Introduction / Emil J. Kirchner -- Between left and right : the ambivalence of European liberalism / Gordon Smith -- Two roads of Italian liberalism : the Partito Repubblicano Italiano (PRI) and the Partito Liberale Italiano (PLI) / Geoffrey Pridham -- The FDP in the Federal Republic of Germany : the requirements of survival and success / Emil J. Kirchner & David Broughton -- Great Britain-social liberalism reborn? / John Curtice -- Liberalism in France / John Frears -- Liberal parties in the Netherlands / Hans Daalder & Ruud Koole -- The Belgian liberal parties : economic radical and social conservatives / Christopher Rudd -- The Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs : protest party or governing party? / K.R. Luther -- The Swedish Liberal Party : the politics of unholy alliances / Ulf Lindström & Ingemar Wörlund -- Liberalism in Denmark : agrarian, radical and still influential / Alastair H. Thomas -- The Norwegian Liberal Party : from political pioneer to political footnote / Jørn Y. Leiphart & Lars Svåsand -- Liberal parties in Finland : from perennial coalition actors to an extra-parliamentary role / David Arter -- Liberal parties in Switzerland / D.L. Seiler -- The Luxemburg Liberal Party / Derek Hearl -- Identifying liberal parties / Peter Humphreys & Michael Steed -- Ambivalence revisited : an analysis of liberal party manifestos since 1945 / Derek Hearl -- Transnational links : the ELD and Liberal Party Group in the European Parliament / Rudolf Hrbek -- Western European liberal parties : developments since 1945 and prospects for the future / Emil J. Kirchner.
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This book is a comparative study of liberal parties in Western Europe.