Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_883192_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Susannah Verney Author-X-Name-First: Susannah Author-X-Name-Last: Verney Author-Name: Anna Bosco Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Bosco Title: Living Parallel Lives: Italy and Greece in an Age of Austerity Abstract: The economic crisis has triggered a process of political convergence between Italy and Greece. The simultaneous downfall of the Italian and Greek governments, following the public withdrawal of European confidence in their ability to handle the crisis, was followed by the establishment of technocrat-led governments based on parliamentary ‘super-majorities’ and then by ‘protest elections’, marked by unprecedented levels of electoral volatility. By apparently ending bipolarism, the crisis has completely changed patterns of national government formation and resulted in experiments with unusual government types. Both political systems have entered a transitional phase whose outcome is anything but certain, especially in the continuing context of economic crisis. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 397-426 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.883192 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.883192 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:4:p:397-426 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_775720_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Fabio Bordignon Author-X-Name-First: Fabio Author-X-Name-Last: Bordignon Author-Name: Luigi Ceccarini Author-X-Name-First: Luigi Author-X-Name-Last: Ceccarini Title: Five Stars and a Cricket. Beppe Grillo Shakes Italian Politics Abstract: The article focuses on a new political player: the Five Star Movement led by the comedian Beppe Grillo. The party lies at the junction between different organisational models and conceptions of democracy: it combines an online and an offline presence; it has ‘horizontal’ structural elements, but a top-down decision-making process; it is positioned ‘beyond’ ideologies, while its electorate comes from various political families. The work considers the history, message, leader, organisation and electoral base of the movement, as well as the political opportunity structure that facilitated its growth in 2012 and the challenges it faces in the delicate phase of institutionalisation. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 427-449 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.775720 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.775720 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:4:p:427-449 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_736155_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: James L. Newell Author-X-Name-First: James L. Author-X-Name-Last: Newell Title: A Landlord's Notice to Quit: The May 2012 Municipal Elections in Italy Abstract: This article explores the significance of the local elections of May 2012 for the general direction of change in Italian politics. The forces of the centre-right were deserted en masse but without those of the centre-left effectively capitalising on the discontent, which was, instead, expressed by the spectacular advance of the ‘non-party’, the almost completely novel Five-Star Movement. As the last major contest on the political agenda before the next general election due in no more than a year, the May outcome revealed just how difficult it was likely to be for either of the two coalitions to obtain a clear victory on that occasion. The article discusses the extent and the nature of these difficulties – deriving from voters' clear rejection of ‘politics as usual’ – by analysing the run-up, the campaign, the outcome and the aftermath of the May elections. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 451-471 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.736155 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.736155 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:4:p:451-471 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_860269_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gianfranco Baldini Author-X-Name-First: Gianfranco Author-X-Name-Last: Baldini Title: Don't Count Your Chickens before They're Hatched: The 2013 Italian Parliamentary and Presidential Elections Abstract: The 2013 parliamentary and presidential contests were both outstanding elections, even by Italian standards. In the former case, this was because of very high volatility and the breakthrough of the 5-Star Movement (M5S), which resulted in a hung parliament and a stalemate in the formation of a new government. In the latter, for the first time in Italian history, the incumbent President of the Republic was re-elected for a second seven-year term of office. The result of these two events was Italy's first grand coalition government, led by Enrico Letta and supported by President Napolitano. While the significance of these elections is better assessed in combination with new government's capacity to achieve economic growth and restore confidence in Italian politics, the Italian party system still remains in a state of flux. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 473-497 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.860269 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.860269 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:4:p:473-497 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_853417_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Piergiorgio Corbetta Author-X-Name-First: Piergiorgio Author-X-Name-Last: Corbetta Author-Name: Rinaldo Vignati Author-X-Name-First: Rinaldo Author-X-Name-Last: Vignati Title: Beppe Grillo's First Defeat? The May 2013 Municipal Elections in Italy Abstract: The article analyses the results of the Italian municipal elections held in May 2013. It focuses on their three most striking features: the clear victory of the centre-left coalition, the marked drop in voter turnout and the shrinkage of the Five Stars Movement (M5S). The article analyses the causes of the M5S' loss of votes and interprets this new party with reference to European (disaffection towards political institutions and the ‘counter-democracy’ phenomenon as explained by Rosanvallon) and Italian (the crumbling of the party system) variables. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 499-521 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.853417 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.853417 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:4:p:499-521 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_779784_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sofia Vasilopoulou Author-X-Name-First: Sofia Author-X-Name-Last: Vasilopoulou Author-Name: Daphne Halikiopoulou Author-X-Name-First: Daphne Author-X-Name-Last: Halikiopoulou Title: In the Shadow of Grexit: The Greek Election of 17 June 2012 Abstract: This article provides an overview and analysis of the Greek elections of June 2012. Placing the elections within the broader framework of the Greek socio-political and economic context, it discusses the electoral campaign and results, juxtaposing them to the 6 May electoral round. The election results confirmed many of the trends of the previous round, including electoral volatility, the fragmentation of the party system and the rise of anti-establishment forces. The main difference was the entrenchment of the pro- versus anti- bailout division and the prominence of the question of Greece's continued eurozone membership. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 523-542 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.779784 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.779784 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:4:p:523-542 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_782838_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Antonis A. Ellinas Author-X-Name-First: Antonis A. Author-X-Name-Last: Ellinas Title: The Rise of Golden Dawn: The New Face of the Far Right in Greece Abstract: The article examines the rise of the one of the most extremist political parties in Europe, Golden Dawn. It sketches the historical trajectory of the Greek far right, examines the ideological, organisational and voter profile of Golden Dawn, and offers possible explanations for its breakthrough in the 2012 elections. The article shows how the economic crisis has brought a massive realignment of the Greek electorate away from mainstream parties, giving rise to anti-system and anti-immigrant sentiments. Golden Dawn's violent tactics have allowed the party to establish an anti-system and anti-immigrant profile and capitalise on these sentiments. The party's future will depend on its capacity to absorb organisationally any future tensions between party pragmatists and idealists. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 543-565 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.782838 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.782838 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:4:p:543-565 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_798893_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yiannos Katsourides Author-X-Name-First: Yiannos Author-X-Name-Last: Katsourides Title: Determinants of Extreme Right Reappearance in Cyprus: The National Popular Front (ELAM), Golden Dawn's Sister Party Abstract: The article focuses on the reappearance of the extreme right in Cyprus, with the aim of understanding the wider trends and local structural determinants that favoured its return. The research examines both the structure of opportunity favouring the reappearance of the extreme right—i.e. the current economic crisis and unemployment, the legitimacy crisis of the political and party systems, and the political and institutional context—and the way the extreme-right party (National Popular Front – ELAM) responded to these opportunities, capitalising on its special relationship with the Greek Golden Dawn. This paper will argue that the extreme right is the outgrowth of a systemic (economic and political) crisis, as well as a reflection of how Cypriot political actors regard and react to the extreme right's signatory issues. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 567-589 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.798893 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.798893 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:4:p:567-589 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_798139_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Braulio Gómez Fortes Author-X-Name-First: Braulio Author-X-Name-Last: Gómez Fortes Author-Name: Laura Cabeza Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Cabeza Author-Name: Irene Palacios Author-X-Name-First: Irene Author-X-Name-Last: Palacios Title: Double Punishment for Regional and National Incumbents: The March 2012 Regional Election in Andalusia Abstract: Confounding predictions, the 2012 Andalusian regional election resulted in a renewal of left-wing government as the conservative Popular Party failed to obtain an absolute majority of seats. The socialists, who had ruled the region for 30 years, came second but continued in power in coalition with the United Left, which increased its seat share. The article argues that the Andalusian election results should be understood in a multi-level governance perspective. For those who voted for the socialists, the hard austerity policies implemented by the Popular Party central government became more salient than the current performance of the regional government. The behaviour of unemployed voters is also key to understanding the election outcome. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 591-610 Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.798139 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.798139 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:4:p:591-610 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_871102_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.871102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.871102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1688515_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yunus Sözen Author-X-Name-First: Yunus Author-X-Name-Last: Sözen Title: Competition in a Populist Authoritarian Regime: The June 2018 Dual Elections in Turkey Abstract: This article examines the June 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey. I maintain that Turkey’s populist authoritarian regime context simultaneously hyperpoliticised and depoliticised the electoral process, as this regime decreased the uncertainty of electoral outcomes and yet the ballot box became the singular legitimate political arena to challenge it. I begin the paper with a discussion of the political context of the elections: political regime dynamics, the new hyperpresidential system, as well as the electoral rules and voting behaviour. I then scrutinise the electoral campaign strategies of the major parties and candidates with an emphasis on the strategies of the opposition in counteracting the uneven playing field. Finally, I analyse the electoral results and discuss their implications. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 287-315 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1688515 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1688515 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:3:p:287-315 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1691318_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Berk Esen Author-X-Name-First: Berk Author-X-Name-Last: Esen Author-Name: Sebnem Gumuscu Author-X-Name-First: Sebnem Author-X-Name-Last: Gumuscu Title: Killing Competitive Authoritarianism Softly: The 2019 Local Elections in Turkey Abstract: On 31 March 2019 Turkish voters ended the Islamist local governance in the country’s largest cities after 25 years and handed the ruling AKP its most serious electoral defeat since its rise to power in 2002. The article explores the electoral strategies of major parties in the local election, offers a comparative analysis of the results, and discusses post-election developments, including the rerun in Istanbul. The election and its aftermath reaffirmed the competitive authoritarian nature of the regime, as the governing bloc enjoyed an uneven playing field, while the opposition had to meet a higher electoral bar than the incumbents to win. The economic crisis, growing discontent with the government’s policies, and effective coordination of opposition parties facilitated this outcome. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 317-342 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1691318 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1691318 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:3:p:317-342 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1637598_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Raffaele Bazurli Author-X-Name-First: Raffaele Author-X-Name-Last: Bazurli Title: Local Governments and Social Movements in the ‘Refugee Crisis’: Milan and Barcelona as ‘Cities of Welcome’ Abstract: Amid the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, South European cities have experienced far-reaching societal transformations, magnified by flaws in multi-level governance. How can urban actors cope with such critical questions, which affect their communities and yet lie beyond their full jurisdiction? This article contends that left-leaning governments and ideologically sympathetic social-movement activists at the city-level are incentivised to join their forces. Alliance-building is a strategy to secure political gains while shaping policies within an otherwise unreceptive, hostile context. This argument is built by intersecting multiple scholarly contributions and illustrated through a comparison of pro-migrant policies in the cities of Milan and Barcelona. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 343-370 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1637598 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1637598 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:3:p:343-370 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1644811_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Patrik Vesan Author-X-Name-First: Patrik Author-X-Name-Last: Vesan Author-Name: Stefano Ronchi Author-X-Name-First: Stefano Author-X-Name-Last: Ronchi Title: The Puzzle of Expansionary Welfare Reforms under Harsh Austerity: Explaining the Italian Case Abstract: Although austerity carried the day in crisis-ridden Southern Europe, expansionary welfare measures also emerged alongside retrenchment in countries where left-leaning coalitions were in government and anti-establishment parties on the rise. By focusing on the case of Italy (2013–2018), this article investigates the political dynamics that favoured expansionary welfare measures under austerity. We triangulate qualitative and quantitative evidence and show that, constrained by EU conditionality abroad, the reform agenda of the Italian centre-left first sought the support of middle- and upper-class constituencies at home. However, the deteriorating social situation, the divide that emerged within the centre-left under the leadership of Matteo Renzi, and the rise of the pro-welfare Five Star Movement reshuffled the social policy priorities of the centre-left. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 371-395 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1644811 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1644811 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:3:p:371-395 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1582856_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Türkay Salim Nefes Author-X-Name-First: Türkay Salim Author-X-Name-Last: Nefes Title: Negative Perceptions of Jews in Turkish Politics: An Analysis of Parliamentary Debates, 1983-2016 Abstract: What are the political roots of anti-Jewish rhetoric? To address this ever-important query, this study analyses perceptions of Jews in Turkish politics. Building on group position theory and the historical background of Turkish-Jewish relations, the research proposes that right-wing ideological orientation and perceived threats can predict negative perceptions of Jews. It scrutinises the Turkish parliamentary proceedings using quantitative and qualitative content analysis. The findings support the premise. The study concludes that discussing perceived threats tends to evoke negative rhetoric while right-wing ideological orientation seems to be a predictive factor for the expression of such views. This implies that an effective management of perceived threats would reduce the frequency of anti-Jewish statements in Turkish politics. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 397-419 Issue: 3 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1582856 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1582856 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:3:p:397-419 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1078271_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hermann Schmitt Author-X-Name-First: Hermann Author-X-Name-Last: Schmitt Author-Name: Eftichia Teperoglou Author-X-Name-First: Eftichia Author-X-Name-Last: Teperoglou Title: The 2014 European Parliament Elections in Southern Europe: Second-Order or Critical Elections? Abstract: The article provides a comparative analysis of the 2014 European Parliament elections across the six countries of Southern Europe by gauging the performance of the second-order election model. Both the aggregate hypotheses of this model and evidence of micro-level foundations are analysed. The findings reveal that the political and electoral consequences of the economic crisis have not drastically challenged the second-order character of these elections in Southern Europe. However, electoral behaviour also exhibits some indications of a more critical contest. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 287-309 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1078271 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1078271 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:3:p:287-309 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1075709_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paolo Segatti Author-X-Name-First: Paolo Author-X-Name-Last: Segatti Author-Name: Monica Poletti Author-X-Name-First: Monica Author-X-Name-Last: Poletti Author-Name: Cristiano Vezzoni Author-X-Name-First: Cristiano Author-X-Name-Last: Vezzoni Title: Renzi's Honeymoon Effect: The 2014 European Election in Italy Abstract: The 2014 European Parliament election in Italy took place 15 months after the electoral earthquake of the 2013 national election and almost three months after a non-electoral change of government that saw the newly elected Secretary of the centre-left Democratic Party, Matteo Renzi, become prime minister. While some second-order election (SOE) model expectations, such as lower turnout and electoral gain by minor parties are fulfilled, some other expectations seem to be challenged by the exceptional electoral victory of the pro-European incumbent party. In this article we show that in Italy the 2014 European election can still mainly be considered a second-order one because the broken SOE expectations are related to exceptional national dynamics that began with the 2013 general election. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 311-331 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1075709 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1075709 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:3:p:311-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1068377_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Eftichia Teperoglou Author-X-Name-First: Eftichia Author-X-Name-Last: Teperoglou Author-Name: Emmanouil Tsatsanis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanouil Author-X-Name-Last: Tsatsanis Author-Name: Elias Nicolacopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Elias Author-X-Name-Last: Nicolacopoulos Title: Habituating to the New Normal in a Post-earthquake Party System: The 2014 European Election in Greece Abstract: The article examines the 2014 European election in Greece. Held two years after the double-earthquake elections of 2012 and with the country still mired in a protracted economic crisis, our findings largely support the conclusion that the post-‘earthquake’ European election of 2014 can be classified as one of the most classic second-order elections in the history of Greek elections. Both ideology and attribution of blame for the ongoing economic crisis to the PASOK (Panhellenic Socialist Movement) and ND (New Democracy) governments to a large extent explain the victory of SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left). At the same time, however, more fundamental positions towards European unification appear to have become more relevant to party choice for the first time since the early 1980s. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 333-355 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1068377 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1068377 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:3:p:333-355 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1053679_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Guillermo Cordero Author-X-Name-First: Guillermo Author-X-Name-Last: Cordero Author-Name: José Ramón Montero Author-X-Name-First: José Ramón Author-X-Name-Last: Montero Title: Against Bipartyism, Towards Dealignment? The 2014 European Election in Spain Abstract: The 2014 European Parliament (EP) election in Spain took place in a context of deep economic recession and distrust of political institutions. These conditions triggered an unprecedented electoral response through which Podemos, a radical leftist party created shortly before the election, obtained eight per cent of votes and gained electoral momentum thereafter, seriously threatening the two-party-plus system. Using data from a panel survey, our analyses reveal some unexpected findings. The intensity of protest voting and the timing of the contest within the national electoral cycle have had a major impact on national politics – with the possibility of eventually producing a party-system change. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 357-379 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1053679 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1053679 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:3:p:357-379 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1076593_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: André Freire Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Freire Author-Name: José Santana-Pereira Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Santana-Pereira Title: More Second-Order than Ever? The 2014 European Election in Portugal Abstract: Considering the potential impact of the economic crisis, the main goal of the article is to ascertain whether the second-order election model lost ground in Portugal during the 2014 election to the European Parliament. We conclude that this was a more second-order contest than ever. The explanation for the resilience of the model relies on a mismatch between the citizens’ growing potential for contestation and the low politicisation of European Union (EU) issues at the party level. However, the election outcomes also reveal the significance of EU issues for the radical left. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 381-401 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1076593 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1076593 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:3:p:381-401 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1078221_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Giorgos Charalambous Author-X-Name-First: Giorgos Author-X-Name-Last: Charalambous Author-Name: Bambos Papageorgiou Author-X-Name-First: Bambos Author-X-Name-Last: Papageorgiou Author-Name: Adonis Pegasiou Author-X-Name-First: Adonis Author-X-Name-Last: Pegasiou Title: Surprising Elections in Exciting Times? Of Proxies and Second-Order Events in the 2014 European Election in Cyprus Abstract: The concept of second-order national elections has generated a rich literature, but its universality, in particular its predominance in contexts affected by shocks, has not been sufficiently studied. The 2014 election to the European Parliament in the Republic of Cyprus, taking place one year after an European Union/International Monetary Fund bailout, could be classified as one of the most puzzling contests in the history of second-order elections. The incumbent party, Democratic Rally (DISY), was not punished, despite the harsh economic environment in the country, while protest voting affected the opposition more. Abstention was exceptional, indicating a delegitimisation of the political system. Moreover, the micro-level analysis reveals that the decision to vote or abstain was driven by attitudes towards both domestic institutions on the one hand and European/international institutions on the other. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 403-424 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1078221 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1078221 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:3:p:403-424 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1075313_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marcello Carammia Author-X-Name-First: Marcello Author-X-Name-Last: Carammia Author-Name: Roderick Pace Author-X-Name-First: Roderick Author-X-Name-Last: Pace Title: The Anatomy of a Misfit: The 2014 European Election in Malta Abstract: The 2014 European election in Malta did not put the party system under stress, and in many ways resembled past elections. The two parties that have dominated Maltese politics since independence shared the seats equally between them. Once again, the ‘third’, green party failed to obtain parliamentary representation, as did the far-right party despite doubling its votes. The good fit with the second-order election model marked Malta as Southern Europe's misfit. While the comparatively weak impact of the economic crisis was a contributory factor, a combination of institutional, cultural-historical and contextual factors provide a more accurate explanation. Political institutions are particularly relevant because they reinforce the perfect two-party system – the key to Malta's political stability – and shield it from the challenge of outsiders. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 425-444 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1075313 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1075313 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:3:p:425-444 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2105417_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Guillermo Cordero Author-X-Name-First: Guillermo Author-X-Name-Last: Cordero Author-Name: Santiago Pérez-Nievas Author-X-Name-First: Santiago Author-X-Name-Last: Pérez-Nievas Author-Name: Marta Paradés Author-X-Name-First: Marta Author-X-Name-Last: Paradés Author-Name: Xavier Coller Author-X-Name-First: Xavier Author-X-Name-Last: Coller Title: Higher Means Harder for Female Descriptive Representation? Women with Family Responsibilities and Party Primaries for Local, Regional and National Chambers in Spain Abstract: Despite academic interest in the negative effects of primaries on gender descriptive representation, we have little evidence on how this impact varies across territorial levels, especially among women with family responsibilities. We focus on Spain as a multilevel polity (national, regional, local chambers) with mandatory quotas to show that very few females with family responsibilities are selected in primaries at upper territorial levels. While primaries frequently facilitate women becoming local councillors, this method seems to exclude those with family responsibilities at regional and national levels where, to fulfil gender quotas, female candidates are more commonly appointed by the party elite. This process has repercussions since representatives selected by the leadership tend to be more disciplined and homogeneous than those selected in primaries. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 517-540 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2105417 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2105417 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:4:p:517-540 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2117019_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Enis Porat Author-X-Name-First: Enis Author-X-Name-Last: Porat Author-Name: Sertac Sonan Author-X-Name-First: Sertac Author-X-Name-Last: Sonan Author-Name: Omer Gokcekus Author-X-Name-First: Omer Author-X-Name-Last: Gokcekus Title: Political Participation among Natives and Immigrants: Identity and Socio-economic Status within the Turkish Cypriot Electorate Abstract: Based on an original survey (n = 1,017), this paper examines citizens’ participation patterns in the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’ (‘TRNC’), a de facto state recognised only by Turkey. Since 1974 the ‘TRNC’ has been receiving a constant flow of immigrants from its patron state (Turkey). While Turkish immigrants make up a sizeable proportion of the electorate, they seem to be underrepresented in the political arena. Our findings show that, in determining the level of political participation, socio-economic factors are pre-eminent while having an immigrant background has only very limited effect and gender does not have any impact. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 541-566 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2117019 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2117019 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:4:p:541-566 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2115185_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alexandre Pichel-Vázquez Author-X-Name-First: Alexandre Author-X-Name-Last: Pichel-Vázquez Author-Name: Begonya Enguix Grau Author-X-Name-First: Begonya Author-X-Name-Last: Enguix Grau Title: Framing Gender through Affects: Antifeminism and Love in the Spanish Far Right (Vox) Abstract: In this article, we aim to explore how affects work within and through gender discourse in the Spanish far right. We address two burning topics: the connection of (anti)gender and far-right politics and the political potential of affects. Opposing traditional views, we argue that far-right groups are not exclusively driven by hate. In Vox leaders’ speeches, love appears as a political affective narrative with political effects. Love brings the ‘us’ together while creating an affective and political border between the ‘objects of love’ (nation, family, equality and men) and the ‘objects of hate’ (feminism, immigration, gender and sexual pluralism). Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 465-487 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2115185 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2115185 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:4:p:465-487 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2097732_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Antonis Ellinas Author-X-Name-First: Antonis Author-X-Name-Last: Ellinas Author-Name: Iasonas Lamprianou Author-X-Name-First: Iasonas Author-X-Name-Last: Lamprianou Title: Societal Responses to Right-Wing Extremism: Antifascist Mobilisation against Golden Dawn in Greece Abstract: The literature on how democratic polities deal with right-wing extremism focuses on political and institutional actors at the expense of societal agency. This article offers a corrective by analysing antifascist mobilisation against one of the most extreme parties in Europe, Golden Dawn in Greece. It uses in-depth interviews with antifascists to sketch the developmental trajectory of Greek antifascism. It then utilises an original dataset of thousands of antifascist events to document spatial and temporal patterns of antifascist mobilisation. The article shows how antifascist mobilisation affected the developmental trajectory of the party and ultimately led to the conviction of its leadership. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 437-464 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2097732 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2097732 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:4:p:437-464 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2101622_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anıl Kahvecioğlu Author-X-Name-First: Anıl Author-X-Name-Last: Kahvecioğlu Author-Name: Semih Patan Author-X-Name-First: Semih Author-X-Name-Last: Patan Title: Embattled Ballots, Quiet Streets: Competitive Authoritarianism and Dampening Anti-Government Protests in Turkey Abstract: Mass protests frequently occur in electoral autocracies. However, the opposite is true in Turkey, despite mounting grievances and a strong opposition presence with institutional resources. We argue that competitive authoritarian regimes, a subset of electoral autocracies, may dampen mass protests, allowing the opposition an opportunity to defeat the incumbents through elections. Studying Turkey’s main opposition party, we identify three mechanisms that show how politicians strategically respond to the regime’s incentives and constraints leading to protest-averse behaviour. First, the regime’s repression capacity discourages the opposition from openly supporting a mass protest. Second, the opposition learns to target the median voter, which leads to political moderation and protest averseness. Finally, prospective electoral success reinforces the opposition’s commitment to a ballot-centred approach. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 489-515 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2101622 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2101622 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:4:p:489-515 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1395078_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paloma Aguilar Author-X-Name-First: Paloma Author-X-Name-Last: Aguilar Title: Unwilling to Forget: Local Memory Initiatives in Post-Franco Spain Abstract: It has been abundantly argued that the Spanish transition was based on an implicit ‘pact of silence’ by which the main political forces accepted to leave the thorniest aspects of past behind as the only way to peacefully construct a democratic future. And it has been widely accepted that Spanish society subscribed to this. This article defends a more nuanced version of this state-level agreement by focusing on memory-related initiatives at the local level. By doing so, it poses some challenges to existing literature on the politics of memory in general and the Spanish transition in particular. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 405-426 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1395078 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1395078 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:4:p:405-426 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1411980_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lorenzo Mosca Author-X-Name-First: Lorenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Mosca Author-Name: Mario Quaranta Author-X-Name-First: Mario Author-X-Name-Last: Quaranta Title: Voting for Movement Parties in Southern Europe: The Role of Protest and Digital Information Abstract: In recent years ‘movement parties’ such as Syriza in Greece, the Movimento 5 Stelle in Italy, Podemos in Spain and—to a lesser extent—Bloco de Esquerda in Portugal shook national party systems, breaking the consolidated dynamics of political competition. Despite growing interest in movement parties, there has been scant attention to the role of citizens adopting unconventional forms of action and using digital media in accounting for their electoral performance. To fill this gap, four original internet-based post-electoral surveys are employed showing that protesters and digital media users are more likely to vote for these parties, despite important country differences. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 427-446 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1411980 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1411980 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:4:p:427-446 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1413051_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Amparo González-Ferrer Author-X-Name-First: Amparo Author-X-Name-Last: González-Ferrer Author-Name: Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes Author-X-Name-First: Francisco Javier Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno-Fuentes Title: Back to the Suitcase? Emigration during the Great Recession in Spain Abstract: The complex and multidimensional economic crisis experienced by Spain since 2008 significantly altered migration patterns in this country. Large scale unemployment contributed to slow down migrant inflows and accelerated out-migration flows in Spain. The media coverage of these processes created a distorted image of the patterns of migration affecting Spain during the crisis. Although the incipient economic recovery has not had a major impact in terms of modifying the migration dynamics triggered by the crisis, the media attention to this issue has substantially decreased without questioning its previous approach to the phenomenon. This article presents extensive data from a wide range of sources covering the period 2008–2016 to extract detailed information about the reality of crisis-era migration flows in Spain, and discusses the extent to which the media treatment of the issue has contributed to a partial and misleading view of the causes and consequences of the new Spanish emigration. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 447-471 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1413051 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1413051 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:4:p:447-471 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1406431_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ceren Ark-Yıldırım Author-X-Name-First: Ceren Author-X-Name-Last: Ark-Yıldırım Title: Political Parties and Grassroots Clientelist Strategies in Urban Turkey: One Neighbourhood at a Time Abstract: Both principal Turkish political parties make extensive use of patron–client networks, but in very different ways. The CHP relies on competing local brokers and synchronous vote buying. The AKP is at the centre of a network of public and private funding turning social policy to clientelist ends. Socially anchored AKP activists link the party to voters, allowing it to target social assistance for political advantage and take credit for improvement in local conditions. The case presented in this paper provides a natural experiment suggesting that this distinction is an important explanation for the AKP’s electoral success in low-income urban areas. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 473-490 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1406431 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1406431 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:4:p:473-490 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1396037_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andrea Ceron Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Ceron Author-Name: Fedra Negri Author-X-Name-First: Fedra Author-X-Name-Last: Negri Title: Trade Unions and Political Parties in Italy (1946–2014): Ideological Positions and Critical Junctures Abstract: The paper investigates party-union relationships in Italy (1946–2014) by hand-coding parties’ parliamentary speeches and trade unions’ congress motions. In line with the cartel party thesis, a time series analysis shows that the ideological closeness between the left-wing Italian General Confederation of Labour and left-wing parties deteriorated when the Italian Socialist Party (1980) and the heirs of the Italian Communist Party (1998) converged toward the centre of the ideological spectrum. Conversely, the closeness between the Catholic-inspired Italian Confederation of Workers’ Unions and the heirs of Christian Democracy increased after 1994, when the former party’s leftist factions became the major part of the Italian Popular Party. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 491-508 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1396037 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1396037 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:4:p:491-508 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1410274_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Roderick Pace Author-X-Name-First: Roderick Author-X-Name-Last: Pace Title: Winning Against the Trend: Labour’s Victory in the 2017 Maltese Parliamentary Election Abstract: The re-election of the Labour Party with an increased majority in the 2017 Maltese national election bucks the trends of incumbent punishment experienced in most South European countries during the ‘Great Recession’ and of the decline of social democratic parties in Europe in the past 50 years. This Maltese ‘exceptionalism’ is explained by the Labour Party’s centrist shift, the country’s pure two-party system, and the economic prosperity which encouraged voters to opt for continuity. These factors allowed the governing party to win, despite corruption allegations deriving from the Panama Papers. Although a third party entered parliament for the first time since 1966, the fundamentals of the party and electoral systems have not changed and this development may not be long-lived. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 509-529 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1410274 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1410274 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:4:p:509-529 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1762372_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Calliope Spanou Author-X-Name-First: Calliope Author-X-Name-Last: Spanou Title: Between Domestic Learning and External Coercion: Budgeting and Fiscal Management Reform in Greece Abstract: The article examines the interplay between external pressure and domestic learning through a case-study of Greek budgetary and fiscal management reform. Pre-crisis, budgetary management inadequacies were not efficiently addressed, mainly due to lack of awareness of problems, a low uncertainty environment and a strong political propensity to maintain discretionary use of financial resources. In contrast, crisis-era bailout conditionality represented a drastic change in the environment, increasing uncertainty and encouraging domestic openness to reform. The fiscal governance framework was significantly transformed, to a point of paradigm change. While there is no doubt regarding the impact of external pressure, the analysis highlights certain aspects that point to a domestic learning process, though variable in different parts of the political-administrative system. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 1-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1762372 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1762372 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:1:p:1-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1762371_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Dionyssis G. Author-X-Name-Last: Dimitrakopoulos Author-Name: Argyris G. Passas Author-X-Name-First: Argyris G. Author-X-Name-Last: Passas Title: Reforming Greece’s Tax Administration during the Financial Crisis: The Paradox of Power Asymmetry Abstract: This article examines the depoliticisation of Greece’s tax administration under the post-2010 bailout agreements in light of three alternative models of domestic change. It shows that one model (external incentives model that is based on power asymmetry) accounts for the direction of the reform but not how far the reform ended up going. There is little evidence in support of the second model (social learning) because of the absence of genuine programme ownership and evidence in support of the third model (lesson-drawing) is limited to the diagnosis of the problem. The final outcome was unintentionally shaped by key choices made by Greek governments in line with the literature on conditionality. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 27-48 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1762371 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1762371 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:1:p:27-48 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1738092_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Iole Fontana Author-X-Name-First: Iole Author-X-Name-Last: Fontana Title: Migration Crisis, Organised Crime and Domestic Politics in Italy: Unfolding the Interplay Abstract: Focusing on Italy in the years of the ‘migration crisis’ between 2013 and 2017, this article explores how migration, crime groups and the domestic politics of migration control became entangled in times of crisis. Departing from previous theoretical discussions, it builds a framework that combines crime groups’ actions with domestic political processes in host countries and explores how the crime-migration nexus shaped – and was shaped by – Italian migration policymaking. The article contends that in the context of crisis the nexus took on new forms and that Italian migration politics and policies served to foster rather than counter the phenomenon, in a continuous interplay between criminal practices and policy choices. