Securing Democracy: Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe

✍ Scribed by Geoffrey Pridham

Year: 1990
Tongue: English
Leaves: 240
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Provides the first systematic comparative analysis of Southern Europe's development towards democratic consolidation, looking particularly at Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of politics, European Studies and Development Studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of tables......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Southern European democracies on the road to consolidation: a comparative assessment of the role of political parties......Page 14
Party elites and democratic consolidation: cross-national comparison of southern European experience......Page 55
The consolidation of democracy in post-war Italy......Page 75
The role of the Italian Communist Party in the consolidation of parliamentary democracy in Italy......Page 97
Portugal: an open verdict......Page 117
Regime consolidation in Spain: party, state, and society......Page 139
From polarization to pluralism: regional-nationalist parties in the process of democratic consolidation in post-Franco Spain......Page 160
Political parties and democratic consolidation in Greece......Page 192
To be or not to be within the European Community: the party debate and democratic consolidation in Greece......Page 216
Index......Page 237

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