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.

Examining the 2014 European Election in Southern Europe (Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Malta), the region at the heart of the Eurozone crisis, the book investigates whether these electoral contests followed the normal pattern of previous second-order elections or alternatively displayed the characteristics of "critical elections" during a politically tumultuous period in Europe.

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/political context and as a reference point in domestic settings and national public debates of both candidate and member countries. ''De-Europeanisation'' manifests itself in two basic ways: as the weakening of the appeal and influential capacity of European institutions, policies, norms and values, leading to a retreat of EU/ Europe as a normative/political context for society and politics in a candidate/member state; and as growing scepticism and indifference in a given society towards the EU/Europe, risking the legitimacy of the EU/Europe as a reference point in cases even where reform is incurred. Using this concept, the authors analyse the diminishing impact of the EU in Turkish governance and politics after the opening of accession negotiations in October 2005. The relevance of ''de-Europeanisation'' is investigated through ten chapters focusing on key policy areas including education, migration, democracy, the rule of law and media freedoms, and a number of key actors including civil society organisations, political parties and political leaders. This book was originally published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

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.