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 49-74 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1738092 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1738092 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:1:p:49-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1769342_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: María Bruquetas-Callejo Author-X-Name-First: María Author-X-Name-Last: Bruquetas-Callejo Author-Name: Roberta Perna Author-X-Name-First: Roberta Author-X-Name-Last: Perna Title: Migration and Healthcare Reforms in Spain: Symbolic Politics, Converging Outputs, Oppositions from the Field Abstract: Migrants’ healthcare entitlement represents a conflictive issue in the political battlefield, with research pointing towards the determinant role of party politics in determining policy outputs. Addressing the 2012 healthcare reform and 2018 counter-reform adopted in Spain by a right-wing and left-wing government respectively and drawing on qualitative analysis of parties’ discourses and policy measures, we argue that ideological differences along the healthcare-migration nexus were overemphasised to play symbolic politics. Partisan competition had less impact on actual outputs, while clashes between the central and regional governments, path-dependent practices and opposition from multiple venues played a central role in the policymaking process. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 75-98 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1769342 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1769342 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:1:p:75-98 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1748353_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mert Arslanalp Author-X-Name-First: Mert Author-X-Name-Last: Arslanalp Author-Name: T. Deniz Erkmen Author-X-Name-First: T. Deniz Author-X-Name-Last: Erkmen Title: Repression without Exception: A Study of Protest Bans during Turkey’s State of Emergency (2016-2018) Abstract: Following the coup attempt of 15 July 2016, the Turkish government declared a state of emergency that would last for two years. In this paper, we focus on an understudied aspect of this period, protest repression during the state of emergency, using an original dataset of protest bans issued in 2007–2019. Engaging with the theoretical claims of emergency scholarship, our paper demonstrates that emergency powers were used to target areas, groups, and issues that were not related to the ‘urgency’ underpinning emergency rule. Moreover, such derogations of rights were perpetuated after the termination of the state of emergency within so-called ordinary legality. These practices were nevertheless embedded in the already authoritarian political-institutional context of Turkey and its layered history of emergencies. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 99-125 Issue: 1 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1748353 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1748353 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:1:p:99-125 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1046264_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ersin Kalaycıoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Ersin Author-X-Name-Last: Kalaycıoğlu Title: Turkish Popular Presidential Elections: Deepening Legitimacy Issues and Looming Regime Change Abstract: This paper examines the politics of presidential elections in Turkey with particular reference to the 10 August 2014 presidential elections. It starts by scrutinising the change in the presidential election system from parliamentary to direct popular vote. It then probes the implementation of the new election rules, candidate selection, and the conduct of the campaign, followed by analysis of the election results and their influence on the Turkish record of democratisation. The paper concludes that the move to a partisan president elected by popular vote entails democratic dangers if the new incumbent does not abide by his or her constitutional role and attempts to intervene in government policy. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 157-179 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1046264 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1046264 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:2:p:157-179 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1051758_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Javier Astudillo Author-X-Name-First: Javier Author-X-Name-Last: Astudillo Title: Losers' Second Chances and Control of the Party Machine: Aspirant Premiers in Regional Spain Abstract: In parliamentary democracies, controlling party machines has traditionally been a key asset for nascent political leaders, allowing them to continue in their position even after suffering a bad electoral start. Recent research suggests that in ‘old democracies’ this is no longer the case. Seeking to find whether this finding also applies to ‘young democracies’, the article analyses a dataset (built by the author) of candidates from the main national parties for the premiership of the Spanish Comunidades Autónomas, to ask whether being party chair increases the chances of ‘reselection’ after losing a first election. I conclude that in Spain, an example of a ‘young’ democracy, party machines still play a fundamental role at the start of politicians' leadership careers. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 181-201 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1051758 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1051758 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:2:p:181-201 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1013518_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Colin C. Williams Author-X-Name-First: Colin C. Author-X-Name-Last: Williams Author-Name: Ioana A. Horodnic Author-X-Name-First: Ioana A. Author-X-Name-Last: Horodnic Title: Explaining the Prevalence of Illegitimate Wage Practices in Southern Europe: An Institutional Analysis Abstract: This paper proposes that the prevalence of illegitimate wage practices in Southern European societies results from the discord between the formal rules (formal institutions) and the socially shared unwritten rules that reflect citizens' beliefs (informal institutions). To evaluate this, a 2013 survey is reported on whether employers in five Southern European countries fraudulently evade tax and social security payments by paying employees a portion of their salary off the books. A strong association is revealed between the extent of wage under-reporting and the degree of institutional asymmetry across these societies. The implications for theorising illegitimate wage practices are then explored. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 203-221 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1013518 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1013518 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:2:p:203-221 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1031054_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andrea Ceron Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Ceron Author-Name: Marco Mainenti Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Mainenti Title: Toga Party: The Political Basis of Judicial Investigations against MPs in Italy (1983–2013) Abstract: Scholars agree that ideology affects judicial decision-making. We demonstrate that this proposition holds true even when the judiciary is independent of political control. Focusing on Italy (1983–2013), where the politicisation of the judiciary was an issue well before the entry of Berlusconi into politics, we estimate judicial orientations according to the support for factions within the National Judiciary Association. The results show that ideology affects trial court activity against deputies. As the support for left-wing factions increases, prosecutors are more likely to investigate right-wing parties. Conversely, as the share of right-leaning factions grows, investigations of moderate or rightist parties decrease. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 223-242 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1031054 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1031054 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:2:p:223-242 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1047080_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Deniz Neriman Duru Author-X-Name-First: Deniz Neriman Author-X-Name-Last: Duru Title: From Mosaic to Ebru: Conviviality in Multi-ethnic, Multi-faith Burgazadası, Istanbul Abstract: This paper provides an understanding of changing diversity in Burgazadası within the post-Ottoman, homogenising context of Turkey. It critiques conceptualisations of ‘culture as difference’ within the multiculturalism discourse in Europe and of coexistence as the reduction of differences and identities to pre-existing categories of the Ottoman millet system. Instead, it presents post-Ottoman conviviality as a lived practice and grassroots representation of recognised and unrecognised diversities by contextualising the production of differences and changing discourses of pluralism. The article demonstrates that individuals belonging to different groups can come to share similar values based on longstanding attachment to place and everyday practices, thereby representing themselves, in this case, as ‘Burgazlı’. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 243-263 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1047080 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1047080 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:2:p:243-263 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_906458_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Lisi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Lisi Author-Name: Ana Maria Belchior Author-X-Name-First: Ana Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Belchior Author-Name: Manuel Abrantes Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Abrantes Author-Name: Joana Azevedo Author-X-Name-First: Joana Author-X-Name-Last: Azevedo Title: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? External Voting and the Political Representation of Portuguese Emigrants Abstract: Over recent decades, emigrants have gained expanded voting rights on a global scale. Despite the normative debates about this issue, there are few empirical studies on why states decide to implement external voting and how electoral systems perform. This article seeks to fill this gap by looking at the Portuguese case. Our study suggests that a combination of political and socio-economic factors explains the implementation of external voting. On the other hand, the interests of political parties and the low level of civil society engagement are key to determining the failure of electoral reforms and the attempts to overcome the shortcomings of external voting. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 265-285 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.906458 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.906458 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:2:p:265-285 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1644813_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sofia A. Perez Author-X-Name-First: Sofia A. Author-X-Name-Last: Perez Author-Name: Manos Matsaganis Author-X-Name-First: Manos Author-X-Name-Last: Matsaganis Title: Export or Perish: Can Internal Devaluation Create Enough Good Jobs in Southern Europe? Abstract: During the early 2010s, creditor states and EU institutions demanded that the Southern states of the eurozone liberalise their labour markets to facilitate internal devaluation and export-led recoveries. With some variation, the Greek, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian governments complied. This article explains why such a strategy of internal devaluation within the eurozone might fail to produce adequate employment growth to put these countries on stable financial footing. It exploits variation in the timing and intensity of reforms to evaluate the record of the internal devaluation strategy. Our findings suggest that there is no linear relationship between internal devaluation and export-growth. Even where the latter has been impressive, dualism persists and the employment recovery has been weak. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 259-285 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1644813 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1644813 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:2:p:259-285 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1640966_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rui Branco Author-X-Name-First: Rui Author-X-Name-Last: Branco Author-Name: Daniel Cardoso Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Author-X-Name-Last: Cardoso Author-Name: Ana M. Guillén Author-X-Name-First: Ana M. Author-X-Name-Last: Guillén Author-Name: Stefano Sacchi Author-X-Name-First: Stefano Author-X-Name-Last: Sacchi Author-Name: David Luque Balbona Author-X-Name-First: David Luque Author-X-Name-Last: Balbona Title: Here to Stay? Reversals of Structural Reforms in Southern Europe as the Crisis Wanes Abstract: This article answers the fundamental question of whether structural reforms on labour market regulation and social protection in Italy, Portugal and Spain passed during the sovereign debt crisis endured or were reversed once external conditionality waned. The study defines categorises and illustrates structural policy reversals. It finds there have been significant structural policy reversals across the three cases, but the bulk of these reforms enacted under conditionality endures. It also finds that the waning of conditionality and harsh economic austerity alone is not enough to bring about full structural policy reversals. Rather, full reversals occur when this condition is combined with a change in government and its ideological orientation, or when the High Courts step in. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 205-232 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1640966 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1640966 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:2:p:205-232 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1644809_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alexandre Afonso Author-X-Name-First: Alexandre Author-X-Name-Last: Afonso Author-Name: Fabio Bulfone Author-X-Name-First: Fabio Author-X-Name-Last: Bulfone Title: Electoral Coalitions and Policy Reversals in Portugal and Italy in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis Abstract: This paper links patterns of deregulatory reforms and post-crisis reversals in Italy and Portugal with the electoral constituencies of political parties. Combining insights from the social coalitions and electoral behaviour debates, we link reform outcomes to the class set-up of the electorate in the two countries by using the class schema developed by Daniel Oesch. We find that governments in both countries reversed austerity measures in order to protect core groups of voters within their electorate in spite of wide ideological differences between governing coalitions in the two countries. There is, however, some variation in the extent of the reversals across policy areas. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 233-257 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1644809 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1644809 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:2:p:233-257 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1642622_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Catherine Moury Author-X-Name-First: Catherine Author-X-Name-Last: Moury Author-Name: Daniel Cardoso Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Author-X-Name-Last: Cardoso Author-Name: Angie Gago Author-X-Name-First: Angie Author-X-Name-Last: Gago Title: When the Lenders Leave Town: Veto Players, Electoral Calculations and Vested Interests as Determinants of Policy Reversals in Spain and Portugal Abstract: This article aims to identify the resilience of measures adopted during bailout programmes, and the conditions under which decisions-makers reverse them. Focusing on Spain and Portugal (2014–2019), we calculated that almost half (46 per cent) of the most important measures adopted during the programmes were reversed in the five years following the bailouts. We also show that left-wing parties reversed more than right wing and that the bulk of structural reforms remained unchanged. Using crisp-set qualitative-comparative analysis (QCA), we find that business interests, veto players’ preferences and governments’ electoral calculations are determinants of reversals. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 177-204 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1642622 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1642622 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:2:p:177-204 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1641945_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Catherine Moury Author-X-Name-First: Catherine Author-X-Name-Last: Moury Author-Name: Alexandre Afonso Author-X-Name-First: Alexandre Author-X-Name-Last: Afonso Title: Beyond Conditionality: Policy Reversals in Southern Europe in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis Abstract: This article proposes a framework to understand and explain the occurrence of policy reversals. We argue that the occurrence and absence of policy reversals is shaped by the constraints of responsiveness (to voters) and responsibility (vis-à-vis creditors, international institutions and financial markets). We review the literature on reversals and their implications for Southern Europe. We finally summarise the main findings of the contributions in the volume, that address when and why governments prioritise responsiveness or responsibility, as well as the economic consequences of these choices. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 155-176 Issue: 2 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1641945 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1641945 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:2:p:155-176 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1155282_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Senem Aydın-Düzgit Author-X-Name-First: Senem Author-X-Name-Last: Aydın-Düzgit Author-Name: Alper Kaliber Author-X-Name-First: Alper Author-X-Name-Last: Kaliber Title: Encounters with Europe in an Era of Domestic and International Turmoil: Is Turkey a De-Europeanising Candidate Country? Abstract: This article provides a novel conceptual framework to understand the impact of the European Union on Turkish politics and policies in the aftermath of the opening of accession negotiations in 2005. It argues that the post-2005 developments in Turkey not only attest to lesser and more limited Europeanisation, but also entail a process that is increasingly gaining momentum in the country and which is referred to as ‘de-Europeanisation’. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 1-14 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1155282 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1155282 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:1:p:1-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1155283_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Başak Alpan Author-X-Name-First: Başak Author-X-Name-Last: Alpan Title: From AKP’s ‘Conservative Democracy’ to ‘Advanced Democracy’: Shifts and Challenges in the Debate on ‘Europe’ Abstract: Following the AKP’s victory in the 2002 general elections, ‘conservative democracy’ has emerged as a trademark in Turkish politics, focusing on cosmopolitanism and European integration. In the late 2000s, the party’s favourite notion was ‘advanced democracy’, this time underlining Turkey’s leadership claim in the region and displaying a more critical approach to ‘Europe’. In this paper, I aim to show how different narratives on ‘Europe’ emerged within the context of these empty signifiers. The paper claims that the difference in the two narratives on ‘Europe’ in two different periods does not point to a complete and fully fledged de-Europeanisation trend. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 15-28 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1155283 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1155283 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:1:p:15-28 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1147523_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Canan Balkır Author-X-Name-First: Canan Author-X-Name-Last: Balkır Author-Name: Sedef Eylemer Author-X-Name-First: Sedef Author-X-Name-Last: Eylemer Title: Shifting Logics: The Discourses of Turkish Political Elites on EU Accession Abstract: The article compares the EU accession discourses, during the 2002, 2007 and 2011 elections, of Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) with those of the two main opposition parties, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Action Party (MHP), tracking the continuities and shifts in their discourses. In the light of Habermas’s distinction between pragmatic, ethical and moral justifications, the discourses are analysed on the basis of three explanatory logics – interests, rights and identity – by means of a theoretically guided qualitative content analysis of the election manifestos of these three political parties. These logics, emerging and shifting in line with periodical dynamics, have been instrumental to varying degrees in the discourses of Turkey’s political elites. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 29-43 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1147523 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1147523 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:1:p:29-43 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1147717_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Senem Aydın-Düzgit Author-X-Name-First: Senem Author-X-Name-Last: Aydın-Düzgit Title: De-Europeanisation through Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of AKP’s Election Speeches Abstract: This article takes issue with the question of whether Turkey has been turning away from Europe in recent years, by adopting a critical constructivist lens to understand how, rather than why, Turkey’s presumed distance from the European Union (EU) is taking place. In doing that, it seeks to analyse the ways in which the political–societal transformation of the country as distanced from the EU is enabled by certain discursive practices which in turn contribute to the growing rift between Turkey and the EU. This is mainly conducted through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of texts produced by former Prime Minister and now President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Europe and the EU during key election periods starting with the 12 June 2011 general election. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 45-58 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1147717 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1147717 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:1:p:45-58 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1152656_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alper Kaliber Author-X-Name-First: Alper Author-X-Name-Last: Kaliber Title: De-Europeanisation of Civil Society and Public Debates in Turkey: The Kurdish Question Revisited Abstract: This study discusses the dynamics of de-Europeanisation and the changing impact of Europe on the politically mobilised civil society involved in the public debates concerning Turkey’s Kurdish question. The article first critically assesses how and in what ways the legal and constitutional reforms on the freedom of assembly required by the European Union (EU) changed the political structure in which civil society organisations (CSOs) operate in Turkey. It then examines the views of CSOs on the potential roles and limitations of the EU in the Kurdish question and the peace process which lasted between March 2013 and July 2015. It also delineates the reasons why the political context of Europeanisation is not seen as instrumental by these CSOs to framing and justifying their arguments. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 59-74 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1152656 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1152656 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:1:p:59-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1151476_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Büke Boşnak Author-X-Name-First: Büke Author-X-Name-Last: Boşnak Title: Europeanisation and De-Europeanisation Dynamics in Turkey: The Case of Environmental Organisations Abstract: While Europeanisation of civil society in Turkey has received considerable attention, there has been much less interest in how environmental organisations, as key civil society actors, have been affected by Europeanisation/de-Europeanisation dynamics. Interviews with civil society representatives and European Union (EU) and Turkish policy-makers indicate that the EU impact on environmental organisations has been ambivalent, and that Europeanisation dynamics are intertwined with the adverse consequences of these processes. While Turkey’s EU candidacy has empowered civil society through both EU-isation and Europeanisation, there has also been a remarkable rise of scepticism towards the EU’s civil society strategy and the EU has lost its attractiveness as a normative context in environmental debates. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 75-90 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1151476 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1151476 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:1:p:75-90 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1152019_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Özge Onursal-Beşgül Author-X-Name-First: Özge Author-X-Name-Last: Onursal-Beşgül Title: Policy Transfer and Discursive De-Europeanisation: Higher Education from Bologna to Turkey Abstract: This article analyses Turkey’s integration into the Bologna Process, concentrating on the questions of why and how Turkey is transferring norms in the area of higher education. As an example of policy transfer, the Bologna Process provides important insights into the question of why states choose to voluntarily adopt norms where there is no top-down pressure for change. Focusing on Turkey as a case study, the article identifies the narratives of the agents of change responsible for the reform process. The agents are the intermediaries in the Europeanisation process – they construct the discourses and they are the ones responsible for transmitting the process to the society at large. The article concludes that while institutional Europeanisation is taking place in the area of higher education, discursive Europeanisation is lacking. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 91-103 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1152019 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1152019 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:1:p:91-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1152653_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alexander Bürgin Author-X-Name-First: Alexander Author-X-Name-Last: Bürgin Title: Why the EU Still Matters in Turkish Domestic Politics: Insights from Recent Reforms in Migration Policy Abstract: In view of Turkey’s increasing distance from the European Union (EU), the continued partial alignment with EU standards is often attributed either to domestic factors, or to diffusion processes induced by external actors other than the EU. However, based on interviews with officials from Turkey and the European Commission on recent reforms in migration policy, this article argues that two factors are responsible for continued EU influence on policy processes. First, the EU is still able to set incentives for compliance. Second, the instrument for pre-accession assistance has an impact that goes beyond that of a mere facilitator of domestically defined interests. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 105-118 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1152653 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1152653 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:1:p:105-118 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1153996_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Münevver Cebeci Author-X-Name-First: Münevver Author-X-Name-Last: Cebeci Title: De-Europeanisation or Counter-Conduct? Turkey’s Democratisation and the EU Abstract: Many Turkish and European scholars have been (re)producing texts that praise the normative impact of the European Union (EU) which has helped the political transformation of Turkey. Nevertheless, the recent deterioration of democracy in the country indicates that the EU has been losing its transformative influence on Turkey. This might be regarded as de-Europeanisation. However, this article argues that the conceptual framework of de-Europeanisation can only partially explain the current situation in Turkey and the EU’s impact, and that an analysis based on counter-conduct, as produced by EU governmentality, may provide insight into a subtler dynamic at work in the country. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 119-132 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1153996 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1153996 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:1:p:119-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1147994_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Beken Saatçioğlu Author-X-Name-First: Beken Author-X-Name-Last: Saatçioğlu Title: De-Europeanisation in Turkey: The Case of the Rule of Law Abstract: This article investigates the political dynamics shaping the post-2010 ‘de-Europeanisation’ of Turkey’s judicial system, particularly regarding judicial independence and rule of law. The analysis suggests the limits of conventional Europeanisation accounts emphasising causal factors such as European Union (EU) conditionality and the ‘lock-in effects’ of liberal reforms due to the benefits of EU accession. The article argues that the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP’s) bid for political hegemony resulted in the reversal of rule of law reforms. De-Europeanisation is discussed in terms of both legislative changes and the government’s observed discourse shift. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 133-146 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1147994 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1147994 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:1:p:133-146 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1148102_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gözde Yılmaz Author-X-Name-First: Gözde Author-X-Name-Last: Yılmaz Title: Europeanisation or De-Europeanisation? Media Freedom in Turkey (1999–2015) Abstract: The European Union (EU) has successfully been exercising its transformative power through both its enlargement and its neighbourhood policies for decades. Nonetheless, transformation towards a more European model of governance through Europeanisation is not a linear process, but a differentiated one. Adverse consequences for Europeanisation (i.e. de-Europeanisation) have often been neglected. The case of media freedom in Turkey, with a deteriorating trend across time, exemplifies such an outcome. This article explores media freedom in Turkey in the last decade. It argues that media reforms have been reversed over time in a de-Europeanising trend, with the EU losing its position as a reference point for reforms. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 147-161 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1148102 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1148102 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:1:p:147-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1153490_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marina Costa Lobo Author-X-Name-First: Marina Author-X-Name-Last: Costa Lobo Author-Name: António Costa Pinto Author-X-Name-First: António Author-X-Name-Last: Costa Pinto Author-Name: Pedro C. Magalhães Author-X-Name-First: Pedro C. Author-X-Name-Last: Magalhães Title: Portuguese Democratisation 40 Years on: Its Meaning and Enduring Legacies Abstract: On the fortieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, it is pertinent to ask how Portuguese citizens understand their transition to democracy. In this article, some of the main findings concerning the meanings and legacies of 25 April 1974 are presented, drawing on the findings of two surveys focusing on Portuguese attitudes towards 25 April and fielded in 2004 and 2014, respectively, to a representative sample of the Portuguese population. Here we focus on the degree to which the transition is viewed positively and its social and economic legacies. In the final sections, the main findings of the articles in this special issue are discussed through a presentation of the main questions they answer and the new ones they raise. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 163-180 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1153490 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1153490 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:2:p:163-180 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1144249_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marina Costa Lobo Author-X-Name-First: Marina Author-X-Name-Last: Costa Lobo Title: Bringing the Past Back in: How Attitudes towards the Democratic Transition Influence the Portuguese Voter Abstract: This article analyses the way in which attitudes towards the transition to democracy explain party identification and ideology in Portugal. This question is important because the transition to democracy in Portugal was a turbulent process marked by a rupture with the past and institutional fluidity. It has also conditioned the main political parties’ relationships with the electorate and each other since 1974. I compare the same explanatory model results from two surveys, conducted in 2004 and 2014, respectively, to understand the extent to which perceptions about the transition help characterise the Portuguese voter over the last decade. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 181-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1144249 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1144249 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:2:p:181-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1128667_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: José Santana-Pereira Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Santana-Pereira Author-Name: Filipa Raimundo Author-X-Name-First: Filipa Author-X-Name-Last: Raimundo Author-Name: António Costa Pinto Author-X-Name-First: António Author-X-Name-Last: Costa Pinto Title: An Ever-Shadowed Past? Citizens’ Attitudes towards the Dictatorship in Twenty-First Century Portugal Abstract: Several years after the transition to democracy, positive attitudes towards the authoritarian past are still observable in Portugal: the belief that the previous regime had more good things than bad things is expressed by about one-fifth of the Portuguese. What explains this nostalgic sentiment? Are factors such as socialisation under the regime, party identification or religiosity more important than satisfaction with democracy and the state of the economy? The empirical analysis suggests that the relevance of these factors varies considerably, but socialisation phases lead to different stances on the past both in routine times and in times of economic crisis. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 197-210 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1128667 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1128667 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:2:p:197-210 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1130680_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Edalina Rodrigues Sanches Author-X-Name-First: Edalina Rodrigues Author-X-Name-Last: Sanches Author-Name: Ekaterina Gorbunova Author-X-Name-First: Ekaterina Author-X-Name-Last: Gorbunova Title: Portuguese Citizens’ Support for Democracy: 40 Years after the Carnation Revolution Abstract: Forty years after the Carnation Revolution, the relatively young Portuguese democracy is experiencing dramatically low levels of public specific support for democracy. This article tests the leverage of demand-side and supply-side accounts to explain differentials in public satisfaction with democracy. Through ordinary least squares regression analyses that draw on the unique data of the ‘Barometer 40 Years of Democracy in Portugal (2014)’, this articles shows that age cohort, identification with extreme parties, evaluation of the country’s political past, and economic performance are strong correlates of citizens’ specific support for democracy. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 211-226 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1130680 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1130680 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:2:p:211-226 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1131449_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: José Santana-Pereira Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Santana-Pereira Title: The Media as a Window on the Past? The Impact of Television and Newspaper Consumption on Knowledge of the Democratic Transition in Portugal Abstract: This study seeks to expand our understanding of how the media increase the level of political information, by focusing on an understudied yet important learning outcome: knowledge of the political past. The article explores the factors underlying variation in the recognition of the leading actors in the transitional process in Portugal. The results show that television news and newspaper exposure foster recognition of these actors, but that media use interacts with personal experience of the transition (stronger effects among younger cohorts) and party identification (stronger impact on those who do not feel close to a political party). Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 227-242 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1131449 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1131449 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:2:p:227-242 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1154709_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Enrique García-Viñuela Author-X-Name-First: Enrique Author-X-Name-Last: García-Viñuela Author-Name: Ignacio Jurado Author-X-Name-First: Ignacio Author-X-Name-Last: Jurado Author-Name: Pedro Riera Author-X-Name-First: Pedro Author-X-Name-Last: Riera Title: Allocating Campaign Effort in Spain: Evidence from Four General Elections Abstract: This paper analyses which districts are targeted by Spanish political parties in their electoral campaigns. We find that the major Spanish parties - PP and PSOE - mobilise districts where they are more likely to win a new seat or are in danger of losing one they already hold. The predicted closeness of the district race is more relevant in the smallest districts. We also find that Spanish parties mobilise their strongholds. We suggest that, apart from the pure office-seeking strategies, political finance motivations might also play a role in the mobilisation choices made by Spanish party elites. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 243-262 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1154709 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1154709 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:2:p:243-262 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1170254_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sabri Sayarı Author-X-Name-First: Sabri Author-X-Name-Last: Sayarı Title: Back to a Predominant Party System: The November 2015 Snap Election in Turkey Abstract: Turkey’s snap parliamentary election in November 2015 took place in an environment of growing political violence and terrorism resulting from the renewal of the Kurdish conflict in the southeast and two major suicide bombings carried out by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Presenting the coalition arithmetic, the article first examines the failure to form a government after the previous election five months earlier. It then examines the campaign for the November election, including party strategies, key issues and the role of the media, before analysing the results and the election winners and losers. In restoring a parliamentary majority for the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party – AKP) that has governed Turkey continuously for the past 13 years, the November election marked the basic continuity of Turkey’s predominant party system. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 263-280 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1170254 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1170254 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:2:p:263-280 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1603697_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Leonardo Morlino Author-X-Name-First: Leonardo Author-X-Name-Last: Morlino Author-Name: Cecilia Emma Sottilotta Author-X-Name-First: Cecilia Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Sottilotta Title: Southern Europe and the Eurozone Crisis Negotiations: Preference Formation and Contested Issues Abstract: South European countries were severely hit by the eurozone crisis. Adopting the theoretical framework of prospect theory, this article conducts an empirical analysis of the interpretation of the situation by the South European political leaders in terms of gains and losses. After discussing the stances of South European countries vis-à-vis a number of contested issues which emerged during the 2010–2013 negotiations, the article goes on to provide a comparative account of the determinants of national preference formation with respect to the eurozone crisis reforms in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain, paying special attention to the relationship between governments and parliaments. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 1-28 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1603697 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1603697 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:1:p:1-28 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1575571_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Luigi Burroni Author-X-Name-First: Luigi Author-X-Name-Last: Burroni Author-Name: Alberto Gherardini Author-X-Name-First: Alberto Author-X-Name-Last: Gherardini Author-Name: Gemma Scalise Author-X-Name-First: Gemma Author-X-Name-Last: Scalise Title: Policy Failure in the Triangle of Growth: Labour Market, Human Capital, and Innovation in Spain and Italy Abstract: This article focuses on the Italian and Spanish models of growth and analyses labour market, human capital and innovation policy reforms since the mid 1990s. The comparison with France and Germany shows the constraints that have hindered the rise of institutional complementarities and the competitiveness of the two Mediterranean countries already before the introd uction of the euro and the outbreak of the 2008 crisis. The analysis highlights both similarities and structural differences between Italy and Spain and demonstrates the long-term institutional conditions that explain why the economic breakdown has had such a deep impact on the two countries. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 29-52 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1575571 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1575571 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:1:p:29-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1582667_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: H. Tolga Bolukbasi Author-X-Name-First: H. Tolga Author-X-Name-Last: Bolukbasi Author-Name: A. Onur Kutlu Author-X-Name-First: A. Onur Author-X-Name-Last: Kutlu Title: Piecing Together the ‘Turkish Puzzle’ on Female Labour Force Participation: Comparative Insights from Southern Europe Abstract: Southern Europe has seen remarkable turnarounds in female labour force participation (FLFP) over the past four decades. In Turkey, however, scores of women have yet to join the labour force. To address this ‘Turkish puzzle’, we present comparative data on women’s work in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece (SE-4) and Turkey. Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis, we identify the factors behind rising FLFP in Southern Europe to explore the prospects for a steeper rise of FLFP in Turkey. We reveal two causal pathways to rising FLFP: (i) left party rule, or (ii) combinations of higher levels of take-up of early education and care, higher levels of tertiary education among women and larger size of service sector employment. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 53-77 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1582667 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1582667 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:1:p:53-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1575563_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Felia Allum Author-X-Name-First: Felia Author-X-Name-Last: Allum Author-Name: Rossella Merlino Author-X-Name-First: Rossella Author-X-Name-Last: Merlino Author-Name: Alessandro Colletti Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro Author-X-Name-Last: Colletti Title: Facilitating the Italian Mafia: The Grey Zone of Complicity and Collusion Abstract: Despite structural and operational differences, Italian mafias share an ability to expand and infiltrate global economies whilst remaining rooted within their local territory. They are not only the product of specific socio-economic and political conditions but also of the extensive complicity on which they can count. It is this fertile ‘grey zone’ of mafia relations with accomplices identified as enablers, facilitators, sponsors and helpers that is analysed here. Engaging with the existing literature and using a range of new judicial sources, including evidence from mafia trials, this article develops in-depth case studies to identify and examine the hidden face of Italian mafias. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 79-101 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1575563 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1575563 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:1:p:79-101 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1511347_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vasiliki Triga Author-X-Name-First: Vasiliki Author-X-Name-Last: Triga Author-Name: Fernando Mendez Author-X-Name-First: Fernando Author-X-Name-Last: Mendez Author-Name: Constantinos Djouvas Author-X-Name-First: Constantinos Author-X-Name-Last: Djouvas Title: Post-crisis Political Normalisation? The 2018 Presidential Elections in the Republic of Cyprus Abstract: This article takes stock of the most recent presidential election in the Republic of Cyprus and connects it to broader currents in post-crisis European political settings. Although the elections took place against a backdrop of improving economic prospects, the crisis has left its political mark in a number of areas we identify that include a growing political fragmentation, the rise of the far right and increased voter abstention. The empirical analysis focuses on the media campaign and draws on a topic-modelling approach to identify and contrast emphasis given to policy issues over the two electoral rounds. The policy themes identified clustered around two dominant dimensions of political conflict: the Cyprus conflict and the economy. