Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Europe: A Continent in the making
• The End of the Nation State? From Government to Governance: Running the State, Making Policy, and Policing the Constitution
• Governments and Parliaments: A Long Way from Equality
• Parties: How the Past Affects the Present, and An Uncertain Future
• Elections, Voting and Referendums: Systems, Turnout, Preferences and Unpredictability
• The Media: Player and Recorder
• Participation and Pressure Politics: Civil Society, Organised Interests and Social Movements
• Politics Over Markets: Does Politics – and Left and Right – Still Matter?
• Not Wanted but Needed: Migrants and Minorities
• Protecting and Promoting: Europe's International Politics