Der Band präsentiert die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Konferenz, die im Mai 2002 gemeinsam vom Institut für Kanadastudien der Universität Augsburg und vom Institut für Politische Wissenschaft der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg organisiert wurde. Die Autoren beschäftigen sich mit dem konservativen Wertewandel der Bevölkerung, der konservativen Ideologie und Parteiprogrammatik, den internen Strukturen und gesellschaftlichen Netzen konservativer Bewegungen sowie der praktischen Politik dieser Parteien. Aus dem Inhalt: I. Dagmar Eberle / Rainer-Olaf Schultze / Roland Sturm: Mission Accomplished? A Comparative Exploration of Conservatism in the United States and Canada (11-30) Neil Nevitte / Antoine Bilodeau: The Changing Landscape in North America: Evidence from the World Values Surveys (1981-2000) (31-52) Richard A. Brody / Jennifer L. Lawless: Political Ideology in the United States: Conservatism and Liberalism in the 1980s and 1990s (53-77) II. Jane Jenson: The Canadian Citizenship Regime in a Conservative Era (81-100) Dagmar Eberle: Looking Back: The Emergence of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Canadian West and Their Performance in Government (101-126) David Laycock: Populism, Conservatism and the New Right in English Canada: Blending Appeals, Constructing Constituencies and Reformulating Democracy (127-149) Jürgen Gebhardt: Conservatism and Religion in the United States (151-160) III. Howard L. Reiter: Finding the „There" There: Membership and Organization of the Republican Party in the United States (163-189) William Cross / Lisa Young: Party Membership on the Canadian Political Right: The Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Parties (191-205) Lisa Young / William Cross: Women and Conservative Parties in Canada and the United States (207-227) Martin Thunert: Conservative Think Tanks in the United States and Canada (229-252) IV. James D. Savage: The Economic Dimension: Fiscal Conservatism, Deficit Reduction, and Welfare Retrenchment in the United States (255-278) Roland Sturm: The Promises Kept by Our Rivals - New Budgetary Strategies of the Conservatives in Canada (279-295)