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 103-127 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1511347 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1511347 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:1:p:103-127 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1537175_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ahmet Sözen Author-X-Name-First: Ahmet Author-X-Name-Last: Sözen Author-Name: Sertaç Sonan Author-X-Name-First: Sertaç Author-X-Name-Last: Sonan Title: Yet Another Case of Electoral and Government Epidemic? The Turkish Cypriot Legislative Election of January 2018 Abstract: Following Bosco and Verney’s analyses of ‘electoral’ and ‘government epidemics’, the 2018 Turkish Cypriot legislative election is examined in the context of the impact of the economic crisis on elections and government formation in southern Europe. Despite its obvious idiosyncrasies as a self-declared state with 335,000 inhabitants, in the last decade of economic crisis and austerity policies, the Turkish Cypriot case has followed a largely similar pattern to other southern European countries: declining turnout; emergence of start-up parties; three consecutive early elections; a more fragmented parliament; sidelining of the biggest party in government formation; the first ever grand coalition; and, finally, an unprecedented four-party coalition bringing together parties from left, right, and centre. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 129-154 Issue: 1 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1537175 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1537175 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:1:p:129-154 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_981379_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Antonis A. Ellinas Author-X-Name-First: Antonis A. Author-X-Name-Last: Ellinas Title: Neo-Nazism in an Established Democracy: The Persistence of Golden Dawn in Greece Abstract: The literature predicts that extremist right-wing parties like the Greek Golden Dawn (GD) are doomed to stay in the margins of electoral competition, scaring away voters with their authoritarian views and violent tactics. Defying scholarly expectations and despite the criminal prosecution of its leadership, GD increased its electoral strength in the May 2014 European elections. The article contrasts the neo-Nazi GD with Western European radical right parties and examines the factors that facilitated the persistence of such an extreme political party in an established European democracy. It shows how GD managed to capitalise on the de-legitimation of Greek political institutions and, through its organisational activity, present itself as a socially legitimate anti-system alternative. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 1-20 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.981379 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.981379 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:1:p:1-20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_985448_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sonia Alonso Author-X-Name-First: Sonia Author-X-Name-Last: Alonso Author-Name: Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser Author-X-Name-First: Cristóbal Author-X-Name-Last: Rovira Kaltwasser Title: Spain: No Country for the Populist Radical Right? Abstract: Although there is growing research interest in populist radical right (PRR) parties in Western Europe, little attention has been paid to the case of Spain – a country where these parties are almost non-existent or irrelevant from an electoral and political point of view. In a nutshell, we maintain that in contemporary Spain there is real demand for PRR parties, but three supply-side factors are impeding their electoral breakthrough and persistence: the cleavage structure of the country, the strategy of competition of the mainstream right and the electoral system. At the same time, we postulate that at least in the case of Spain the Great Recession has not improved the electoral odds of the PRR as such but rather facilitated the emergence of leftist populist forces. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 21-45 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.985448 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.985448 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:1:p:21-45 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_979031_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ayhan Kaya Author-X-Name-First: Ayhan Author-X-Name-Last: Kaya Title: Islamisation of Turkey under the AKP Rule: Empowering Family, Faith and Charity Abstract: Referring to the linkages between neoliberal social policies and religious forms of governmentality, this article analyses the Islamisation of Turkey under the rule of the AKP (Justice and Development Party) since 2002. It discusses the strategies, discourses, and policies deployed by the AKP to take control of the state, with a particular focus on the changing environment of social policies. The focus is on the growing importance of the family, faith-based voluntary organisations, charities, education, and Islam for AKP rule. It concludes with brief reference to the #Occupygezi movement, which was partly a response to the Islamisation pursued by the AKP government. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 47-69 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.979031 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.979031 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:1:p:47-69 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_968981_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pelin Ayan Musil Author-X-Name-First: Pelin Author-X-Name-Last: Ayan Musil Title: Emergence of a Dominant Party System After Multipartyism: Theoretical Implications from the Case of the AKP in Turkey Abstract: This study aims to provide insights into how and why a dominant party system emerges after an era of multipartyism. Conceptualising the emergence phase of a dominant party system within the framework of Sartori's ‘predominant party system’, it elaborates the causal weight of different theories within the Turkish context through a comparative-historical analysis. Comparing the case of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) with the Justice Party (AP), it argues that perceptions of an incumbent's good economic performance and lack of centrifugal intra-party conflicts are two crucial factors that lead to the emergence of a dominant party system after multipartyism. Restrictive electoral rules and existing social cleavages, however, create a favourable setting for this outcome. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 71-92 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.968981 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.968981 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:1:p:71-92 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_942989_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stratos Patrikios Author-X-Name-First: Stratos Author-X-Name-Last: Patrikios Author-Name: Michalis Chatzikonstantinou Author-X-Name-First: Michalis Author-X-Name-Last: Chatzikonstantinou Title: Dynastic Politics: Family Ties in the Greek Parliament, 2000–12 Abstract: Fluctuations in the presence of dynastic politicians in national legislatures are seen as an important indicator of political modernisation. Drawing on original biographical details of Greek Members of Parliament (MPs) from the six most recent parliamentary terms, we document the existence of a substantial and relatively stable pool of dynastic MPs. Their numbers only appear to shrink, albeit not too dramatically, in the 2012 elections, which also marked the collapse of the traditional party system. Findings highlight patterns of stability that have remained unnoticed under more visible shifts in party competition during the economic crisis. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 93-111 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.942989 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.942989 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:1:p:93-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_953350_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mark Harwood Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Harwood Title: Adopting Same-Sex Unions in Catholic Malta: Pointing the Finger at ‘Europe’ Abstract: In 2013 the Maltese Labour Party returned to power after 15 years in opposition, securing the single largest majority in the island's post-independence history and on a platform promising civil unions for same-sex couples. Asking how LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rights became mainstream in a country synonymous with Catholicism, the article examines whether the adoption of the Civil Union Act is the culmination of ten years of European Union membership. Employing concepts of policy and institutional fit as well as social constructivist theories of elite socialisation and epistemic communities, it concludes that while policy fit accounts for the introduction of equality laws, the Civil Union Act depended on the social democrats' need to retake the progressive agenda. Elite socialisation – particularly among Members of the European Parliament – helped reframe the issue, encouraging the party to adopt this policy while the Europeanisation of the LGBT lobby reminded the social democrats that the LGBT minority, long hidden and browbeaten by Church teaching, now sought recognition and equality. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 113-131 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.953350 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.953350 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:1:p:113-131 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1002555_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yannis Tsirbas Author-X-Name-First: Yannis Author-X-Name-Last: Tsirbas Title: The 2014 Local Elections in Greece: Looking for Patterns in a Changing Political System Abstract: In May 2014, municipal and regional elections were held in Greece, concurrently with European elections. This was the first electoral test after the 2012 twin earthquake elections, which marked the beginning of a radical restructuring of the Greek political system. The fragmentation and inconsistency of voting behaviour across different polls in 2014 indicate that Greek politics remains in a transitional phase whose final outcome is still contested. Other characteristics of the elections, including the high proportion of independent candidates, the radical renewal of political personnel and the emergence of Berlusconism in two major municipalities, underline the continuing lack of legitimacy of the political system. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 133-155 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.1002555 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.1002555 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:1:p:133-155 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1862498_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Lisi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Lisi Author-Name: Edalina Rodrigues Sanches Author-X-Name-First: Edalina Rodrigues Author-X-Name-Last: Sanches Author-Name: Jayane dos Santos Maia Author-X-Name-First: Jayane Author-X-Name-Last: dos Santos Maia Title: Party System Renewal or Business as Usual? Continuity and Change in Post-Bailout Portugal Abstract: The recent economic crisis has created momentum for party system change in most European democracies. While Portugal has shown more predictable patterns of interparty competition, since the 2015 elections it has experienced incremental changes in the electoral, parliamentary and governing arenas. This study explores several dimensions of the Portuguese party system (including volatility, alternation in government and innovation) from a longitudinal perspective, and provides new explanations for its development. Focusing on the post-bailout period, it argues that abstention and party strategy go a long way to explaining the patterns of continuity and (marginal) change in the Portuguese party system. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 179-203 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1862498 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1862498 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:2:p:179-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1872152_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elisabetta De Giorgi Author-X-Name-First: Elisabetta Author-X-Name-Last: De Giorgi Author-Name: José Santana-Pereira Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Santana-Pereira Title: The Exceptional Case of Post-Bailout Portugal: A Comparative Outlook Abstract: The analysis explores government, party system and political attitudes as dimensions revealing Portugal’s exceptionalism during its post-bailout period (2015–19) vis-á-vis three other South European countries, Greece, Italy and Spain. It shows that government stability was greater in Portugal, no party system revolution took place and political trust recovered more quickly than in the other countries. In contrast, Portugal is not dissimilar from the other cases regarding the prevalence of populist attitudes, even though populist actors did not achieve electoral success before 2019. The article includes an update on political attitudes and government-opposition relations during the covid-19 pandemic and introduces the other articles in this collection. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 127-150 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1872152 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1872152 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:2:p:127-150 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1864910_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: José Santana-Pereira Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Santana-Pereira Author-Name: João Cancela Author-X-Name-First: João Author-X-Name-Last: Cancela Title: Demand without Supply? Populist Attitudes and Voting Behaviour in Post-Bailout Portugal Abstract: Unlike other European nations, Portugal has experienced an absence of relevant populist parties, even if its recent background of severe economic crisis could have been a fertile ground for their advent. To illuminate this apparent contradiction, we look at the demand side of the equation, drawing on survey data to examine the spread, correlates, and potential electoral implications of populist attitudes in Portugal. We show that while individuals with a populist outlook do not share a particular socioeconomic profile, several attitudinal factors are significant predictors of individual-level populism. Furthermore, those with stronger populist attitudes are not more likely to abstain in elections, but rather tend to vote for parties that exhibit some degree of populism in their rhetoric. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 205-228 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1864910 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1864910 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:2:p:205-228 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1868702_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Carlos Jalali Author-X-Name-First: Carlos Author-X-Name-Last: Jalali Author-Name: João Moniz Author-X-Name-First: João Author-X-Name-Last: Moniz Author-Name: Patrícia Silva Author-X-Name-First: Patrícia Author-X-Name-Last: Silva Title: In the Shadow of the ‘Government of the Left’: The 2019 Legislative Elections in Portugal Abstract: This article examines the Portuguese 2019 legislative election, which took place after a period of unprecedented and unexpected cooperation of the pro-European centre left and eurosceptic radical left. Initially dismissed as a ‘contraption’, this alliance belied the initial expectations and increasingly became a reference for South European social democratic parties. Yet, despite a seemingly reinforced popular mandate, it was not maintained after the 2019 election. We identify three factors for this. First, we suggest that the 2015–19 ‘contraption’ was a case of weak contract parliamentarism, making it easier not to renew. Second, the electoral victory of the Socialist Party made deals between the left-wing parties less necessary. Third, enduring programmatic differences between those parties hindered cooperation. Finally, it should be noted that the ‘contraption’ impacted interparty relations on the left and the expansion in the number of parliamentary parties in 2019, notably on the right. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 229-255 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1868702 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1868702 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:2:p:229-255 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1863592_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Catherine Moury Author-X-Name-First: Catherine Author-X-Name-Last: Moury Author-Name: Elisabetta De Giorgi Author-X-Name-First: Elisabetta Author-X-Name-Last: De Giorgi Author-Name: Pedro Pita Barros Author-X-Name-First: Pedro Pita Author-X-Name-Last: Barros Title: How to Combine Public Spending with Fiscal Rigour? ‘Austerity by Stealth’ in Post-Bailout Portugal (2015-2019) Abstract: In this article, we argue that the Costa I Socialist government (2015–2019) managed to combine responsiveness to voters with responsibility towards domestic and international actors by pursuing some kind of ‘austerity by stealth’, which we define as less visible fiscal contraction that is not displayed by the government in its public discourse. The radical left parties implicitly agreed with this strategy in exchange for the adoption of a long list of visible anti-austerity policies. This allowed the Costa I government to fulfil its electoral pledges and maintain the support of the radical left on the one hand, whilst also reducing the country’s deficit and consequently the costs of interest-debt repayments. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 151-178 Issue: 2 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1863592 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1863592 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:2:p:151-178 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1558606_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Lisi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Lisi Author-Name: Enrico Borghetto Author-X-Name-First: Enrico Author-X-Name-Last: Borghetto Title: Populism, Blame Shifting and the Crisis: Discourse Strategies in Portuguese Political Parties Abstract: Populist parties have been gaining ground in European political systems. Against this backcloth, Portugal stands out as the only Southern European country in which traditional mainstream parties have not faced a sharp rise in populist challengers. This article relies on content analysis of election manifestos to examine the use of populist claims by the main Portuguese parties before and after the crisis (1995–2015). Our findings reveal that populist rhetoric has been used mainly by left-wing radical parties as a wedge to disrupt a decade-old status quo. Moreover, we did not find a significant increase in the frequency of populist rhetorical elements after the crisis, either in mainstream or challenger parties. Overall, in the Portuguese case, ideology is the most important factor that explains the adoption of a populist discourse. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 405-427 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1558606 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1558606 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:4:p:405-427 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1510635_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emmanouil Tsatsanis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanouil Author-X-Name-Last: Tsatsanis Author-Name: Ioannis Andreadis Author-X-Name-First: Ioannis Author-X-Name-Last: Andreadis Author-Name: Eftichia Teperoglou Author-X-Name-First: Eftichia Author-X-Name-Last: Teperoglou Title: Populism from Below: Socio-economic and Ideological Correlates of Mass Attitudes in Greece Abstract: The paper offers a first-time investigation of populism at the mass level in Greece. Its objectives are to examine the socio-economic factors which facilitate the adoption of populist world views and to identify the ideological correlates of populism. Findings reveal that the strongest socio-economic predictors are (low levels of) household income and education. Populist attitudes are more pronounced among left-wing citizens and strongly associated with euroscepticism and opposition to economic liberalism. However, the relationship of populism with anti-immigrant and anti-democratic attitudes appears to be mediated by left–right ideology, thus providing evidence that mass-level populism in Greece comes in both left-inclusionary and right-exclusionary varieties. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 429-450 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1510635 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1510635 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:4:p:429-450 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1555957_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Giorgos Charalambous Author-X-Name-First: Giorgos Author-X-Name-Last: Charalambous Author-Name: Panos Christoforou Author-X-Name-First: Panos Author-X-Name-Last: Christoforou Title: Far-Right Extremism and Populist Rhetoric: Greece and Cyprus during an Era of Crisis Abstract: Research has highlighted a strong association between far-right parties and populism, although this is often taken as concerning the softer radical right rather than fully fledged extremism. Further, there is limited analysis on how far-right parties in different countries employ populist rhetoric. In order to explore the relationship between the extreme right and populism, this article conceptualises and categorises the populism of the Greek GD (Χρυσή Αυγή—Golden Dawn), and that of its Cypriot sister party ELAM (Εθνικό Λαϊκό Μέτωπο—National Popular Front), on the basis of a content analysis of press releases. First, existing theses about the relationship between the far right and populism are qualified, illustrating how extreme right parties (including the most extreme among them) utilise populist rhetoric. Second, patterns and variations in populist rhetoric are identified between extreme right parties based on context. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 451-477 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1555957 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1555957 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:4:p:451-477 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1506513_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alessandro Chiaramonte Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro Author-X-Name-Last: Chiaramonte Author-Name: Vincenzo Emanuele Author-X-Name-First: Vincenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Emanuele Author-Name: Nicola Maggini Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Maggini Author-Name: Aldo Paparo Author-X-Name-First: Aldo Author-X-Name-Last: Paparo Title: Populist Success in a Hung Parliament: The 2018 General Election in Italy Abstract: The 2018 Italian general elections were a crucial test to assess the resilience of mainstream parties vis-à-vis the challenge provided by populist forces and the stabilisation of the tripolar party system emerged in 2013. The article analyses the outcome of the election, whose most remarkable result was the unprecedented success of two populist parties, the M5S and the Lega, by focusing on key aspects such as the new electoral system, the coalition-building process, the electoral campaign, the evolution of the Italian party system, and the analysis of vote shifts between parties. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 479-501 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1506513 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1506513 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:4:p:479-501 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1525914_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jorge M. Fernandes Author-X-Name-First: Jorge M. Author-X-Name-Last: Fernandes Author-Name: Pedro C. Magalhães Author-X-Name-First: Pedro C. Author-X-Name-Last: Magalhães Author-Name: José Santana-Pereira Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Santana-Pereira Title: Portugal’s Leftist Government: From Sick Man to Poster Boy? Abstract: In 2015, for the first time in the history of Portuguese democracy, radical left parties relinquished their status as outsiders and lent their support to a Socialist Party cabinet. Defying the expectations of many, this government survived its first years. In fact, it did more than survive: while largely fulfilling the interparty agreements that originated it, the government has presided over positive economic developments and even managed to abide by EU budgetary rules. How was this possible? We show that the political solution found, as well as the policies and practices that sustain it, involve a form of a ‘contract parliamentarism’. This solution has allowed the parties to the left of the Socialists to obtain policy benefits without compromising their core identity or significantly hindering the support of their constituents. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 503-524 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1525914 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1525914 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:4:p:503-524 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1491103_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mustafa Yağcı Author-X-Name-First: Mustafa Author-X-Name-Last: Yağcı Title: The Political Economy of Central Banking in Turkey: The Macroprudential Policy Regime and Self-Undermining Feedback Abstract: This article examines the political economy of central banking in Turkey in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. The macroprudential turn led by the Turkish central bank not only created a political backlash from within the AKP government but also revealed the divergent preferences of real and financial sector actors in the Turkish economy. Using the policy regimes and policy feedback framework with a qualitative data analysis methodology, this article argues that the interplay between the contextualised material, ideational, structural and institutional forces, the strategies of leading politicians and how the stakeholders perceived and evaluated the new policy framework had a critical role in shaping the legitimacy, coherence and durability of the macroprudential policy regime in Turkey. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 525-545 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1491103 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1491103 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:4:p:525-545 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1548120_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hasan Tekgüç Author-X-Name-First: Hasan Author-X-Name-Last: Tekgüç Title: Declining Poverty and Inequality in Turkey: The Effect of Social Assistance and Home Ownership Abstract: Social assistance has become prominent in combating poverty in developing countries, and has also contributed to the popularity and election success of governments implementing it. In this paper, I employ household surveys and investigate the effect of social assistance on poverty and income inequality in Turkey. I also review the recent literature on poverty, as well as different components of social protection spending: education, health, pensions and housing. In the empirical analysis, I show that pensions still constitute the bulk of public transfers to households. Moreover, home ownership ameliorates poverty and inequality for Turkey. Despite its modest amounts, social assistance reduces poverty and its marginal effect on income inequality is larger than other income sources. These findings suggest that increases in social assistance budgets should accompany other policy measures in combating poverty and inequality. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 547-570 Issue: 4 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1548120 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1548120 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:4:p:547-570 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_984381_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: André Freire Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Freire Author-Name: Marco Lisi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Lisi Author-Name: Ioannis Andreadis Author-X-Name-First: Ioannis Author-X-Name-Last: Andreadis Author-Name: José Manuel Leite Viegas Author-X-Name-First: José Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Leite Viegas Title: Political Representation in Bailed-out Southern Europe: Greece and Portugal Compared Abstract: The emergence of the economic and financial crisis has already shown important electoral and political consequences in southern Europe. Drawing on the experience of two bailed-out countries, Greece and Portugal, we use original data collected before and after 2008 to examine how patterns of political representation have changed during this period. We argue that austerity measures have significantly affected the way MPs represent their electorates, namely in terms of policy congruence. In addition, the economic crisis has also deepened the legitimacy crisis in both countries. Finally, we find that the short-term impact of the crisis has had a greater impact on voters' attitudes than on those of their representatives. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 413-433 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.984381 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.984381 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:4:p:413-433 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_977478_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Georgios Karyotis Author-X-Name-First: Georgios Author-X-Name-Last: Karyotis Author-Name: Wolfgang Rüdig Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang Author-X-Name-Last: Rüdig Author-Name: David Judge Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Judge Title: Representation and Austerity Politics: Attitudes of Greek Voters and Elites Compared Abstract: Drawing on surveys of voters and MPs in Greece, this article analyses elite–mass interaction on key policy (austerity, European integration, immigration) and ideological issues after the 2012 elections. We find that while for the government parties, New Democracy and PASOK, the level of congruence is quite high, MPs from opposition parties (SYRIZA, Golden Dawn) place themselves in more exposed positions in comparison with their voters. The observed substantial variation in the intensity and direction of congruence, across parties and issue preferences in Greece, reinforces the view that the dimensionality of political contestation is not reducible to a single ideological dimension. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 435-456 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.977478 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.977478 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:4:p:435-456 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_983306_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Eftichia Teperoglou Author-X-Name-First: Eftichia Author-X-Name-Last: Teperoglou Author-Name: André Freire Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Freire Author-Name: Ioannis Andreadis Author-X-Name-First: Ioannis Author-X-Name-Last: Andreadis Author-Name: José Manuel Leite Viegas Author-X-Name-First: José Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Leite Viegas Title: Elites' and Voters' Attitudes towards Austerity Policies and their Consequences in Greece and Portugal Abstract: This article analyses the attitudes of the political elite and voters in Greece and Portugal vis-à-vis the Troika bailouts, austerity policies and the attribution of responsibilities for the crisis. Using both elite and mass surveys with similar questions, the article explores to what extent the elites and voters share similar attitudes, what might explain possible differences between these two groups and between the two countries and what this information can tell us about the quality of political representation in Greece and Portugal. The differences between the countries are explained mainly by the severity of the crisis and austerity policies in each country, but also by the diversity of political conditions. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 457-476 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.983306 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.983306 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:4:p:457-476 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_983311_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: André Freire Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Freire Author-Name: Eftichia Teperoglou Author-X-Name-First: Eftichia Author-X-Name-Last: Teperoglou Author-Name: Catherine Moury Author-X-Name-First: Catherine Author-X-Name-Last: Moury Title: Awakening the Sleeping Giant in Greece and Portugal? Elites' and Voters' Attitudes towards EU Integration in Difficult Economic Times Abstract: This article explores the extent to which the economic crisis and political responses of the European Union (EU) to austerity policies have contributed to Euroscepticism in Greece and Portugal. We analyse attitudes towards the EU at both voter and elite levels using fresh and innovative data, and by comparing them with data from surveys conducted before the crisis we show assessments of austerity and the bailouts are feeding elite and voter Euroscepticism. In both countries there are signs of a crisis of representation with greater voter–elite incongruence in the representation of EU issues than before the bailout. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 477-499 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.983311 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.983311 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:4:p:477-499 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_975770_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Conceição Pequito Teixeira Author-X-Name-First: Conceição Pequito Author-X-Name-Last: Teixeira Author-Name: Emmanouil Tsatsanis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanouil Author-X-Name-Last: Tsatsanis Author-Name: Ana Maria Belchior Author-X-Name-First: Ana Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Belchior Title: Support for Democracy in Times of Crisis: Diffuse and Specific Regime Support in Portugal and Greece Abstract: In the context of a cross-national economic crisis, questions about democratic legitimacy are again topical. We explore the question of democratic legitimacy in Portugal and Greece by employing the conceptual differentiation between diffuse and specific regime support. Our findings indicate that while specific support has fallen in both countries, only Greece has experienced a precipitous fall in diffuse support, suggesting a link between regime performance and support for democracy. Individual-level analyses do not reveal any clear patterns concerning the impact of long-term societal factors or short-term economic considerations. Due to data quality limitations the paper has a predominately exploratory nature. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 501-518 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.975770 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.975770 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:4:p:501-518 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_983317_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emmanouil Tsatsanis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanouil Author-X-Name-Last: Tsatsanis Author-Name: André Freire Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Freire Author-Name: Yannis Tsirbas Author-X-Name-First: Yannis Author-X-Name-Last: Tsirbas Title: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Ideological Space in Portugal and Greece: A Comparison of Elites and Voters Abstract: This work addresses the dimensions and content of ideological space in Portugal and Greece after the onset of the sovereign debt crisis and the imposition of austerity policies in the two countries. By examining both elite interviews and public opinion data, the article principally attempts to determine whether the economic crisis has created a new division in ideological space by cross-cutting or completely replacing older ones. In addition, we attempt to gauge the position of crisis-related issues relative to issue divides on European integration and globalisation which, up to now, have been dormant in Southern European countries. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 519-540 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.983317 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.983317 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:4:p:519-540 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_984384_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Lisi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Lisi Author-Name: José Santana-Pereira Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Santana-Pereira Title: Campaign Individualisation before and after the Bailout: A Comparison between Greece and Portugal Abstract: The elections that took place in Greece and Portugal before and after the intervention of the so-called Troika allow us to examine to what extent the austerity period has affected the nature and style of electoral campaigns, especially in terms of individualisation. Our results show that campaigns in Greece and Portugal were quite different and that Greek candidates supported by the two main parties are more likely to emphasise their role. Yet the short-term impact of the crisis has been negligible, as there have been insignificant shifts in the communicative focus on the personalisation of the agendas and on the means used in the campaign after the intervention of the Troika. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 541-559 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.984384 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.984384 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:4:p:541-559 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_992770_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mauro Tebaldi Author-X-Name-First: Mauro Author-X-Name-Last: Tebaldi Title: From Notary to Ruler: The Role of the President of the Republic during the Italian Crisis (2010–14) Abstract: During the period of political and economic crisis in Italy, the President of the Republic became the central institutional actor of the Italian parliamentary government. This led to a debate among party politicians and scholars of Italian politics concerning the role of the Head of State in Italian democracy. Focusing on the period from 2010 until the beginning of 2014, the article explains the growing power of the President by examining the conditions that allowed presidential powers to increase. It concludes by discussing the potential effects of the increase in presidential powers on the evolution of Italian parliamentary government. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 561-581 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.992770 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.992770 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:4:p:561-581 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_993511_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ersin Kalaycıoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Ersin Author-X-Name-Last: Kalaycıoğlu Title: Local Elections and the Turkish Voter: Looking for the Determinants of Party Choice Abstract: On 30 March 2014 Turkish voters elected their local (city) councillors. Their party preferences seem to indicate considerable correspondence with the national vote choices. So, do voters' choices in local elections differ from voters' party preferences at the national legislative elections? Based on previous research findings on Turkish voting behaviour, a list of hypotheses was compiled and tested, using binary logistic regression analyses and survey data collected immediately prior to the 2009 and 2014 local elections. The main findings are that the party lists are supported at the ballot boxes on the basis of the voters' party identification, ideological positions, and economic (dis)satisfaction, whether in national or local elections. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 583-600 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.993511 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.993511 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:4:p:583-600 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1006837_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.1006837 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.1006837 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1211239_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Giuliano Bobba Author-X-Name-First: Giuliano Author-X-Name-Last: Bobba Author-Name: Duncan McDonnell Author-X-Name-First: Duncan Author-X-Name-Last: McDonnell Title: Different Types of Right-Wing Populist Discourse in Government and Opposition: The Case of Italy Abstract: Does right-wing populist discourse change when parties move from opposition to government? How do different ideological types of right-wing populist parties express this discourse? Through an analysis of the Lega Nord and Forza Italia/Popolo della Libertà between 2006 and 2013, we find that while the switch to office does bring some changes, the main elements of their populist discourse remain largely the same. We also show how their respective emphases on ‘elites’ and ‘others’ distinguish the parties: FI/PDL focuses overwhelmingly on ‘elites’ while the LN places similar emphasis on both ‘elites’ and ‘others’. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 281-299 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1211239 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1211239 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:3:p:281-299 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1165404_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rabia Karakaya Polat Author-X-Name-First: Rabia Author-X-Name-Last: Karakaya Polat Author-Name: Özlem Kayhan Pusane Author-X-Name-First: Özlem Author-X-Name-Last: Kayhan Pusane Title: Technology and Politics: Have the ICTs Turned into a Domain for Civil–Military Relations in Turkey? Abstract: The implications of technology have been widely acknowledged in international relations. Studies ranging from the causes of war and military effectiveness to terrorism and nuclear proliferation have explored how technology shapes international politics. However, the implications of technology in domestic politics have not been scrutinised much. This paper helps fill this vacuum through an analysis of Turkey’s civil–military relations. Although civilian control over the Turkish military has improved in the past decade, this process has not been smooth. With a focus on the recent court cases involving the military, the 2007 e-memorandum and the transfer of electronic military intelligence apparatus to the civilian authority, this paper demonstrates how technology has become an important domain for civil–military relations in Turkey. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 301-318 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1165404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1165404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:3:p:301-318 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1164916_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Athanasios Ragkos Author-X-Name-First: Athanasios Author-X-Name-Last: Ragkos Author-Name: Stavriani Koutsou Author-X-Name-First: Stavriani Author-X-Name-Last: Koutsou Author-Name: Theodoros Manousidis Author-X-Name-First: Theodoros Author-X-Name-Last: Manousidis Title: In Search of Strategies to Face the Economic Crisis: Evidence from Greek Farms Abstract: This study examines the strategies – defensive or aggressive, individual or collective – undertaken by sheep farms in a Greek rural area in order to face the repercussions of the economic crisis and their effects on the productivity and economic performance of these farms. The article presents the results of a farm management survey conducted in 2010 and repeated in 2014 in northern Evros, Greece. The mix of strategies – mainly passive – adopted by farmers shows their confusion in the face of crisis conditions, which has resulted in reduced productivity, more use of family labour and a rise in collective actions. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 319-337 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1164916 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1164916 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:3:p:319-337 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1151127_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Toni Rodon Author-X-Name-First: Toni Author-X-Name-Last: Rodon Author-Name: María José Hierro Author-X-Name-First: María José Author-X-Name-Last: Hierro Title: Podemos and Ciudadanos Shake up the Spanish Party System: The 2015 Local and Regional Elections Abstract: With a very high unemployment rate but at the first stage of a timid economic recovery, Spain held regional and local elections in May 2015. The election results showed the fall of traditional parties and the emergence of new forces and citizens’ platforms, which increased the fragmentation of the party system. The PP (Partido Popular – Popular Party) continued to be the most voted-for party but post-election agreements brought the left to power in eight of the 14 regions that held elections, ending four years of conservative general dominance. After commenting on the context, the campaign and the results of the elections, this article explores the main characteristics of the new party competition and examines the profile of those voting for new political alternatives. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 339-357 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1151127 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1151127 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:3:p:339-357 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1191182_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lluis Orriols Author-X-Name-First: Lluis Author-X-Name-Last: Orriols Author-Name: Toni Rodon Author-X-Name-First: Toni Author-X-Name-Last: Rodon Title: The 2015 Catalan Election: The Independence Bid at the Polls Abstract: This paper examines the context, campaign and main determinants of how Catalans voted in the 2015 regional election. The elections were exceptional because the incumbent and the remaining Catalan nationalist parties framed the contest as a de facto referendum on secession. In this paper we scrutinise whether attitudes towards independence affected vote choice and whether they eclipsed other traditional significant vote-driving factors such as the state of the economy or government performance. Results show that, although the independence issue became a major determinant of vote choice, the elections did not become a pure plebiscite on secession, since voters also used their vote to hold the regional government accountable for its past performance. