TY - JOUR
T1 - Party systems, party-society linkages, and contentious acts
T2 - Cyprus in a comparative, Southern European perspective
AU - Charalambous, Giorgos
AU - Ioannou, Gregoris
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Mobilization: An International Quarterly.
PY - 2017/3
Y1 - 2017/3
N2 - Southern European countries are currently experiencing a dramatic economic slump and fully fledged austerity measures. Accordingly, the standard of living of the majority of southern European populaces has fallen significantly. Nevertheless, the dynamics of social contention in the form of strikes and demonstrations that accompany these experiences remain understudied. Why, in certain southern European countries, has collective upset arising from economic deprivation translated into frequent and large-scale contentious acts, while in others it has not? Drawing on the case of Cyprus from a comparative, southern European perspective, we seek to explain how relations within the party system, as well as between parties and civil society, can create the conditions that obstruct open social conflict. The intensity and nature of party-society linkages with causal roots in a country's history can be a sufficient condition for the relative absence of protest.
AB - Southern European countries are currently experiencing a dramatic economic slump and fully fledged austerity measures. Accordingly, the standard of living of the majority of southern European populaces has fallen significantly. Nevertheless, the dynamics of social contention in the form of strikes and demonstrations that accompany these experiences remain understudied. Why, in certain southern European countries, has collective upset arising from economic deprivation translated into frequent and large-scale contentious acts, while in others it has not? Drawing on the case of Cyprus from a comparative, southern European perspective, we seek to explain how relations within the party system, as well as between parties and civil society, can create the conditions that obstruct open social conflict. The intensity and nature of party-society linkages with causal roots in a country's history can be a sufficient condition for the relative absence of protest.
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U2 - 10.17813/1086-671X-22-1-97
DO - 10.17813/1086-671X-22-1-97
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85018900372
SN - 1086-671X
VL - 22
SP - 97
EP - 119
JO - Mobilization
JF - Mobilization
IS - 1
ER -