Southern European Politics (SG-ECPR)

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/s…

This was the Best Paper Prize from our sponsored section at the ECPR General Conference 2025

🏆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?”

📢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/10.10…

📢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/10.10…

💡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/10.10…

📢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/10.10…

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/turkey-…

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/full/10.11…

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/10.10…

@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/10.10…

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/10.10…

📢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/10.10…

🥁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/fses2…

🥁 New Article Collection! 📚 #Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe 1⃣2⃣ #FreeAccess Articles 🎯Introduction by @elombardo12 @NicoContiSESP @BonnieNField Read and download here ⬇️ tandfonline.com/journals/fses2…

📢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/10.108…

📢with articles on 🇪🇸 #Sexism and #populism 🇮🇹 Perceived #victimhood, #populism, economic status 🇹🇷 Turkey and the #IstanbulConvention 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 Electoral disparities: core vs provincial areas 🇵🇹 The 2024 Legislative elections in Portugal Don't miss it 👇 tandfonline.com/toc/fses20/29/2

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🚨 FREE online #ECPRSeminars event TODAY from 15:00–16:00 GMT in @ecpr_sep 🎙️ @llorenc_soler explores how minimum income policies have shifted from protection to labour market activation, creating multidimensional policy conflicts & coalitions ✍️ Register ecpr.eu/Events/300

📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 🇮🇹 Italy’s right turn. A spatial analysis of party competition in the 2022 Italian national election Read the article by @paologamba10, D. Giannetti , @andrea_piter & L. Pinto here 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…