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 359-381 Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1191182 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1191182 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:3:p:359-381 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1184831_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Corrigendum Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: iii-iii Issue: 3 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1184831 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1184831 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:3:p:iii-iii Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_950369_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maria Petmesidou Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Petmesidou Author-Name: Ana M. Guillén Author-X-Name-First: Ana M. Author-X-Name-Last: Guillén Title: Can the Welfare State as We Know It Survive? A View from the Crisis-Ridden South European Periphery Abstract: South European countries have been hit hardest and longest by the post-2008 economic crisis. This has brought their welfare states under acute strain. Unmet need has sharply increased while significant welfare reforms and (more or less) deep cuts and changes in social spending have been prominent in the repertoire of the crisis management solutions implemented by the governments (under European Union constraints and the strict rescue-deal requirements for Greece and Portugal). This introduction briefly reviews reform trends prior to and during the crisis in order to highlight convergent and divergent paths among the four countries and outline the major questions addressed by the contributions to this volume. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 295-307 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.950369 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.950369 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:3:p:295-307 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_951515_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David Natali Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Natali Author-Name: Furio Stamati Author-X-Name-First: Furio Author-X-Name-Last: Stamati Title: Reassessing South European Pensions after the Crisis: Evidence from Two Decades of Reforms Abstract: The article studies pension reforms in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain between 1990 and 2013, focusing on three dimensions of change: multi-pillarisation, institutional harmonisation, and spending trends (cost-containment/expansion). The pension evolution of these countries is reassessed throughout the period of crisis and austerity. All countries encouraged the spread of private pensions and harmonised their fragmented public schemes. Cost containment was massive, putting future adequacy at risk. While international actors, especially the European Union, acquired a stronger role, that of organised labour declined. Spiralling between crisis and austerity, these systems changed and adapted, but still face old and new problems: inequality, risk individualisation, and increasing vulnerability to external shocks. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 309-330 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.951515 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.951515 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:3:p:309-330 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_949994_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maria Petmesidou Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Petmesidou Author-Name: Emmanuele Pavolini Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuele Author-X-Name-Last: Pavolini Author-Name: Ana M. Guillén Author-X-Name-First: Ana M. Author-X-Name-Last: Guillén Title: South European Healthcare Systems under Harsh Austerity: A Progress–Regression Mix? Abstract: This article addresses the question of whether the economic crisis provides a politically opportune time to drastically curtail public healthcare in South Europe or whether, instead, there are signs of longer-term reform strategies for potentially balancing fiscal targets with the quest for enhanced value and health outcomes, when eventually growth resumes. After a brief examination of the profile of healthcare systems in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain prior to the crisis, we comparatively assess the mix of retrenchment, restructuring and recalibration strategies. The effects of the austerity-driven reforms on current (and expected) health outcomes are also briefly analysed. We conclude with reflections on the future of public healthcare in South Europe. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 331-352 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.949994 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.949994 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:3:p:331-352 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_948603_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Margarita León Author-X-Name-First: Margarita Author-X-Name-Last: León Author-Name: Emmanuele Pavolini Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuele Author-X-Name-Last: Pavolini Title: ‘Social Investment’ or Back to ‘Familism’: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Family and Care Policies in Italy and Spain Abstract: Family policies have traditionally been weak in Southern Europe. In the last two decades, however, and following a ‘catching up’ course, Spain has created new family programmes and expanded existing ones. Meanwhile, the picture for Italy during the years preceding the crisis is more of a ‘frozen landscape’. However, the diverging paths of the two countries in terms of policy reform in the years preceding the crisis do not place them in substantially different positions. The economic crisis and the austerity measures that followed have aggravated the weaknesses of family and care policies in both countries. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 353-369 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.948603 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.948603 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:3:p:353-369 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_948592_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rodolfo Gutiérrez Author-X-Name-First: Rodolfo Author-X-Name-Last: Gutiérrez Title: Welfare Performance in Southern Europe: Employment Crisis and Poverty Risk Abstract: The Great Recession has had a deep impact on employment levels and on income inequality in the Southern European countries (Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy). It has given rise to a new stage in the discussion on the distinctiveness of a possible ‘Mediterranean’ variant of welfare capitalism. This paper analyses the performance of the Mediterranean cluster during the Great Recession period in its two main dimensions, labour market participation and poverty risk, and to what extent that performance has evolved in a divergent or convergent manner. Firstly, it portrays the main changes in this variant of welfare capitalism during the last two decades. The second and third sections, respectively, provide a comparative profile of the employment crisis suffered by these countries and of its impact on poverty risks. Finally, the main institutional traits are discussed, explaining the relative performance of welfare capitalism in this cluster of countries. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 371-392 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.948592 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.948592 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:3:p:371-392 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_947700_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Manos Matsaganis Author-X-Name-First: Manos Author-X-Name-Last: Matsaganis Author-Name: Chrysa Leventi Author-X-Name-First: Chrysa Author-X-Name-Last: Leventi Title: The Distributional Impact of Austerity and the Recession in Southern Europe Abstract: Southern European welfare states are under stress. On the one hand, the recession has been causing unemployment to rise and incomes to fall. On the other hand, austerity has affected the capacity of welfare states to protect those affected. This paper assesses the distributional implications of the crisis in Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal from 2009 to 2013. Using a microsimulation model, we disentangle the first-order effects of tax–benefit policies from the broader effects of the crisis, and estimate how its burden has been shared across income groups. We conclude by discussing the methodological pitfalls and policy implications of our research. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 393-412 Issue: 3 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.947700 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.947700 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:3:p:393-412 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1479945_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cemal Burak Tansel Author-X-Name-First: Cemal Burak Author-X-Name-Last: Tansel Title: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey: Beyond the Narratives of Progress Abstract: Unpacking the core themes that are discussed in this collection, this article both offers a research agenda to re-analyse Turkey’s ‘authoritarian turn’ and mounts a methodological challenge to the conceptual frameworks that reinforce a strict analytical separation between the ‘economic’ and the ‘political’ factors. The paper problematises the temporal break in scholarly analyses of the AKP period and rejects the argument that the party’s methods of governance have shifted from an earlier ‘democratic’ model – defined by ‘hegemony’ – to an emergent ‘authoritarian’ one. In contrast, by retracing the mechanisms of the state-led reproduction of neoliberalism since 2003, the paper demonstrates that the party’s earlier ‘hegemonic’ activities were also shaped by authoritarian tendencies which manifested at various levels of governance. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 197-217 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1479945 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1479945 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:2:p:197-217 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1471834_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sümercan Bozkurt-Güngen Author-X-Name-First: Sümercan Author-X-Name-Last: Bozkurt-Güngen Title: Labour and Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Changes and Continuities Under the AKP Governments in Turkey Abstract: There has been a recent revival of interest in the links between neoliberalism and rising authoritarianisms. This article contributes to these debates through an examination of the case of Turkey from a labour-centred perspective. It challenges the claim that an ‘authoritarian turn’ emerged in the country only after the early 2010s and argues that a deeper authoritarianism embedded in the neoliberal experience in Turkey, systematically prevented popular democratic empowerment and facilitated the expansion of the authoritarian repertoire under the AKP governments. The party’s labour policy agenda has been a key facet of its authoritarian statecraft, which has been characterised by individualised as opposed to collective/institutional forms of incorporation of the labouring classes in the political economic restructuring following the 2001 crisis. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 219-238 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1471834 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1471834 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:2:p:219-238 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1487137_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bilge Yeşil Author-X-Name-First: Bilge Author-X-Name-Last: Yeşil Title: Authoritarian Turn or Continuity? Governance of Media through Capture and Discipline in the AKP Era Abstract: Since coming to power in 2002, AKP has exerted a range of legal and financial pressures on critical media organisations and professionals, including acts of direct intervention. While the growing literature on Turkey’s media system has explored the influence of political and economic pressures on media freedoms, recent developments necessitate a re-examination that tackles the upsurge of direct government intervention in the country’s commercial media landscape. Through the framework of media capture, this article analyses the disciplinary strategies deployed by AKP and argues that the party’s media capture at recent political junctures (Gezi protests, corruption scandal, coup attempt) is continuous with its past policies and practices and does not necessarily represent an ‘authoritarian turn’. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 239-257 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1487137 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1487137 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:2:p:239-257 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1477422_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ali Bilgiç Author-X-Name-First: Ali Author-X-Name-Last: Bilgiç Title: Reclaiming the National Will: Resilience of Turkish Authoritarian Neoliberalism after Gezi Abstract: This article explores why and how authoritarian regimes become resilient when facing strong resistance from counter-hegemonic forces to their neoliberal social and economic projects. Examining the case of Turkey in 2013, it analyses the political subjectivities produced by authoritarian neoliberalism and the AKP government’s attempt to reassert its hegemony. To unpack this argument, the article first examines the Gezi Park protests, retracing the protestors’ own accounts to explore how the resistance to authoritarian neoliberalism materialised. It then analyses the discursive strategies of the government and pro-government media to show how the AKP government appropriated the Turkish right’s existing ‘national will’ narrative with a neo-Ottomanist and neoliberal makeover and tried to reproduce its hegemony through consent generation at the ‘National Will’ meetings. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 259-280 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1477422 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1477422 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:2:p:259-280 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1480332_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Özlem Kaygusuz Author-X-Name-First: Özlem Author-X-Name-Last: Kaygusuz Title: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Regime Security in Turkey: Moving to an ‘Exceptional State’ under AKP Abstract: Recent transformations in the politics of security in Turkey have been linked by many scholars to a global trend defined by a rapidly developing neoliberal security state form. The 15 July 2016 coup attempt, however, seems to disrupt the convergence of the Turkish case with the global politics of neoliberal (in)security. This paper revisits the neoliberal security state debate and argues that the radical scope of the legal, administrative and coercive changes enacted in the Turkish state signals a transition to a more ‘exceptional’ paradigm of security. To this end, the paper adopts the conception of ‘regime security’ and investigates how the AKP government policies have contributed to a party-oriented security paradigm bolstered by executive centralisation. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 281-302 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1480332 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1480332 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:2:p:281-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1980941_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Antonis Kalogeropoulos Author-X-Name-First: Antonis Author-X-Name-Last: Kalogeropoulos Author-Name: Lamprini Rori Author-X-Name-First: Lamprini Author-X-Name-Last: Rori Author-Name: Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou Author-X-Name-First: Dimitra Author-X-Name-Last: Dimitrakopoulou Title: ‘Social Media Help Me Distinguish between Truth and Lies’: News Consumption in the Polarised and Low-trust Media Landscape of Greece Abstract: How do citizens in countries with weak institutions and highly disrupted media landscapes navigate news? We examine a typical South European case, Greece, via cross-national data sets. Combining data from a pool of different surveys, we show that in Greece – unlike the other five countries of the sample – social media are more trusted than news media to help individuals navigate their news environment. A thematic analysis of open-ended survey answers indicates that Greek respondents embrace alternative news sources (social media, digital-born outlets) in record-high numbers because of their distrust of traditional news outlets. Taking into account the historic interplay of media and political institutions, we present Greece as a dystopian case for news organisations and the information environment in countries with weak institutions. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 109-132 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1980941 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1980941 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:1:p:109-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1924986_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Burcu Ozdemir-Sarigil Author-X-Name-First: Burcu Author-X-Name-Last: Ozdemir-Sarigil Author-Name: Zeki Sarigil Author-X-Name-First: Zeki Author-X-Name-Last: Sarigil Title: Who Is Patriarchal? The Correlates of Patriarchy in Turkey Abstract: This study provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of patriarchal attitudes and orientations in Turkey, a Muslim-majority country. The following questions direct the current study: What factors account for patriarchal orientations at the mass level? How do social, political, and economic differences relate to individuals’ patriarchal attitudes and orientations? The answers are provided by original data derived from a nationwide survey, Türkiye’de Enformel Kurumlar Anketi (TEKA 2019) [Informal Institutions in Turkey Survey] (Sarigil 2019). Multivariate analyses suggest that religiosity, Sunni sectarian identity, Kurdish ethnic identity, right-oriented ideological orientations, and low socio-economic status are likely to empower patriarchal tendencies. One major implication of the findings is that modernisation processes (e.g. socio-economic development and secularisation) are likely to undermine patriarchal orientations in Muslim-majority countries as well. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 27-53 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1924986 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1924986 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:1:p:27-53 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1956161_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cristina Dallara Author-X-Name-First: Cristina Author-X-Name-Last: Dallara Author-Name: Alice Lacchei Author-X-Name-First: Alice Author-X-Name-Last: Lacchei Title: Street-level Bureaucrats and Coping Mechanisms.The Unexpected Role of Italian Judges in Asylum Policy Implementation Abstract: The article aims to open the black box of the asylum determination process, focusing on asylum adjudication in courts and on actors implementing this specific policy frame: asylum judges. To assess the peculiarities of the Italian adjudication model and how judges concretely behave in shaping policy, we rely on the Street Level Bureaucracy (SLB) framework. The SLB perspective allows us to study the implementation of asylum adjudication from a bottom-up perspective, focusing on judges and their margin of discretion in processing asylum claims. This exploratory study aims to verify the proposed theoretical framework and to understand if courts and judges adopt a SLB behaviour, the reasons why they adopt such a behaviour and the scope of their discretion. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 83-108 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1956161 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1956161 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:1:p:83-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1923639_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Seda Demiralp Author-X-Name-First: Seda Author-X-Name-Last: Demiralp Author-Name: Evren Balta Author-X-Name-First: Evren Author-X-Name-Last: Balta Title: Defeating Populists: The Case of 2019 Istanbul Elections Abstract: How can populist competitive authoritarian regimes be defeated through elections? In this article, we focus on the 2019 municipal campaign strategy of the opposition Istanbul candidate Ekrem İmamoglu as a case study of a successful challenge to a populist competitive authoritarian regime. We argue that such regimes may be prone to defeat when their opponents use what we call an ‘inverted populist’ strategy. This strategy involves three key elements: adopting an indirect and gradualist approach that avoids direct confrontation with the populist leader and the popular values s/he represents, redefining the ‘the people’ by including previously excluded groups, and promising redistribution to disadvantaged groups. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 1-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1923639 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1923639 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:1:p:1-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1834214_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alessandro Pellegata Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro Author-X-Name-Last: Pellegata Author-Name: Francesco Visconti Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Visconti Title: Transnationalism and Welfare Chauvinism in Italy: Evidence from the 2018 Election Campaign Abstract: This paper investigates the factors which explain public attitudes to welfare chauvinism in Italy. The notion of ‘welfare chauvinism’ refers to the idea that foreigners, considered as out-groups, should have limited or even no access to domestic social security benefits. We focus on the role played by individual transnationalism: i.e. direct and indirect ties and connections with people and cultures of other European countries. We postulate that transnationalism dilutes fears and anxieties, fostering pro-opening attitudes. We test the research hypotheses by using original survey data collected during the 2018 Italian elections, in which the issues of welfare benefits and immigration shaped the election campaign. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 55-82 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1834214 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1834214 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:1:p:55-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1280879_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: S. Erdem Aytaç Author-X-Name-First: S. Erdem Author-X-Name-Last: Aytaç Author-Name: Ali Çarkoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Ali Author-X-Name-Last: Çarkoğlu Author-Name: Kerem Yıldırım Author-X-Name-First: Kerem Author-X-Name-Last: Yıldırım Title: Taking Sides: Determinants of Support for a Presidential System in Turkey Abstract: A key issue on the Turkish political agenda concerns a transition to presidentialism, with a constitutional amendment proposal submitted in December 2016. While the positions of political elites are well known, we lack a detailed analysis of the electorate’s views on such a transition. To fill this gap, we present cross-sectional and panel data collected over the period from spring 2015 to winter 2015–16. Partisanship emerges as the key factor shaping views on presidentialism, and reflections of the centre–periphery cleavage in Turkish politics are also visible. The shift of the Turkish nationalist constituency’s views in favour of presidentialism has been a significant trend in the aftermath of the June 2015 general election. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 1-20 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1280879 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1280879 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:1:p:1-20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1174470_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Daniela Giannetti Author-X-Name-First: Daniela Author-X-Name-Last: Giannetti Author-Name: Andrea Pedrazzani Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Pedrazzani Author-Name: Luca Pinto Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Pinto Title: Party System Change in Italy: Politicising the EU and the Rise of Eccentric Parties Abstract: Using expert survey data covering the 2001–13 period, this article investigates the changing shape and structure of the Italian policy space over time, as well as parties’ shifting policy positions. Our results show the emergence of a distinct pro-/anti-EU (European Union) dimension structuring party competition and a change in the meaning of EU related attitudes. The increasing importance of the pro-/anti-EU dimension is due to the entry of brand new parties in 2013. Our findings also speak to the Euroscepticism literature, as they question the hypothesis according to which Euroscepticism is confined to peripheral parties located at the extremes on the left–right scale. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 21-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1174470 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1174470 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:1:p:21-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1207302_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Iasonas Lamprianou Author-X-Name-First: Iasonas Author-X-Name-Last: Lamprianou Author-Name: Antonis A. Ellinas Author-X-Name-First: Antonis A. Author-X-Name-Last: Ellinas Title: Institutional Grievances and Right-Wing Extremism: Voting for Golden Dawn in Greece Abstract: This article examines the effect of institutional grievances on extreme right voting by using an original survey to analyse voter support for the Greek Golden Dawn (GD). The article first examines various theories of extreme-right voting and then develops the concept of institutional grievances. Using structural equation modeling, it shows that that the strongest correlates of GD voting are those capturing institutional grievances. Economic grievances have a limited and cultural grievances a moderate effect on GD voting. The article compares the findings with those of the broader literature on extreme-right voting. It concludes with some suggestions on how to link the findings with broader developments in Europe. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 43-60 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1207302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1207302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:1:p:43-60 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1170099_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Feryaz Ocaklı Author-X-Name-First: Feryaz Author-X-Name-Last: Ocaklı Title: Islamist Mobilisation in Secularist Strongholds: Institutional Change and Electoral Performance in Turkey Abstract: How do Islamist parties mobilise support and win elections in secularist strongholds? What explains the electoral performance of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey’s most consistently secularist region – western Anatolia? This article explores these questions with a comparative case study of two similar cities in the periphery of İzmir where the AKP registered significantly different electoral results: Ödemiş and Salihli. It shows that deep institutional transformations of the local party organisations, including leadership turnover, reshuffling of the party cadres, and an explicit attempt by local party leaders to moderate and move to the political centre, were necessary factors for the AKP to succeed in elections where the Islamist constituency is weak. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 61-80 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1170099 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1170099 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:1:p:61-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1160528_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Inés Campillo Author-X-Name-First: Inés Author-X-Name-Last: Campillo Author-Name: Lorena Armijo Author-X-Name-First: Lorena Author-X-Name-Last: Armijo Title: Lifestyle Preferences and Strategies of Spanish Working Mothers: A Matter of Choice? Abstract: There is a rich debate surrounding the causes of women’s heterogeneous work–life orientations and strategies. This article focuses on the debate between postmodern individualistic approaches and gender approaches that emphasise the pervasiveness of socio-structural factors. After offering a profile of Spanish women in the twenty-first century, we present the results of qualitative research based on 30 semi-structured interviews with working mothers from different social backgrounds. We discuss Hakim’s ‘preference theory’ by exposing how social class shapes Spanish working mothers’ work–life attitudes and behaviour and how these further change over the life cycle or as a result of changing contexts. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 81-99 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1160528 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1160528 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:1:p:81-99 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1151128_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Defne Günay Author-X-Name-First: Defne Author-X-Name-Last: Günay Author-Name: Emre İşeri Author-X-Name-First: Emre Author-X-Name-Last: İşeri Title: Unexpected Persistence Amidst Enlargement Stasis: Usages of Europe in Turkey’s Nuclear Energy Debate Abstract: Recent studies on European Union (EU) Enlargement have emphasised the importance of usages of ‘Europe’ by domestic actors as a necessary condition for the EU to have an impact on domestic politics. We study the usages of Europe in the critical case of Turkey’s nuclear energy policy. We analyse the narratives and actions of domestic actors in Turkey to identify if they use ‘Europe’ (the EU and the idea of Europe). We reach the counter-intuitive finding of usages by both state and non-state actors, which illustrates that usages of Europe can persist despite enlargement stasis in candidate states. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 101-119 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1151128 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1151128 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:1:p:101-119 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1198094_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jorge M. Fernandes Author-X-Name-First: Jorge M. Author-X-Name-Last: Fernandes Author-Name: Carlos Jalali Author-X-Name-First: Carlos Author-X-Name-Last: Jalali Title: A Resurgent Presidency? Portuguese Semi-Presidentialism and the 2016 Elections Abstract: This article analyses the Portuguese presidential elections of January 2016, setting these within the backdrop of recent semi-presidential practice in Portugal. The election took place in the context of an apparent hollowing of the presidency, a pattern that potentially reflects the bailout that marked most of the second term of the outgoing president, Cavaco Silva. This pattern also helps explain the second-order nature of this presidential election. Despite potentially being an ‘open’ election – in that the incumbent had reached term limits – the election was characterised by low citizen mobilisation, low partisan involvement and low competitiveness. The initial two months of the newly elected president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, suggests he is seeking to invert this hollowing pattern by mobilising popular support behind the presidency. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 121-138 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1198094 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1198094 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:1:p:121-138 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1291293_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Correction to: S. Erdem Aytaç, Ali Çarkoğlu, and Kerem Yıldırım, Taking Sides: Determinants of Support for a Presidential System in Turkey Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: iii-iii Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1291293 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1291293 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:1:p:iii-iii Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1303866_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anna Bosco Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Bosco Author-Name: Susannah Verney Author-X-Name-First: Susannah Author-X-Name-Last: Verney Title: From Electoral Epidemic to Government Epidemic: The Next Level of the Crisis in Southern Europe Abstract: With the elections of 2015–16 in Greece, Spain and Portugal, the political fallout from the economic crisis in Southern Europe reached a new level. An overview of the new electoral arenas and party systems is followed by an investigation of the paths to government formation. Unprecedented events during (multiple) processes of government formation, uncharted outcomes in government types and governing party identities, and the necessity to repeat elections are three features defining a new syndrome that first appeared in Greece but has now spread to Iberia. In Southern Europe the road to incumbency has become arduous and the risk of government instability high. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 383-406 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1303866 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1303866 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:383-406 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1088428_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yannis Tsirbas Author-X-Name-First: Yannis Author-X-Name-Last: Tsirbas Title: The January 2015 Parliamentary Election in Greece: Government Change, Partial Punishment and Hesitant Stabilisation Abstract: In January 2015 an early parliamentary election was held in Greece, amidst harsh economic conditions and the saliency of the issue of Greece’s relations with the European Union. The election, won by the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), marked a popular will for a total change of the governing paradigm and economic policies and, at the same time, confirmed that in countries that face economic crisis and have signed bail-out agreements entailing harsh austerity measures, government parties are sooner or later punished by the electorate, albeit in different degrees. In terms of systemic trends, the January 2015 election confirmed for the Greek party system an unstable process of acquiring a new shape. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 407-426 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1088428 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1088428 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:407-426 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1208906_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emmanouil Tsatsanis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanouil Author-X-Name-Last: Tsatsanis Author-Name: Eftichia Teperoglou Author-X-Name-First: Eftichia Author-X-Name-Last: Teperoglou Title: Realignment under Stress: The July 2015 Referendum and the September Parliamentary Election in Greece Abstract: The victory of the radical-left SYRIZA in the September 2015 election confounded expectations given the failure of the SYRIZA–ANEL government formed in January either to deliver on its central promise of reversing austerity policies or to capitalise on its major victory in the July referendum. The article examines both the election and the referendum that preceded it, offering an explanation for SYRIZA’s victory. It also attempts to trace the trajectory of the current party system in Greece and its ongoing realignment process in light of the 2015 electoral contests and the busy political timeline since the formation of the first SYRIZA–ANEL government. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 427-450 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1208906 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1208906 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:427-450 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1181862_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elisabetta De Giorgi Author-X-Name-First: Elisabetta Author-X-Name-Last: De Giorgi Author-Name: José Santana-Pereira Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Santana-Pereira Title: The 2015 Portuguese Legislative Election: Widening the Coalitional Space and Bringing the Extreme Left in Abstract: This article provides an overview of the Portuguese legislative election held on 4 October 2015 by exploring the economic and political context in which the election took place, the opinion polls, party positions and campaign issues, the results and, finally, the process that led to the formation of the first Socialist minority government supported by far-left parties. Due to this outcome, despite the relative majority of the votes obtained by the incumbent centre-right coalition, we argue that this election result cannot be interpreted as a victory of austerity, but rather as the first step towards contract parliamentarism in Portugal. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 451-468 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1181862 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1181862 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:451-468 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1198454_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lluis Orriols Author-X-Name-First: Lluis Author-X-Name-Last: Orriols Author-Name: Guillermo Cordero Author-X-Name-First: Guillermo Author-X-Name-Last: Cordero Title: The Breakdown of the Spanish Two-Party System: The Upsurge of Podemos and Ciudadanos in the 2015 General Election Abstract: The 2015 general election marked the end of the two-party system that had existed in Spain since the restoration of democracy. Two new parties, ‘Podemos’ and ‘Ciudadanos’, entered the national arena for the first time and together obtained 34.6 per cent of the vote. This paper describes this election’s context and electoral results by analysing the individual determinants behind the change to the Spanish party system. The results indicate that economic factors predominantly explain the votes for the traditional parties, the PP and PSOE. On the other hand, political factors help distinguish why some voters remained ‘loyal’ to the traditional parties and others switched to the new formations. While Podemos switchers were mainly politically disaffected left-wing voters, electoral support for Ciudadanos came from younger and ideologically moderate voters who had lower levels of political trust. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 469-492 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1198454 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1198454 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:469-492 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1268292_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pablo Simón Author-X-Name-First: Pablo Author-X-Name-Last: Simón Title: The Challenges of the New Spanish Multipartism: Government Formation Failure and the 2016 General Election Abstract: The 2016 general election was the result of the incapacity of Spanish political parties to agree on the formation of a government following the previous parliamentary election six months earlier. The paper begins by examining how and why this process failed, focusing on institutional and contextual factors, especially those related to the emergence of Podemos and Ciudadanos in the Spanish political arena. Also explained are the negotiation strategies of the different parties, the electoral campaign and the results of the subsequent 2016 general election. These results show that, on the right, most vote changes went from Ciudadanos to the Popular Party while, in the case of the new pre-electoral coalition of UP, former Izquierda Unida voters were more prone to desert. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 493-517 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1268292 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1268292 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:493-517 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1239671_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Myrto Tsakatika Author-X-Name-First: Myrto Author-X-Name-Last: Tsakatika Title: SYRIZA’s Electoral Rise in Greece: Protest, Trust and the Art of Political Manipulation Abstract: Between 2010 and 2015, a period of significant political change in Greece, the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), a minor party, achieved and consolidated major party status. This article explores the role of political strategy in SYRIZA’s electoral success. It argues that, contrary to accepted wisdom, targeting a ‘niche’ constituency or protesting against the establishment will not suffice for a minor party to make an electoral breakthrough. SYRIZA’s case demonstrates that unless a minor party is ready to claim that it is willing and able to take on government responsibility, electoral advancement will not be forthcoming. The success of SYRIZA’s strategy can be attributed to favourable electoral demand factors and apt heresthetic manipulation of issue dimensions. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 519-540 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1239671 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1239671 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:519-540 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1225331_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Lisi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Lisi Title: U-Turn: The Portuguese Radical Left from Marginality to Government Support Abstract: The 2015 legislative elections in Portugal led to a major shift in the characteristics of the party system through the formation of a socialist minority government supported by the Left Block and the Portuguese Communist Party. This study examines the trajectory of the radical left in Portugal since the implementation of the 2011 EU–International Monetary Fund bailout and analyses the possible reasons for the parties becoming coalition partners. We argue that left–left cooperation is primarily explained by the impact of austerity policies – in particular the huge welfare state retrenchment – and party leadership interests. In addition, the study confirms the importance of centralisation and intra-party cohesion in establishing a new politics of alliance. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 541-560 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1225331 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1225331 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:541-560 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1250397_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Juan Rodríguez-Teruel Author-X-Name-First: Juan Author-X-Name-Last: Rodríguez-Teruel Author-Name: Astrid Barrio Author-X-Name-First: Astrid Author-X-Name-Last: Barrio Author-Name: Oscar Barberà Author-X-Name-First: Oscar Author-X-Name-Last: Barberà Title: Fast and Furious: Podemos’ Quest for Power in Multi-level Spain Abstract: After a stunning breakthrough in the 2014 European election, Podemos became the third largest parliamentary party in Spain in the 2016 general election and achieved representation in all regions. This article examines how Podemos has adapted to the opportunities and dilemmas posed by Spain’s multi-level setting in several ways: its formation in early 2014 and its evolution since; its ideological principles and policy menu; its organisation; and its political strategies and electoral alliances. The hypotheses test the effects of adaptation to multi-level competition on the party electorate. The findings indicate the positive effect of support for more decentralisation on the likelihood of voting for Podemos, but also how this effect is territorially differentiated and could affect the party’s cohesion and internal debate. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 561-585 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1250397 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1250397 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:561-585 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1119646_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Juan Rodríguez Teruel Author-X-Name-First: Juan Author-X-Name-Last: Rodríguez Teruel Author-Name: Astrid Barrio Author-X-Name-First: Astrid Author-X-Name-Last: Barrio Title: Going National: Ciudadanos from Catalonia to Spain Abstract: Ciudadanos, a party founded in Catalonia in 2006, has recently acquired a major role in the Spanish political system. This article examines why it was formed almost ten years ago and how it has evolved since; its ideological principles and policy menu; the party organisation and leadership; the main determinants of its vote, and the structure of opportunities faced by the party in the 2015 general election. It considers Ciudadanos in two different contexts ‒ Catalonia and all Spain ‒ and in two different ‘time zones’: before 2014, when the party was mainly a regional force, and after that date. In each context, the party seems to have responded to the unsatisfied demands resulting from the double electoral market failure of the last decade in Spain and Catalonia. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 587-607 Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1119646 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1119646 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:587-607 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1313812_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 21 Year: 2016 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1313812 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1313812 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_757455_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Myrto Tsakatika Author-X-Name-First: Myrto Author-X-Name-Last: Tsakatika Author-Name: Costas Eleftheriou Author-X-Name-First: Costas Author-X-Name-Last: Eleftheriou Title: The Radical Left's Turn towards Civil Society in Greece: One Strategy, Two Paths Abstract: The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) made remarkable ‘turns towards civil society’ over the last decade. It is argued that this was primarily a response aimed at strengthening their social legitimacy, which had reached its lowest point in the early 1990s. Differences in the way the two parties attempted to stabilise and engage their membership and re-establish links to trade unions and new social movements can be attributed to their distinct ideological and organisational legacies. Despite those differences, their respective linkage strategies were both successful until the game-changing 2012 Greek national elections, which brought about the remarkable rise of SYRIZA and the electoral demise of the KKE. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 81-99 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.757455 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.757455 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:1:p:81-99 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_758447_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Myrto Tsakatika Author-X-Name-First: Myrto Author-X-Name-Last: Tsakatika Author-Name: Marco Lisi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Lisi Title: ‘Zippin’ up My Boots, Goin’ Back to My Roots': Radical Left Parties in Southern Europe Abstract: Radical left parties actively encourage the participation of their members in internal decision-making and insist on promoting organised links to trade unions and social movements. As a party family, they deviate from what is considered to be the trend in which Western political parties have turned their backs on their social roots. Drawing on the experience of South European radical left parties from the fall of the Berlin Wall until the recent financial crisis, we argue that ideology, electoral incentives, party competition and external events explain the radical left's pronounced emphasis on linkage, while organisational trajectory explains variation within the party family in terms of the linkage strategies pursued. