The Makeover of Southern Europe Fifty Years After the Transition to Democracy in Greece, Portugal and Spain

Introduction: Fifty years after: Greece, Portugal, and Spain’s democratic transformations

Jorge M. Fernandes, Nuno Garoupa, María José Hierro and Sofia Vasilopoulou

1. Democratisation in Southern Europe: a contingent or inevitable process?

Jorge M. Fernandes, Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca and Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos

2. Struggling against spectres of the past: democratisation and nation-building in Southern Europe

Maria Jose Hierro, José Pedro Monteiro and Ioannis N. Grigoriadis

3. When is gender on party agendas? Manifestos and (De-)democratisation in Greece, Portugal, and Spain

Ana Catalano Weeks, Paloma Caravantes, Ana Espírito-Santo, Emanuela Lombardo, Maria Stratigaki and Sami Gul

4. Critical junctures and party innovation: the transformation of radical left parties in Greece, Portugal and Spain

Raul Gomez, Luis Ramiro and Lamprini Rori

5. Divergent paths of political trust in Southern Europe: the roles of economic performance, corruption, congruence, and polarisation

Pablo Christmann, Pedro C. Magalhães and Sofia Vasilopoulou

6. Fading EUphoria: party system polarisation and EU attitudes in Greece, Portugal and Spain

Lea Heyne, Rosa M. Navarrete and Alexia Katsanidou

Biography

Jorge M. Fernandes is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies, CSIC, Madrid. His research spans political representation, electoral systems, and party competition. He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics and holds an ERC Consolidator Grant.

Nuno Garoupa is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Graduate Studies at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. He has previously held positions at Texas A&M University, University of Illinois, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His research spans law and economics, comparative judicial politics, and empirical legal studies.

Maria Jose Hierro is a Lecturer in Political Science at Yale University. Her research examines the drivers of national identity, national attitudes, and secession. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, South European Society and Politics, West European Politics, and Nations and Nationalism.

Sofia Vasilopoulou is Professor of European Politics at King's College London. A former co-Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Political Research, her research examines political dissatisfaction, Euroscepticism, and far-right politics. She is the author of Far Right Parties and Euroscepticism and has published widely in leading comparative politics journals.