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
Edited
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 ...
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, ...
Reinventing Democracy: Grassroots Movements in Portugal
1st Edition
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By João Arriscado Nunes, Boaventura de Sousa Santos
February 04, 2019
The studies gathered in this volume focus on Portuguese society, from the creative social and political experimentation by citizen and popular movements during the revolution of 1974/75 to more recent episodes of alternative economic organisation, popular mobilization over the claim of local ...
Is Turkey De-Europeanising?: Encounters with Europe in a Candidate Country
1st Edition
Edited
By Alper Kaliber, Senem Aydin-Düzgit
January 03, 2019
This comprehensive edited volume conceptually develops the notion of ‘de-Europeanisation’ as an important development in the literature on Europeanisation, and applies it specifically to the case of Turkey. ‘De-Europeanisation’ is defined as the loss or weakening of the EU/Europe as a normative/...
The 2014 European Parliament Elections in Southern Europe: Still Second Order or Critical Contests?
1st Edition
Edited
By Hermann Schmitt, Eftichia Teperoglou
January 03, 2019
Southern Europe has been the EU region most exposed to the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis with consequences for national party systems and political stability. The 2014 European Parliament elections took place at a crucial time for Europe and Southern European societies more generally. This book ...
Southern Europe and the Financial Earthquake: Coping with the First Phase of the International Crisis
1st Edition
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By Susannah Verney, Anna Bosco, Marina Costa Lobo
September 10, 2018
Following the outbreak of the international financial crisis, Southern Europe became an epicentre of economic instability and international concern. The prospect of a sovereign debt default in the eurozone’s ‘flaky fringe’ sent shock waves through the European and global economies. Examining the ...
Elections in Hard Times: Southern Europe 2010-11
1st Edition
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By Anna Bosco, Susannah Verney
August 23, 2018
Southern Europe has been at the heart of the European sovereign debt crisis and in the vanguard of the programmes of radical economic austerity implemented to confront it. During the first two crisis years, the consequences for domestic political stability were dramatic. Across the region, 2010-11 ...
Transformations of the Radical Left in Southern Europe: Bringing Society Back In?
1st Edition
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By Myrto Tsakatika, Marco Lisi
August 23, 2018
Political parties are alleged to be turning their backs to civil society; they are said to discourage the active participation of their members and to distance themselves from the privileged relations to affiliated social organisations they once prized. Instead, parties are broadly believed to be ...
Political Representation in Times of Bailout: Evidence from Greece and Portugal
1st Edition
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By André Freire, Marco Lisi, Ioannis Andreadis, José Manuel Viegas
June 16, 2017
Since 2008 many European states have experienced significant challenges in adapting to austerity, and political actors within these states have made significant changes in their discourses and practices. This book explores the short-term impact of the sovereign debt crisis on aspects of political ...