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What are the key factors to describe and explain the consolidation of a democracy or its possible internal crisis? After providing a few conceptual guidelines and the empirical indicators of consolidation and crisis, a systematic comparative analysis of the following aspects in the four Southern European countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece) is unfolded: consensus and legitimation, party systems and party organizations, and relationships of organized and non‐organized interests with parties and state institutions. The consequent models of consolidation, and the related explanations, a ... More
Keywords: consolidation, crisis, democracy, Greece, interest groups, Italy, parties, Portugal, Southern Europe, Spain
Print publication date: 1998 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198280828 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0198280823.001.0001 |
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