South European Society and Politics
About the Book Series
The parallel regime transitions of the 1970s, when Southern Europe was the vanguard of the ‘third wave’ of democratisation, the impact of EU membership and Europeanisation and more recently, the region’s central role in the eurozone crisis have all made Southern Europe a distinctive area of interest for social science scholars. The South European Society and Politics book series promotes new empirical research into the domestic politics and society of South European states. The series, open to a broad range of social science approaches, offers comparative thematic volumes covering the region as a whole and on occasion, innovative single-country studies. Its geographical scope includes both ‘old’ and ‘new’ Southern Europe, defined as Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Cyprus, Malta and Turkey.
Affective Polarisation in Spain: Electoral, Regional and Media Conflictuality
1st Edition
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By Mariano Torcal
December 18, 2024
This book offers a detailed analysis of affective polarisation based primarily on a unique dataset created from an online panel survey in Spain. Spain is a country that provides a rich context for the exploration of identity-based polarisation. The analysis spans particularly politically relevant ...
Southern Europe in The Covid-19 Pandemic: The First Phase
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan Rodríguez-Teruel, José Real-Dato, Susannah Verney
November 08, 2024
This book investigates the fast-learning experience of Covid-19’s initial onset in a region long renowned for low state capacity, political polarisation and weak health systems. Covid-19, a global health emergency entailing a major existential threat, presented a crucial challenge for national ...
Europeanisation of Public Policy in Southern Europe: Comparative Political Economy from the 2000s to the Crisis
1st Edition
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By Canan Balkir, H. Tolga Bolukbasi, Ebru Ertugal
October 14, 2024
Large or small, old EU member or new, and even EU member state or not – political economies across Southern Europe have been increasingly but distinctively ‘Europeanised’. In political, public and scholarly debates on processes of Europeanisation, Southern Europe invariably features as the area of ...
New and Alternative Social Movements in Spain: The Left, Identity and Globalizing Processes
1st Edition
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By John Karamichas
October 14, 2024
This collection offers a diachronic analytical study of new and alternative social movements in Spain from the democratic transition to the first decade of the 21st century, paying attention to anti-war mobilizations and the use of new technologies as a mobilizing resource. New and alternative ...
Perspectives of National Elites on European Citizenship: A South European View
1st Edition
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By Nicolò Conti, Maurizio Cotta, Pedro Tavares de Almeida
October 14, 2024
Over the last two decades, the process of European integration has become interwoven with the theme of citizenship and the debate on the democratic quality of the EU and of its institutions has become more salient. What are the views about Europe which emerge when we interrogate the national elites...
Voters and Parties in the Spanish Political Space
1st Edition
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By Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, Elias Dinas
October 14, 2024
This book deals with the structure of Spanish politics: how citizens and parties locate themselves in political space, and how these actors make decisions based on their positions in the various dimensions this space consists of.The authors of this volume address the questions surrounding the ...
A Generational Divide? Age-related Aspects of Political Transformation in Post-crisis Southern Europe
1st Edition
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By Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Marco Lisi, André Freire
May 27, 2024
This book examines the political consequences of the economic crisis in Southern Europe from the perspective of a widening intergenerational divide. It focuses on the cases of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain to fill the gap in the literature by examining various age-related rifts in post-crisis ...
The Politics of Polarisation: Conflictual Competition in Italy, Spain and Greece
1st Edition
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By Anna Bosco, Susannah Verney
May 27, 2024
Focusing on Italy, Spain and Greece, this book explores the extent of polarisation, as well as its causes, characteristics and consequences. It investigates varied manifestations of polarised politics including leader polarisation, policy polarisation and affective polarisation as well as providing...
The Exceptional Case of Post-Bailout Portugal
1st Edition
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By Elisabetta De Giorgi, José Santana-Pereira
September 25, 2023
This book explores the argument that Portugal has been an exception to the trend of political upheaval and electoral instability across Southern Europe following the financial crisis and the bailout period. It does so by mapping and exploring in-depth three key dimensions: the governmental arena, ...
The AKP Since Gezi Park: Moving to Regime Change in Turkey
1st Edition
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By Susannah Verney, Anna Bosco, Senem Aydın-Düzgit
June 30, 2021
While the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has dominated Turkish politics for a decade and a half, recent years have seen a qualitative change, culminating in the 2017 referendum on the move to a presidential system. This volume focuses on the later years of AKP rule after the first direct ...
Protest Elections and Challenger Parties: Italy and Greece in the Economic Crisis
1st Edition
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By Susannah Verney, Anna Bosco
December 18, 2020
Both in Greece in 2012 and Italy in 2013, it took two elections to form a government. A repeat parliamentary contest was required in Greece and the unprecedented re-election of the outgoing President of the Republic in Italy before a cabinet could be formed. Against a background of economic crisis ...
Italy Transformed: Politics, Society and Institutions at the End of the Great Recession
1st Edition
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By Martin Bull, Gianfranco Pasquino
June 30, 2020
The decade commencing with the great crash of 2008 was a watershed period for Italian politics, involving fundamental and dramatic changes, many of which had not been anticipated and which are charted in this book. This comprehensive volume covers the impact of the Eurozone crisis on the Italian ...