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Introduction: Conflict and Consensus in Parliament during the Economic Crisis

Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Since the onset of the economic crisis, parties in parliament (especially those in opposition) have found themselves faced with a dilemma: choosing between the need to cooperate with the government in order to overcome the crisis and the opportunity provided by a weakened government to stress their adversarial position so as to be more easily re-elected and possibly get into power. What have they decided to do? The present contribution introduces a collection of works exploring this dilemma in southern European countries, by examining the opposition behaviour in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain; and in the European Parliament.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1984034884
FWCI: 15.12
Cites: 49
Cited by: 31
Related to: 10