Europe at the Polls

PASCAL PERRINEAU is Professor of Political Science at the IEP, Paris, and has been the director of the Center for the Study of French Politics (CEVIPOF), a research center at Sciences Po., Paris since 1991. His research focuses primarily on the French elections and on the extreme-right in Europe. His published works include Political Behavior (1992) with Nonna Mayer and The Le Pen Symptom, Radiographie des Électeurs du Front National (1997).GERARD GRUNBERG is a researcher at CEVIPOF and is the coordinator of the European Thematic Network Political Science. He is interested in electoral behavior and the European social democracy. His books include Towards a European Socialism (1997) with Alain Bergounioux and The Proof for Utopia, European Socialism in the 20th Century (1996).COLETTE YSMAL is a researcher at the CEVIPOF, where she works on electoral behavior and on European right-wing political forces. Her main publications are Electoral Behavior of the French (1990) with Piero Ignazi, Eds. and The Organization of Southern Parties (1998).

• Introduction PART ONE: EUROPE, CITIZENS, AND POLITICAL ELITES The 1999 European Parliament Elections and European integration; B.Cautrés, R.Sinnot Dynamic Representation: The Case of European Integration; H.Schmidtt, J.Thomassen Identity and Electoral Participation; A.P.Frognier The Faltering Europeanization of National Campaigns; J.Gerstlé, H.A.Semetko, K.Schoenbach, M.Villa PART TWO: THE EUROPE OF POLITICAL FORCES The Communist and Extreme Left Galaxy; M.Lazar The Disillusionment of European Socialists; G.Grunberg & G.Moschonas Green Parties and European Elections : The Success Story; F.Mueller-Rommel Ethnoregionalist Parties and European Integration at the 1999 European Elections; L.De Winter The European People's Party and the Restructuring of Right Wing Parties in Europe; D.Hanley & C.Ysmal The extreme right in the June 1999 European elections; P.Ignazi & P.Perrineau PART THREE: THE EUROPE OF VOTERS AND OF INSTITUTIONS Electoral Geography of Europe; C.Vandermotten & P.Medina Lockhart Electoral Participation and European Poll : A Limited Legitimacy; P.Delwit The new European Parliament; C.Lord Appendices (Electoral Results in Each Country, Parliamentary Groups Inside the European Parliament, Electoral Maps)