Government-Opposition in Southern European Countries during the Economic Crisis
Author | : Elisabetta De Giorgi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2017-12-22 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781317407331 |
ISBN-10 | : 1317407334 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Download or read book Government-Opposition in Southern European Countries during the Economic Crisis written by Elisabetta De Giorgi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.