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Transformations of the Radical Left in Southern Europe

Author : Myrto Tsakatika
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000155617
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Transformations of the Radical Left in Southern Europe written by Myrto Tsakatika and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political parties are alleged to be turning their backs to civil society; they are said to discourage the active participation of their members and to distance themselves from the privileged relations to affiliated social organisations they once prized. Instead, parties are broadly believed to be directing their efforts towards capturing government office and the resources that come with it, neglecting linkage to their social roots. Transformations of the Radical Left in Southern Europe questions this widely shared view. Exploring the social linkage strategies of the most relevant radical left parties in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Cyprus in depth, this book demonstrates that the members of the European radical left party family continue to prioritise social linkage, despite their increasingly office-seeking orientation. Between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the current economic crisis they have been tirelessly experimenting with diverse new forms of party organisation that have enabled them to return to their social roots. The main lesson drawn from the studies in this book is that party ideology and a party’s position in the national political arena go a long way towards explaining the extent to which political parties prioritise social linkage. This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

Eurocommunism

Author : Giannēs Balampanidēs
Publisher : Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Series
ISBN 13 : 9780815373322
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (733 download)

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Book Synopsis Eurocommunism by : Giannēs Balampanidēs

Download or read book Eurocommunism written by Giannēs Balampanidēs and published by Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Series. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eurocommunism constitutes a 'moment' of great transformation connecting the past and present of the European Left. Left-wing politics effected a definitive transition to a thoroughly different paradigm in the wake of 1968 - a pivotal year of social revolt and rethinking that caused a divide between radical, progressive and socialist thinking in western and southern Europe and the Soviet model. Communist parties in Italy, France, Spain and Greece changed tack, drew on the dynamics of social radicalism of the time and became associated with political moderation, liberal democracy and negotiation rather than contentious politics, forging a movement that held influence until the early 1980s"--

The Radical Left in Southern Europe

Author : Myrto Tsakatika
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Radical Left in Southern Europe written by Myrto Tsakatika and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Radical Left and Social Transformation

Author : Robert Latham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429656343
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Radical Left and Social Transformation written by Robert Latham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection draws upon and reengages with a long history of Marxian-anchored thought to analyze the potential for social transformation through a reinvigorated radical Left, all within the context of the ascendance of an increasingly ethnonationalist, patriarchal, and authoritarian far Right worldwide. The authors identify and reflect on strategies, tactics, and possibilities for analyzing and intervening in advanced capitalist societies by increasing and deepening popular participation and support on the far Left. The chapters are framed in terms of conceptualizing the capitalist present, organizing "the people" and reimagining the radical Left. Together, in diverse ways that draw upon both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the authors evaluate the difficulties of augmentation across multiple planes, from the tension between migrants and citizen workers, to the uneasy relationship between sovereignty and class, to the contradictions operating across international versus domestic dynamics. How and why (if at all) should the radical Left reexamine its understanding of political consciousness, identity, ideology, and institutions, as they relate to Marxian analysis and various threads of critical theory? The authors suggest new approaches for understanding what the radical Left is up against and how problematic barriers might be torn down, thus disrupting unhelpful binaries such as state versus capital, national versus international, worker versus migrant, activist versus candidate, and freedom versus necessity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the online journal Global Discourse.

Radical Left Movements in Europe

Author : Magnus Wennerhag
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317071883
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Radical Left Movements in Europe written by Magnus Wennerhag and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Iron Curtain lifted in 1989, it was seen by some as proof of the final demise of the ideas and aspirations of the radical left. Not many years passed, however, before the critique of social inequalities and capitalism was once again a main protest theme of social movements. This book provides an account of radical left movements in today’s Europe and how they are trying to accomplish social and political change. The book’s international group of leading experts provide detailed analysis on social movement organizations, activist groups, and networks that are rooted in the left-wing ideologies of anarchism, Marxism, socialism, and communism in both newly democratized post-communist and longstanding liberal-democratic polities. Through a range of case studies, the authors explore how radical left movements are influenced by their situated political and social contexts, and how contemporary radical left activism differs from both new and old social movements on one hand, and the activities of radical left parliamentary parties on the other. Ultimately, this volume investigates what it means to be ‘radical left’ in current day liberal-democratic and capitalist societies after the fall of European state socialism. This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in European politics, contemporary social movements and political sociology.

Radical Left Parties in Government

Author : Yiannos Katsourides
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137588411
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Radical Left Parties in Government written by Yiannos Katsourides and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comparative analysis of how two radical left parties achieved government participation and their subsequent political experiences. In the face of the most severe and most prolonged crisis in the history of capitalism, it would be expected for radical left parties to seize the opportunity to promote their political agenda. Although reality has often confounded prognosis, two particular radical left parties – the Greek SYRIZA and the Cypriot AKEL – were elected to the highest government office. The author uses these two examples to engage with the broader question of what to expect when left-wing radicals achieve governance. This question is now of particular importance given the emergence of radical leftists in other parts of Europe, including Corbyn in the UK and Podemos in Spain.

