The Reshaping of West European Party Politics: Agenda-Setting and Party Competition in Comparative PerspectiveLong gone are the times when class based political parties with extensive membership dominated politics. Instead, party politics has become issue based. Surprisingly few studies have focused on how the issue content of West European party politics has developed over the past decades. Empirically, Reshaping of West European Party Politics studies party politics in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK from 1980 and