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 1-19 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.758447 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.758447 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:1:p:1-19 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_757452_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Luis Ramiro Author-X-Name-First: Luis Author-X-Name-Last: Ramiro Author-Name: Tània Verge Author-X-Name-First: Tània Author-X-Name-Last: Verge Title: Impulse and Decadence of Linkage Processes: Evidence from the Spanish Radical Left Abstract: Reacting to a profound electoral and organisational crisis, in the mid-1980s the Communist Party of Spain initiated a process of party change which envisioned empowering members in decision-making processes and establishing closer and wider relations with civil society. Party change eventually led to the creation of a new organisation, United Left. This article gives an account of the design and implementation of participatory and environmental linkages by the Spanish United Left and evaluates their specific outputs. We show that United Left's strategies aimed at reinvigorating linkage have had very limited success, failing to stabilise the party's electoral fortunes, to reconnect with society and to expand its membership. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 41-60 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.757452 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.757452 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:1:p:41-60 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_764065_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paola Bordandini Author-X-Name-First: Paola Author-X-Name-Last: Bordandini Title: Renewal and Tradition: Comparing Italian Radical Left Parties through their Middle-Level Elites Abstract: The article analyses the current Italian radical left parties—Federation of the Left and Left Ecology and Freedom—to understand how they are similar, how they differ and why. The analysis is based on data from 644 responses of party delegates gathered in 2010 at the first national conventions of the two parties. The paper (i) reconstructs the complex origin of the two parties; (ii) compares their organisational structures; (iii) analyses their ability to involve their members in the party decision-making process; and (iv) examines the relationships between the two parties and organisations of civil society. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 61-79 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.764065 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.764065 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:1:p:61-79 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_764066_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Giorgos Charalambous Author-X-Name-First: Giorgos Author-X-Name-Last: Charalambous Author-Name: Christophoros Christophorou Author-X-Name-First: Christophoros Author-X-Name-Last: Christophorou Title: A Society within Society: Linkage in the Case of the Cypriot Communist Party Abstract: In this article we aim to contribute to the study of linkage by focusing on the Cypriot communist party—Progressive Party of the Working People (AKEL), an exceptional case in European communism—between the mid-1980s and the present. Based on the distinction between participatory and environmental linkage, we explore three issues. First, we focus on the intensity of linkage processes through the examination of participation patterns and organisational practices in the party. Then, we trace the predominant direction of influence between AKEL and society. Finally, we assess the explanatory value of four potential factors—ideology, electoral competition, party leadership and party model—on the links developed by AKEL with society. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 101-119 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.764066 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.764066 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:1:p:101-119 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_757450_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Lisi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Lisi Title: Rediscovering Civil Society? Renewal and Continuity in the Portuguese Radical Left Abstract: The importance of party organisational models to party-civil-society relations has been substantially overlooked in the scholarly literature. Drawing on the Portuguese case, this study examines to what extent radical left parties have established different links with civil society, namely by allying with social movements and trade unions. Our findings confirm that party organisational models significantly shape the relationship between the radical left and civil society. However, external challenges and internal pressures increase the influence of party leadership in determining linkage strategies. Finally, the impact of the recent economic and financial crisis has been limited, especially in terms of programmatic and organisational renewal. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 21-39 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.757450 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.757450 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:1:p:21-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_686211_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: George Christou Author-X-Name-First: George Author-X-Name-Last: Christou Title: An Island in Europe: The EU and the Transformation of Cyprus Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 605-607 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.686211 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.686211 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:17:y:2012:i:4:p:605-607 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_628781_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Margaret Kenna Author-X-Name-First: Margaret Author-X-Name-Last: Kenna Title: The ‘Beanpole Family’: Cultural Aspects of ‘the Demographic Crisis’ in Greece Abstract: Falling birth rates, increased longevity, delayed inheritance, and the increased need for provision of eldercare for seniors, are well-known phenomena throughout Europe. The specific cultural aspects of these phenomena, which produce different kinds of situations in particular countries, have been less explored. The paper looks at the so-called ‘demographic crisis’ in Greece, as the falling birth rate has been labelled, with regard to practices that link the naming of children to the inheritance of property, and with particular reference to a Cycladic island. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 533-551 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2011.628781 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2011.628781 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:17:y:2012:i:4:p:533-551 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_686212_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Robert Fishman Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Fishman Title: The Politics of Industrial Relations: Labor Unions in Spain Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 599-601 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.686212 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.686212 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:17:y:2012:i:4:p:599-601 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_686213_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dimitris Livanios Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris Author-X-Name-Last: Livanios Title: Modern Greece: A History since 1821 Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 603-605 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.686213 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.686213 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:17:y:2012:i:4:p:603-605 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_682432_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alan Duben Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Duben Title: Which Istanbul? Whose Past? Whose Future? Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 591-597 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.682432 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.682432 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:17:y:2012:i:4:p:591-597 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_613561_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maria Petmesidou Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Petmesidou Title: Women, Politics and Pensions: Pension Reform in Greece Between 1975–2002 Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 609-611 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2011.613561 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2011.613561 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:17:y:2012:i:4:p:609-611 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_654617_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Michael Petrou Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Petrou Title: Rural Immigration, Family Farm Modernisation and Reactivation of Traditional Women's Farming Tasks in Greece: Masculinities and Femininities Reconsidered Abstract: This paper aims to explore how agricultural modernisation in a Greek lowland community and a new form of business organisation of family farms, due to the mass employment of low-cost immigrant farm workers, reinforce masculine gendering of farming, often contributing to the reactivation of tasks typically labelled as female, such as cooking for the farm workers and administrative work. However, even though technological and structural modernisation have strengthened the material and symbolic capital of male farmers, the farmer has ended up in a crisis of identity as women seek to get away from agriculture and rural life. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 553-571 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.654617 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.654617 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:17:y:2012:i:4:p:553-571 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_755761_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Roderick Pace Author-X-Name-First: Roderick Author-X-Name-Last: Pace Title: Growing Secularisation in a Catholic Society: The Divorce Referendum of 28 May 2011 in Malta Abstract: The divorce referendum held in Malta on 28 May 2011 was another watershed in Maltese politics, particularly because it confirmed the secularising trends in Maltese society and exposed the complicated cleavages within the Maltese electorate. The result was a major political embarrassment for the ultra-conservative Prime Minister and leader of the Nationalist Party, particularly after he doggedly voted against the divorce bill in parliament notwithstanding the referendum result. The Catholic Church was also embarrassed after leading an aggressive ‘no’ campaign that did not resonate with the demands of society or the expectations of progressive Catholics. While the issue has severely affected the ruling Nationalist Party's chances of winning the next general election, due in the first quarter of 2013, it may have forced the Church finally to contemplate serious reforms. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 573-589 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.755761 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.755761 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:17:y:2012:i:4:p:573-589 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_613558_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ciro D'amore Author-X-Name-First: Ciro Author-X-Name-Last: D'amore Title: The Politics of Italy: Governance in a Normal Country Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 607-609 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2011.613558 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2011.613558 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:17:y:2012:i:4:p:607-609 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_710446_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elizabeth Krause Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth Author-X-Name-Last: Krause Title: The Italian Way: Food and Social Life Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 601-603 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.710446 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.710446 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:17:y:2012:i:4:p:601-603 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_741854_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.741854 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.741854 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:17:y:2012:i:4:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_920571_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ergun Özbudun Author-X-Name-First: Ergun Author-X-Name-Last: Özbudun Title: AKP at the Crossroads: Erdoğan's Majoritarian Drift Abstract: The cleavage between the secular centre and the religious-conservative periphery has been the most important dividing line in modern Turkish politics. In the past, centre-right parties have successfully appealed to the peripheral majority, emerging as victors in almost all parliamentary elections since 1950. This trend continues with the Justice and Development Party (AKP). In power since 2002, winner of three consecutive elections with increasing majorities, the AKP qualifies as a predominant party. The article focuses on the AKP's recent drift towards an excessively majoritarian conception of democracy, or even an electoral authoritarianism of a more markedly Islamic character. Topics discussed include the Gezi Park events in May–June 2013, the conflict with the Gülen movement, corruption charges against government ministers, recent legislation weakening judicial independence and restricting freedom of expression, and the 30 March 2014 local elections. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 155-167 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.920571 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.920571 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:2:p:155-167 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_939853_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ali Çarkoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Ali Author-X-Name-Last: Çarkoğlu Title: Plus ça Change Plus C'est la Même Chose: Consolidation of the AKP's Predominance in the March 2014 Local Elections in Turkey Abstract: The March 2014 local elections, following the Gezi Park protests and allegations of government corruption, registered the highest turnout of any Turkish election since 1994. Despite strong resistance from conservative and liberal circles, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) held onto its constituency without losing much electoral support. Its losses were shared among the opposition parties, none of which emerged in a strong position to challenge the AKP. The rise of the Nationalist Action Party (MHP), which came second in five out of 12 regions, suggested a change in the intra-opposition dynamics. The article presents a geographical and socio-economic analysis of the election, finding a significant generation gap. It also examines the electoral impact of economic perceptions and allegations of governmental graft. The election outcome is expected to shape both government and opposition strategies in the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, potentially leading to another round of incumbent victories and increasing societal polarisation. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 169-192 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.939853 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.939853 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:2:p:169-192 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_895086_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Silvia Bolgherini Author-X-Name-First: Silvia Author-X-Name-Last: Bolgherini Title: Can Austerity Lead to Recentralisation? Italian Local Government during the Economic Crisis Abstract: The relationship between the remarkable changes that have occurred at the local level and the overlapping crises affecting Italy in recent years has yet to be fully tackled by political scientists. This article aims to contribute to the debate by arguing that anti-crisis measures have also produced structural effects that may actually weaken Italian local autonomies, suggesting the existence of an ongoing recentralisation. Several major questions are addressed: is such a trend inversion (from decentralisation to recentralisation) really taking place? Which dimensions should be analysed to detect it? What outcomes and effects have these measures provoked in Italian local government? Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 193-214 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.895086 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.895086 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:2:p:193-214 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_893644_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aris Trantidis Author-X-Name-First: Aris Author-X-Name-Last: Trantidis Title: Reforms and Collective Action in a Clientelist System: Greece during the Mitsotakis Administration (1990–93) Abstract: Economic reforms face a collective action problem: they trigger the reaction of groups that expect significant losses, while the government must forge a support coalition among those who anticipate gains. This problem may exhibit a distinct pattern in a clientelist system, when the affected groups are client groups attached to political party networks. The case of the Mitsotakis government in Greece (1990–93) illustrates that collective reaction to reforms that hurt client groups affects primarily the internal structure of the clientelist parties, their alliance with client groups and, thereby, their relative capacity for political mobilisation. This pattern makes certain types of economic reform, such as privatisation and structural reforms, particularly risky for governments in a clientelist system. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 215-234 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.893644 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.893644 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:2:p:215-234 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_913340_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Carlos Jalali Author-X-Name-First: Carlos Author-X-Name-Last: Jalali Title: For Whom the Bailout Tolls? The Implications of the 2013 Local Elections for the Portuguese Party System Abstract: Local elections have generally provided useful pointers for overall party system patterns in Portugal. The 2013 local elections are of additional interest because they were the first nationwide elections in Portugal since the substantive start of the country's economic adjustment programme, initiated in mid 2011. As such, they also constitute the first electoral milestone by which to assess the Portuguese party system in a bailout context. Unlike recent bailout elections in Ireland and Greece, these local elections did not generate a major departure from the prevailing patterns of the Portuguese party system. However, we find some evidence of a challenge to the party system, with a decline in the combined share of the main parties, especially when facing independent candidates. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 235-255 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.913340 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.913340 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:2:p:235-255 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_910324_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Guillem Rico Author-X-Name-First: Guillem Author-X-Name-Last: Rico Author-Name: Robert Liñeira Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Liñeira Title: Bringing Secessionism into the Mainstream: The 2012 Regional Election in Catalonia Abstract: Called two years ahead of schedule, the 2012 Catalan election was held in a context of economic recession, controversial austerity measures, growing political disaffection, and increasing popular support for Catalonia's independence. The election was mainly marked by the decision of the incumbent moderate nationalists to advocate for the region's secession from Spain, in the wake of a massive rally in support of the independence of Catalonia. In this article we report on the context, the campaign, and the results of the election, and assess the likely reasons why an unexpectedly high number of voters chose to defect from the incumbent. Additionally, we use survey data to investigate the rapid conversion of a substantial portion of the Catalan public to favour independence, formerly regarded as a rather extreme position, after the 2010 Constitutional Court's controversial decision to curtail the region's reformed Statute of Autonomy. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 257-280 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.910324 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.910324 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:2:p:257-280 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_843285_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Lisi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Lisi Title: Changing to Stay the Same? The Evolution of Southern Europe's Political Systems Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 281-287 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.843285 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.843285 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:2:p:281-287 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_837648_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gianluca Passarelli Author-X-Name-First: Gianluca Author-X-Name-Last: Passarelli Title: Crossing the Rubicon … and Back: Twenty Years of the Italian Northern League Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 289-294 Issue: 2 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.837648 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.837648 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:2:p:289-294 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1528692_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Salvador Parrado Author-X-Name-First: Salvador Author-X-Name-Last: Parrado Author-Name: Carl Dahlström Author-X-Name-First: Carl Author-X-Name-Last: Dahlström Author-Name: Víctor Lapuente Author-X-Name-First: Víctor Author-X-Name-Last: Lapuente Title: Mayors and Corruption in Spain: Same Rules, Different Outcomes Abstract: In Spain, there has been widespread corruption in the area of public procurement at the local level, although corrupt practices have not affected all municipalities to the same extent. By comparing two municipalities with ‘clean’ and ‘rotten’ corruption records, this article shows that relatively independent bureaucrats—so-called trustees—can act as a check to prevent political moral hazard. Yet, in order to transform their de jure supervisory powers into de facto powers, the trustees must be supported by merit-based human resources policy, rules and standard operating procedures, transparency and independent watchdogs. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 303-322 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1528692 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1528692 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:3:p:303-322 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1437007_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emel Akçalı Author-X-Name-First: Emel Author-X-Name-Last: Akçalı Title: Do Popular Assemblies Contribute to Genuine Political Change? Lessons from the Park Forums in Istanbul Abstract: By engaging with the ‘Gezi/June’ Uprising in Turkey and the popular assemblies formed in its aftermath, this article foregrounds the notion of agonistic pluralism as advanced by William E. Connolly and Chantal Mouffe for understanding the emerging forms of direct democracy and their outcomes in Turkey. Via participant observation in four park forum sites in Istanbul, in-depth interviews with the participants, and a virtual ethnography on related Facebook sites, it scrutinises the degree to which popular assemblies resist and subvert the existing political order and create alternatives for radical political change. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 323-340 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1437007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1437007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:3:p:323-340 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1398626_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Luca Pinto Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Pinto Title: Like Leaves in the Wind? Economic Conditions and Government Survival in Italy (1946–2015) Abstract: In Italy the coincidence between the constitutionally mandated cycle of regular elections and the government mandate has never been realised: the standard has been represented by frequent government terminations during the inter-electoral period. Explanations for this instability mainly focus on cabinet and systemic attributes. This paper shifts the attention to the relationship between government stability and critical events such as economic crises. Results show that increasing job insecurity contributes to undermine government stability. This effect is stronger for governments formed after 1994, when a series of reforms have reshaped the political system, allowing voters to more easily reward or punish the incumbents for their management of the economy. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 341-364 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1398626 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1398626 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:3:p:341-364 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1511077_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kursat Cinar Author-X-Name-First: Kursat Author-X-Name-Last: Cinar Author-Name: Tekin Kose Author-X-Name-First: Tekin Author-X-Name-Last: Kose Title: The Determinants of Women’s Empowerment in Turkey: A Multilevel Analysis Abstract: This article analyses the state and determinants of women’s empowerment in Turkey, based on an extensive and representative survey with more than 100,000 participants. It creates an original index of women’s self-perceived empowerment, which incorporates empowerment measures on health, education, income, social life, and personal care and conducts multilevel analysis that integrates effects of individual-level factors with contextual, locality-specific forces. Multilevel analysis confirms the nested nature of women’s empowerment in Turkey, which depends on both individual attributes and on the locality in which a woman resides. The Turkish case analysed in this article offers insights for the state of women’s empowerment in societies replete with patriarchal norms and neoliberal policies. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 365-386 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1511077 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1511077 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:3:p:365-386 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1518067_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Brunetta Baldi Author-X-Name-First: Brunetta Author-X-Name-Last: Baldi Title: Second Chamber Reform in Italy: Federalism Left Behind Abstract: The 2016 Italian Constitutional reform, rejected by popular referendum, focused mainly on bicameralism, proposing a territorial revision of the Senate. Since the 1980s, when the debate on institutional reforms started developing, the need to overcome the ‘perfect’ Italian bicameralism has been clear to reformers. This article traces the history of attempts to reform the Italian Senate, focusing mainly on the latest one, and addresses the reasons for its failure. It shows that territorial representation, as a new basis for Senate legitimacy, was not seen as great worth, and the shift from direct to indirect election for senators was perceived as a loss of democracy. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 387-403 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1518067 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1518067 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:3:p:387-403 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_437627_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jan Mansvelt Beck Author-X-Name-First: Jan Mansvelt Author-X-Name-Last: Beck Title: Old and New Perspectives on Basque Nationalism and Violence Journal: Pages: 143-149 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608740903374494 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608740903374494 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:15:y:2010:i:1:p:143-149 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_468839_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ciro D'Amore Author-X-Name-First: Ciro Author-X-Name-Last: D'Amore Title: Italian Politics and the Cattaneo Institute Journal: Pages: 151-155 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608741003683172 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608741003683172 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:15:y:2010:i:1:p:151-155 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_496918_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nicolò Conti Author-X-Name-First: Nicolò Author-X-Name-Last: Conti Author-Name: Maurizio Cotta Author-X-Name-First: Maurizio Author-X-Name-Last: Cotta Author-Name: Pedro Tavares de Almeida Author-X-Name-First: Pedro Author-X-Name-Last: Tavares de Almeida Title: European Citizenship and the National Elites of Southern Europe Abstract: In this article, the main contents of this special issue are introduced. In particular, we introduce a definition of the concept of European citizenship system (ECS). Then, we move to a discussion of the national elites in four South European countries—Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain—and examine their views about Europe. Finally, we illustrate how, through the use of original data, the other articles will analyse the views that guide these national elites' construction of the ECS, with the purpose of explaining variations within and across countries. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 1-10 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2010.496918 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2010.496918 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:15:y:2010:i:1:p:1-10 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_496920_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Christophe Roux Author-X-Name-First: Christophe Author-X-Name-Last: Roux Author-Name: Luca Verzichelli Author-X-Name-First: Luca Author-X-Name-Last: Verzichelli Title: Italy: Still a Pro-European, but not a Fully Europeanised Elite? Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyse the attitudes of Italian political and economic elites towards European citizenship through the results of a survey conducted in 2007. We begin with a discussion of the changing patterns of pro-Europeanism among Italian elites, within the framework of the recent deep transformations of the domestic political system. In order to understand how these transformations have affected the elites' attitudes towards European citizenship, we investigate the analytical dimensions covered in this special issue: identity, representation and scope of governance. We reach the conclusion that the Italian elite are still characterised by a clear pro-European profile. However, some hints of change are evident: in comparison with politicians, economic elites are more certain about their degree of support. Moreover, a growing difference emerges within the political class, as centre-left MPs are more oriented towards full pro-Europeanism. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 11-33 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2010.496920 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2010.496920 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:15:y:2010:i:1:p:11-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_496923_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Miguel Jerez Mir Author-X-Name-First: Miguel Author-X-Name-Last: Jerez Mir Author-Name: José Real Dato Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Real Dato Author-Name: Rafael Vázquez García Author-X-Name-First: Rafael Author-X-Name-Last: Vázquez García Title: The Perception of the European Union by Political and Economic Elites in Spain Abstract: Elite perceptions about Europe are very important in understanding the current trajectory of the European integration process, as well as the future perspectives for the continent. In this article, we present the main descriptive results of an empirical analysis looking at the attitudes of Spanish political and economic elites along the three dimensions of the IntUne project: representation, identity, and scope of governance. We examine the set of explanatory factors that may account for such attitudes. These factors are also tested through multivariate analyses. The 2007 IntUne project survey is used as the main database. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 35-56 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2010.496923 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2010.496923 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:15:y:2010:i:1:p:35-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_496926_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Diogo Moreira Author-X-Name-First: Diogo Author-X-Name-Last: Moreira Author-Name: João Pedro Ruivo Author-X-Name-First: João Pedro Author-X-Name-Last: Ruivo Author-Name: António Costa Pinto Author-X-Name-First: António Costa Author-X-Name-Last: Pinto Author-Name: Pedro Tavares de Almeida Author-X-Name-First: Pedro Author-X-Name-Last: Tavares de Almeida Title: Attitudes of the Portuguese Elites towards the European Union Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present and discuss the data for Portugal of the IntUne survey on elite attitudes towards European integration. Despite some differences between the Portuguese and the European results of the survey, we find that the concept of ‘compound citizenship’ (M. Cotta, ‘A “compound” model of citizenship? European citizenship in the eyes of national elites’, Lisbon IntUne General Assembly, 27–30 November 2008) may be applied to the perceptions of Portuguese elites regarding the European Union, and the postulated combination of an indirect European citizenship with a direct one is also verifiable in Portugal. We hypothesise that this European ‘compound citizenship’ is not conflictive with national citizenship, possessing instead elements for strengthening the linkage between them. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 57-77 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2010.496926 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2010.496926 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:15:y:2010:i:1:p:57-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_496930_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Roula Nezi Author-X-Name-First: Roula Author-X-Name-Last: Nezi Author-Name: Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos Author-X-Name-First: Dimitri A. Author-X-Name-Last: Sotiropoulos Author-Name: Panayiota Toka Author-X-Name-First: Panayiota Author-X-Name-Last: Toka Title: Attitudes of Greek Parliamentarians Towards European and National Identity, Representation, and Scope of Governance Abstract: This article analyses the attitudes of Greek political elites towards the European Union (EU) and compares them with the views of public opinion. Data were collected in 2007 through personal interviews with 90 MPs and a public opinion survey (IntUne project). The attitudes of MPs are discussed with regard to three dimensions of European citizenship: identity, representation, and scope of governance. There are traditionalists, formalists, and liberals among the MPs. Their trust in EU institutions and their perceptions of EU policy areas and levels of policymaking are strongly influenced by political ideology and party affiliation. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 79-96 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2010.496930 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2010.496930 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:15:y:2010:i:1:p:79-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_496935_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nicolò Conti Author-X-Name-First: Nicolò Author-X-Name-Last: Conti Author-Name: Maurizio Cotta Author-X-Name-First: Maurizio Author-X-Name-Last: Cotta Author-Name: Pedro Tavares de Almeida Author-X-Name-First: Pedro Author-X-Name-Last: Tavares de Almeida Title: Southern Europe: a Distinctive and More Pro-European Region in the EU? Abstract: The main aim of this article is to show to what extent it is possible to talk about the South European member states as a homogeneous region with respect to the topics of European citizenship addressed in this special issue. In particular, we will address this problem by exploring both the level of homogeneity of the attitudes developed by national elites within this area, and the level of distinctiveness of such attitudes compared with the pan-European trend. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 121-142 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2010.496935 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2010.496935 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:15:y:2010:i:1:p:121-142 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_497246_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nicolò Conti Author-X-Name-First: Nicolò Author-X-Name-Last: Conti Title: European Citizenship in Party Euromanifestos: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective (1994–2004) Abstract: The aim of the paper is to analyse party attitudes towards the European Union (EU) and the issue of citizenship as voiced by the party central office in the official programmatic platforms. For this purpose, Euromanifestos have been coded by applying the common framework of the IntUne project. Accordingly, the article attempts to assess the degree of convergence between the attitudes of both the party central office and the MPs towards the EU in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The article attempts as well to assess the validity of the main theoretical arguments available in the literature that explain these attitudes. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 97-119 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2010 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2010.497246 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2010.497246 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:15:y:2010:i:1:p:97-119 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_887240_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Fabio Bordignon Author-X-Name-First: Fabio Author-X-Name-Last: Bordignon Title: Matteo Renzi: A ‘Leftist Berlusconi’ for the Italian Democratic Party? Abstract: Matteo Renzi's rise to the leadership of the Democratic Party brings to the heart of the centre-left the leadership model imposed upon the Italian scene by Berlusconi in the early 1990s. A post-ideological, anti-political and innovative type of leadership, which has proved to be highly effective in attracting electoral support and media attention. Yet a type of leadership that clashes with the cultural and organisational roots of the centre-left. The article frames the experience of the new party Secretary, focusing on his political history, public narrative and style of communication. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 1-23 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.887240 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.887240 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:1:p:1-23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_827863_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mario Quaranta Author-X-Name-First: Mario Author-X-Name-Last: Quaranta Title: The ‘Normalisation’ of the Protester: Changes in Political Action in Italy (1981–2009) Abstract: Authors claim that political protest is ‘normal’ in contemporary democracies, which are, therefore, ‘social movement societies’. This article analyses the Italian case, showing that there has been an expansion and a gradual institutionalisation of political protest, but it also tests whether there has been a ‘normalisation’ of the protester. It is argued that in a ‘social movement society’ protesters are more heterogeneous than in the past. Using survey data spanning over 30 years we find that the association between several individual characteristics and participation in political protest weakens or disappears. However, complete normalisation of the protester has yet to be completed. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 25-50 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.827863 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.827863 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:1:p:25-50 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_861261_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yiannos Katsourides Author-X-Name-First: Yiannos Author-X-Name-Last: Katsourides Title: The Comeback of the Right in Crisis-Ridden Cyprus: The 2013 Presidential Elections Abstract: The Cyprus 2013 presidential elections marked right-wing Democratic Rally's return to power after ten years in isolation. The huge economic crisis sidelined discussions on the Cyprus problem – arguably for the first time in Cyprus' electoral history. The elections verified the prevailing trends already apparent in the rest of Southern Europe: incumbent punishment in the midst of an unprecedented economic (and political) crisis and the parting of politics from society as evident from the high abstention rates and declining partisan loyalties. The article aims to provide insight into the country-specific characteristics of this contest which explain these outcomes. It suggests that the electoral result might be explained by Cypriots' disappointment regarding the stalemate of the Cyprus problem, their unrealistic expectations of a change in government and their disappointment in European Union and national political institutions in dealing with the economic crisis. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 51-70 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.861261 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.861261 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:1:p:51-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_888275_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ingrid van Biezen Author-X-Name-First: Ingrid Author-X-Name-Last: van Biezen Author-Name: Fernando Casal Bértoa Author-X-Name-First: Fernando Author-X-Name-Last: Casal Bértoa Title: Party Regulation in Post-Authoritarian Contexts: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective Abstract: Despite its increasing importance, the phenomenon of party regulation has hitherto received relatively little systematic and comparative scholarly attention. The contributions to this special issue fill part of this lacuna by evaluating the various dimensions of party regulation and their impact on the parties and the party systems in post-authoritarian Southern Europe. This introduction discusses the main sources of party regulation – Constitutions, Party Laws and Party Finance Laws – and provides some preliminary conclusions on the cartelisation of party organisations and party systems. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 71-87 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.888275 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.888275 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:1:p:71-87 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_888277_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Fernando Casal Bértoa Author-X-Name-First: Fernando Casal Author-X-Name-Last: Bértoa Author-Name: Juan Rodríguez-Teruel Author-X-Name-First: Juan Author-X-Name-Last: Rodríguez-Teruel Author-Name: Oscar Barberà Author-X-Name-First: Oscar Author-X-Name-Last: Barberà Author-Name: Astrid Barrio Author-X-Name-First: Astrid Author-X-Name-Last: Barrio Title: The Carrot and the Stick: Party Regulation and Politics in Democratic Spain Abstract: Party regulation in new democracies in general, and in the Spanish political system in particular, has not been a matter of concern until very recently. In order to fill this gap, this article explores the way political parties have been regulated not only in the Constitution, but also in the main laws regulating party foundation, organisation, dissolution and, not least, funding: namely, the 1978 and 2002 Political Party Laws as well as the 1985 and 2007 Party Funding Laws. The empirical part explores the impact such regulation has had on the Spanish party system as well as on the life of its party organisations. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 89-112 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.888277 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.888277 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:1:p:89-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_888276_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Luís de Sousa Author-X-Name-First: Luís Author-X-Name-Last: de Sousa Title: New Challenges to Political Party Financial Supervision in Portugal Abstract: After a decade of successive changes to its political financing regulatory framework, and a cumbersome dual monitoring system, Portugal has decided to adopt a single supervisory body – the Entity for Accounts and Political Financing (EAPF). Notwithstanding these improvements, the diffused perception of the existing political financing regulatory and supervisory arrangements remains overall negative. This article discusses the scope and impact of the new Portuguese political financing supervisory body, by focusing on its format, location, mission, competences, composition, resources and performance and proposes alternative integrated solutions for improving its enforcement capacity. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 113-134 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.888276 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.888276 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:1:p:113-134 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_888274_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Daniela R. Piccio Author-X-Name-First: Daniela R. Author-X-Name-Last: Piccio Title: A Self-interested Legislator? Party Regulation in Italy Abstract: What factors drive the evolution of party regulation? And do political and societal changes have an impact on how legislators shape policy reforms? This article answers these questions by observing the evolution of the regulation of political parties in Italy from 1948 to 2012. Through an in-depth analysis of the major sources of party law of the country, the author shows that corruption scandals and societal pressure, alone, may be insufficient to influence the parties' legislative behaviour. Responsive reforms instead appear to take place when a broader number of factors are involved, most importantly the emergence of a new – truly challenging – political competitor. