Description
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 to fill the gap in the literature by examining various age-related rifts in post-crisis Southern Europe.
Public discussion about the economic crisis of the late 2000s to mid-2010s in Southern Europe often refers to its impact on the region’s younger citizens, but not enough attention has been given to the political consequences of the crisis on the young. The comparative studies in the volume cover various thematic areas, such as electoral behaviour, political culture, democratic values, forms of political engagement and political representation.
The overarching questions that the book attempts to answer are: a) to what extent and in what areas can one talk about an emergent generational divide in the region, and b) has the experience of the economic crisis been profound enough for young South Europeans to create a new ‘crisis political generation’? Many of the answers offered point to tangible effects of the crisis, but mostly in the sense of accentuating dynamics that already existed.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.
Table of Contents
Introduction - The ‘Lost Generation’ and Its Political Discontents: Age-related Divides in Southern Europe after the Crisis
Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Marco Lisi and André Freire
1. Trust, Satisfaction and Political Engagement during Economic Crisis: Young Citizens in Southern Europe
Mario Quaranta, João Cancela, Irene Martín and Yannis Tsirbas
2. Has the Great Recession Shaped a Crisis Generation of Critical Citizens? Evidence from Southern Europe
Gema García-Albacete and Javier Lorente
3. Generational and Ideological Gaps in Democratic Support: Seeds of Deconsolidation in Post-Crisis Southern Europe?
Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Enrico Borghetto, André Freire and José Ramón Montero
4. Assessing the Impact of Age, Cohort and Period Effects on Partisanship and Support for Mainstream Parties: Evidence from Southern Europe
Marco Lisi, Mario Quaranta, José Real-Dato and Emmanouil Tsatsanis
5. Age and Descriptive Representation in Southern Europe: The Impact of the Great Recession on National Parliaments
André Freire, Andrea Pedrazzani, Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Xavier Coller and Paolo Segatti
