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South European Society and Politics

Series Editor: Susannah Verney, Anna Bosco

The parallel regime transitions of the 1970s, when Southern Europe was the vanguard of the ‘third wave’ of democratisation, the impact of EU membership and Europeanisation and more recently, the region’s central role in the eurozone crisis have all made Southern Europe a distinctive area of interest for social science scholars. The South European Society and Politics book series promotes new empirical research into the domestic politics and society of South European states. The series, open to a broad range of social science approaches, offers comparative thematic volumes covering the region as a whole and on occasion, innovative single-country studies. Its geographical scope includes both ‘old’ and ‘new’ Southern Europe, defined as Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Cyprus, Malta and Turkey.

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Turkey and the EU: Accession and Reform

Edited by Gamze Avci, Ali Çarkoğlu

Series: South European Society and Politics

Turkish accession to the European Union is an important but controversial item on the agenda of the European Union. By focusing on the various domestic sources that drive Turkish politics, this comprehensive study of both classic and new topics supported by fresh, new insights fills a void in the...

Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
Euroscepticism in Southern Europe

A Diachronic Perspective

Edited by Susannah Verney

Series: South European Society and Politics

Euroscepticism has emerged as a growing constraint on European integration, starting with the Maastricht Treaty in the early 1990s, continuing with the mid-2000s constitutional debacle and intensifying with the eurozone crisis – a crisis in which Southern Europe has played a key role. But is...

Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
Perspectives of National Elites on European Citizenship

A South European View

Edited by Nicolò Conti, Maurizio Cotta, Pedro Tavares de Almeida

Series: South European Society and Politics

Over the last two decades, the process of European integration has become interwoven with the theme of citizenship and the debate on the democratic quality of the EU and of its institutions has become more salient. What are the views about Europe which emerge when we interrogate the national elites...

Published October 2nd 2011 by Routledge
Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism

The “Politics of the Past” in Southern European Democracies

Edited by Antonio Costa Pinto, Leonardo Morlino

Series: South European Society and Politics

In recent years the agenda of how to ‘deal with the past’ has become a central dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies. Many years after the process of authoritarian breakdown, consolidated democracies revisit the past either symbolically or to punish the elites associated with the...

Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
Spain's 'Second Transition'?

The Socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Edited by Bonnie N. Field

Series: South European Society and Politics

Few would have imagined the developments and the extent of reforms that occurred under Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero between 2004 and 2008. Under Zapatero, Spain rapidly withdrew Spanish troops from Iraq, held a very public political debate on the Spanish Civil War and the...

Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
The South European Right in the 21st Century

Italy, France and Spain

Edited by Jocelyn A.J. Evans

Series: South European Society and Politics

Since the European-wide domination of social democratic governments during the mid- to late-1990s, Right-wing parties have returned to power in the three largest Mediterranean democracies – Italy, France and Spain. This alternation has been symptomatic of growing majoritarianism in Southern Europe,...

Published August 29th 2007 by Routledge
Party Change in Southern Europe

Edited by Anna Bosco, Leonardo Morlino

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...

Published January 31st 2007 by Routledge
When Greeks think about Turks

The View from Anthropology

Edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

Series: South European Society and Politics

Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The...

Published July 26th 2006 by Routledge
Reinventing Democracy

Grassroots Movements in Portugal

Edited by João Arriscado Nunes, Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Series: South European Society and Politics

The studies gathered in this volume focus on Portuguese society, from the creative social and political experimentation by citizen and popular movements during the revolution of 1974/75 to more recent episodes of alternative economic organisation, popular mobilization over the claim of local...

Published November 16th 2005 by Routledge
Mobilising Politics and Society?

The EU Convention's Impact on Southern Europe

Edited by Sonia Lucarelli, Claudio Radaelli

Series: South European Society and Politics

Mobilising Politics and Society offers a timely analysis of the European Union Convention's impact on the domestic political systems, and civil society in Southern Europe. It provides country chapters on Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Turkey. All chapters follow a common...

Published August 17th 2005 by Routledge