The thirteen papers assembled in this volume offer a comparative perspective on the state of conservative and right-wing populist parties in the North American democraties. They deal with: Ideological and Value Change in the North American Mass Publics, Conservative Ideology and Party Programmes, The Changing Landskape of the Two Party Systems, The Public Policies of Conservative and Neo-Liberal Governments in North America I.- Mission Accomplished? A Comparative Exploration of Conservatism in the United States and Canada.- The Changing Ideological Landscape in North America: Evidence from the World Values Surveys (1981-2000).- Political Ideology in the United States: Conservatism and Liberalism in the 1980s and 1990.- II.- The Canadian Citizenship Regime in a Conservative Era.- Looking Back: The Emergence of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Canadian West and Their Performance in Government.- Populism, Conservatism and the New Right in English Canada: Blending Appeals, Constructing Constituencies and Reformulating Democracy.- Conservatism and Religion in the United States.- III.- Finding the "There" There: Membership and Organization of the Republican Party in the United States.- Party Membership on the Canadian Political Right: The Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Parties.- Women and Conservative Parties in Canada and the United States.- Conservative Think Tanks in the United States and Canada.- IV.- The Economic Dimension: Fiscal Conservatism, Deficit Reduction, and Welfare Retrenchment in the United States.- The Promises Kept by Our Rivals - New Budgetary Strategies of the Conservatives in Canada.- Contributors. Rainer-Olaf Schultze, Dr. phil., Professor of Political Science and Managing Director of the Institute for Canadian Studies at the University of Augsburg; Roland Sturm, Dr. phil., Professor of Political Science and Head of the Institute of Political Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Dagmar Eberle, Dipl.-Pol., Institute for Canadian Studies at the University of Augsburg
