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European integration and internal party dynamics / Elisabeth Carter, Kurt Richard Luther, and Thomas Poguntke ; Structural adjustment and incumbent elite empowerment : Austrian parties adaptation to European integration / Kurt Richard Luther ; Government change, organizational continuity : the limited Europeanization of British political parties / Elisabeth Carter and Robert Ladrech ; Continuity amidst political system change : why French party organization remains immune to EU adaptive pressures / Robert Ladrech ; Europeanization in a consensual environment : German political parties and the European Union / Thomas Poguntke ; European integration and Spanish parties : elite empowerment amidst limited adaptation / Luis Ramiro and Laura Morales ; A long, slow march to Europe : the Europeanization of Swedish political parties / Nicholas Aylott ; Some things change, a lot stays the same : comparing the country studies / Nicholas Aylott, Laura Morales and Luis Ramiro ; Europeanization and national party organization : limited but appropriate adaptation? / Robert Ladrech.

Parteitage haben einen erheblichen Einfluss auf die Wahrnehmung einer Partei in der breiten Öffentlichkeit haben. Sie dienen der Selbstdarstellung der Partei. Man könnte auch sagen ihrer Selbstinszenierung – vor allem der ihrer Führungskräfte. Parteitage ohne physische Präsenz sind in erster Linie der Außendarstellung gewidmet, während die Binnenfunktion, die innerparteiliche Demokratie, also das Ringen um Lösungen und Kompromisse, notwendigerweise stark in den Hintergrund treten. Dieses etwas ernüchternde Fazit steht im Widerspruch zu der weit verbreiteten Euphorie hinsichtlich der Digitalisierung des politischen Prozesses.

The results of the 2009 Bundestag election and subsequent Land elections suggest that the German party system is changing fundamentally. A few facts suffice to corroborate this statement: Volatility has now reached levels that were last recorded in the 1950s; turnout in national elections has reached an all-time low; the two large parties have had unprecedentedly poor results in the Bundestag elections while all three smaller parties reached more than 10 percent. The article shows that German catch-all parties are about to lose their hold on the electorate and, as a result, can no longer rely on being the senior parties of government. The article analyses these changes systematically using a range of quantitative indicators covering the entire post-war period. It shows a seminal erosion of the forces which have stabilized the German party system in earlier decades and discusses the repercussions for the functioning of German party democracy. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]

The results of the 2009 Bundestag election and subsequent Land elections suggest that the German party system is changing fundamentally. A few facts suffice to corroborate this statement: Volatility has now reached levels that were last recorded in the 1950s; turnout in national elections has reached an all-time low; the two large parties have had unprecedentedly poor results in the Bundestag elections while all three smaller parties reached more than 10 percent. The article shows that German catch-all parties are about to lose their hold on the electorate and, as a result, can no longer rely on being the senior parties of government. The article analyses these changes systematically using a range of quantitative indicators covering the entire post-war period. It shows a seminal erosion of the forces which have stabilized the German party system in earlier decades and discusses the repercussions for the functioning of German party democracy.