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Southern European Politics (SG-ECPR)

@ecpr_sep

Official account of ECPR's Standing Group on Southern European Politics. Steering committee: @AggelikiSifaki, @StavroulaChrona & Nicolò Conti

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Very happy that our endorsed workshop, “Anticipating the Next Divide: Emerging Issues, Public Opinion and the Conditions of Affective Polarisation in Southern Europe", chaired by A. Carkoglu and L. De Sio, has been accepted for the ECPR Joint Sessions 2027 ecpr.eu/Events/Event/Worksho…
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Some instances from our participation in the ECPR conference in Krakow! Please come and say hi!
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Please take a look at all our sponsored panels from the ECPR conference in Krakow.
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Below you may find information about our forthcoming General Conference which will take place on 8 – 11 September 2026 at Jagellonian University, Krakow. ecpr.eu/Events/Event/section…
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🏆Congratulations to Hugo Ferrinho Lopes (Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon and University of Minho) on being awarded the Best Paper Prize for the paper “Finding the Sweet Spot: How Strategic Are Party and Youth Wing Members in Leadership Elections?”
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This was the Best Paper Prize from our sponsored section at the ECPR General Conference 2025
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SESP@sesp_j23 Apr 2025
📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 🇪🇸 A CASE OF TOP-DOWN INTERGOVERNMENTALISM? The Spanish bilateral cooperation commissions Read the article by @marcsanjaume, M. Grau Creus, @pautorrex, @bpberta & @marcjodar_ here 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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SESP@sesp_j24 Apr 2025
📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 🇮🇹 PARLIAMENTARY DOWNSIZING AND LEGISLATIVE BEHAVIOUR. Evidence from #Italy Read #OpenAccess the article by A. Kushi, @FedRusso and @MCarammia here 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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SESP@sesp_j10 Apr 2025
💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡🇮🇹 confirmation of the crucial role of core-values and the instrumental use of debates by governing parties who are sceptical of #military #aid. Read the article by @ValerioVignoli & @FCoticchia here 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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SESP@sesp_j9 Apr 2025
📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 🇬🇷 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 Fading EUphoria: party system polarisation and EU attitudes in #Greece, #Portugal and #Spain Read the article by Lea Heyne, @RosaNavarrete & Alexia Katsanidou here 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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@ForeignAffairs22 Mar 2025
With Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s latest power grab, which effectively removed his most formidable challenger from politics, Turkey has become a full, Russian-style autocracy, writes @gonultol. foreignaffairs.com/turkey/tu…
Turkey Is Now a Full-Blown Autocracy

Turkey Is Now a Full-Blown Autocracy

Erdogan may come to regret his latest power grab.

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@murat_somer_eng22 Mar 2025
Turkey's pro-democracy opposition is now trying a new bottom-up strategy of "constructive polarization". Contentious politics is a strategy it had shunned in the last 23 years. My article evaluating all this just came out👇open-access for now journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
A Long Battle: Turkey’s Backsliding and Resistance Through Trench Warfare - Murat Somer, 2024

A Long Battle: Turkey’s Backsliding and Resistance Through Trench Warfare - Murat Somer, 2024

Since 2002, governments led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party have taken Turkey’s political regime from electoral democracy to electoral autocracy. This has...

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SESP@sesp_j12 Mar 2025
Do you want to learn more about Portugal’s political crisis? 🇵🇹 Start by reading the article by @josesantanaper3 & @SusanaRogNina on the March 2024 legislative elections. #FreeAccess here 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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SESP@sesp_j21 Mar 2025
Replying to @sesp_j @S_KursatCinar @BonnieNField @ecpr_sep @ElisabettaDeGio @sedademiralp @berkesen @meltemodabas @HakanYavy @yavasmu @Rout_PoliticsIR @Routledge_AS
See also "Killing Competitive Authoritarianism Softly: The 2019 Local Elections in Turkey" Read the article by @berkesen & @sebnemisback here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Killing Competitive Authoritarianism Softly: The 2019 Local Elections in Turkey

Killing Competitive Authoritarianism Softly: The 2019 Local Elections in Turkey

On 31 March 2019 Turkish voters ended the Islamist local governance in the country’s largest cities after 25 years and handed the ruling AKP its most serious electoral defeat since its rise to powe...

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SESP@sesp_j20 Mar 2025
Following the arrest of #Istanbul mayor #Imamoglu, you might be interested in our article on the 2024 local elections in #Turkey. @S_KursatCinar analyses how the opposition camp appeared to gather momentum and energy. Read the article here 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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SESP@sesp_j27 Feb 2025
📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 Unity and coherence: the mobilizing effect of valence attributes in the 2022 Italian elections Read the article by @AndreaCeron83, @SaraBerloto and J. Rosco here 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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SESP@sesp_j3 Mar 2025
🥁Two new #FreeAccess articles in our collection on The Radical Right in Southern Europe 📚 2⃣ The relevance and resilience of the cordon sanitaire in Portugal: the March 2024 legislative elections by @josesantanaper3 & @SusanaRogNina Read & download 👇 tandfonline.com/journals/fse…
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SESP@sesp_j6 Mar 2025
🥁 New Article Collection! 📚 #Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe 1⃣2⃣ #FreeAccess Articles 🎯Introduction by @elombardo12 @NicoContiSESP @BonnieNField Read and download here ⬇️ tandfonline.com/journals/fse…
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SESP@sesp_j5 Mar 2025
📢NEW ARTICLE!📢🇹🇷 An experimental study of public attitudes towards intimate partner homicide: evidence from #Turkey Read the article by @zesarigil & Burcu Ozdemir-Sarigil here 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
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