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Government-Opposition in Southern European Countries during the Economic Crisis: Great Recession, Great Cooperation?

Government-Opposition in Southern European Countries during the Economic Crisis: Great Recession, Great Cooperation?

Giorgi, Elisabetta
Moury, Catherine

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Series: Library of Legislative Studies

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1138086630
ISBN13: 9781138086630
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 7 2017
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The international economic crisis has hit Europe, especially its 'periphery', remarkably hard, and has had deep consequences at the economic and political levels. Since its onset, parties in parliament (especially those in opposition) have found themselves faced with a dilemma: choosing between the need to cooperate with the government in order to overcome the crisis and the opportunity provided by a weakened government to stress their adversarial position, so as to be more easily re-elected and possibly get into power. What have they decided to do? This is a crucial question, for which there is no easy or intuitive answer. The present volume introduces a collection of works exploring this dilemma in southern European countries, by examining the opposition behaviour in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain; and in the European Parliament. In so doing, we shall try to understand not only what kind of impact the crisis has had on the level of consensus in parliament in the four countries mentioned, but also whether differences are observable across cases.

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