Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-456) and index.
Contents:
Democracy, Southern European style / Thomas C. Bruneau ... [et al.] -- The anchors of partisanship: a comparative analysis of voting behavior in four Southern European democracies / Richard Gunther and José R. Montero -- Antipathy politics and the restructuring of the Italian party system / Giacomo Sani and Paolo Segatti -- The new campaign politics in Southern Europe / Gianfranco Pasquino -- In search of the center: conservative politics, electoral competition, and political legitimacy in Southern Europe's new democracies / Takis S. Pappas -- Mobilizers and late modernizers: socialist parties in the new Southern Europe / Hans-Jürgen Puhle -- Four actors in search of a role: the Southern European communist parties / Anna Bosco, in collaboration with Carlos Gaspar -- Appendix: percentages of popular votes, number of parliamentary seats, and percentages of parliamentary seats of major parties in national elections in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.
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