{"title":"Institutional Suicide and Elite Coordination: The Spanish Transition Revisited","authors":"Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, L. Medina","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2019.1694282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2019.1694282","url":null,"abstract":"In the literature on democratisation, the Spanish case has a paradigmatic status, especially for the negotiations between the regime and the opposition. While these negotiations did stabilise the n...","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80294101","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":"Preferring Rome to Brussels: Mapping Interest Group Europeanisation in Italy","authors":"Andrea Pritoni","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2020.1728958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2020.1728958","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTHow much do Italian interest groups undertake their advocacy/lobbying activities at the EU level? How often have groups gained access to different EU level institutions? This paper presents...","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72602664","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":"European Banking Union to the Rescue? How Supranational Institutions Influenced Crisis Management in Italy","authors":"M. Moschella, L. Quaglia","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2020.1728957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2020.1728957","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article examines the management of the recent banking crisis in Italy. In particular, we investigate the changing coalitional dynamics among Italian banks with a view to identifying th...","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72989205","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":"Competition in a Populist Authoritarian Regime: The June 2018 Dual Elections in Turkey","authors":"Yunus Sözen","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2019.1688515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2019.1688515","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the June 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey. I maintain that Turkey’s populist authoritarian regime context simultaneously hyperpoliticised and depoliticised the electoral process, as this regime decreased the uncertainty of electoral outcomes and yet the ballot box became the singular legitimate political arena to challenge it. I begin the paper with a discussion of the political context of the elections: political regime dynamics, the new hyperpresidential system, as well as the electoral rules and voting behaviour. I then scrutinise the electoral campaign strategies of the major parties and candidates with an emphasis on the strategies of the opposition in counteracting the uneven playing field. Finally, I analyse the electoral results and discuss their implications.","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"134 1","pages":"287 - 315"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77391791","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":"Local Governments and Social Movements in the ‘Refugee Crisis’: Milan and Barcelona as ‘Cities of Welcome’","authors":"Raffaele Bazurli","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2019.1637598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2019.1637598","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Amid the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, South European cities have experienced far-reaching societal transformations, magnified by flaws in multi-level governance. How can urban actors cope with such critical questions, which affect their communities and yet lie beyond their full jurisdiction? This article contends that left-leaning governments and ideologically sympathetic social-movement activists at the city-level are incentivised to join their forces. Alliance-building is a strategy to secure political gains while shaping policies within an otherwise unreceptive, hostile context. This argument is built by intersecting multiple scholarly contributions and illustrated through a comparison of pro-migrant policies in the cities of Milan and Barcelona.","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"16 1","pages":"343 - 370"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75106142","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 Puzzle of Expansionary Welfare Reforms under Harsh Austerity: Explaining the Italian Case","authors":"P. Vesan, S. Ronchi","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2019.1644811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2019.1644811","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although austerity carried the day in crisis-ridden Southern Europe, expansionary welfare measures also emerged alongside retrenchment in countries where left-leaning coalitions were in government and anti-establishment parties on the rise. By focusing on the case of Italy (2013–2018), this article investigates the political dynamics that favoured expansionary welfare measures under austerity. We triangulate qualitative and quantitative evidence and show that, constrained by EU conditionality abroad, the reform agenda of the Italian centre-left first sought the support of middle- and upper-class constituencies at home. However, the deteriorating social situation, the divide that emerged within the centre-left under the leadership of Matteo Renzi, and the rise of the pro-welfare Five Star Movement reshuffled the social policy priorities of the centre-left.","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"24 1","pages":"371 - 395"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90060976","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":"Killing Competitive Authoritarianism Softly: The 2019 Local Elections in Turkey","authors":"Berk Esen, Sebnem Gumuscu","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2019.1691318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2019.1691318","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT On 31 March 2019 Turkish voters ended the Islamist local governance in the country’s largest cities after 25 years and handed the ruling AKP its most serious electoral defeat since its rise to power in 2002. The article explores the electoral strategies of major parties in the local election, offers a comparative analysis of the results, and discusses post-election developments, including the rerun in Istanbul. The election and its aftermath reaffirmed the competitive authoritarian nature of the regime, as the governing bloc enjoyed an uneven playing field, while the opposition had to meet a higher electoral bar than the incumbents to win. The economic crisis, growing discontent with the government’s policies, and effective coordination of opposition parties facilitated this outcome.","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"36 1","pages":"317 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85060868","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":"Facebook: An Emerging Arena for Politics of Self-Determination in northern Cyprus?","authors":"Emel Akçalı","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2019.1631996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2019.1631996","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe present article aims to expand scholarship on the political role of social media by focusing on the case of Facebook and the self-determination claims of Turkish Cypriots vis-a-vis Turk...","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78776289","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":"Political Consequences of Welfare Regimes: Social Assistance and Support for Presidentialism in Turkey","authors":"Işık D. Özel, Kerem Yıldırım","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2019.1589155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2019.1589155","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTTackling redistributive expansion in developing countries, this paper explores broader political consequences of social assistance programmes. Drawing from the Turkish case, where social we...","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73092900","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":"Electoral Coalitions and Policy Reversals in Portugal and Italy in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis","authors":"A. Afonso, Fabio Bulfone","doi":"10.1080/13608746.2019.1644809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2019.1644809","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper links patterns of deregulatory reforms and post-crisis reversals in Italy and Portugal with the electoral constituencies of political parties. Combining insights from the social coalitions and electoral behaviour debates, we link reform outcomes to the class set-up of the electorate in the two countries by using the class schema developed by Daniel Oesch. We find that governments in both countries reversed austerity measures in order to protect core groups of voters within their electorate in spite of wide ideological differences between governing coalitions in the two countries. There is, however, some variation in the extent of the reversals across policy areas.","PeriodicalId":47304,"journal":{"name":"South European Society and Politics","volume":"7 1","pages":"233 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75852990","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}