This is a clear, comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the institutional regimes of countries in Western Europe written by an outstanding group of political scientists. Completely revised and updated throughout, Comparative European Politics, third edition:

• Provides a complete coverage of individual countries or group of countries, as well as the European Union, allowing readers to draw sophisticated comparisons between countries.
• Is written to a common template so that each chapter explores political parties, elections and electoral rules, parliaments, local, regional and state governments, and the relations between domestic institutions and the European Union.

Josep M. Colomer is Professor of Political Science and Chair of Comparative European Politics at the University of Bristol. He is the author, among other books, of Great Empires, Small Nations (2007), Political Institutions (2001) and editor of the Handbook of Electoral System Choice (2004).

Contributors: Ian Budge, Manfred G. Schmidt, Yves Mény, Gianfranco Pasquino, Josep M. Colomer, Hans Keman, Jan-Erik Lane and Svante Ersson.