https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:35 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/introduction-conflict-and-consensus-in-parliament-during-the-economic-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:35 +0000 http://arc.local/items/introduction-conflict-and-consensus-in-parliament-during-the-economic-crisis/ Continued]]> Since the onset of the economic crisis, 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? The present contribution 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.

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