Europe's Radical Left

Author : Luke March, Professor of Post-Soviet and Comparative Politics, the University of Edinburgh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178348537X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Book Synopsis Europe's Radical Left by : Luke March, Professor of Post-Soviet and Comparative Politics, the University of Edinburgh

Download or read book Europe's Radical Left written by Luke March, Professor of Post-Soviet and Comparative Politics, the University of Edinburgh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles contributions from leading scholars to analyse how European radical left parties have responded to the ongoing socio-economic crisis that continues to afflict the EU.

Europeanisation of Public Policy in Southern Europe

Author : Canan Balkir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131780290X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Europeanisation of Public Policy in Southern Europe written by Canan Balkir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large or small, old EU member or new, and even EU member state or not – political economies across Southern Europe have been increasingly but distinctively ‘Europeanised’. In political, public and scholarly debates on processes of Europeanisation, Southern Europe invariably features as the area of concern. These concerns have been all the more heightened when the current sovereign debt crisis disproportionately hit this ‘flaky fringe’. This volume systematically investigates the dynamics of Europeanisation in the ‘Southern Periphery’ by tracing the domestic constellations of ideas, interests and institutions over the course of the 2000s which came to a close with the crisis. Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of leading specialists, the volume focuses on the political economy of public policy reform in Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Turkey. In order to allow for cross-case comparisons, these original country studies follow a common template framed by what the Editors call the ‘Europeanisation as research programme’. The volume casts empirical light on the causes of the crisis in these cases as well as the past legacies conditioning their responses to the crisis. Its conclusions point to variegated patterns of Europeanisation in different policy areas across Southern Europe. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of European integration, European political economy, European public policy and comparative politics as well as specialists of Southern Europe. This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

Economic Crisis and Austerity in Southern Europe

Author : Maria Petmesidou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317525817
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Economic Crisis and Austerity in Southern Europe written by Maria Petmesidou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Europe has been hit hard by the global economic crisis and, as such, their welfare states have come under acute strain. Unmet need has sharply increased while significant welfare reforms and deep social spending cuts have been prominent in the crisis management solutions implemented by governments, labouring under EU constraints and the strict rescue-deal requirements for Greece and Portugal. This volume provides a systematic comparative appraisal of welfare-state reform trajectories across Southern Europe prior to and during the crisis, and traces the impact of austerity policies and wider recession upon income inequality and poverty. It brings together a number of cross-country studies on major social policy areas, raising crucial questions. What policy choices are driving reforms as Southern European economies work their way out of fiscal difficulty? Can the crisis provoke the improvement of institutional capabilities and recalibration of social? Or, instead, does structural adjustment indicate a significant policy turn towards the erosion of social rights? The contributions critically approach these issues and bring evidence to bear upon whether Southern European welfare capitalisms are becoming more dissimilar. This book was originally published as a special issue of South European Society & Politics.

Research Handbook on Populism

Author : Yannis Stavrakakis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800379692
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Populism written by Yannis Stavrakakis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary politics, media and academia, the Research Handbook on Populism brings together a diverse range of academics from across the globe to provide a detailed and comprehensive overview of the developing field of populism research.

The Rise of the Left in Southern Europe

Author : Sotiris Rizas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317321693
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Left in Southern Europe written by Sotiris Rizas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at the influence of the Anglo-American 'special relationship' on the rise of the left in southern Europe, and concurrent European influence on the Atlantic alliance.

Southern Europe and the Financial Earthquake

Author : Susannah Verney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317622359
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Southern Europe and the Financial Earthquake written by Susannah Verney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the outbreak of the international financial crisis, Southern Europe became an epicentre of economic instability and international concern. The prospect of a sovereign debt default in the eurozone’s ‘flaky fringe’ sent shock waves through the European and global economies. Examining the crucial initial phase, when the financial crisis was just beginning to spill over into the real economy, the volume surveys the impact of the September 2008 Lehman Brothers’ collapse across the EU’s southern periphery. The six South European eurozone members – Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta – are viewed in comparative perspective with EU candidate state and non-eurozone member, Turkey. In an era before the spectacular EU/IMF bailouts, the picture that emerges is one of national differentiation, illuminating these countries’ different starting points and varying policy responses in the face of the gathering financial storm. This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

