Ingrid van Biezen is Professor of Comparative Politics and Head of Department at Leiden University. Hans-Martien ten Napel is an Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University. In 2014 he was awarded a Research Fellowship in Legal Studies at the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) in Princeton, which enabled him to be in full-time residence at CTI for the academic year 2014-2015.

• Table of contents Introduction Ingrid van Biezen & Hans-Martien ten Napel Chapter 1: Democracy and the Legal Regulation of Political Parties Richard S. Katz Chapter 2: Dilemmas of Regulating Political Finance, with Special Reference to the Dutch Case Ruud Koole Chapter 3: Lessons from the Past: Party Regulation in the Netherlands Remco Nehmelman Chapter 4: Th e Constitutionalization of Political Parties in Post-war Europe Ingrid van Biezen Chapter 5: Party Laws in Comparative Perspective Fernando Casal Bértoa, Daniela R. Piccio & Ekaterina R. Rashkova Chapter 6: Explaining Legislative Confl ict over the Adoption of Political Financing Law in the European Union Wojciech Gagatek Chapter 7: The SGP Case: Did it Really (Re)Launch the Debate on Party Regulation in the Netherlands Hans-Martien ten Napel & Jaco van den Brink Chapter 8: Will it All End in Tears? What Really Happens when Democracies Use Law to Ban Political Parties Tim Bale Chapter 9: Ethnic Party Regulation in Eastern Europe Ekaterina R. Rashkova and Maria Spirova Chapter 10: On the Engineerability of Political Parties: Evidence from Mexico Imke Harbers & Matthew C. Ingram About the authors Index

Ingrid van Biezen is Professor of Comparative Politics and Head of Department at Leiden University. Hans-Martien ten Napel is an Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University. In 2014 he was awarded a Research Fellowship in Legal Studies at the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) in Princeton, which enabled him to be in full-time residence at CTI for the academic year 2014-2015.

• Table of contents Introduction Ingrid van Biezen & Hans-Martien ten Napel Chapter 1: Democracy and the Legal Regulation of Political Parties Richard S. Katz Chapter 2: Dilemmas of Regulating Political Finance, with Special Reference to the Dutch Case Ruud Koole Chapter 3: Lessons from the Past: Party Regulation in the Netherlands Remco Nehmelman Chapter 4: Th e Constitutionalization of Political Parties in Post-war Europe Ingrid van Biezen Chapter 5: Party Laws in Comparative Perspective Fernando Casal Bértoa, Daniela R. Piccio & Ekaterina R. Rashkova Chapter 6: Explaining Legislative Confl ict over the Adoption of Political Financing Law in the European Union Wojciech Gagatek Chapter 7: The SGP Case: Did it Really (Re)Launch the Debate on Party Regulation in the Netherlands Hans-Martien ten Napel & Jaco van den Brink Chapter 8: Will it All End in Tears? What Really Happens when Democracies Use Law to Ban Political Parties Tim Bale Chapter 9: Ethnic Party Regulation in Eastern Europe Ekaterina R. Rashkova and Maria Spirova Chapter 10: On the Engineerability of Political Parties: Evidence from Mexico Imke Harbers & Matthew C. Ingram About the authors Index

Ingrid van Biezen is Professor of Comparative Politics and Head of Department at Leiden University. Hans-Martien ten Napel is an Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University. In 2014 he was awarded a Research Fellowship in Legal Studies at the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) in Princeton, which enabled him to be in full-time residence at CTI for the academic year 2014-2015.

• Table of contents Introduction Ingrid van Biezen & Hans-Martien ten Napel Chapter 1: Democracy and the Legal Regulation of Political Parties Richard S. Katz Chapter 2: Dilemmas of Regulating Political Finance, with Special Reference to the Dutch Case Ruud Koole Chapter 3: Lessons from the Past: Party Regulation in the Netherlands Remco Nehmelman Chapter 4: Th e Constitutionalization of Political Parties in Post-war Europe Ingrid van Biezen Chapter 5: Party Laws in Comparative Perspective Fernando Casal Bértoa, Daniela R. Piccio & Ekaterina R. Rashkova Chapter 6: Explaining Legislative Confl ict over the Adoption of Political Financing Law in the European Union Wojciech Gagatek Chapter 7: The SGP Case: Did it Really (Re)Launch the Debate on Party Regulation in the Netherlands Hans-Martien ten Napel & Jaco van den Brink Chapter 8: Will it All End in Tears? What Really Happens when Democracies Use Law to Ban Political Parties Tim Bale Chapter 9: Ethnic Party Regulation in Eastern Europe Ekaterina R. Rashkova and Maria Spirova Chapter 10: On the Engineerability of Political Parties: Evidence from Mexico Imke Harbers & Matthew C. Ingram About the authors Index