Crisis Elections New Contenders And Government Formation Breaking The Mould In Southern Europe Anna Bosco by Anna Bosco, Susannah Verney 9781138572430, 1138572438 instant download after payment.

The parliamentary elections of 2015–16 in Greece, Spain and Portugal had extraordinary consequences, bringing
repeat elections, unprecedented processes of government formation and uncharted government outcomes.
Greece formed a coalition of radical left and radical right and Portugal its first government supported by the communist party while Spain took ten months to get a government. These developments are especially astonishing
in three states which in previous decades were a byword for democratic stability. After the transitions following the fall of their dictatorships in the 1970s, Greece, Spain and Portugal established bipolar electoral competition
and predictable patterns of government formation. But more recently, all three countries have been in the frontline
of the economic crisis and austerity implementation, triggering electoral realignments and turning the radical
left into a major player. This volume offers essential understanding of the political destabilisation of Southern
Europe. It includes detailed analyses of all five ‘crisis elections’ and of Greece’s bailout referendum. It also
provides studies of the five ‘new contender’ parties (SYRIZA, Podemos, Ciudadanos, the Bloco Esquerda and the
Portuguese Communist Party) which played a key role in government formation for the first time.
This book was originally published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.