Government-Opposition in Southern European Countries during the Economic Crisis : Great Recession, Great Cooperation? PDF
Edited by Elisabetta Giorgi, Catherine Moury
Part of the Library of Legislative Studies series
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As a result of the financial crisis, opposition parties have had to choose between the need to cooperate with the majority in order to contribute to necessary socio-economic changes, and the opportunity to stress their adversarial position vis-à-vis governments taking radical and unpopular measures.
This book examines how opposition parties address this dilemma.
It relies on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the behaviour of the opposition parties in parliament, in light of the socio-economic issues that have arisen in recent years.
It focuses in particular on the impact that the economic malaise has had on the government-opposition dynamics in the four southern European democracies most acutely hit by the crisis: Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, as well as in the European Parliament.
Each chapter utilizes a combination of empirical data analysis and qualitative process-tracking to understand the opposition parties’ complicated choice between supporting and dissenting. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.
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- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:22/12/2017
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:144 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:22/12/2017
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- ISBN:9781317407331
