Bücher der Reihe South European Society and Politics

This publication provides an up-to-date assessment of the political and economic issues and is valuable reading for anyone wishing to understand contemporary Spain and Portugal.

This collection is a comprehensive, empirical account of the composition and patterns of recruitment of ministerial elites in Southern Europe throughout the last 150 years, thus encompassing different historical circumstances and political settings.

This publication provides an up-to-date assessment of the political and economic issues and is valuable reading for anyone wishing to understand contemporary Spain and Portugal.

This volume explores the concept of 'Europeanization' in a variety of different settings in order to clarify its meaning.

Exploring the cultural boundaries of what is means to 'Greek' or 'Turk', this book draws upon anthropological data to compare the opinions of diverse social groups and shed light on the politics of identity-making. It also investigates the local attitudes to international politics, and highlight the contextual meaning of evaluations about nations.

This book offers a timely analysis of the European Union Convention's impact on domestic political systems and civil society in Southern Europe, with chapters on Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Turkey.

This book expands debates on democracy, citizenship and participation, their forms, pathologies and potentials, through case studies of the Portuguese experience.

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 case studies of polarised elections taking place at multiple levels.In recent years, polarisation has been a key feature of South European politics. Deep antagonism has moved party leaders against each other, hindered parliamentary and governmental cooperation, and triggered a cascade effect of harsh divisions among elites and citizens. Beyond the left-right axis, the chapters in this volume highlight multiple dimensions around which parties and voters polarise: the split around sovereign bailouts in Greece, the territorial cleavage in Spain, the divisions around immigration and European integration in Italy. This volume offers essential understanding of the specific features of polarisation in different national contexts and the consequences for political competition and government instability.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

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 Southern Europe.Public discussion about the economic crisis of the late 2000s to mid-2010s in Southern Europe often refers to its impact on the region's younger citizens, but not enough attention has been given to the political consequences of the crisis on the young. The comparative studies in the volume cover various thematic areas, such as electoral behaviour, political culture, democratic values, forms of political engagement and political representation.The overarching questions that the book attempts to answer are: a) to what extent and in what areas can one talk about an emergent generational divide in the region, and b) has the experience of the economic crisis been profound enough for young South Europeans to create a new 'crisis political generation'? Many of the answers offered point to tangible effects of the crisis, but mostly in the sense of accentuating dynamics that already existed.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.