Government-Opposition in Southern European Countries during the Economic Crisis (eBook, PDF)

Great Recession, Great Cooperation?
Redaktion: Giorgi, Elisabetta; Moury, Catherine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the impact the financial crisis 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. Notably, it answers the following questions: Have the opposition parties somehow changed their behaviour in parliament given the increasingly alarming financial situation? And if so, how and why?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317407331
• Artikelnr.: 56949457

Autorenporträt

Elisabetta De Giorgi is a post-doctoral fellow at the FCSH-NOVA University of Lisbon. Her main research interests are parliaments from a comparative perspective, in particular, parliamentary opposition and the law-making process. She has published several articles in national and international journals - in Acta Politica, Journal of Legislative Studies, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Italian Political Science Review, South European Society and Politics, among others - and book chapters. Catherine Moury is Assistant professor at the FCSH-NOVA University of Lisbon. Her research focuses on institutional change in the EU and comparative policy-making. She has published in journals such as European Journal of Public Policy, West European Politics and Party Politics. She is the author of 'Coalition Government and Party Mandate: How coalition agreements constrain ministerial action' (Routledge, 2013) and 'Changing rules of delegation: A contest of Power for comitology' (with A. Héritier, C. Bisschoff e C-F. Bergström, Oxford University Press, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Conflict and Consensus in Parliament during the Economic
Crisis Catherine Moury and Elisabetta De Giorgi 2. Government-Opposition
Dynamics during the Economic Crisis in Greece Kostas Gemenis and Roula Nezi
3. From a Technocratic Solution to a Fragile Grand Coalition: The Impact of
the Economic Crisis on Parliamentary Government in Italy Francesco
Marangoni and Luca Verzichelli 4. Incumbents, Opposition and International
Lenders: Governing Portugal in Times of Crisis Elisabetta De Giorgi,
Catherine Moury and João Pedro Ruivo 5. Government-Opposition Dynamics in
Spain under the Pressure of Economic Collapse and the Debt Crisis Anna M.
Palau, Luz Muñoz Márquez and Laura Chaqués-Bonafont 6. An Emerging Divide?
Assessing the Impact of the Euro Crisis on the Voting Alignments of the
European Parliament Stefano Braghiroli 7. Conclusions: Great Recession,
Great Cooperation? Elisabetta De Giorgi and Catherine Moury