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Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Parliaments and democratic political change. p.1 -- 2. The Norwegian political context. p.22 -- 3. The Norwegian electoral system. p.43 -- 4. Changing electoral cleavages. p.73 -- 5. Political parties and government formation. p.108 -- 6. Policy conflict in Storting committees. p.134 -- 7. Party alignments in roll call voting. p.170 -- 8. Parliament: past, present, and future. p.206 -- 9. Epilogue. p.231 -- App. A. Multidimensional scaling. p.237 -- App. B. Survey questions employed in the analysis. p.241 -- App. C. Norwegian party manifesto coding categories. p.250 -- App. D. Support measures for the Storting and its members. p.253 -- Notes. p.255 -- References. p.267 -- Index. p.281