Introduction / Ingrid van Biezen, Hans-Martien ten Napel
1. Democracy and the legal regulation of political parties / Richard S. Katz
2. Dilemmas of regulating political finance, with special reference to the Dutch case / Ruud Koole
3. Lessons from the past : party regulation in the Netherlands / Remco Nehmelman
4. The constitutionalization of political parties in post-war Europe / Ingrid van Biezen
5. Party laws in comparative perspective / Fernando Casal Bertoa, Daniela R. Piccio, & Ekaterina R. Rashkova
6. Explaining legislative conflict over the adoption of political financing law in the European Union / Wojciech Gagatek
7. The SGP case : Did it really (re)launch the debate on party regulation in the Netherlands / Hans-Martien ten Napel & Jaco van den Brink
8. Will it all end in tears? What really happens when democracies use law to ban political parties / Tim Bale
9. Ethnic party regulation in Eastern Europe / Ekaterina R. Rashkova and Maria Spirova
10. On the engineerability of political parties : evidence from Mexico / Imke Harbers & Matthew C. Ingram.