{"title":"Democratic backsliding, conflict, and partisan mobilisation of ethnic groups: local government control and electoral participation in Turkey","authors":"Reşat Bayer, Ö. Kemahlıoğlu","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2023.2255017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2023.2255017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"44 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139004533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intra-party balance of power: cartelisation versus communist organisational tradition in the Cypriot radical left AKEL","authors":"Yiannos Katsourides, Chrystalla Agathocleous","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2023.2243701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2023.2243701","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"117 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139260598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More flexible, less productive? The impact of employment protection legislation reforms in Italy","authors":"Francesco Stolfi, Oliver Fritsch","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2023.2238970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2023.2238970","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThrough 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.KEYWORDS: Atypical workEU employment policylabour flexibilityEU labour market reformslabour market deregulationproductivitystructural reformstemporary employment Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. See Afonso et al. (Citation2021); Perez and Matsaganis (Citation2019); Picot and Tassinari (Citation2017); Rathgeb and Tassinari (Citation2022); Zartaloudis and Kornelakis (Citation2017).2. https://data.oecd.org/emp/temporary-employment.htm (accessed September 16, 2022)3. See Barbieri et al. (Citation2019); Berton, Richiardi and Sacchi (Citation2012); Ferrera and Gualmini (Citation2005); Rutherford and Frangi (Citation2018); Sacchi (Citation2018)4. https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=EPL_OV (accessed July 5, 2022)5. https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=EPL_T (accessed July 5, 2022)6. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/lfsq_etpga/default/table?lang=en (accessed June 21, 2022)7. See http://www.prisma-statement.org.8. Saltari and Travaglini (Citation2008) do not report a coefficient, but do report no impact on productivity from regulatory change. We counted this as one test, no impact.9. One article (Cappellari, Dell’aringa & Leonardi Citation2012) measures productivity in three ways: valued added per workers, sales per worker, and TFP. In Table 1c, we have added together the tests measuring valued added per workers and sales per worker.10. We have also performed a non-parametric t-test, the Wilcoxon one-sample t-test for the median, which does not depend on normality assumptions on the distribution of the observations, for the 10 sources that adopt productivity as their dependent variable and share of temporary or permanent workers in the workforce as independent variable. A one-sided test indicates that rmedian is negative, with p value < 0.001.11. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tipslm20/default/table?lang=en accessed April 30, 2021Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrancesco StolfiFrancesco Stolfi is a Senior Lecturer in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University. His current research studies the distributive conflict surrounding the regulation of professions and occupations. He is currently completing a research project comparing the remuneration rules for physicians in Australia and Canada. His research has appeared in journals such as Comparative European Politics, Governance, Journal of Europ","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135719099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shared or Self-rule? Regional Legislative Initiatives in Multi-level Spain, 1979-2021","authors":"Marc Sanjaume‐Calvet, Andreu Paneque","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2023.2228099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2023.2228099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87377506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan Rodríguez Teruel, E. del Pino, José 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","authors":"Juan Rodríguez Teruel, E. del Pino, José Real-Dato","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2022.2091861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2022.2091861","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90344693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alessandro Chiaramonte, Vincenzo Emanuele, N. Maggini, Aldo Paparo
{"title":"Radical-Right Surge in a Deinstitutionalised Party System: The 2022 Italian General Election","authors":"Alessandro Chiaramonte, Vincenzo Emanuele, N. Maggini, Aldo Paparo","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2022.2160088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2022.2160088","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"25 1","pages":"329 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82184911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back to the Post-Fascist Past or Landing in the Populist Radical Right? The Brothers of Italy Between Continuity and Change","authors":"Leonardo Puleo, Gianluca Piccolino","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2022.2126247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2022.2126247","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"8 1","pages":"359 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91218654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yet Another Populist Party? Understanding the Rise of Brothers of Italy","authors":"G. Baldini, Filippo Tronconi, Davide Angelucci","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2022.2159625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2022.2159625","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"74 1","pages":"385 - 405"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86319804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Italian Democratic Party at the Crossroad: Party Activism and the Middle-Level Élite","authors":"Paola Bordandini, C. Baccetti, L. Sartori","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2022.2161713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2022.2161713","url":null,"abstract":"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’.","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"6 1","pages":"407 - 429"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86841609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Your Luck is Our Luck’: Covid-19, the Radical Right and Low Polarisation in the 2022 Portuguese Elections","authors":"José Santana-Pereira, Elisabetta De Giorgi","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2023.2191417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2023.2191417","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"1 1","pages":"305 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84723768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}