Southern European Challenger Parties Against the Mainstream

Podemos, Syriza, and Movimento 5 Stelle in Comparative Perspective
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-23415-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems

This book focuses on the rise of new challenger parties and the magnitude of their impact on political systems and the existing political order in Southern Europe in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

Examining Podemos (Spain), SYRIZA (Greece), and M5S (Italy), it highlights the differences and commonalities between them and their voters.

The book reveals whether these parties were effectively able to change the status quo represented by mainstream parties and, secondly, whether they created novel organizational structures capable of “bring the people in”, that is, of re-mobilizing disenfranchised voters and of re-inventing the concept of participation within the political party.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of party politics, representation, leadership, political elites, public opinion, populism, and more broadly to comparative politics, European studies, and contemporary European history.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vittori, Davide

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Challenging the tradition(s)?: An introduction 2 How do Challenger parties compete, organize, and articulate their ideologies? 3 A political success in turbulent times 4 Defining “political success”: The rise of Podemos, SYRIZA, and M5S 5 Podemos 6 SYRIZA 7 Five Star Movement 8 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Davide Vittori is postdoctoral researcher at the Unviersité Libre de Bruxelles. He works on political parties, voting behaviour, populism, citizens’ attitudes towards democracy, democratic innovations, and technocracy. He has published on these topics on several international political science journals.