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 135-152 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.888274 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.888274 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:1:p:135-152 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_900945_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: The Editors Title: South European Society and Politics Reviewers in the Years 2012 and 2013 Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 153-154 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2014 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2014.900945 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2014.900945 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:19:y:2014:i:1:p:153-154 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_785650_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Luis Moreno Author-X-Name-First: Luis Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno Title: Spain's Catch up with the EU Core: The Implausible Quest of a ‘Flying Pig’? Abstract: In contemporary times, Spain offers a good example of a very compressed transition to post-industrial socioeconomic structures, passing from peripheral to core status within the European Union (EU) and the international economic order. The present article reviews developments and outcomes in Spain since 2000 by paying attention to the impact of the EU on Spain's welfare political economy. The adoption of EU recommendations in labour activation policies and the increase in female participation in the formal labour market are singled out as highly relevant for policy change. The explanatory account of welfare development focuses on continuity and change by considering the analytical constellation of ideas, interests and institutions. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 217-236 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.785650 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.785650 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:2:p:217-236 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_809881_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Canan Balkir Author-X-Name-First: Canan Author-X-Name-Last: Balkir Author-Name: H. Bolukbasi Author-X-Name-First: H. Author-X-Name-Last: Bolukbasi Author-Name: Ebru Ertugal Author-X-Name-First: Ebru Author-X-Name-Last: Ertugal Title: Acknowledgements Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 281-281 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.809881 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.809881 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:2:p:281-281 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_801114_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sebastián Royo Author-X-Name-First: Sebastián Author-X-Name-Last: Royo Title: Portugal in the European Union: The Limits of Convergence Abstract: This article examines the integration experience of Portugal in the European Union in order to study how it has affected the country's fiscal policies in the decade prior to the global financial crisis, from 1999 to 2008. It focuses on three main variables to account for the difficulties that Portugal experienced in complying with the Stability and Growth Pact: institutions, ideas, and interests. The paper closes with some lessons from the Portuguese experience. The examination of this case will show that, to be successful, economic reform has to be a domestic process led by domestic actors willing to carry it out. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 197-216 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.801114 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.801114 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:2:p:197-216 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_785649_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rose Azzopardi Author-X-Name-First: Rose Author-X-Name-Last: Azzopardi Title: All Hands on Deck! How Europeanised Is the Maltese Labour Market? Abstract: This paper investigates the Maltese labour market within the context of the Europeanisation process. It explains the EU's labour market policies and presents studies in the field. The main focus is the case study of Malta, which evaluates formal and informal structures of the economy and uses the dynamics of the interaction of ideas, interests and institutions to analyse whether and how Europeanisation of the Maltese labour market has occurred. The findings indicate that different changes have occurred in the legislative framework, language and values about work, but resistance and continuity are evident in other areas such as flexicurity, undeclared work and a high level of female labour market inactivity. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 177-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.785649 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.785649 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:2:p:177-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_784434_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lucia Quaglia Author-X-Name-First: Lucia Author-X-Name-Last: Quaglia Title: The Europeanisation of Macroeconomic Policies and Financial Regulation in Italy Abstract: This research asks to what extent, how and why two key domains of domestic political economy, namely, macroeconomic policies and financial services regulation, have been Europeanised in Italy over the last decade. The impacts of Economic and Monetary Union and European Union financial services regulation are assessed by tracing the change in interests, ideas and institutions in these policy areas and identifying the causal mechanisms through which change came about (or was resisted). It is concluded that the degree of Europeanisation and its effects have been uneven across different elements of the political economy and some distinctive national features have remained. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 159-176 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.784434 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.784434 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:2:p:159-176 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_795040_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Canan Balkir Author-X-Name-First: Canan Author-X-Name-Last: Balkir Author-Name: H. Bolukbasi Author-X-Name-First: H. Author-X-Name-Last: Bolukbasi Author-Name: Ebru Ertugal Author-X-Name-First: Ebru Author-X-Name-Last: Ertugal Title: Europeanisation and Dynamics of Continuity and Change: Domestic Political Economies in the ‘Southern Periphery’ Abstract: This article provides the framework for some case studies on the dynamics of Europeanisation in South European political economies. It summarises the key features of the common template each case study adopts. Following a discussion on political economy as it is conceptualised in this volume titled ‘‘Europeanisation and the southern periphery’ in retrospect: another decade of dynamism, asymmetry, and fragmentation? Guest Editors: Canan Balkir, H. Tolga Bolukbasi and Ebru Ertugal’, the article elaborates the defining attributes of the Europeanisation research programme by focusing on its theoretical core, research design and method of conceptualising and operationalising domestic continuity and change centring on the troika of ‘ideas’, ‘interests’ and ‘institutions’ in unpacking the dynamics therein. It concludes by providing a summary of the contributions to this volume. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 121-137 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.795040 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.795040 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:2:p:121-137 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_784436_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: H. Bolukbasi Author-X-Name-First: H. Author-X-Name-Last: Bolukbasi Author-Name: Ebru Ertugal Author-X-Name-First: Ebru Author-X-Name-Last: Ertugal Title: Europeanisation of Employment Policy in Turkey: Tracing Domestic Change through Institutions, Ideas and Interests Abstract: This article examines the impact of the European Union (EU) on Turkish political economy through an analysis of employment policy. Through tracing ‘institutions’, ‘ideas’ and ‘interests’ representing this policy area, it analyses the extent to which the accession process, which started with the granting of candidate status at the Helsinki Summit in December 1999, has prompted a transformation in this policy area. It draws on empirical evidence based on semi-structured interviews and other primary sources. The main finding is that domestic change occurs, however limited and variegated across sub-policy areas, through policy learning. Moreover, the policy ideas transplanted from the EU gain importance only in interaction with preferences of the coalition of dominant actors. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 237-257 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.784436 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.784436 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:2:p:237-257 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_795043_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Canan Balkir Author-X-Name-First: Canan Author-X-Name-Last: Balkir Author-Name: H. Bolukbasi Author-X-Name-First: H. Author-X-Name-Last: Bolukbasi Author-Name: Ebru Ertugal Author-X-Name-First: Ebru Author-X-Name-Last: Ertugal Title: Europeanisation in the ‘Southern Periphery’: Comparative Research Findings on the EU's Impact on Domestic Political Economies Abstract: This article presents the comparative findings of six case studies of continuity and change in Southern European political economies which make use of the Europeanisation research programme. It summarises the varied European Union (EU) level inputs, frameworks or agendas in the different policy areas that each case study focuses on. It gauges the magnitude and direction of domestic change at the level of policy and governance in each political economy. In order to show how the case studies unpack the relationship between the EU input and domestic change in public policies, the article explains how the prevalent ideas, dominant interests and structuring institutions co-determine the nature of domestic change in political economies. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 259-280 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.795043 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.795043 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:2:p:259-280 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_784433_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Spyros Blavoukos Author-X-Name-First: Spyros Author-X-Name-Last: Blavoukos Author-Name: Constantinos Caramanis Author-X-Name-First: Constantinos Author-X-Name-Last: Caramanis Author-Name: Emmanouil Dedoulis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanouil Author-X-Name-Last: Dedoulis Title: Europeanisation, Independent Bodies and the Empowerment of Technocracy: The Case of the Greek Auditing Oversight Body Abstract: The establishment of independent oversight bodies constitutes an important institutional reform in the European Union context. Based on technocratic expertise, they aim to curtail the state's policymaking and supervisory role. During the last decade, such bodies have been established in Greece, illustrating the ideational and institutional impact of the Europeanisation process. By examining the Greek independent oversight board for accounting and audit practices, we posit that its highly politicised mode of governance has undermined the purpose of its instigation and operation. Although such externally induced institutional reforms entail some ideational and institutional change, their full transformative potential has yet to be realised in Greece. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 139-157 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.784433 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.784433 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:2:p:139-157 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2034689_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dean Schafer Author-X-Name-First: Dean Author-X-Name-Last: Schafer Title: A Popular Mandate for Strongmen: What Public Opinion Data Reveals About Support for Executive Aggrandizement in Turkey, 1996-2018 Abstract: Most analysis of democratic backsliding focuses on the elite or party level. This article takes a bottom-up approach. In Turkey, popular support for a strong, undemocratic leader developed independently of Erdoğan and the AKP, but later consolidated behind the party. Analysis of longitudinal public opinion data reveals that the 2000– 2001 economic crisis undermined the democratic consensus, but that economic prosperity – far from restoring faith in democracy – reinforced support for a strongman leader as an alternative to liberal democracy among populations that benefited the most economically: the middle class and economic elites. Additionally, individuals who identify strongly with politically predominant social groups tend to support undemocratic leaders. This analysis improves our understanding of mass-level support for authoritarian leaders in democracies. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 355-382 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2034689 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2034689 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:3:p:355-382 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2009107_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Beatrice Magistro Author-X-Name-First: Beatrice Author-X-Name-Last: Magistro Author-Name: Nicolas Wittstock Author-X-Name-First: Nicolas Author-X-Name-Last: Wittstock Title: Changing Preferences versus Issue Salience: The Political Success of Anti-immigration Parties in Italy Abstract: The electoral successes of European far right parties in the 21st century coincided with increased immigration. While some argue these parallel trends suggest immigration sours opinion towards foreigners, a growing literature suggests it is the fluctuation in issue salience which matters. We investigate the overlooked case of Italy, which has long featured anti-immigration parties. Analysing multiple data sources, we find immigration preferences remained stable throughout 2006, 2013, and 2018 – but issue salience varied considerably, tracking the anti-immigration vote. Voters are more likely to opt for anti-immigration parties when immigration is a high salience issue, suggesting that salience, not changing preferences, is associated with far right political success. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 383-411 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.2009107 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.2009107 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:3:p:383-411 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2028503_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Davide Angelucci Author-X-Name-First: Davide Author-X-Name-Last: Angelucci Author-Name: Davide Vittori Author-X-Name-First: Davide Author-X-Name-Last: Vittori Title: Are All Populist Voters the Same? Institutional Distrust and the Five Star Movement in Italy Abstract: Are all populist voters the same? We focus on a valence populist party case (Five Star Movement) to answer this question. We inquire whether faithful populist voters, new populist voters, populist defectors and non-populist voters all have the same level of institutional trust. Our focus is on the Italian political system, regarded as a promised land for populism. This paradigmatic case sheds light on whether the entrance of a populist party into the system works as a corrective to democracy, as populist voters find their voice represented in parliament, potentially increasing their trust in the institutions. Our main finding is that faithful populist voters are the most distrustful category – meaning that having parliamentary representatives is not enough for populist voters to gain trust in institutions. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 303-327 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2028503 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2028503 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:3:p:303-327 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2034272_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Antonis A. Ellinas Author-X-Name-First: Antonis A. Author-X-Name-Last: Ellinas Author-Name: Yiannos Katsourides Author-X-Name-First: Yiannos Author-X-Name-Last: Katsourides Title: The Silent Electoral Earthquake in Cyprus: A Crisis of Political Representation Abstract: The 2021 legislative elections exacerbated the crisis of political representation in the Republic of Cyprus, with important changes in voter behaviour yet to materialise in party systemic change. Corruption and, to a lesser extent, the pandemic dominated the political campaign and added to voter disaffection with traditional political parties, including the opposition. The growing appetite for political protest was largely scattered among various new parties and platforms, which failed to win electoral representation. Traditional parties scored their worst results ever and the far-right ELAM nearly doubled its electorate, while abstention stabilised at record high levels. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 413-436 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2034272 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2034272 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:3:p:413-436 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2043073_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mariana S. Mendes Author-X-Name-First: Mariana S. Author-X-Name-Last: Mendes Title: ‘Enough’ of What? An Analysis of Chega’s Populist Radical Right Agenda Abstract: In 2019, for the first time in Portugal, a populist radical right party (PRR) made it to parliament. Since then voting intentions for Chega (Enough) have grown with the party leader finishing third in the 2021 presidential race. This article provides an empirical-based account of the party’s agenda and ideological profile. It asks to what extent Chega shares the core ideological characteristics of the PRR family, i.e. nativism, populism and authoritarianism. Relying on a battery of primary data (party documents, legislative proposals, official party posts on Facebook), the article combines qualitative and quantitative text analysis. It shows that Chega’s agenda falls well into the radical right profile, not only in positional terms but also in terms of issue salience. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 329-353 Issue: 3 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2043073 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2043073 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:3:p:329-353 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1354421_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Luigi Ceccarini Author-X-Name-First: Luigi Author-X-Name-Last: Ceccarini Author-Name: Fabio Bordignon Author-X-Name-First: Fabio Author-X-Name-Last: Bordignon Title: Referendum on Renzi: The 2016 Vote on the Italian Constitutional Revision Abstract: The 2016 constitutional referendum could have marked a new phase in Italian politics, producing a clear shift towards a majoritarian (and de facto presidential) democracy. But a substantial majority of voters rejected the reforms promoted by Matteo Renzi, leading to his resignation as Prime Minister. Once again, an attempt to redesign the Italian institutional framework failed due to party conflicts. This time, the referendum turned into a vote on Renzi himself. This article examines the background to the institutional reforms and the changing dynamics of the referendum campaign. Discussing the final outcome, it argues that this could produce a sort of U-turn in the long Italian transition. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 281-302 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1354421 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1354421 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:3:p:281-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1384341_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Berk Esen Author-X-Name-First: Berk Author-X-Name-Last: Esen Author-Name: Şebnem Gümüşçü Author-X-Name-First: Şebnem Author-X-Name-Last: Gümüşçü Title: A Small Yes for Presidentialism: The Turkish Constitutional Referendum of April 2017 Abstract: Following four elections in three years, on 16 April 2017 Turkish voters once again went to the polls - this time under the emergency law established after the failed coup attempt of July 2016 - to vote on constitutional amendments aimed at replacing the existing parliamentary system with an executive presidency. This article reviews the content of the proposed constitutional amendments, analyses the campaign including the strategies employed by the main political actors in the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ camps and the resource advantages enjoyed by the ruling party, assesses the electoral performance of both sides through a summary of results from provincial areas and geographical regions, and considers how Turkish politics are likely to take shape under the new system. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 303-326 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1384341 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1384341 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:3:p:303-326 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1359894_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Moreno Mancosu Author-X-Name-First: Moreno Author-X-Name-Last: Mancosu Author-Name: Salvatore Vassallo Author-X-Name-First: Salvatore Author-X-Name-Last: Vassallo Author-Name: Cristiano Vezzoni Author-X-Name-First: Cristiano Author-X-Name-Last: Vezzoni Title: Believing in Conspiracy Theories: Evidence from an Exploratory Analysis of Italian Survey Data Abstract: Beliefs in conspiracy theories have attracted significant international media attention in recent years. This phenomenon has been studied in the US but while anecdotal evidence suggests it is also widespread among the Italian public, little evidence has been collected to assess it empirically. Using data from a 2016 survey, this pioneering study of the Italian case investigates the extent of diffusion of conspiracy theories among Italians and tests several hypotheses concerning individual determinants. The paper finds that conspiracism is indeed widely diffused in Italy. It is negatively associated with education and positively with religiosity, while no correlation is found with political trust. Beliefs in conspiracies are also related to rightwing orientation and support for the populist Five Star Movement. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 327-344 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1359894 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1359894 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:3:p:327-344 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1374323_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pietro Castelli Gattinara Author-X-Name-First: Pietro Author-X-Name-Last: Castelli Gattinara Title: Framing Exclusion in the Public Sphere: Far-Right Mobilisation and the Debate on Charlie Hebdo in Italy Abstract: While the January 2015 Paris terrorist attacks presented a crucial opportunity for far-right mobilisation, the focus on liberal democratic values and Charlie Hebdo’s non-conformist progressive profile presented challenges for right-wing discourse. Taking Italy as a paradigmatic case of public controversies on cultural and religious affairs, this article examines the opportunities and constraints generated by multicultural crises for far-right framing choices. A qualitative frame analysis analyses the discourse of three types of far-right actors. While the populist radical right, extreme right, and ultra-religious right groups disagree on crucial criteria for outgroup exclusion, they collectively employed the Charlie Hebdo controversy to redefine their exclusionary discourse on liberal grounds with the goal of gaining legitimacy in the mainstream public sphere. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 345-364 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1374323 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1374323 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:3:p:345-364 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1354420_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bahar Rumelili Author-X-Name-First: Bahar Author-X-Name-Last: Rumelili Author-Name: Didem Çakmaklı Author-X-Name-First: Didem Author-X-Name-Last: Çakmaklı Title: Civic Participation and Citizenship in Turkey: A Comparative Study of Five Cities Abstract: This study explores whether and how participation in civil society organisations (CSOs) has transformed citizenship attitudes in different cities in Turkey, and how civic participation and citizenship attitudes are affected by local politico-cultural dynamics. The analysis is based on interviews conducted with representatives of 36 CSOs in five Turkish cities: Konya, Edirne, Diyarbakir, Trabzon, and Izmir. Our comparative analysis of the five cities reveals that civic life is more active in cities marked by high levels of religiosity (Konya) and politicised by conflict (Diyarbakir). On the other hand, politicisation of civic life through party dominance and clientelism, as in Edirne and Trabzon, undermines trust and discourages participation. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 365-384 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1354420 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1354420 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:3:p:365-384 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1345798_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ana García-Juanatey Author-X-Name-First: Ana Author-X-Name-Last: García-Juanatey Author-Name: Jacint Jordana Author-X-Name-First: Jacint Author-X-Name-Last: Jordana Author-Name: David Sancho Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Sancho Title: Administrative Innovations and Accountability Failures: The Termination of the Spanish Telecommunications Agency Abstract: We discuss how far accountability practices may be relevant to the success of independent regulators in countries without a tradition of administrative autonomy. We develop a conceptualisation of agency accountability failures and develop an analytical framework to examine the life and termination of the Spanish regulatory agency for telecommunications, CMT (Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones - Telecommunications Market Commission). We argue that the CMT’s termination was related, among other reasons, to accountability failures in its institutional design. The paper relies on a variety of sources, including legislation, literature, media coverage, and semistructured interviews with agency officials and several stakeholders. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 385-404 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1345798 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1345798 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:3:p:385-404 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1901386_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Juan Rodríguez-Teruel Author-X-Name-First: Juan Author-X-Name-Last: Rodríguez-Teruel Title: Polarisation and Electoral Realignment: The Case of the Right-Wing Parties in Spain Abstract: The article analyses the consequences of elite polarisation at the mass level. We study the electoral re-alignment within the right-wing Spanish electorate in recent years, whereby support for the long-predominant Partido Popular has been eroded dramatically to the benefit of new challengers. Measuring ideological polarisation at the party system level and at the individual level, we show how the polarising strategy implemented by the liberal Ciudadanos – and imitated by PP – to gain support from the right-wing electorate paved the way for a massive transfer of conservative voters to the radical-right Vox. The results provide counter-intuitive evidence about the electoral effects of elite polarisation: those individuals who perceived party polarisation less tended to vote more for the radical right party, while those who perceived greater polarisation among parties were more likely to vote for moderate forces. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 381-410 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1901386 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1901386 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:3-4:p:381-410 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1932020_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Athena Skoulariki Author-X-Name-First: Athena Author-X-Name-Last: Skoulariki Title: Political Polarisation in Greece: The Prespa Agreement, Left/Right Antagonism and the Nationalism/Populism Nexus Abstract: Following the signing of the Prespa Agreement in June 2018, the Macedonian name issue became the most prominent topic on the Greek political agenda, catalysing an exceptional political confrontation and contributing to the realignment of political parties and eventually to government change. Analysing the political discourse and public debate on the issue from January 2018 until the July 2019 national elections, as well as opinion polls and electoral results, the paper explores the conditions leading to the escalation of political polarisation on the left/right axis, at the expense of smaller centrist parties. It is argued that political antagonism was built on the previous political cleavage (although the populist/anti-populism axis was now reversed). By mobilising public emotions around an alleged ‘national threat’, the polarisation around the Macedonian name issue proved far more successful for the Greek right than for the left. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 411-439 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1932020 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1932020 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:3-4:p:411-439 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1821464_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Fabio Bordignon Author-X-Name-First: Fabio Author-X-Name-Last: Bordignon Title: Leader Polarisation: Conflict and Change in the Italian Political System Abstract: Polarising issues, polarising narratives, polarising leaders: this is the picture suggested by Italian politics in the 2018–20 time-frame. The article introduces the concept of leader polarisation and suggests a Leader Polarisation Index (LPI) to trace the recent evolution of the Italian party system. After the 2018 general election, the Italian political space experienced rapid change marked by the weakening of tripolarism, the re-emergence of bipolarism and the rise of elite-driven polarisation. The analysis of voters’ perspective through use of survey data reveals the increasingly divisive role of the Lega’s leader, Matteo Salvini. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 285-315 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1821464 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1821464 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:3-4:p:285-315 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1756612_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pablo Simón Author-X-Name-First: Pablo Author-X-Name-Last: Simón Title: The Multiple Spanish Elections of April and May 2019: The Impact of Territorial and Left-right Polarisation Abstract: This article analyses the 2019 local, regional, European and April general elections in Spain. The constitutional crisis in Catalonia in 2017, the motion of no-confidence leading to the new Socialist government and the emergence of a radical right-wing party, VOX, all led to Spanish politics becoming more polarised. This paper also discusses polarisation from both the left-right and the territorial perspectives, intimately linked in Spain both for historical reasons but also because of agency decisions during the period analysed. Finally, the article shows the electoral results, government formation processes and political implications of polarisation in a non-institutionalised party system. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 441-474 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1756612 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1756612 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:3-4:p:441-474 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1971444_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Anna Bosco Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Bosco Author-Name: Susannah Verney Author-X-Name-First: Susannah Author-X-Name-Last: Verney Title: Polarisation in Southern Europe: Elites, Party Conflicts and Negative Partisanship Abstract: The article complements our collection of studies of politics in polarised Southern Europe by offering a cross-regional comparison. Following a brief excursion into how polarisation in Southern Europe has been addressed in the existing literature, the focus zooms in on three country case studies. After showing the differential evolution of polarisation in Italy, Greece and Spain over recent decades, the story is brought up to date with an examination of the specific ways in which polarisation played out in the 2019 election cycle. marked by the Catalan conflict in Spain, the Macedonian name question in Greece and the polarising role of Matteo Salvini in Italy. The article concludes with comparative insights into the current polarisation drives in the three countries. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 257-284 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1971444 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1971444 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:3-4:p:257-284 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1911440_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lluís Orriols Author-X-Name-First: Lluís Author-X-Name-Last: Orriols Author-Name: Sandra León Author-X-Name-First: Sandra Author-X-Name-Last: León Title: Looking for Affective Polarisation in Spain: PSOE and Podemos from Conflict to Coalition Abstract: Voters in many advanced democracies increasingly dislike their political opponents, a phenomenon that is known as affective polarisation. The growing animosity between electorates is particularly challenging in multiparty systems, where ruling is more dependent on cross-party alliances. In this work, we examine the case of Spain, a multiparty democracy that exhibits one of the highest levels of affective polarisation among advanced democracies. Using public opinion databases as well as extensive qualitative evidence, we operationalise and explore the evolution of affective polarisation in the Spanish electorate and its main drivers, with a particular focus on the competition for the left–wing electorate between the PSOE and Podemos during the 2015–2020 period. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 351-379 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1911440 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1911440 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:3-4:p:351-379 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1840110_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Nicolò Conti Author-X-Name-First: Nicolò Author-X-Name-Last: Conti Author-Name: Andrea Pedrazzani Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Pedrazzani Author-Name: Federico Russo Author-X-Name-First: Federico Author-X-Name-Last: Russo Title: Policy Polarisation in Italy: The Short and Conflictual Life of the ‘Government of Change’ (2018–2019) Abstract: This article uses the concept of policy polarisation to understand the short and conflictual life of the Conte I cabinet which remained in office in Italy from June 2018 to September 2019. We show how policy polarisation in parliament and between coalition parties shaped the formation and termination of the so-called ‘government of change’. When investigating the implementation of the government agenda, we also assess the role of the coalition contract as an (ineffective) institutional solution to problems stemming from policy divisions between the Five Star Movement and the Lega. We argue that, despite some policy accomplishments of the government, the Five Star Movement-Lega coalition appears more as a temporary experiment, whose legacy may not represent a new course of action. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 317-350 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1840110 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1840110 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:3-4:p:317-350 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1821465_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Filippo Tronconi Author-X-Name-First: Filippo Author-X-Name-Last: Tronconi Author-Name: Marco Valbruzzi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Valbruzzi Title: Populism Put to the Polarisation Test: The 2019–20 Election Cycle in Italy Abstract: One year after the birth of an unprecedented government characterised by the strong populist stance of both coalition partners (M5S and the Lega) and amid a growing polarisation in party positions on a number of political issues, the European and regional elections of 2019–20 marked an important test for Italy. After presenting the results of the 2019–20 election cycle, the article investigates the most salient lines of party competition and the varying degrees of polarisation. Our analysis shows two kinds of polarisation: the first being the intra-coalitional polarisation which characterised the first Conte government; while the second, affecting the party system as a whole, is driven by the electoral rise of far-right parties. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 475-501 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1821465 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1821465 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:3-4:p:475-501 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1855798_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emmanouil Tsatsanis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanouil Author-X-Name-Last: Tsatsanis Author-Name: Eftichia Teperoglou Author-X-Name-First: Eftichia Author-X-Name-Last: Teperoglou Author-Name: Angelos Seriatos Author-X-Name-First: Angelos Author-X-Name-Last: Seriatos Title: Two-partyism Reloaded: Polarisation, Negative Partisanship, and the Return of the Left-right Divide in the Greek Elections of 2019 Abstract: The article examines the four electoral contests (municipal, regional, European, and parliamentary) that took place in Greece in 2019 through the prism of the growing polarisation that has dominated Greek political life since the early 2010s. It is argued that with these elections, the decade-long political cycle that began with the economic crisis came to its conclusion. The new party system resembles the pre-crisis one, featuring a return of two-partyism, single-party governments, and competition along the left-right dimension. However, the legacy of the crisis period remains present, as the ‘new’ two-party system continues to be characterised by high degrees of affective polarisation and negative partisanship. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 503-532 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1855798 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1855798 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:3-4:p:503-532 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1857085_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pablo Simón Author-X-Name-First: Pablo Author-X-Name-Last: Simón Title: Two-bloc Logic, Polarisation and Coalition Government: The November 2019 General Election in Spain Abstract: This article focuses on the role played by polarisation in the Spanish party system. It first analyses the failure in the attempts to form a government after the 28 April 2019 general election in Spain. It shows how polarisation and short-term calculations made government formation impossible and led to a new general election in November that year. The article also describes how prior to the electoral campaign, the exhumation of Francisco Franco’s body and the riots in Catalonia, which added to the saliency of territorial conflict, fostered votes for the radical right-wing party Vox. It will also be shown how the election results led to a fragmented and more polarised Congress. Finally, the article discusses the formation of the first minority coalition government in the recent democratic history of Spain – one made up of the PSOE and UP – its structure and its potential implications for the Spanish party system. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 533-563 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2020 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1857085 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1857085 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:25:y:2020:i:3-4:p:533-563 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_799729_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Umut Aydin Author-X-Name-First: Umut Author-X-Name-Last: Aydin Author-Name: Kemal Kirişci Author-X-Name-First: Kemal Author-X-Name-Last: Kirişci Title: With or Without the EU: Europeanisation of Asylum and Competition Policies in Turkey Abstract: Despite growing pessimism in Turkey regarding EU membership negotiations, domestic reforms in a number of policy areas such as asylum and competition policy have continued and have brought Turkish legislation closer to the European Union (EU) acquis. What explains the continuation of costly reforms in the absence of credible membership prospects in EU candidate countries? We argue for a model of Europeanisation that in addition to policymakers' cost–benefit calculations takes into account whether there is a policy misfit or a vacuum, the role of domestic social actors, and the influence of international institutions and transnational networks beyond the EU. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 375-395 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.799729 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.799729 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:3:p:375-395 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_723327_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Georgia Kaplanoglou Author-X-Name-First: Georgia Author-X-Name-Last: Kaplanoglou Author-Name: Vassilis Rapanos Author-X-Name-First: Vassilis Author-X-Name-Last: Rapanos Title: Tax and Trust: The Fiscal Crisis in Greece Abstract: This paper aims to highlight a number of shortcomings in the design and enforcement of the tax system in Greece, which have played a key role in the exacerbation of fiscal deficits that led to the current sovereign debt crisis. More precisely, we argue that these shortcomings resulting in low tax revenue are related to the structure of the Greek economy and to the failures of formal institutions (such as the poor functioning of the tax administration and lax tax enforcement). Such failures are rooted in and at the same time reinforce failures of informal institutions, namely low levels of trust in institutions and perceived fairness of the tax system. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 283-304 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2012.723327 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2012.723327 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:3:p:283-304 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_785141_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Bonnie Field Author-X-Name-First: Bonnie Author-X-Name-Last: Field Title: Resolute Leaders and ‘Cardboard Deputies’: Parliamentary Party Unity in the New Spanish Democracy Abstract: This study puts forward a leadership-centred explanation of parliamentary party unity in new democracies, which departs from more common approaches that emphasise the effects of exogenous variables on rank-and-file legislator behaviour. By analysing party unity in the first two legislative sessions (1977–79, 1979–82) of Spain's nascent democracy, the study demonstrates that the Spanish parties manifested very high levels of voting unity. It argues that in order to understand party unity it is critical to examine party leadership goals and incentives; and it places leadership choices at the centre of the analysis. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 355-374 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.785141 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.785141 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:3:p:355-374 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_769791_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Piergiorgio Corbetta Author-X-Name-First: Piergiorgio Author-X-Name-Last: Corbetta Author-Name: Pasquale Colloca Author-X-Name-First: Pasquale Author-X-Name-Last: Colloca Title: Job Precariousness and Political Orientations: The Case of Italy Abstract: This paper explores the role played by job precariousness in political orientations, and examines the extent to which job precariousness could represent a new political division in Italian society. We have investigated the explanatory role of job precariousness for political orientations and analysed its interaction with the declining traditional cleavages (territory, class, religion). Based on a national sample of 15,000 workers, our results provide some evidence that job precariousness is a social variable exerting a significant impact on political orientations. Furthermore, we found that different conditions of job precariousness, such as temporary work and unemployment, affect political attitudes in different ways. Finally, our evidence suggests that the relationship between job precariousness and political orientations is significantly influenced by territory and class. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 333-354 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.769791 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.769791 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:3:p:333-354 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_799731_O.xml processed with: repec_from_tfja.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Joseph Lekakis Author-X-Name-First: Joseph Author-X-Name-Last: Lekakis Author-Name: Maria Kousis Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Kousis Title: Economic Crisis, Troika and the Environment in Greece Abstract: The article constitutes a preliminary attempt to address the effects of the current economic crisis on the Greek environment. The austerity policies and other conditions imposed by the Memoranda of Understanding with the troika of international lenders are undermining the progress made in the pre-crisis years in the framework of European Union (EU) environmental policy. The latter conflicts with the EU's new priorities in the context of the Greek bailout programme. Examples include the air pollution caused by fuel substitution following a vast increase in heating fuel tax, the escalating environmental conflict related to gold-mining investment, and the crumbling environmental management apparatus. Strictly monitored by the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, Greece needs to carefully delineate the trade-offs inherent in the country's ‘new’ model of growth. Proper policies are needed to avoid natural resource depletion, environmental decay and further national wealth reduction in the years to come. