• List of tables and figures


• Preface and Acknowledgements


• Part I Introduction


• Citizen-Party Linkages, Political Institutions, and Types of Party


• Part II Similarities across Democracies


• 2: Are Moderate Parties Rewarded in Multiparty Systems?


• 3: Parties' Policy Programmes and the Dog that Didn't Bark: No Evidence that Proportional Systems Promote Extreme Party Positioning


• Part III: Effects of Electoral Institutions


• 4: Electoral Rules, the Number of Parties, and Niche Party Success


• 5: Proximity and Votes for Mainstream and Niche Parties


• 6: Mean Voter Representation versus Partisan Constituency Representation: Do Parties Respond to the Mean Voter Position or to their Supporters?


• Part IV: Conclusion


• 7: The Effects of Electoral Institutions


• Appendix


• References


• Index

Lawrence Ezrow is a Lecturer in European Politics in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. His research is on comparative political representation, Western European politics, elections, political parties, voting, party strategies, political institutions, and quantitative methodologies. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, and Journal of Politics.

Linking Citizens and Parties highlights the pathways through which citizens' political preferences are expressed by their political parties.