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| | List of Abbreviations | 7 |
| | List of Tables and Figures | 9 |
| | Foreword / KatarynaWolczuk | 11 |
| | Acknowledgements | 13 |
| Bibliography. | Interviews | 229 |
| | Official Documents | 232 |
| | Party Documents | 233 |
| | Literature | 236 |
| 1. | Introduction | 15 |
| 2. | Research Framework | 29 |
| | 2.1. Theoretical Framework : Socialisation and Norm Diffusion | 29 |
| | 2.2. Explanatory Model | 33 |
| | 2.3. Case Selection and Methodology | 39 |
| | 2.4. Operationalisation | 42 |
| | 2.5. Data Collection | 45 |
| 3. | Understanding the Context of Cooperation | 47 |
| | 3.1. Historical and Institurional Development of the Europarties | 48 |
| | 3.2. Party Development in Post-Communist Countries | 57 |
| 4. | Finding Each Other : Process of Application and Identification | 71 |
| | 4.1 Application and Selection Process | 71 |
| | 4.2. Identifying a Suitable Europarty | 76 |
| 5. | Incentive Structures for Cooperation | 91 |
| | 5.1. Motives for the Europatries | 92 |
| | 5.2. motives for the nion-EU parties | 101 |
| 6. | Impact on Ideological Profiles | 111 |
| | 6.1. Ideological Match : Fitting into the European Party Family | 112 |
| | 6.2. Analysing the Ideological Match | 156 |
| 7. | Impact on Organisational Structure | 159 |
| | 7.1. Organisational Changes in Mother Parties, Youth and Women's Branches | 161 |
| | 7.2. Analusing the Organisational Changes | 173 |
| 8. | Impact on Inter-Party Behaviour | 181 |
| | 8.1. Inter-Party Relationships between Sister Parties | 182 |
| | 8.2 Inter-Party Cooperation across the Europarties | 196 |
| | 8.3. Analysing the Inter-Party Behaviour | 206 |
| 9. | Conclusions | 211 |
| | 9.1. Key Empirical Findings | 211 |
| | 9.2 Comparative Analysis | 217 |
| | 9.3. Impact on the Party System | 222 |
| | 9.4 Impact on the Europarties | 224 |
| | 9.5. Limitations | 225 |
| | 9.6 Future Research Trajectories | 226 |