Europarty Eastern enlargement: an empirical analysis of Europarty influence on Central and Eastern European parties and party systemsFootnote^*

* Research for this article was conducted at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, and the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

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