation in ethnically divided societies. A book he co-edited (with Rick Wilford), Politics in Northern Ireland, was recently published by Westview Press.

• Part 1 The Campaign, 1 Political Competition, 1992-1997, 2 Organisational Preparation and Political Marketing, 3 Candidate Selection, 4 Party Manifestos, 5 On the Campaign Trail, Part 2 Results, Analysis, Aftermath, 6 The Results Analysed, 7 The Behaviour of the Irish Voter, 8 The Sodal and Political Characteristics of the Twenty-eighth Dail, 9 The Senate Elections, 10 The Making of the Eighth President, 11 Government Formation: A Tale of Two Coalitions, 12 The Irish Party System Approaching the Millennium