Eurosceptic Contagion: The Influence of Eurosceptic Parties in West-European Party Systems (Springer Series in Electoral Politics)

Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Influential Euroscepticism
	Popular Discontent, Mainstream Immobilism, and European Dissensus
	Outline of the Book
	References
Chapter 2: Theoretical and Analytical Framework
	Introduction
	Elements of the Analytical Framework
		The Proximity Model
		The Past Election Model
		Issue Salience
		Salience and Niche Parties
	Populist Contagion and Euroscepticism: The Radical Party Hypothesis
	The Circumstances of Eurosceptic Contagion
	What Motivates Parties to Co-opt Eurosceptic Positions?
	Research Design: Data and Method
		Data and Measurement
		Further Conceptualization and Operationalization
		Eurosceptic Parties
		Cases and Data Points Omitted from the Analysis: Central and Eastern Europe
		Further Variables and Indicators
	References
Chapter 3: The Evolution and Trends of Eurosceptic Success
	Trends and Cross-Country Comparisons
		Spain and Portugal
		Ireland
		Greece
		Italy
		Austria
		Finland
		Denmark
		Sweden
		The UK
		France
		Belgium
		The Netherlands
		Germany
	General Trends
	References
Chapter 4: Do Eurosceptic Parties Influence Their Party Systems?
	Testing the Radical Party Hypothesis
	A Counterhypothesis to Eurosceptic Contagion
	Electoral Thresholds and Nonlinear Contagion
	References
Chapter 5: The Circumstances and Dynamics of Eurosceptic Contagion
	Euroscepticism and Time
	Euroscepticism and EU Issue Salience
	References
Chapter 6: Explaining Contagion: Tactical, Ideological, or Geographical Impulses?
	The Tactical Take on Eurosceptic Contagion
	An Ideological Take on Eurosceptic Contagion
		The Targets of Eurosceptic Challengers
	The Geographical Take on Eurosceptic Contagion
	References
Chapter 7: Eurosceptic Contagion and European Elections
	European Elections Revisited
	Strategic Voting, Euroscepticism, and Contagion
	References
Chapter 8: Conclusion and Discussion
	Evolution of European Dissensus
	Opposition to `Europe´
		Successful Challengers
	Globalization and the Changing Landscape of Party Politics
	A Break with the Past in European Party Politics?
	References
Appendix A
	Regression Tables, Including Country Dummy Variables
Appendix B
	List of Parties
Appendix C
	Margin Plots from Chaps. 5-7
Appendix D
	The Temporal Structure of the Data Set