Government-Opposition in Southern European Countries during the Economic Crisis

Elisabetta De Giorgi is a post-doctoral fellow at the FCSH-NOVA University of Lisbon. Her main research interests are parliaments from a comparative perspective, in particular, parliamentary opposition and the law-making process. She has published several articles in national and international journals – in Acta Politica, Journal of Legislative Studies, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Italian Political Science Review, South European Society and Politics, among others – and book chapters.Catherine Moury is Assistant professor at the FCSH-NOVA University of Lisbon. Her research focuses on institutional change in the EU and comparative policy-making. She has published in journals such as European Journal of Public Policy, West European Politics and Party Politics. She is the author of ‘Coalition Government and Party Mandate: How coalition agreements constrain ministerial action’ (Routledge, 2013) and ‘Changing rules of delegation: A contest of Power for comitology’ (with A. Héritier, C. Bisschoff e C-F. Bergström, Oxford University Press, 2013).

• 1. Introduction: Conflict and Consensus in Parliament during the Economic Crisis Catherine Moury and Elisabetta De Giorgi 2. Government–Opposition Dynamics during the Economic Crisis in Greece Kostas Gemenis and Roula Nezi 3. From a Technocratic Solution to a Fragile Grand Coalition: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Parliamentary Government in Italy Francesco Marangoni and Luca Verzichelli 4. Incumbents, Opposition and International Lenders: Governing Portugal in Times of Crisis Elisabetta De Giorgi, Catherine Moury and João Pedro Ruivo 5. Government–Opposition Dynamics in Spain under the Pressure of Economic Collapse and the Debt Crisis Anna M. Palau, Luz Muñoz Márquez and Laura Chaqués-Bonafont 6. An Emerging Divide? Assessing the Impact of the Euro Crisis on the Voting Alignments of the European Parliament Stefano Braghiroli 7. Conclusions: Great Recession, Great Cooperation? Elisabetta De Giorgi and Catherine Moury