South European Society and Politics

2010 - 2026

Current editor(s): Susannah Verney

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Volume 31, issue 1, 2026

Correction pp. I-I

The Editors

The feminisation of Italian governments. Towards a more gender-equal distribution of political power? pp. 1-32

Cristina Barbieri and Pamela Pansardi

Voter preferences for or against female candidates in local elections? Experimental evidence from Portugal pp. 33-58

Bruna Filipa Gonçalves Ribeiro, Miguel Ângelo Vilela Rodrigues and Francisca Tejedo-Romero

Regional models and health outcomes: the Italian National Health Service in the post-pandemic period pp. 59-88

Franca Maino and Marco Betti

The contestation of state authority: media discourse and crisis management during the pandemic in Greece pp. 89-117

Angelos Loukakis and Hans-Jörg Trenz

The disproportional consequences of a proportional bargain: candidate selection within Italian electoral coalitions in 2022 pp. 119-145

Gianni Del Panta, Mattia Guidi and Tristan Klingelhöfer

Volume 30, issue 4, 2025

Fifty years after: Greece, Portugal, and Spain’s democratic transformations pp. 495-508

Jorge M. Fernandes, Nuno Garoupa, María José Hierro and Sofia Vasilopoulou

Democratisation in Southern Europe: a contingent or inevitable process? pp. 509-534

Jorge M. Fernandes, Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca and Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos

Struggling against spectres of the past: democratisation and nation-building in Southern Europe pp. 535-560

Maria Jose Hierro, José Pedro Monteiro and Ioannis N. Grigoriadis

When is gender on party agendas? Manifestos and (De-)democratisation in Greece, Portugal, and Spain pp. 561-593

Ana Catalano Weeks, Paloma Caravantes, Ana Espírito-Santo, Emanuela Lombardo, Maria Stratigaki and Sami Gul

Critical junctures and party innovation: the transformation of radical left parties in Greece, Portugal and Spain pp. 595-620

Raul Gomez, Luis Ramiro and Lamprini Rori

Divergent paths of political trust in Southern Europe: the roles of economic performance, corruption, congruence, and polarisation pp. 621-649

Pablo Christmann, Pedro C. Magalhães and Sofia Vasilopoulou

Fading EUphoria: party system polarisation and EU attitudes in Greece, Portugal and Spain pp. 651-679

Lea Heyne, Rosa M. Navarrete and Alexia Katsanidou

Volume 30, issue 3, 2025

The potential impact of the Italian ‘premierato’ reform on cabinet durability: the increased risk of early elections pp. 351-385

Andrea Pedrazzani and Francesco Zucchini

Coalition formation, policy compromises and blame sharing: the strategic use of appeals for responsibility in Italian investiture debates pp. 387-411

Andrea Ceron, Alessio Scopelliti and Tamara Grechanaya

Beyond anger and fear: the demobilizing role of sadness in far-right voting in Spain pp. 413-439

Carol Galais and María Ruiz Hernández

Are citizens’ preferences for who should govern linked to their voting behaviour? The case of Italy pp. 441-467

Davide Vittori, Sebastien Rojon, Jean-Benoit Pilet and Emilien Paulis

Late, but swift: the restructuring of Portugal’s political space in the May 2025 general election pp. 469-494

Mariana S. Mendes

Volume 30, issue 2, 2025

Not just about the ruling: when does the opposition challenge a law in the Spanish Constitutional Court? pp. 195-225

Andreu Rodilla Lázaro

‘Free Palestine!’: protesting Israel’s war on Gaza in Italy and Spain pp. 227-255

Donatella della Porta, Laura Mendoza Sandoval, Martín Portos Garcia and Federica Stagni

Subnational trouble? Party system nationalisation, issue salience, and capacity constraints in Spain´s infringements of European environmental directives pp. 257-289

Marie-Thérèse Wilhelm

A populist version of religious rigorism in contemporary Greece? The case of the Níki party pp. 291-322

Konstantinos Papastathis, Stavroula Koskina, Yannis Stavrakakis and Sotiris Mitralexis

Gender equality under siege: unpacking far-right resistance against gender equality in the Parliament of Catalonia pp. 323-349

Emanuela Lombardo and Laura Chaqués Bonafont

Volume 30, issue 1, 2025

Italian politics after the 2022 general elections: Assessing the balance between continuity and change pp. 1-9

Andrea Pedrazzani and Elisabetta De Giorgi

Italy’s right turn. A spatial analysis of party competition in the 2022 Italian national election pp. 11-33

Paolo Gambacciani, Daniela Giannetti, Andrea Pedrazzani and Luca Pinto

Unity and coherence: the mobilizing effect of valence attributes in the 2022 Italian elections pp. 35-56