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 305-331 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2013 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2013.799731 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2013.799731 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:18:y:2013:i:3:p:305-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1728957_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Manuela Moschella Author-X-Name-First: Manuela Author-X-Name-Last: Moschella Author-Name: Lucia Quaglia Author-X-Name-First: Lucia Author-X-Name-Last: Quaglia Title: European Banking Union to the Rescue? How Supranational Institutions Influenced Crisis Management in Italy Abstract: This article examines the management of the recent banking crisis in Italy. In particular, we investigate the changing coalitional dynamics among Italian banks with a view to identifying the conditions under which banks are more likely to share the costs of crisis management. We argue that banks’ preferences are significantly shaped by the institutional context within which they operate. In particular, the establishment of Banking Union in the European Union (EU) significantly weakened the traditional coalitional dynamics among Italian banks by injecting uncertainty about the distributional effects of crisis management policy solutions. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 421-440 Issue: 4 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1728957 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1728957 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:4:p:421-440 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1728958_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Andrea Pritoni Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Pritoni Title: Preferring Rome to Brussels: Mapping Interest Group Europeanisation in Italy Abstract: How much do Italian interest groups undertake their advocacy/lobbying activities at the EU level? How often have groups gained access to different EU level institutions? This paper presents an original conceptualisation for the concept of ‘interest group Europeanisation’, which takes into account both the percentage of EU lobbying and access to EU institutions, and assesses the role of national centrality (i.e. access to national institutional venues and self-perceived influence in national policy-making) in determining whether there is more or less interest group Europeanisation. Original data from a national survey conducted on around 500 Italian interest groups are provided. Groups that are at the core of the national interest system are less likely to undertake a large part of their lobbying activities at the EU level, but more likely to gain EU access. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 441-462 Issue: 4 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1728958 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2020.1728958 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:4:p:441-462 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1694282_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca Author-X-Name-First: Ignacio Author-X-Name-Last: Sánchez-Cuenca Author-Name: Luis Fernando Medina Author-X-Name-First: Luis Fernando Author-X-Name-Last: Medina Title: Institutional Suicide and Elite Coordination: The Spanish Transition Revisited Abstract: In the literature on democratisation, the Spanish case has a paradigmatic status, especially for the negotiations between the regime and the opposition. While these negotiations did stabilise the new regime, the transition was driven by the regime’s elites. The key event was the approval of the Law for Political Reform in November 1976, when the legislature voted its own demise. The change was done according to the rules of the system. To explain this reform, we offer a formal model of coordination and a statistical analysis of an original dataset of the 531 legislators. The reform was possible because of elites’ belief coordination. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 463-484 Issue: 4 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1694282 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1694282 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:4:p:463-484 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1589155_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Işık D. Özel Author-X-Name-First: Işık D. Author-X-Name-Last: Özel Author-Name: Kerem Yıldırım Author-X-Name-First: Kerem Author-X-Name-Last: Yıldırım Title: Political Consequences of Welfare Regimes: Social Assistance and Support for Presidentialism in Turkey Abstract: Tackling redistributive expansion in developing countries, this paper explores broader political consequences of social assistance programmes. Drawing from the Turkish case, where social welfare expanded since the 2000s, it examines attitudes of social assistance beneficiaries towards transition to presidentialism, which was approved in a referendum in 2017, and took effect in 2018. Using the results of an original survey, it indicates that social assistance benefits played a significant role in increasing support for presidentialism, by garnering votes from opposition voters, especially those with high-risk perceptions, in return for benefits. Given the character of Turkish presidentialism, devoid of vital checks and balances, the findings reveal that incumbents can mobilise support by using redistributive instruments in the context of democratic backsliding. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 485-511 Issue: 4 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1589155 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1589155 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:4:p:485-511 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1631996_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emel Akçalı Author-X-Name-First: Emel Author-X-Name-Last: Akçalı Title: Facebook: An Emerging Arena for Politics of Self-Determination in northern Cyprus? Abstract: The present article aims to expand scholarship on the political role of social media by focusing on the case of Facebook and the self-determination claims of Turkish Cypriots vis-à-vis Turkey. Drawing upon a virtual ethnography of relevant Facebook sites and groups, this article scrutinises whether social media offer an innovative public platform for the politics of self-determination or on-line claims are in reality formed and negotiated in the same manner as the offline ones. The article concludes that Turkish Cypriots’ Facebook activism may very well be for strengthening their community, shielding their distinct characteristics from mainland Turkey and raising their self-esteem, rather than indicating demands for complete autonomy in the traditional political sense of the word and/or statehood. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 513-533 Issue: 4 Volume: 24 Year: 2019 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1631996 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2019.1631996 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:4:p:513-533 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1115581_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Özge Kemahlıoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Özge Author-X-Name-Last: Kemahlıoğlu Title: Winds of Change? The June 2015 Parliamentary Election in Turkey Abstract: Held in an environment of growing social polarisation, fears of emergent authoritarianism, and economic challenges, Turkey’s June 2015 election ended the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi’s (AKP’s) parliamentary majority, challenging its single-party rule for the first time in 13 years. This article first provides information on the background to the election, focusing on debates about the authoritarian tendencies of AKP, economic conditions, and the competition for the Kurdish vote. Then, a brief overview of the campaign period is presented, followed by an analysis of election results at the sub-national level. The article concludes with some preliminary discussion of the causes of the loss of AKP’s majority. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 445-464 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1115581 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1115581 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:4:p:445-464 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1058216_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Cristina Flesher Fominaya Author-X-Name-First: Cristina Author-X-Name-Last: Flesher Fominaya Title: Redefining the Crisis/Redefining Democracy: Mobilising for the Right to Housing in Spain's PAH Movement Abstract: European anti-austerity movements are challenging fundamental assumptions about the role of the market and the state. In Spain, the twin claims of the movements are a demand for ‘real democracy’ and an end to austerity measures resulting from the global financial crisis. I argue that these demands are intertwined. Using critical discourse analysis, I explore the Platform of Those Affected by Mortgages' controversial escrache campaign to show how social movements actively resisting austerity measures transcend the specific issues around which they mobilise to contest hegemonic definitions of crisis and of democracy, laying the groundwork for the reconfiguration of Spain's political landscape. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 465-485 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1058216 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1058216 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:4:p:465-485 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1040147_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Antonia María Ruiz Jiménez Author-X-Name-First: Antonia María Author-X-Name-Last: Ruiz Jiménez Author-Name: Manuel Tomás González-Fernández Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Tomás Author-X-Name-Last: González-Fernández Author-Name: Manuel Jiménez Sánchez Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Jiménez Sánchez Title: Identifying with the Nation: Spain's Left-Wing Citizens in an Age of Crisis Abstract: This study analyses the extent, sense, and strategies employed by sympathisers with Spanish state-wide left-wing parties to ‘reconstruct’ their affective ties with the Spanish nation after the ‘monopolisation of patriotism’ by Franco's regime. Such an undertaking is further complicated within the context of economic crisis and intensified peripheral nationalism found in Catalonia and the Basque Country. This article applies qualitative analysis to the discourse of left-wing participants from 11 focus groups held in March 2012 amidst the economic (and political) crisis. As expected, this context of crisis favoured the emergence of explicit discourse on the Spanish nation, providing an opportunity to gain a better understanding of its nature. Findings show that welfare nationalism and social patriotism define the kind of attachment developed by the interviewees towards Spain better than the concept of constitutional patriotism, or any kind of ethnic-cultural feeling of belonging. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 487-508 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1040147 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1040147 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:4:p:487-508 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1108585_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Luigi Curini Author-X-Name-First: Luigi Author-X-Name-Last: Curini Title: An Italian Leitmotiv? Corruption and Competence in the Debates of the Italian Chamber of Deputies (1946–2014) Abstract: By making use of an original data-set built based on a codification of all investiture debates of the Italian governments from 1946 to 2014, the paper investigates the main factors that explain the choice of a party to devote its attention to the valence issues of corruption and competence in its legislative speeches. Two classes of hypotheses are tested; the first concentrates on spatial reasons, and the second concentrates on contextual factors. Both sets of factors appear to play a significant role, although no clear temporal trend emerges in party attention over almost seventy years of Italian parliamentary debates. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 509-531 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1108585 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1108585 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:4:p:509-531 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1099258_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Hayriye Özen Author-X-Name-First: Hayriye Author-X-Name-Last: Özen Title: An Unfinished Grassroots Populism: The Gezi Park Protests in Turkey and Their Aftermath Abstract: Focusing on the Gezi protests, this study addresses two questions: How did a particular struggle against the demolition of a park spontaneously turn into nationwide mass protests? And why was this mobilisation unable to transform itself into a popular counter-hegemonic movement? Drawing on the Laclauian concept of populism, I demonstrate that Gezi mobilised various groups by turning into a symbol of the repressive responses of the hegemonic power to various social demands. This popular mobilisation could not go beyond a conjunctural experience due to its inability to unify heterogeneous protesters and to respond effectively to the counter-strategies of the hegemonic power. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 533-552 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1099258 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1099258 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:4:p:533-552 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1118839_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Filippo Tronconi Author-X-Name-First: Filippo Author-X-Name-Last: Tronconi Title: Bye-Bye Bipolarism: The 2015 Regional Elections and the New Shape of Regional Party Systems in Italy Abstract: In May 2015, 19 million Italians were called to renew the legislative assemblies and presidencies of seven regions, thus concluding an electoral cycle begun in February 2013 that involved all the 15 ordinary statute regions. Beyond their immediate relevance – of the 15 incumbent presidents only three were confirmed in office – these elections represented a turning point for regional party systems, paralleling the earthquake of the 2013 general elections. The ‘fragmented bipolarism’ characterising elections in Italy at the two levels since the mid-1990s, has been replaced by a multipolar competition, as a consequence of the consolidating presence of the Movimento 5 Stelle and the internal divisions of the centre-right coalition. At the same time, fragmentation of regional councils has remained high. The evolution of regional party systems and patterns of competition are analysed in this paper, taking into account the electoral offer, turnout and results in the majoritarian and proportional arenas of the 15 ordinary statute regions. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 553-571 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1118839 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1118839 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:4:p:553-571 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1086081_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Iosif Botetzagias Author-X-Name-First: Iosif Author-X-Name-Last: Botetzagias Author-Name: Pavlos Vasilopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Pavlos Author-X-Name-Last: Vasilopoulos Title: Climbing to the Rooftop, Falling off, yet Landing on One’s Feet (and Finding a Wallet on the Pavement?): The Electoral Fate of the Greek Ecogreens (2004–15) Abstract: After a prolonged period of feeble electoral success, the Ecologists Greens (Ecogreens) managed to break into the Greek political landscape by electing one MEP in the 2009 European election. However, that electoral success proved to be quite short-lived, since in the years to follow the Greek Greens faded away. They were divided and faced the threat of political extinction, only to be resuscitated at the national election of 2015 by allying themselves with the winning leftist Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). This article draws on archival and survey data to recount the electoral fate of the Ecologists Greens from their creation to their current place in the Greek parliament and government. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 573-590 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2015.1086081 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2015.1086081 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:20:y:2015:i:4:p:573-590 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2046400_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Albert Padró-Solanet Author-X-Name-First: Albert Author-X-Name-Last: Padró-Solanet Author-Name: Joan Balcells Author-X-Name-First: Joan Author-X-Name-Last: Balcells Title: Media Diet and Polarisation: Evidence from Spain Abstract: Does media diet diversity influence affective polarisation of the public? To test this hypothesis we analyse data from Spain, which like other South European countries has a highly politicised media system. The study operationalises media diet diversity based on survey and web-tracking data. It considers diversity both in terms of the quantity of media consumed and exposure to opposing viewpoints using the two politico-ideological dimensions that conventionally define Spanish politics: left–right and centre–periphery. The results are rather complex and show certain ambivalence. As expected, a more diverse media diet generally tends to depolarise individuals; however, when considering the centre-periphery dimension, we find that media diet diversity can further exacerbate polarisation. That highlights the role identities can play as a potential source of polarisation. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 75-95 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2046400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2046400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:1:p:75-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2038492_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Isabel Rodríguez Author-X-Name-First: Isabel Author-X-Name-Last: Rodríguez Author-Name: Diego Santamaría Author-X-Name-First: Diego Author-X-Name-Last: Santamaría Author-Name: Luis Miller Author-X-Name-First: Luis Author-X-Name-Last: Miller Title: Electoral Competition and Partisan Affective Polarisation in Spain Abstract: Previous studies have reported that political competition increases partisan affective polarisation. We test this hypothesis using the four waves of a survey on affective polarisation in Spain and a repeated measures design. Two of these waves were conducted during two electoral campaigns. This allows us to study whether in-group and out-group sentiments are affected by election proximity. Differences in sentiments towards in-group and out-group members increase with elections. However, this is mostly driven by an increase in positive sentiments towards the in-group. Elections also increase negative affects towards out-group members, but to a lesser extent. In Spain, these elections hardly affected territorial affective polarisation. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 27-50 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2038492 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2038492 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:1:p:27-50 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2038943_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Amuitz Garmendia Madariaga Author-X-Name-First: Amuitz Garmendia Author-X-Name-Last: Madariaga Author-Name: Pedro Riera Author-X-Name-First: Pedro Author-X-Name-Last: Riera Title: Territorial Polarisation after Radical Parties’ Breakthrough in Spain Abstract: Radical parties are on the rise in Europe. However, there is scant evidence on whether their breakthroughs affect voters’ political attitudes, particularly with regard to non-economic dimensions of electoral competition. We address these gaps using a combination of panel surveys developed during recent general election cycles (2011, 2015 and 2019) in Spain. We show that the breakthrough of Podemos and Vox in 2015 and 2019 respectively contributed to the ideological polarisation of voters’ positions on the highly salient territorial dimension in this country, a phenomenon that we do not observe in 2011. However, affective territorial polarisation was not achieved. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 51-73 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2038943 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2038943 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:1:p:51-73 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2047554_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Javier Lorenzo-Rodríguez Author-X-Name-First: Javier Author-X-Name-Last: Lorenzo-Rodríguez Author-Name: Mariano Torcal Author-X-Name-First: Mariano Author-X-Name-Last: Torcal Title: Twitter and Affective Polarisation: Following Political Leaders in Spain Abstract: The present study addresses the effect of the discourse of elites on Twitter on citizens’ affective polarisation through a quasi-experiment that was embedded in a survey panel. Participants were invited to follow one of the Twitter accounts of nine candidates from the main political parties during the 2019 European Parliament electoral campaign in Spain. Experiment compliance among participants was confirmed using web-tracking data (passive metre). The results show that exposure to candidates’ Twitter accounts by self-selection does not increase affective polarisation. Although high levels of polarisation might contribute to building echo chambers, the polarising content contained in the partisan Twitter accounts has no effect on increasing affective polarisation, even among those who strongly identify with such parties. This finding confirms the so-called limited media effect hypothesis for social media. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 97-123 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2047554 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2047554 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:1:p:97-123 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2047555_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mariano Torcal Author-X-Name-First: Mariano Author-X-Name-Last: Torcal Author-Name: Emily Carty Author-X-Name-First: Emily Author-X-Name-Last: Carty Title: Partisan Sentiments and Political Trust: A Longitudinal Study of Spain Abstract: This article seeks to gain a deeper understanding on the relationship between polarisation and political trust in multiparty systems by examining the effect of different indicators of affective and ideological polarisation on the within-individual variation of political trust over time. Using unique data collected from two separate online survey panels in Spain, our findings show that in multiparty contexts it is important to use two different measures of affective polarisation, as they have two distinct effects on political trust. While in-group affective polarisation tends to increase political trust, out-group polarisation has a negative impact on within-individual levels of trust in all democratic institutions. The latter effect is much stronger, adding nuance to existing explanations of the overall decline in political trust Observed in many democracies in contemporary democracies. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 171-196 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2047555 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2047555 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:1:p:171-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2047541_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Danilo Serani Author-X-Name-First: Danilo Author-X-Name-Last: Serani Title: In-Party Like, Out-Party Dislike and Propensity to Vote in Spain Abstract: Do affectively polarised people vote or stay home on election day? Although there is an increasing number of comparative studies focusing on the origins of partisan affective polarisation, our knowledge about its impact on individuals’ decision to vote is still limited. This article takes a closer look at the relationship between propensity to vote and partisan affective polarisation by distinguishing those produced by in-party like and by out-party dislike. The results show that both in-group like and out-group hate sentiments increase people’s propensity to vote, and that the effects of the latter are more accentuated. The argument presented in the following pages is based on the analysis of a two-wave panel study conducted in Spain between April and May 2019. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 125-146 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2047541 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2047541 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:1:p:125-146 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2044236_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mariano Torcal Author-X-Name-First: Mariano Author-X-Name-Last: Torcal Author-Name: Josep M. Comellas Author-X-Name-First: Josep M. Author-X-Name-Last: Comellas Title: Affective Polarisation in Times of Political Instability and Conflict. Spain from a Comparative Perspective Abstract: This is an introductory article for a special issue on affective polarisation in Spain. After discussing the concept and its operationalisation in multi-party settings, we offer data on affective polarisation in Spain and Southern Europe from a comparative perspective using the Comparative National Election Project (CNEP) and Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). In the second part, we pay special attention to the Spanish case, analysing different dimensions of affective polarisation and its evolution overtime, by taking advantage of an extensive number of indicators from the E-DEM panel survey. Finally, we describe its relationship with ideological polarisation and analyse its possible multidimensional nature. We conclude by introducing the rest of contributions of this special issue. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 1-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2044236 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2044236 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:1:p:1-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2044235_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Toni Rodon Author-X-Name-First: Toni Author-X-Name-Last: Rodon Title: Affective and Territorial Polarisation: The Impact on Vote Choice in Spain Abstract: What is the effect of affective polarisation on vote choice? Despite the growing interest in affective polarisation, scholars still do not fully understand the relationship between partisan affective polarisation and political behaviour. Crucially, most existing studies have assumed, often by default, that affective polarisation mainly occurs along a single politicised partisan identity. This article addresses the hitherto neglected relationship between affective polarisation and vote choice in Spain, where distrust between different and opposite groups occurs both on ideological and territorial terms. Using rich panel data, the study findings show that both affective polarisation types are significant predictors of vote choice. While affectively partisan-polarised voters are more likely to support the left, affectively polarised voters on the territorial dimension are more likely to support the right. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 147-169 Issue: 1 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2044235 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2044235 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:1:p:147-169 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1199091_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jonas Bergan Draege Author-X-Name-First: Jonas Author-X-Name-Last: Bergan Draege Author-Name: Daniela Chironi Author-X-Name-First: Daniela Author-X-Name-Last: Chironi Author-Name: Donatella della Porta Author-X-Name-First: Donatella Author-X-Name-Last: della Porta Title: Social Movements within Organisations: Occupy Parties in Italy and Turkey Abstract: This paper analyses a little-studied phenomenon: movements within parties. While parties and movements are often assumed to be separate entities, the borders between the two have proved to be more fluent. Parties frequently play a pivotal role in movement politics, and movements influence parties through the dual militancy of many of their members. The article presents two cases of Occupy movements taking place within major left-of-centre parties – the Italian PD and the Turkish CHP – and analyses the causes of discontent within the party and the choice of activists to voice this discontent rather than exit the party. It is argued that, beyond country specificities, shared factors include the perceived betrayal of social-democratic values, a lack of internal democracy, and electoral defeats. In both cases, activists’ choice to refer to Occupy in their opposition inside the party can be explained by the normative resonance of anti-austerity protest claims and forms within the party, as well as the instrumental exploitation of mass media attention to Occupy as a logo. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 139-156 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1199091 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1199091 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:2:p:139-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1327339_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Davide Donatiello Author-X-Name-First: Davide Author-X-Name-Last: Donatiello Author-Name: Francesco Ramella Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Ramella Title: The Innovation Paradox in Southern Europe. Unexpected Performance During the Economic Crisis Abstract: The international crisis has exerted a strong impact on the National Innovation Systems (NIS) of three Southern European economies: Italy, Portugal and Spain. These countries represent interesting cases for analysing responses to the crisis because they show a sort of innovation paradox: despite the weakness of their institutional systems and the defensive policies developed by governments, some of their companies have nevertheless been able to innovate even during the hardest years of the recession. In order to shed light on this paradox, three matters are taken into account: the distinctive features of the South European National Innovation Systems; the behaviour of governments and companies; the ‘generative dynamics’ and the ‘creative processes’ that have taken place during the crisis. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 157-177 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1327339 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1327339 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:2:p:157-177 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1244890_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pablo Simón Author-X-Name-First: Pablo Author-X-Name-Last: Simón Author-Name: Tània Verge Author-X-Name-First: Tània Author-X-Name-Last: Verge Title: Gender Quotas and Political Representation in Spain and Portugal: Electoral Competition, Learning and Emulation Abstract: Contagion theory, one of the most appealing explanations of women’s representation, posits that when small parties start actively promoting women candidates, larger parties will be incentivised to follow suit and contagion will eventually spread throughout the party system. In examining the diffusion of gender quotas in Spain and Portugal, this article revisits contagion theory and adopts a more comprehensive approach. The results suggest that diffusion is better captured when one takes into account that political parties not only react to electoral competition but also adapt to policy innovation through learning and emulation, whose effects are often shaped by intra-party factors. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 179-195 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1244890 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1244890 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:2:p:179-195 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1164846_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Zeki Sarigil Author-X-Name-First: Zeki Author-X-Name-Last: Sarigil Author-Name: Ekrem Karakoc Author-X-Name-First: Ekrem Author-X-Name-Last: Karakoc Title: Inter-ethnic (In)tolerance between Turks and Kurds: Implications for Turkish Democratisation Abstract: Using public opinion survey data, this study investigates the determinants of inter-ethnic (in)tolerance among Turks and Kurds in Turkey. Our empirical analyses show that, compared with Turks, Kurds have a relatively higher level of tolerance towards the ethnic out-group. Our findings also suggest that different dynamics and factors mould Turks’ and Kurds’ tolerance towards ethnic out-group members. Religiosity, (ethno)nationalist orientations, inter-ethnic contact, threat perception and economic factors are the most consistent variables shaping Turks’ tolerance towards Kurds. In contrast, religion-related factors and inter-ethnic social contact do not have a statistically significant effect on Kurds’ tolerance towards Turks. (Ethno)nationalist orientations, however, appear to reduce Kurds’ tolerance. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 197-216 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1164846 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1164846 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:2:p:197-216 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1250382_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ayşe Betül Çelik Author-X-Name-First: Ayşe Betül Author-X-Name-Last: Çelik Author-Name: Rezarta Bilali Author-X-Name-First: Rezarta Author-X-Name-Last: Bilali Author-Name: Yeshim Iqbal Author-X-Name-First: Yeshim Author-X-Name-Last: Iqbal Title: Patterns of ‘Othering’ in Turkey: A Study of Ethnic, Ideological, and Sectarian Polarisation Abstract: This study explores who Turkish citizens view as the Other, their perceptions, evaluations, and the degree of Othering of these groups in the private and public spheres. Drawing from varied political science and social psychology literature, it also examines the role of social contact, perceived threat, and the strength of national and religious identification in predicting levels of Othering. Using a national representative sample, the findings reveal that Kurds are the most Othered group in the private sphere, while both Kurds and AKP (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – Justice and Development Party) supporters are the most Othered groups in the public sphere. Regardless of who the Other is, lower social contact and higher levels of perceived threat are associated with higher levels of Othering of Kurds, Alevis, AKP supporters, and AKP opponents in both the private and public spheres. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 217-238 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1250382 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2016.1250382 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:2:p:217-238 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1301065_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Keith Salmon Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Salmon Title: A Decade of Lost Growth: Economic Policy in Spain through the Great Recession Abstract: In 2008 the Spanish economy sank into recession, returning to growth in 2014. This paper explores the policies that were pursued by two successive governments to escape the recession. It comments on one of the most contentious strategies, that of austerity, and underlines the constraints on policy imposed by membership of the European Monetary Union (EMU) and a decentralised state. The Great Recession and accompanying austerity policy were associated with huge social and economic costs. Policy targets on the debt and deficit were not met. This experience, together with the broader sluggish growth in Europe and the political consequences associated with austerity, pointed to the need for a new policy mix. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 239-260 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1301065 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1301065 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:2:p:239-260 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1312768_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Vasiliki Triga Author-X-Name-First: Vasiliki Author-X-Name-Last: Triga Title: Parties and Change in the Post-Bailout Cyprus: The May 2016 Parliamentary Elections Abstract: The parliamentary elections of 2016, the first following Cyprus’ exit from the bailout programme, took place in a context of indifference on the part of the citizens. Characterised by a decline in bipartisanship, a rise in abstention and a more fragmented party system, the elections paved the way for the historical entry into parliament of the far right party, ELAM. This article sets these outcomes against the broader backdrop of the Great Recession while also paying attention to the reinvigoration of the cultural dimension of political conflict, with potentially significant constraints for future negotiations on the Cyprus problem. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 261-279 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2017 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1312768 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2017.1312768 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:22:y:2017:i:2:p:261-279 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1949672_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gema García-Albacete Author-X-Name-First: Gema Author-X-Name-Last: García-Albacete Author-Name: Javier Lorente Author-X-Name-First: Javier Author-X-Name-Last: Lorente Title: Has the Great Recession Shaped a Crisis Generation of Critical Citizens? Evidence from Southern Europe Abstract: This article examines the potential emergence of a ‘new’ and ‘critical’ political generation in Southern Europe after an exceptionally intense political period. Using country-specific classifications of political generations, we first describe the evolution of a combination of two main attitudes towards the political system – frequency of political discussion and satisfaction with democracy – and then propose a fourfold typology: happy, critical, unengaged and disillusioned citizens. Grounded on political socialisation theories we hypothesise that the crisis generation, which developed its main political attitudes during the Great Recession, will be particularly critical in the long term, combining dissatisfaction with political engagement. To identify this potential new generation, we use a longitudinal perspective and Eurobarometer data from 1985 to 2019 and find empirical support to identify such a ‘critical generation’ in Spain and Greece. In contrast, results in Italy and Portugal suggest an increase in happy citizens who are satisfied with how democracy works and who are politically engaged. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 181-207 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1949672 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1949672 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:2:p:181-207 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1965322_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Lisi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Lisi Author-Name: Mario Quaranta Author-X-Name-First: Mario Author-X-Name-Last: Quaranta Author-Name: José Real-Dato Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Real-Dato Author-Name: Emmanouil Tsatsanis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanouil Author-X-Name-Last: Tsatsanis Title: Assessing the Impact of Age, Cohort and Period Effects on Partisanship and Support for Mainstream Parties: Evidence from Southern Europe Abstract: The article examines the link between time effects and dealignment in Southern European countries, which allows us to assess the relative importance of short- and long-term factors on the political instability of the region during the Eurocrisis. First, we analyse life cycle, cohort and period effects on partisan identities across countries. Second, we investigate to what extent time-related factors have been responsible for the erosion of the vote in mainstream parties, especially during the crisis period, thus isolating the impact of time on general patterns of party system change. Our results show that electoral and partisan dealignment is fostered in particular by period effects, whereas age and cohort differences play a more limited role. In addition, there are also important differences across countries in terms of both evolution and intensity of time effects. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 239-270 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1965322 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1965322 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:2:p:239-270 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2016245_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emmanouil Tsatsanis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanouil Author-X-Name-Last: Tsatsanis Author-Name: Enrico Borghetto Author-X-Name-First: Enrico Author-X-Name-Last: Borghetto Author-Name: André Freire Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Freire Author-Name: José Ramón Montero Author-X-Name-First: José Ramón Author-X-Name-Last: Montero Title: Generational and Ideological Gaps in Democratic Support: Seeds of Deconsolidation in Post-Crisis Southern Europe? Abstract: This article explores trends in overall levels of democratic support in Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece. Additionally, the article examines the extent to which the experience of the steep economic downturn in Southern Europe had specific effects on democratic support across different generations and ideological groups by examining survey data that span three decades. The evidence is mixed concerning the resilience of democratic values in the four South European countries, ranging from stability in Portugal to noticeable decline in Italy. Members of the ‘millennial’ generation appear to be more susceptible to the period effect of the crisis, whereas left-wing and centrist citizens are more likely to select democracy as the best form of government compared to right-wing citizens. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 209-237 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.2016245 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.2016245 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:2:p:209-237 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2032936_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Emmanouil Tsatsanis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanouil Author-X-Name-Last: Tsatsanis Author-Name: Marco Lisi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Lisi Author-Name: André Freire Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Freire Title: The ‘Lost Generation’ and Its Political Discontents: Age-related Divides in Southern Europe after the Crisis Abstract: Although 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, not enough attention has been given to the political consequences of the crisis on the young. Focusing on the cases of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, this introduction to the special issue on age-related rifts in post-crisis Southern Europe offers an overview of the contributions and an initial answer to the question: to what extent and in what areas can one talk about an emergent generational divide in the region? Findings point to some tangible but uneven effects of the crisis across the four countries, mostly in the sense of accentuating pre-existing contrasts. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 133-151 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.2032936 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.2032936 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:2:p:133-151 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2026336_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: André Freire Author-X-Name-First: André Author-X-Name-Last: Freire Author-Name: Andrea Pedrazzani Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Pedrazzani Author-Name: Emmanouil Tsatsanis Author-X-Name-First: Emmanouil Author-X-Name-Last: Tsatsanis Author-Name: Xavier Coller Author-X-Name-First: Xavier Author-X-Name-Last: Coller Author-Name: Paolo Segatti Author-X-Name-First: Paolo Author-X-Name-Last: Segatti Title: Age and Descriptive Representation in Southern Europe: The Impact of the Great Recession on National Parliaments Abstract: This article looks at how well different age groups are represented in the parliaments of Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. We focus on three periods – before, during and after the ‘Great Recession’ – assuming the economic turmoil has generated new demands channelled by new parties that have recently entered parliament or have had a surge during the crisis. Data comes from mass surveys carried out in each country and from MP biographies. The findings reveal relevant changes in Spain and Italy, with more young people in the parties that appeared or had a surge during the crisis, whereas in Greece and Portugal no relevant changes are observed. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 271-301 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2026336 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2026336 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:2:p:271-301 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1991568_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mario Quaranta Author-X-Name-First: Mario Author-X-Name-Last: Quaranta Author-Name: João Cancela Author-X-Name-First: João Author-X-Name-Last: Cancela Author-Name: Irene Martín Author-X-Name-First: Irene Author-X-Name-Last: Martín Author-Name: Yannis Tsirbas Author-X-Name-First: Yannis Author-X-Name-Last: Tsirbas Title: Trust, Satisfaction and Political Engagement during Economic Crisis: Young Citizens in Southern Europe Abstract: This article explores changes in the relationship between attitudinal and participatory dimensions of politics, and age in Southern European countries. We look at how attitudes towards the political system and institutions combine with engagement in politics to define the ways in which citizens relate to the political sphere and the impact of the economic crisis on this relationship, in particular among the young. Using all available rounds of the European Social Survey for Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain between 2002 and 2019, this article develops a typology of citizens and analyses heterogeneities based on age, time and countries to find whether the relationship between citizens and politics has changed over time among the four states, in particular among young citizens. