1st Edition
A Generational Divide? Age-related Aspects of Political Transformation in Post-crisis Southern Europe
Introduction - The ‘Lost Generation’ and Its Political Discontents: Age-related Divides in Southern Europe after the Crisis
Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Marco Lisi and André Freire
1. Trust, Satisfaction and Political Engagement during Economic Crisis: Young Citizens in Southern Europe
Mario Quaranta, João Cancela, Irene Martín and Yannis Tsirbas
2. Has the Great Recession Shaped a Crisis Generation of Critical Citizens? Evidence from Southern Europe
Gema García-Albacete and Javier Lorente
3. Generational and Ideological Gaps in Democratic Support: Seeds of Deconsolidation in Post-Crisis Southern Europe?
Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Enrico Borghetto, André Freire and José Ramón Montero
4. Assessing the Impact of Age, Cohort and Period Effects on Partisanship and Support for Mainstream Parties: Evidence from Southern Europe
Marco Lisi, Mario Quaranta, José Real-Dato and Emmanouil Tsatsanis
5. Age and Descriptive Representation in Southern Europe: The Impact of the Great Recession on National Parliaments
André Freire, Andrea Pedrazzani, Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Xavier Coller and Paolo Segatti
Biography
Emmanouil Tsatsanis is Researcher at the Greek National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) and at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). His research focuses on electoral behaviour, political identities, political representation, and party systems. He is coeditor of the volumes Political Representation in Southern Europe and Latin America (Routledge, 2020) and Political Representation and Citizenship in Portugal: From Crisis to Renewal.
Marco Lisi is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Nova University of Lisbon and Researcher at IPRI-NOVA. His research interests focus on political parties, electoral behaviour, democratic theory, political representation and election campaigns. He has published several articles in national and international journals. He recently edited Party System Change, the European Crisis and the State of Democracy (Routledge, 2019).
André Freire is Professor of Political Science (PS) at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, where he is also Director of the PhD in PS (2015-present) and of the Bachelor in PS (2009-2015). He is the Director of the Observatory for Democracy and Political Representation, and of the Research Line IV, Politics and Citizenship, both at CIES-ISCTE. He has directed several research projects on ideology, electoral behaviour, institutions, political reforms, as well as political representation and has published around 30 books and 100 articles.
