In this paper, we present the basic ideas, the design and some key results of an ongoing research project on the transformation of the national political space in Western Europe. We start from the assumption that the current process of globalization or denationaliza-tion leads to the formation...

Paper prepared for the workshop on the analysis of political cleavages and party competition, Duke University, Dept. of Political Science, April 2/3 2004. Paper presents first results from a research project conducted jointly by a team at the University of Zurich (Prof. Hanspeter Kriesi, Simon...