https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:27:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/living-parallel-lives-italy-and-greece-in-an-age-of-austerity-2/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:45 +0000 http://arc.local/items/living-parallel-lives-italy-and-greece-in-an-age-of-austerity-2/ Continued]]> The economic crisis has triggered a process of political convergence between Italy and Greece. The simultaneous downfall of the Italian and Greek governments, following the public withdrawal of European confidence in their ability to handle the crisis, was followed by the establishment of technocrat-led governments based on parliamentary ‘super-majorities’ and then by ‘protest elections’, marked by unprecedented levels of electoral volatility. By apparently ending bipolarism, the crisis has completely changed patterns of national government formation and resulted in experiments with unusual government types. Both political systems have entered a transitional phase whose outcome is anything but certain, especially in the continuing context of economic crisis.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/protest-elections-and-challenger-parties-italy-and-greece-in-the-economic-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:45 +0000 http://arc.local/items/protest-elections-and-challenger-parties-italy-and-greece-in-the-economic-crisis/ https://toarcheio.org/items/living-parallel-lives-italy-and-greece-in-an-age-of-austerity/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:22 +0000 http://arc.local/items/living-parallel-lives-italy-and-greece-in-an-age-of-austerity/ Continued]]> The economic crisis has triggered a process of political convergence between Italy and Greece. The simultaneous downfall of the Italian and Greek governments, following the public withdrawal of European confidence in their ability to handle the crisis, was followed by the establishment of technocrat-led governments based on parliamentary ‘super-majorities’ and then by ‘protest elections’, marked by unprecedented levels of electoral volatility. By apparently ending bipolarism, the crisis has completely changed patterns of national government formation and resulted in experiments with unusual government types. Both political systems have entered a transitional phase whose outcome is anything but certain, especially in the continuing context of economic crisis.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/electoral-epidemic-the-political-cost-of-economic-crisis-in-southern-europe-2010-11/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:12 +0000 http://arc.local/items/electoral-epidemic-the-political-cost-of-economic-crisis-in-southern-europe-2010-11/ Continued]]> This article introduces a collection of essays on the elections of 2010–11 in Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Cyprus and the Turkish Cypriot community. It examines the impact of the European sovereign debt crisis on electoral trends in the era of the Greek and Portuguese bailouts. After briefly examining the crisis economies, it investigates patterns of abstention, incumbent punishment and opposition success, including the rise of regional, anti-party, far-right and racist parties. The article concludes, following Krastev (Journal of Democracy, vol. 13, no. 3, 2002, pp. 39–53), that the crisis is creating ‘democracy without choices’ in Southern Europe with potentially destabilising consequences throughout the region.

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