-- 1. Towards a New Europe? -- Part one: Integration, globalisation and the Nation State -- 2. Economic integration and the Nation-State -- 3. European integration and the Nation-State -- Part two: Governance -- 4. The welfare state: internal challenges, external constraints -- 5. Executives, bureaucracies and decision-making -- 6. Illicit governance: corruption, scandal and fraud -- 7. Electoral systems and voting behaviour -- 8. European party system: contrinuity and change -- 9. Organised interests and the state -- Part three: public policy -- 10. Capitalism versus capitalism in Western Europe -- 11. Regional Economic policy and a Europe of the regions -- 12. Foreign, defence and security policy -- 13. Environmental policy and politics -- Part four: politics, ideology and future challenges -- 14. Beyond liberal politics? European modernity and the National-State -- 15. The media and politics -- 16. The integration of feminism into West European politics -- 17. New challenges: post-materialism and the extreme right.