https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:29:50 +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.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/awakening-the-sleeping-giant-in-greece-and-portugal-elites-and-voters-attitudes-towards-eu-integration-in-difficult-economic-times/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:25 +0000 http://arc.local/items/awakening-the-sleeping-giant-in-greece-and-portugal-elites-and-voters-attitudes-towards-eu-integration-in-difficult-economic-times/ Continued]]> This article explores the extent to which the economic crisis and political responses of the European Union (EU) to austerity policies have contributed to Euroscepticism in Greece and Portugal. We analyse attitudes towards the EU at both voter and elite levels using fresh and innovative data, and by comparing them with data from surveys conducted before the crisis we show assessments of austerity and the bailouts are feeding elite and voter Euroscepticism. In both countries there are signs of a crisis of representation with greater voter–elite incongruence in the representation of EU issues than before the bailout.

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