1. Cleavages, parties and democracy / Seymour Martin Lipset
Theoretical and Analytical Developments
2. Party Systems and Voter Alignments in the tradition of political sociology / Erik Allardt
3. freezing hypothesis: an evaluation / Peter Mair
4. How bright was the future? The study of parties, cleavages and voters in the age of the technological revolution / Lauri Karvonen and Jostein Ryssevik
5. Are cleavages frozen in the English-speaking democracies? / Richard S. Katz
6. Class, religion, party: triple decline of electoral cleavages in Western Europe / Mattei Dogan
7. Change and stability in the Finnish party system / Pertti Pesonen
8. Japan - from emerging to stable party system? / Joji Watanuki
9. party systems of Spain: old cleavages and new challenges / Juan J. Linz and Jose Ramon Montero
New Perspectives and Areas
10. Freezing pillars and frozen cleavages: party systems and voter alignments in the consociational democracies / Kris Deschouwer
11. From post-communism to neo-communism? The reconstitution of the party systems of East-Central Europe / Ulf Lindstrom
12. Party systems and voter alignments in the new democracies of the Third World / Vicky Randall
13. Party systems and voter alignments in small island states / Dag Anckar.