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 153-179 Issue: 2 Volume: 26 Year: 2021 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1991568 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1991568 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:26:y:2021:i:2:p:153-179 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1436493_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Martin J. Bull Author-X-Name-First: Martin J. Author-X-Name-Last: Bull Author-Name: Gianfranco Pasquino Author-X-Name-First: Gianfranco Author-X-Name-Last: Pasquino Title: Italian Politics in an Era of Recession: The End of Bipolarism? Abstract: Italian politics have undergone momentous change in the 2007–2017 decade under the impact of the eurozone crisis, whose peak in 2011–2013 could be equated to the earlier watershed years of 1992–1994. The lasting impact of the upheaval in Italian politics in the early 1990s could still be felt in the decade of economic recession, but there were also new challenges prompted by a crisis that had its roots in international financial contagion and which unravelled under the shadow of both recession and austerity. The changes were of an economic, social, cultural, institutional, policy-oriented and political nature. If one central quintessentially political theme stands out by the end of this decade it is the apparent exhaustion of the quest for bipolarisation that was initiated in the early 1990s. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 1-12 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1436493 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1436493 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:1:p:1-12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1433477_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Martin J. Bull Author-X-Name-First: Martin J. Author-X-Name-Last: Bull Title: In the Eye of the Storm: The Italian Economy and the Eurozone Crisis Abstract: The eurozone crisis had a more significant and longer-lasting impact on Italy than on virtually any other member state, with the effects still visible a decade after. The extent of the shock was surprising in view of progress Italy had apparently made in the 1990s in terms of enhancing its capacity to meet the demands of European Monetary Union. The explanation for this traumatic economic experience lies in Italy’s deep, long-term, structural tensions which were placed under severe pressure during the 1990s and which were cracked open by the 2011 sovereign debt crisis. These have had long-standing economic effects as well as political ramifications in terms of a significant change in the Italy–EU relationship. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 13-28 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1433477 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1433477 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:1:p:13-28 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1433478_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Stefano Sacchi Author-X-Name-First: Stefano Author-X-Name-Last: Sacchi Title: The Italian Welfare State in the Crisis: Learning to Adjust? Abstract: After a decade of inertia, that left it unprepared to withstand the blow of the great recession, the Italian welfare state has witnessed significant changes since 2012. Externally driven consolidation in the wake of the sovereign debt crisis spurred yet another wave of social policy reforms after that of the 1990s. These reforms did not however invariably entail retrenchment. Both the Monti and the Renzi governments combined liberalisation with expansion of social rights, particularly in income support. As a result, the Italian welfare state looks more comprehensive than it was before the crisis. At the same time, there was no overall strategy of welfare modernisation based on coordinated social investment measures. The changes in Italian social policy since the outburst of the great recession highlight the importance of domestic politics interacting with external drivers of change. They also facilitate an assessment of the opportunity structures for further reforms in a political system that appears to be veering again towards consensus democracy. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 29-46 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1433478 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1433478 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:1:p:29-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1435386_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Raimondo Catanzaro Author-X-Name-First: Raimondo Author-X-Name-Last: Catanzaro Title: After and Beyond Amoral Familism: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Social Capital Italian-style Abstract: The economic crisis that began with the great crash of 2008 has brought about a significant increase in inequality in Italy between individuals and families as well as between different geographic areas. A higher degree of inequality has had negative effects on social capital, reducing so-called bridging and linking elements of social capital while strengthening bonding elements, with a concomitant decline in civic culture. These effects can be dangerous for democracy, in so far as they lower the citizens’ trust in institutions. Since social capital is created as well as destroyed by political and social actors, a relevant question is whether these actors have had a role in transforming social capital into trust in institutions. From an analysis of the changes that have taken place in the Italian political system, it would appear that a significant segment of the political system has destroyed more institutional social capital than it has helped to create. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 47-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1435386 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1435386 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:1:p:47-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1430608_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ida Regalia Author-X-Name-First: Ida Author-X-Name-Last: Regalia Author-Name: Marino Regini Author-X-Name-First: Marino Author-X-Name-Last: Regini Title: Trade Unions and Employment Relations in Italy during the Economic Crisis Abstract: Many of the usual assumptions about the impact of the economic crisis on trade unions and employment relations only partially fit the Italian case. Trade unions during the crisis showed resilience both organisationally and as important actors in economic and political life. Also, the national industry level reaffirmed itself as the key level in industrial relations. Explanations of these unexpected outcomes have to do with some features of all three actors of Italian employment relations. Trade unions have become over time a relevant actor not just in the industrial relations arena but in several other spheres of Italian society and politics. As to employers, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have tended to prefer national sectoral-level agreements and set rather low wage standards, while employers’ associations have shown an organisational interest in preserving centralised bargaining where they play a role. Finally, governments have been too weak and short-lived to follow a consistent strategy of unilateral decision-making. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 63-79 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1430608 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1430608 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:1:p:63-79 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1432245_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marta Regalia Author-X-Name-First: Marta Author-X-Name-Last: Regalia Title: Electoral Reform as an Engine of Party System Change in Italy Abstract: After more than forty years of proportional representation, in 1991 Italy embarked on a period of electoral law revision. The ongoing debate about how to engineer an electoral system capable of producing the preferred political outcomes stands out against the stasis in constitutional reform, most recently demonstrated in the rejection by popular referendum of Matteo Renzi’s package of reforms. The extent to which the different electoral reforms have had an impact on Italian politics, especially following the 2005 electoral legislation, can be evaluated by analysing the changing Italian party system over the past decade and beyond in terms of its morphology, dynamics, and party/parliamentary group switching. The 2005 electoral reform has had a clear effect on Italian politics and on the party system, but that effect is unlikely to endure given the highly controversial new electoral law that came into force in 2017. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 81-96 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1432245 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1432245 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:1:p:81-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1434456_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Massimiliano Andretta Author-X-Name-First: Massimiliano Author-X-Name-Last: Andretta Title: Protest in Italy in Times of Crisis: A Cross-Government Comparison Abstract: Using protest event analysis methodology and conceptual and theoretical toolkits developed in social movement studies, this article analyses protest mobilisation during the period of the height of the economic crisis in Italy (2009–2014) by comparing the protest trends in diachronic and comparative perspectives over a period of four different governments. Data show that the Italian anti-austerity protest arena was dominated by ‘old actors’ (the traditional trade unions) and was not able to produce the strong social and political coalitions that emerged in other South European countries. This was due to the specific relationship that developed between civil society and political parties that shaped the forms of anti-austerity mobilisation in this period. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 97-114 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1434456 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1434456 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:1:p:97-114 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1435351_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Tiziana Caponio Author-X-Name-First: Tiziana Author-X-Name-Last: Caponio Author-Name: Teresa M. Cappiali Author-X-Name-First: Teresa M. Author-X-Name-Last: Cappiali Title: Italian Migration Policies in Times of Crisis: The Policy Gap Reconsidered Abstract: Numerous studies have shown that there is a structural gap between restrictive migration policies and expansive inflows in democratic countries; yet scholars have not sufficiently reflected on how this gap is shaped in times of crisis. Focusing on the case of Italy in the decade between 2007 and 2017, this article assesses the extent to which the different challenges triggered by the economic and humanitarian crises have affected the structural gap, and which actors have mostly contributed to shape it. Our analysis of the Italian case shows how in the decade of the economic crisis the migration policy gap has not been the result of pressure by actors in the economic and liberal norm spheres, but rather reflects conflictual relationships within the political-institutional sphere between Italian governments and EU institutions. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 115-132 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1435351 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1435351 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:1:p:115-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1432299_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gianfranco Pasquino Author-X-Name-First: Gianfranco Author-X-Name-Last: Pasquino Title: The Disappearance of Political Cultures in Italy Abstract: Following the collapse of the Italian party system in 1994, post-war Italian political cultures have all but exhausted themselves, if not disappeared completely. First, the Ulivo (Olive Tree) in 1996–1998, then, the Partito Democratico in 2007–2008, attempted without much conviction to formulate a new political culture combining several traditions and heritages. This article will explore how and why the PD failed in its attempts. It will also look at the status of other political cultures, especially the federalist and the liberal, supposedly relaunched by Berlusconi in 1994. It will conclude with some reflections on the appearance of personalist parties and leaders’ narratives and provide an assessment of the present situation with specific reference to the attempt by the PD leader, Matteo Renzi, to give birth to a so-called ‘Partito della Nazione’. Is there any future for new political cultures in the Italian political system? Will the Italian party system ever be revived? Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 133-146 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1432299 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1432299 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:1:p:133-146 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1434454_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Tarchi Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Tarchi Title: Voters without a Party: The ‘Long Decade’ of the Italian Centre-Right and its Uncertain Future Abstract: Following the corruption scandals of the early 1990s, the birth of the electoral coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi, and its occupation of government in 1994, 2001 and 2008, was interpreted by many as a sign of a new era of success for the Italian centre-right. Yet, after narrowly losing the 2013 national elections, the centre-right appears to have fallen into a political abyss. While opinion polls suggest that its potential electorate is still wide, the former allies that made up the coalition have been fragmented and weakened by a series of splits, leaving the centre-right divided into a more moderate component and an openly populist one. The centre-right’s old ruling elites have lost credibility, but the new younger leaders, like Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni, are not able to re-unify the former coalition. The centre-right has been riven by several factors that explain its difficulties during the decade of the economic crisis: the personalisation of its leadership, factionalism, a divergence of programmes, a failure of institutionalisation and ongoing corruption and legal problems. These factors also look set to condition its political future. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 147-162 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1434454 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1434454 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:1:p:147-162 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1428889_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Filippo Tronconi Author-X-Name-First: Filippo Author-X-Name-Last: Tronconi Title: The Italian Five Star Movement during the Crisis: Towards Normalisation? Abstract: The Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) represents the most significant occurrence in Italian party politics during the economic crisis that commenced in 2008. Founded in 2005, the party caused a major upset at the 2013 national elections, with a subsequent major impact on the Italian party system, which is analysed along four dimensions: amount of change; number of relevant competitors; alteration of the political space; and degree of nationalisation. The sudden electoral success, in turn, presented the party with a number of challenges that forced it to adapt its organisational nature. Moreover, the anti-establishment nature of the M5S is questioned by its activities in the legislative arena. As with other outsider parties, this poses the dilemma of being part of the establishment while criticising it. The M5S has thus been forced to redefine its main goals and style of communication in order to adapt to the new institutional environment without losing the palingenetic aspiration of its original message. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 163-180 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1428889 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1428889 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:1:p:163-180 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1440483_J.xml processed with: repec_from_tfjats.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sofia Ventura Author-X-Name-First: Sofia Author-X-Name-Last: Ventura Title: The Italian Democratic Party from Merger to Personalism Abstract: The Partito Democratico (PD) was born as an original Merger Party on the cusp of the economic crisis in October 2007. The party’s genesis and formative years were critical to the party’s failure to institutionalise around a new common ideology or vision, as a result of the persistence of two party souls which could not find unity. Rather than a genuinely ‘new’ reformist party, the PD resembled an organisational vehicle through which the two former parties could continue their struggle. This weakened the organisational nature of the PD and made it a candidate for takeover by a dominant, personal leader such as Matteo Renzi. He set about establishing a personal party whose existence has in many ways confirmed the failure, if not exhaustion, of the PD’s mission to become the reformist party of the majority. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 181-196 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1440483 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2018.1440483 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:23:y:2018:i:1:p:181-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2132614_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Margarita León Author-X-Name-First: Margarita Author-X-Name-Last: León Author-Name: Manuel Alvariño Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Alvariño Author-Name: Llorenç Soler-Buades Author-X-Name-First: Llorenç Author-X-Name-Last: Soler-Buades Title: Explaining Morality Policy Coalitions in Spanish Parliamentary Votes: The Interaction of the Church-State Conflict and Territorial Politics Abstract: In this article we empirically explore the impact of the state-Church conflict on progressive moral policies. Taking Spain as a case study, we analyse the parliamentary interaction of political parties in a number of policy domains that provoke a moral conflict. We examine the principal legislative acts relating to abortion, divorce, same-sex marriage, euthanasia and gender equality from the early 1980s to 2021. We look beyond the religious divide and argue that its interaction with territorial politics, which is in turn shaped by specific institutional features, explains the formation of political coalitions that are conducive to moral legislation. Furthermore, we show that political coalitions vary depending on how explicit or implicit a given morality conflict is. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 197-222 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2132614 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2132614 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:2:p:197-222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2200901_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Didem Türkoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Didem Author-X-Name-Last: Türkoğlu Author-Name: Meltem Odabaş Author-X-Name-First: Meltem Author-X-Name-Last: Odabaş Author-Name: Doruk Tunaoglu Author-X-Name-First: Doruk Author-X-Name-Last: Tunaoglu Author-Name: Mustafa Yavaş Author-X-Name-First: Mustafa Author-X-Name-Last: Yavaş Title: Political Polarisation on Social Media: Competing Understandings of Democracy in Turkey Abstract: Heightened political polarisation threatens democratic stability. While prior studies find polarisation in competing groups’ deployment of different terminologies to describe the same topic, we emphasise that it can also be evident in groups’ attachment of different meanings to the same terminology. Competition for dominance in the public sphere is reflected in social media which become sites of contestation, showcasing antagonistic claims of legitimacy. In a case-study of the June 2019 rerun Istanbul elections in Turkey, we used qualitative and computational methods to analyse approximately 116,000 tweets, focusing on discussions around the themes of ‘democracy’, ‘elections’, and ‘public service’. Twitter users associated the act of casting a vote not only with electing the candidate, but also with a competition over the future of Turkish democracy. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 223-251 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2023.2200901 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2023.2200901 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:2:p:223-251 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2202468_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Giuliani Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Giuliani Title: Absolute and Benchmarked Economic Voting. A Subnational Perspective on a Decade of Elections in Southern Europe Abstract: The article analyses the 15 elections that took place between 2010 and 2019 in four South European countries – Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain – through the lenses of the retrospective vote theory. The large within-country variation of economic conditions justifies the adoption of an original subnational perspective, while the explicit test of alternative economic quantities and horizons provides a more credible assessment of voters’ behaviours. Besides offering a taxonomy of local retrospective voting, the research found that citizens assessed the incumbents against regional unemployment levels and national growth dynamics, further benchmarking the local economic conditions against their past performances. These results give credit to the idea that the South European electorate shares similar references in assessing the economic competences of incumbent governments. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 279-303 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2023.2202468 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2023.2202468 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:2:p:279-303 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2191417_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: José Santana-Pereira Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Santana-Pereira Author-Name: Elisabetta De Giorgi Author-X-Name-First: Elisabetta Author-X-Name-Last: De Giorgi Title: ‘Your Luck is Our Luck’: Covid-19, the Radical Right and Low Polarisation in the 2022 Portuguese Elections Abstract: In the 2022 Portuguese legislative elections, held nearly two years after the pandemic hit the country, the incumbent Socialists improved their position, being now able to govern with an absolute majority, while populist radical right Chega experienced considerable growth. Was the pandemic a relevant factor for vote choice in these elections? The main goal of this article is to shed light on this matter. In addition to portraying this election’s background and results, we describe the degree of COVID-19-related polarisation in Portugal, analyse the salience of the pandemic in the campaign and measure the relative impact of pandemic-related perceptions vs other variables on voting behaviour. Our findings reveal that, although there was little politicisation of the pandemic and the incumbent enjoyed high levels of support among both political elites and public opinion, Chega, which was less involved in rallying around the flag, arguably sent signals that made COVID-19-related assessments relevant in terms of voting behaviour. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 305-327 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2023.2191417 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2023.2191417 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:2:p:305-327 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2161973_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Marco Meloni Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Meloni Author-Name: Fabio G. Lupato Author-X-Name-First: Fabio G. Author-X-Name-Last: Lupato Title: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Evolution of Democratic Digital Innovations in Podemos Abstract: While the digitalisation of political parties is increasingly analysed, less attention has been paid to the evolution of digital procedures and their consequences on intra-party democracy and party change. We propose a typology for identifying different types of evolution processes (consolidation, reconfiguration, mutation, and elimination) using the Spanish party Podemos paradigmatic case. Our analysis points out the centrality of hard and soft setbacks in the evolution of the digital procedures of the party. Findings indicate the relevance of different dynamics, such as institutionalisation, personalisation, and factionalism, jointly with other internal and external factors. Studying the evolution of digital party procedures is relevant for tracing party change in digital parties and other parties that are experiencing digitalisation processes. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 253-278 Issue: 2 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 04 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2161973 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2161973 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:2:p:253-278 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2159625_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Gianfranco Baldini Author-X-Name-First: Gianfranco Author-X-Name-Last: Baldini Author-Name: Filippo Tronconi Author-X-Name-First: Filippo Author-X-Name-Last: Tronconi Author-Name: Davide Angelucci Author-X-Name-First: Davide Author-X-Name-Last: Angelucci Title: Yet Another Populist Party? Understanding the Rise of Brothers of Italy Abstract: From its 2012 beginnings as a marginal radical right splinter group, in the 2022 general election ‘Fratelli d’Italia’ (Brothers of Italy, FdI) was the most voted party and its leader, Giorgia Meloni, became the first Italian female Prime minister. While both leader and party can be classified as belonging to the populist radical right family, we argue that FdI must be understood also as a ‘rooted newcomer’, i.e. a party that can count on pre-existing organisational resources, building its appeal also on symbolic elements already familiar to the electorate when the party was formed. Focusing on the supply side, we tackle some of the main open questions related to the party’s ambivalent nature, often fluctuating between a post-fascist profile and a frequently reiterated support for other European radical right illiberal leaders and more moderate positions. We identify the politics of illiberalism as the key challenge the party faces in its transition from opposition to government. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 385-405 Issue: 3 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2159625 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2159625 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:3:p:385-405 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2160088_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alessandro Chiaramonte Author-X-Name-First: Alessandro Author-X-Name-Last: Chiaramonte Author-Name: Vincenzo Emanuele Author-X-Name-First: Vincenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Emanuele Author-Name: Nicola Maggini Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Maggini Author-Name: Aldo Paparo Author-X-Name-First: Aldo Author-X-Name-Last: Paparo Title: Radical-Right Surge in a Deinstitutionalised Party System: The 2022 Italian General Election Abstract: The 2022 Italian general election marked a new step in the unprecedented instability experienced by the Italian party system over the past 15 years. This article presents and discusses the outcome of the election within the deinstitutionalised Italian party system. The most remarkable results were the unprecedented success of the radical-right FDI (Fratelli d’Italia – Brothers of Italy) led by Giorgia Meloni (who would become the first female prime minister in Italy) and a historic drop in voter turnout. In particular, by employing original individual-level survey data, we investigate the impact of territory on the vote, the individual-level dynamics behind the results, and the overall picture emerging in terms of the Italian party system. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 329-357 Issue: 3 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2160088 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2160088 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:3:p:329-357 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2126247_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Leonardo Puleo Author-X-Name-First: Leonardo Author-X-Name-Last: Puleo Author-Name: Gianluca Piccolino Author-X-Name-First: Gianluca Author-X-Name-Last: Piccolino Title: Back to the Post-Fascist Past or Landing in the Populist Radical Right? The Brothers of Italy Between Continuity and Change Abstract: Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) is the new rising star of Italian politics. Scholars and pundits briskly categorised it as a (new) populist radical right (PRR) party. Still, FdI’s newness needs to be properly framed. A splinter party of the Popolo della Libertà, it claims a direct lineage with the Alleanza Nazionale – two cases not easily agglutinated into the PRR family. The article analyses the (dis)continuity associated with FdI, examining ideology, organisation, and the continuity of elites. It demonstrates that FdI’s organisation and political elites largely overlap with its predecessor parties. However, FdI accomplished a major ideological rebranding, positioning itself as radically different from both the mainstream centre-right and the post-fascist tradition of the Italian right. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 359-383 Issue: 3 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2126247 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2126247 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:3:p:359-383 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2161713_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Paola Bordandini Author-X-Name-First: Paola Author-X-Name-Last: Bordandini Author-Name: Carlo Baccetti Author-X-Name-First: Carlo Author-X-Name-Last: Baccetti Author-Name: Laura Sartori Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Sartori Title: The Italian Democratic Party at the Crossroad: Party Activism and the Middle-Level Élite Abstract: We examine the middle-level élite of the Italian Democratic Party (Partito democratico, PD) and its founding parties, Democrats of the Left (Democratici di Sinistra, DS) and The Daisy (La Margherita, DL), over fifteen years (2004–2019). Our original dataset on national delegates comes from 2373 questionnaires collected at eight national party congresses. Inspired by Whiteley and Seyd’s concepts of low and high-intensity participation, we evaluate the relative weight of the various types of incentive in the two (internal and external) forms of party activism. Party activism is central to understanding the profound cultural, organisational, and electoral crisis that has put the PD at a crossroad and has led current secretary Letta to call for a ‘Constituent Congress of the New PD’. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 407-429 Issue: 3 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2161713 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2161713 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:3:p:407-429 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1983932_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Stella Ladi Author-X-Name-First: Stella Author-X-Name-Last: Ladi Author-Name: Angelos Angelou Author-X-Name-First: Angelos Author-X-Name-Last: Angelou Author-Name: Dimitra Panagiotatou Author-X-Name-First: Dimitra Author-X-Name-Last: Panagiotatou Title: Regaining Trust: Evidence-Informed Policymaking during the First Phase of the Covid-19 Crisis in Greece Abstract: Analysing the handling of the pandemic’s first phase in Greece, the article attempts to explain the reasons for its relative success. It suggests four main reasons: First, the predominance of evidence-informed policymaking led by strong and decisive leadership. Second, a timely and firm crisis response, driven by the prior experience of other European countries with the pandemic. Third, the public sector’s digital turn and a tight scheme of intra-government coordination. Fourth, a transparent and effective communication strategy signalling that public health was a priority, which subsequently led to high citizen compliance with the restrictive measures. The second phase of the pandemic is also discussed to nuance this claim and show that the long duration of the crisis brought new challenges to its management. The article provides insights into how countries with limited resources and weak administrative capacity can effectively manage such crises. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 551-576 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1983932 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1983932 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:4:p:551-576 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1985497_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Özge Kemahlıoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Özge Author-X-Name-Last: Kemahlıoğlu Author-Name: Oya Yeğen Author-X-Name-First: Oya Author-X-Name-Last: Yeğen Title: Surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic under Right-wing Populist Rule: Turkey in the First Phase Abstract: Turkey survived the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic relatively successfully. Compared to some other populist governments, the AKP did not deny the seriousness of the crisis or the importance of medical expertise. The demographics of the population helped, but precautionary measures and the healthcare reform implemented earlier also contributed to this relative success. As a right-wing populist party, the AKP implemented healthcare and economic policies that appealed simultaneously to business and low-income groups. Populist rhetoric blaming the opposition and exclusion from policymaking of unfavourable sectors including opposition-run municipalities deepened the existing polarisation. The crisis response also revealed how the personalised and centralised nature of the executive in the new presidential system can lead to inconsistencies and arbitrariness. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 577-606 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1985497 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1985497 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:4:p:577-606 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2091861_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Juan Rodríguez Teruel Author-X-Name-First: Juan Author-X-Name-Last: Rodríguez Teruel Author-Name: Eloísa del Pino Author-X-Name-First: Eloísa Author-X-Name-Last: del Pino Author-Name: José Real-Dato Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Real-Dato Title: The Limits of Power Concentration and Expert Knowledge in Emergency Management: Spain’s Government Response during the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic Abstract: Focusing on the central government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis during the first wave in Spain, the article analyses the executive’s strategy of power concentration, and the factors that shape its implementation. We sketch how the crisis erupted, the main measures and strategies adopted by the national executive, the role of the experts, and the interaction with other political actors and institutions. We also explore the second phase and how the political reaction evolved towards a more consensual approach. Paradoxically, the consequences for the political actors were apparently less harmful than expected, since the governments did not lose political support, and the electorate continued to support the policy measures adopted to mitigate the pandemic. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 487-519 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2091861 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2091861 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:4:p:487-519 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2306710_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Susannah Verney Author-X-Name-First: Susannah Author-X-Name-Last: Verney Author-Name: José Real-Dato Author-X-Name-First: José Author-X-Name-Last: Real-Dato Author-Name: Juan Rodríguez-Teruel Author-X-Name-First: Juan Author-X-Name-Last: Rodríguez-Teruel Title: Southern Europe Managing the First Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Crucial Effect of Timing Abstract: This article, which introduces a special issue, compares the record of five South European states – Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Turkey – in managing the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. Southern Europe’s reputation for low state capacity, political polarisation and weak health systems all posed potential obstacles to an effective governmental response. However, despite these shared characteristics, these countries’ records in Covid management varied widely. The article investigates whether this variation can be explained by national differences in degree of preparedness, state capacities, political dynamics or societal factors. It concludes that while the degree of decentralisation played a role in the initial response, the most significant factor was the timing of the virus’ arrival in each country, resulting in different opportunities for governments to design and implement effective responses Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 431-458 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2306710 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2022.2306710 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:4:p:431-458 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1979741_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Patrícia Silva Author-X-Name-First: Patrícia Author-X-Name-Last: Silva Author-Name: Edna Costa Author-X-Name-First: Edna Author-X-Name-Last: Costa Author-Name: João Moniz Author-X-Name-First: João Author-X-Name-Last: Moniz Title: A Portuguese Miracle: The Politics of the First Phase of Covid-19 in Portugal Abstract: Facing the first phase of the pandemic with exceptionally low casualties, Portugal was internationally praised as an outstanding example, particularly when compared to other Southern European countries. This article depicts how the pandemic crisis erupted in Portugal and how the Socialist government, the opposition and, to an important degree, the head of state responded to its demands, curbing the initial spread of the infection. The government ensured considerable levels of support from citizens and from other parties. The official opposition maintained its pragmatic and conciliatory tone during the confinement stages of the pandemic. It is argued that lower levels of political polarisation and a climate of cross-party collaboration are key factors in understanding the ‘Portuguese miracle’. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 521-549 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1979741 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1979741 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:4:p:521-549 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_1940582_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Giulia Vicentini Author-X-Name-First: Giulia Author-X-Name-Last: Vicentini Author-Name: Maria Tullia Galanti Author-X-Name-First: Maria Tullia Author-X-Name-Last: Galanti Title: Italy, the Sick Man of Europe: Policy Response, Experts and Public Opinion in the First Phase of Covid-19 Abstract: Italy was the first Western country to be dramatically overwhelmed by Covid-19, the first country outside of China to implement lockdown measures and, until mid-April 2020, the country in the world most affected in terms of number of victims. This article aims to sketch the evolution of the first phase of the Covid-19 crisis in Italy and demonstrates that the health crisis moved forward hand in hand with some typical shortcomings characterising the Italian political, administrative and institutional system. The incremental reaction by the unprecedented M5S-PD coalition government showed the huge difficulties in facing the most serious challenge since the end of WWII, with the institutional system already afflicted by its scarce capacity and the economy still recovering from the 2012 crisis. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 459-485 Issue: 4 Volume: 27 Year: 2022 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.1940582 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2021.1940582 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:27:y:2022:i:4:p:459-485 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2255017_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Reşat Bayer Author-X-Name-First: Reşat Author-X-Name-Last: Bayer Author-Name: Özge Kemahlıoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Özge Author-X-Name-Last: Kemahlıoğlu Title: Democratic Backsliding, Conflict, and Partisan Mobilisation of Ethnic Groups: Local Government Control and Electoral Participation in Turkey Abstract: Partisan mobilisation is critical for constituencies with low premobilisation participation, even in countries like Turkey with generally high levels of electoral turnout. We argue that parties appealing to ethnic minority constituencies benefit disproportionately from the symbolic and material resources that local government control provides. Central government’s exceptional decisions to intervene can, however, curtail access to these resources and affect electoral politics. Focusing on three Turkish elections and a referendum in 2015–2018, the article analyses how the political context of democratic backsliding and conflict affected the pro-Kurdish party’s control of municipalities, their mobilisation capacity, and hence turnout. Specifically, the previously higher rate of turnout in pro-Kurdish party-controlled municipalities compared to other municipalities disappeared following the elected mayors’ replacement by appointed trustees. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 19-46 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2023.2255017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2023.2255017 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:28:y:2023:i:1:p:19-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2228099_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Marc Sanjaume-Calvet Author-X-Name-First: Marc Author-X-Name-Last: Sanjaume-Calvet Author-Name: Andreu Paneque Author-X-Name-First: Andreu Author-X-Name-Last: Paneque Title: Shared or Self-rule? Regional Legislative Initiatives in Multi-level Spain, 1979-2021 Abstract: This paper examines regional legislative initiatives in Spain, a mechanism of shared-rule regulated in article 87.2 of the Spanish Constitution. Through description and analysis of an original dataset covering all legislative terms from 1978 to 2021, it is shown how this specific mechanism has not accomplished its shared-rule objective. Moreover, the article identifies patterns that determine the strategic use, intensity and failure or success of the legislative initiatives. We find diverging trends across regions exemplified by Catalonia, the most active territory but with a very low approval rate. Overall, the analysis underlines how the state-wide scope initiatives seem to have a strategic rather than a legislative purpose while, on the other hand, regional scope initiatives are explained by minor self-rule objectives. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 75-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2023.2228099 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2023.2228099 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:28:y:2023:i:1:p:75-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2243701_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Yiannos Katsourides Author-X-Name-First: Yiannos Author-X-Name-Last: Katsourides Author-Name: Chrystalla Agathocleous Author-X-Name-First: Chrystalla Author-X-Name-Last: Agathocleous Title: Intra-party Balance of Power: Cartelisation versus Communist Organisational Tradition in the Cypriot Radical Left AKEL Abstract: The article analyses the effects of cartelisation on the intra-party balance of power among the three ‘party faces’ of the Cypriot AKEL. Aiming to provide a testable hypothesis for other radical left parties with government experience, we investigate the claim of cartel party theory – that the party in central office and the party on the ground have lost their powers to the party in public office – in the light of AKEL’s communist organisational tradition. We ask whether this genetic heritage might have conditioned its adaptation and transformation and allowed it to resist cartelisation. Using a variety of material, including a rich set of unpublished party data, we investigate indices including the decline of the party on the ground, the composition and hierarchy of party organs, the relationship of public office holders to the party executives, and who controls the party’s finances and communication strategy. We find mixed evidence, rather pointing to the endurance of the mass party model, indicative of the strong influence that party history exercises upon AKEL’s present organisational configuration. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 47-73 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2023.2243701 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2023.2243701 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:28:y:2023:i:1:p:47-73 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2238970_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Francesco Stolfi Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Stolfi Author-Name: Oliver Fritsch Author-X-Name-First: Oliver Author-X-Name-Last: Fritsch Title: More Flexible, Less Productive? The Impact of Employment Protection Legislation Reforms in Italy Abstract: Through a meta-analysis of all publicly available research over a span of 25 years, the article assesses the productivity impact of the employment protection legislation reforms that have been introduced in Italy since 1997. European Union institutions and domestic reformers advocated the reforms in order to increase the competitiveness and productivity of the Italian economy. Yet, by incentivising temporary employment, the reforms have favoured competitive strategies that have reduced the productivity of the country’s firms. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 101-122 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2023.2238970 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2023.2238970 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:28:y:2023:i:1:p:101-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: FSES_A_2338992_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Susannah Verney Author-X-Name-First: Susannah Author-X-Name-Last: Verney Author-Name: Anna Bosco Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Bosco Title: South European Society and Politics: The Road Travelled so Far Abstract: This article marks a milestone in the development of South European Society and Politics (SESP) as the journal hands over to a new editorial team. Looking back over more than a quarter-century of publication, the work begins by discussing the journal’s mission and goals. Presenting new empirical data, it first takes stock of the published output, revealing the major research themes covered. Next, it investigates characteristics of authorship including gender balance, career stage, co-authorship and academic affiliation, before considering SESP’s influence on the academic community. Journal: South European Society and Politics Pages: 1-17 Issue: 1 Volume: 28 Year: 2023 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2023.2338992 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13608746.2023.2338992 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:28:y:2023:i:1:p:1-17