Andrea Ceron, Sara Berloto and Jessica Rosco

Parliamentary downsizing and legislative behaviour. Evidence from Italy pp. 57-83

Alda Kushi, Federico Russo and Marcello Carammia

Coalition politics under exceptional exogenous constraints: the Meloni government during the EU-financed economic recovery plan pp. 85-105

Enrico Borghetto, Marco Improta and Francesco Marangoni

Populist radical right vs populist radical right in power: signalling ideological commitment or competence? pp. 107-132

Mattia Zulianello

The politics of military assistance: Italian parties’ positions on the war in Ukraine pp. 133-157

Valerio Vignoli and Fabrizio Coticchia

Do LGBTIQ+ issues matter for populist radical right? An analysis of Italian parties’ social media narratives pp. 159-180

Massimo Prearo and Alessio Scopelliti

Women’s substantive representation under the Meloni government. Insights from a new dataset on parliamentary attention in Italy pp. 181-193

Alice Cavalieri and Elisabetta De Giorgi

Volume 29, issue 4, 2024

Ιs ‘Old Southern Europe’ Still Eurosceptic? Determinants of Mass Attitudes before, during and after the Eurozone Crisis pp. 405-430

Eftichia Teperoglou and Ana Maria Belchior

Euroscepticism in Italy from the Onset of the Crisis: Tired of Europe? pp. 431-456

Nicolò Conti, Francesco Marangoni and Luca Verzichelli

The Rise of (Faulty) Euroscepticism? The Impact of a Decade of Crises in Spain pp. 457-484

José Real-Dato and Aleksandra Sojka

All Quiet on the European Front? Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on Euroscepticism in Portugal pp. 485-513

Marco Lisi

Circumstantial and Utilitarian Euroscepticism: Bailed-in Cyprus during and after the Eurozone Crisis pp. 515-542

Yiannos Katsourides

From Euroscepticism to Euro-enthusiasm: How Malta Weathered the Eurozone Crisis pp. 543-564

Mark Harwood

Volume 29, issue 3, 2024

Up close and personal: how size affects politics in 65 Greek island municipalities pp. 269-297

Vasiliki Tsagkroni and Wouter Veenendaal

The organization of Brothers of Italy: an activist and centralized party led by a “mother in the family” pp. 299-324

Francesco Melito and Mattia Zulianello

An experimental study of public attitudes towards intimate partner homicide: evidence from Turkey pp. 325-353

Burcu Özdemir-Sarigil and Zeki Sarigil

A case of top-down intergovernmentalism? The Spanish bilateral cooperation commissions pp. 355-384

Marc Sanjaume-Calvet, Mireia Grau Creus, Pau Torres, Berta Barbet-Porta and Marc Jodar

Back to the future: New Democracy’s dominance and the left’s fragmentation in the June 2023 Greek parliamentary election pp. 385-403

Roula Nezi and Zoe Lefkofridi

Volume 29, issue 2, 2024

Are sexist and populist attitudes connected? Positive evidence from the least-likely-case of Spain pp. 135-158

Hugo Marcos-Marne, Isabel Inguanzo and Homero Gil de Zuñiga

Perceived victimhood in Italian politics: political ideology, populism, and economic grievance pp. 159-180

Moreno Mancosu, Federico Vegetti, Antonella Seddone and Giuliano Bobba

A decade of dichotomy: understanding Turkey’s changing stance on the Istanbul Convention for combating violence against women pp. 181-210

Ömer Faruk Köktaş and Özer Köseoğlu

Between regional cores and provinces: the electoral bases of political party support in Italy and Spain pp. 211-241

Davide Vampa

The relevance and resilience of the cordon sanitaire in Portugal: the March 2024 legislative elections pp. 243-268

José Santana-Pereira and Susana Rogeiro Nina

Volume 29, issue 1, 2024

The road ahead: a note from the (new) editors of South European Society and Politics pp. 1-4

Bonnie N. Field and Nicolò Conti

When and why high civil servants demand information from interest groups in policymaking. A Southern European perspective pp. 5-28

Giliberto Capano and Andrea Pritoni

Generations of pride? LGBTQ+ rights, sexuality, and voting behaviour in Spain pp. 29-54

Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte, Guillermo Cordero and José María Ramírez Dueñas

Valencian working mothers during lockdown. Discourses on family life in uncertain times pp. 55-78

Mercedes Alcañiz Moscardó, Emma Gómez Nicolau and Joan Sanfélix Albelda

Food for (political) thought: political inferences from apolitical cues and their social consequences in Italy pp. 79-108

Gaetano Scaduto and Fedra Negri

The 2024 local elections in Turkey: a critical juncture for Turkish democracy? pp. 109-134

Kursat Cinar