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  • 1864 ... Fear About Capital

    1864 ... Fear About Capitalby Anna Maria Stratta and Franca BoscoA series of murders always carries with it a series of investigations ...1864 ... fear of the capitalIn an apartment in Piazza Vittorio, a young aristocrat had just taken the life of his mistress. As the nobleman walked away, conflicting emotions within him tormented him but at the same time exalted him. How nice to be masters of the ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Polarisation

    Conflictual Competition in Italy, Spain and Greece

    Edited by Anna Bosco, Susannah Verney ...
    Series series South European Society and Politics
    Focusing on Italy, Spain and Greece, this book explores the extent of polarisation, as well as its causes, characteristics and consequences. It investigates varied manifestations of polarised politics including leader polarisation, policy polarisation and affective polarisation as well as providing case studies of polarised elections taking place at multiple levels.In recent years, polarisation ... Read more

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  • Elections in Hard Times: Southern Europe 2010-11

    Edited by Anna Bosco, Susannah Verney ...
    Series series South European Society and Politics
    Southern Europe has been at the heart of the European sovereign debt crisis and in the vanguard of the programmes of radical economic austerity implemented to confront it. During the first two crisis years, the consequences for domestic political stability were dramatic. Across the region, 2010-11 saw the overthrow of incumbent governments, the breaking down of established political affiliations ... Read more

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  • Party Change in Southern Europe

    Edited by Anna Bosco, Leonardo Morlino ...
    Series series South European Society and Politics
    It has been argued that political parties are weakening. In Southern Europe, however, political parties have shown remarkable pragmatism. Not only have they played a crucial role in the installation and consolidation of democracy, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s, but they have also adapted to the aftermaths of severe political crises during the 1990s ... Read more

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  • Southern Europe and the Financial Earthquake

    Coping with the First Phase of the International Crisis

    Series series South European Society and Politics
    Following the outbreak of the international financial crisis, Southern Europe became an epicentre of economic instability and international concern. The prospect of a sovereign debt default in the eurozone’s ‘flaky fringe’ sent shock waves through the European and global economies. Examining the crucial initial phase, when the financial crisis was just beginning to spill over into the real economy ... Read more

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  • The AKP Since Gezi Park

    Moving to Regime Change in Turkey

    Series series South European Society and Politics
    While the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has dominated Turkish politics for a decade and a half, recent years have seen a qualitative change, culminating in the 2017 referendum on the move to a presidential system. This volume focuses on the later years of AKP rule after the first direct presidential election in 2014. It shows how during this period the AKP has changed the political system ... Read more

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  • Protest Elections and Challenger Parties

    Italy and Greece in the Economic Crisis

    Edited by Susannah Verney, Anna Bosco ...
    Series series South European Society and Politics
    Both in Greece in 2012 and Italy in 2013, it took two elections to form a government. A repeat parliamentary contest was required in Greece and the unprecedented re-election of the outgoing President of the Republic in Italy before a cabinet could be formed. Against a background of economic crisis and national austerity, both countries experienced ‘protest elections’ in which the overriding ... Read more

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  • Crisis Elections, New Contenders and Government Formation

    Breaking the Mould in Southern Europe

    Edited by Anna Bosco, Susannah Verney ...
    Series series South European Society and Politics
    The parliamentary elections of 2015–16 in Greece, Spain and Portugal had extraordinary consequences, bringing repeat elections, unprecedented processes of government formation and uncharted government outcomes. Greece formed a coalition of radical left and radical right and Portugal its first government supported by the communist party while Spain took ten months to get a government. These ... Read more

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