New and Alternative Social Movements in Spain

Author : John Karamichas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317648471
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book New and Alternative Social Movements in Spain written by John Karamichas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, originally published in 2007, offers a diachronic analytical study of new and alternative social movements in Spain from the democratic transition to the first decade of the 21st century, paying attention to anti-war mobilizations and the use of new technologies as a mobilizing resource. New and alternative social movements are studied through the prism of identified linkages among the left, movement identities and global processes in the Spanish context. Weight is given to certain important historical aspects, like Spain’s relatively recent authoritarian past, and certain value-added factors, such as the weak associationalism and materialism exhibited by the Spanish public. These are complemented by exploring insights offered by key theoretical approaches on social movements (political opportunities structures, resource mobilization). The volume covers established social movement cases (gender, peace, environmental movements) as well as those with a more explicit connection to the current context of global contestation (squatters’ and anti-globalization movements). This bookw as published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

The Radical Left in Europe

Author : Walter Baier
Publisher : Merlin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780850367515
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book The Radical Left in Europe written by Walter Baier and published by Merlin Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses contemporary issues facing the Left. This volume asks questions such as: Contradictions in Marxist Feminism; The Issue of Immigration; Commons Transition and the Role of the State; The European Left, Its Current State and Prospects; The 1968 Prague Spring: A Socialist Project; The Challenges Before the Labour Party: Conservative Authoritarianism and the Far Right in Hungary and Poland; and Why a Marxist-Christian Dialogue?

Crisis, Austerity, and Transformation

Author : Isabel David
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149854388X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Crisis, Austerity, and Transformation written by Isabel David and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions of the recent austerity measures in Southern Europe as a response to the sovereign debt crisis have been usually framed in terms of their economic impact. However, the general impoverishment of these countries has induced other massive social and political changes, a fact which is ignored in the literature. This volume seeks to fill this gap and break ground by analyzing these trends in the Portuguese context. Portugal has been portrayed as the Troika’s good pupil by obediently adopting all prescribed austerity measures. In the process, the nation’s fragile social fabric has been destroyed. Massive emigration, particularly by young people, massive increases in poverty and a foundering economy have triggered a collective framing of the crisis and austerity as unjust and punitive of a collectivity that, at the beginning, naively believed in the neoliberal narrative of the benign effects of the cuts. This reframing unleashed an unprecedented wave of social and political mobilization in an otherwise traditionally apathetic society. This resistance needs to be addressed as a direct effect of austerity policies and properly analyzed for what it really represents: a process of repoliticization and re-democratization sweeping Europe. These mobilizations include direct democracy experiments, the growing influence of social movements (the massive March 2011 demonstrations were a direct inspiration for the creation of the Indignado movement in Spain, attesting the contagion effect), solidarity economy and the major political change in the country’s 42 years of democratic rule: an alliance of the left parties, unthinkable before the crisis, and which is reframing relations with the European Union. This volume offers a first approach to the massive political, social and cultural transformations taking place in the country that make Portugal, in certain aspects, a lab for innovative practices (e.g. participatory budgets and the alliance of the left parties) that may be used elsewhere as alternatives to current understandings of economic and political orthodoxy

Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties

Author : Vít Hloušek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317085035
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties written by Vít Hloušek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two decades have passed since the transition to democracy began in Eastern Europe. Today, West and East-Central European countries share a common political space - the European Union. This has created a fascinating opportunity for analysis of the similarities and differences between these countries. Here, Vít Hloušek and Lubomír Kopecek critically apply the party-families approach to political parties in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. With chapters devoted to social democrats, greens, the far right and left amongst many others, this book charts the parties' origins, ideologies, and international ties alongside their Western European counterparts. By examining the political relevance of different party families, Hloušek and Kopecek are able to assess the validity of this typology in the analysis of the transformation of political parties in this region. Detailed analysis coupled with an innovative application of the party families approach, makes this essential reading for students of party politics.

Radical Left Voters in Western Europe

Author : Raul Gomez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000728579
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Radical Left Voters in Western Europe written by Raul Gomez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Left Voters in Western Europe explores who votes for Radical Left Parties in contemporary Western Europe, and why. Once considered a relic of the past which was doomed to disappear in affluent societies, Radical Left Parties were able to survive unprecedented electoral crises in the 1980s and 1990s to become a stable and significant feature of contemporary West European politics. Despite this, our knowledge of the electorate of contemporary Radical Left parties is extremely limited. To fill this gap, this book analyzes the radical left electorate in 17 West European countries (Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland) for a period of 18 years (2000–18). The research combines data from multiple sources (surveys, country-level data, and party-level data) to show how, amidst social and political change, Radical Left Parties have been able to maintain a relatively sizeable and clearly identifiable electorate with fairly similar socio-demographic and attitudinal features. Moreover, the book argues that in order to explain electoral support for Radical Left Parties it is important to consider not only voter characteristics but also the characteristics of the parties themselves and of the political and economic context in which they compete for votes. This book will be of interest to scholars of comparative politics, political sociology, electoral behaviour, and political parties.