The organization of political parties in southern Europe / ed. by Piero Ignazi and Colette Ysmal.

A collection of 14 original essays.

The evolution of the French party system / Colette Ysmal -- Conflict andchange in the Rassemblement pour la République / Florence Haegel -- The Front National: the making of an authoritarian party / Gilles Ivaldi -- The Parti Socialiste: from a party of activists to a party of government / Frédéric Sawicki -- The Italian party system: the effective magnitude of an earthquake / Luciano Bardi and Piero Ignazi -- The failed renewal: the DC from 1982 to 1994 / GianfrancoBaldini -- From militants to voters: from the PCI to the PDS / Maria Pamini -- MSI/AN: a mass party with the temptation of the F١hrer-Prinzip / Piero Ignazi --The political system in postauthoritarian Greece (1974-1996): outline and interpretations / P. Nikoforos Diamandouros -- PASOK: the telling story of a unique organizational structure / Michalis Spourdalakis -- Nea Demokratia: party development and organizational logics / Takis S. Pappas -- The Spanish political parties from fragmentation to bipolar concentration / Gabriel Colomé andLourde