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This book examines the political consequences of the economic crisis in Southern Europe from the perspective of a widening intergenerational divide. It focuses on the cases of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain by examining various age-related rifts in post-crisis Southern Europe.
List of contents
Introduction - The 'Lost Generation' and Its Political Discontents: Age-related Divides in Southern Europe after the Crisis 1. Trust, Satisfaction and Political Engagement during Economic Crisis: Young Citizens in Southern Europe 2. Has the Great Recession Shaped a Crisis Generation of Critical Citizens? Evidence from Southern Europe 3. Generational and Ideological Gaps in Democratic Support: Seeds of Deconsolidation in Post-Crisis Southern Europe? 4. Assessing the Impact of Age, Cohort and Period Effects on Partisanship and Support for Mainstream Parties: Evidence from Southern Europe 5. Age and Descriptive Representation in Southern Europe: The Impact of the Great Recession on National Parliaments
About the author
Emmanouil Tsatsanis is Researcher at the Greek National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) and at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). His research focuses on electoral behaviour, political identities, political representation, and party systems. He is coeditor of the volumes
Political Representation in Southern Europe and Latin America (Routledge, 2020) and
Political Representation and Citizenship in Portugal: From Crisis to Renewal.
Marco Lisi is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Nova University of Lisbon and Researcher at IPRI-NOVA. His research interests focus on political parties, electoral behaviour, democratic theory, political representation and election campaigns. He has published several articles in national and international journals. He recently edited
Party System Change, the European Crisis and the State of Democracy (Routledge, 2019).
André Freire is Professor of Political Science (PS) at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, where he is also Director of the PhD in PS (2015-present) and of the Bachelor in PS (2009-2015). He is the Director of the Observatory for Democracy and Political Representation, and of the Research Line IV, Politics and Citizenship, both at CIES-ISCTE. He has directed several research projects on ideology, electoral behaviour, institutions, political reforms, as well as political representation and has published around 30 books and 100 articles.
Summary
This book examines the political consequences of the economic crisis in Southern Europe from the perspective of a widening intergenerational divide. It focuses on the cases of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain by examining various age-related rifts in post-crisis Southern Europe.
