Protest Elections and Challenger Parties: Italy and Greece in the Economic Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780367738952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str.

Susannah Verney; Anna Bosco

Opis

The ‘protest elections’ of 2012-13 in Italy and Greece produced record-breaking electoral volatility, the decline of bipolarism and the transformation of national patterns of government formation. Analyses of these startling electoral contests is complemented by studies of two key challenger parties, Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement in Italy an

Spis treści

1. Living Parallel Lives: Italy and Greece in an Age of Austerity  2. Five Stars and a Cricket. Beppe Grillo Shakes Italian Politics  3. A Landlord’s Notice to Quit: The May 2012 Municipal Elections in Italy  4. Don’t Count Your Chickens before They’re Hatched: The 2013 Italian Parliamentary and Presidential Elections  5. Beppe Grillo’s First Defeat? The May 2013 Municipal Elections in Italy  6. In the Shadow of Grexit: The Greek Election of 17 June 2012  7. The Rise of Golden Dawn: The New Face of the Far Right in Greece

O autorze

Susannah Verney, Assistant Professor of European Integration, University of Athens.

Anna Bosco, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Trieste.