Introduction:; Chapter 1 Dimensions of Party System Change: The Case of Austria, K.R. Luther; Chapter 2 Patterns of Part Icipation and Competition in Belgium, Kris Deschouwer; Chapter 3 Denmark: The Oscillating Party System, Lars Bille; Chapter 4 Stages and Dynamics in the Evolution of the French Party System, Howard Machin; Chapter 5 Party Strategies and System Change in the Netherlands, Bart Tromp; Chapter 6 Party System Change In West Germany: Land-Federal Linkages, Geoffrey K. Roberts; Chapter 7 Party Strategy and Centre Domination in Italy, Mark Donovan; Chapter 8 Ireland: From Predominance to Moderate Pluralism, and Back Again?, Peter Mair; Chapter 9 Norway: Levels of Party Competition and System Change, Knut Heidar; Chapter 10 Core Persistence: Change and the ‘People's Party’, Gordon Smith; Chapter 11 Continuity, Change and the Vulnerability of Party, Peter Mair; ABSTRACTS;