Transformations of the Radical Left in Southern Europe Bringing Society Back In 1st Edition by Myrto Tsakatika ISBN 9780415869805 0415869803

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ISBN 10:  0415869803

ISBN 13: 9780415869805

Author:  Myrto Tsakatika

Political parties are alleged to be turning their backs to civil society; they are said to discourage the active participation of their members and to distance themselves from the privileged relations to affiliated social organisations they once prized. Instead, parties are broadly believed to be directing their efforts towards capturing government office and the resources that come with it, neglecting linkage to their social roots. Transformations of the Radical Left in Southern Europe questions this widely shared view. Exploring the social linkage strategies of the most relevant radical left parties in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Cyprus in depth, this book demonstrates that the members of the European radical left party family continue to prioritise social linkage, despite their increasingly office-seeking orientation. Between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the current economic crisis they have been tirelessly experimenting with diverse new forms of party organisation that have enabled them to return to their social roots. The main lesson drawn from the studies in this book is that party ideology and a party’s position in the national political arena go a long way towards explaining the extent to which political parties prioritise social linkage.

This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

Table of contents: 

1. ‘Zippin’ up My Boots, Goin’ Back to My Roots’: Radical Left Parties in Southern Europe
   Myrto Tsakatika and Marco Lisi

2. Rediscovering Civil Society? Renewal and Continuity in the Portuguese Radical Left
   Marco Lisi

3. Impulse and Decadence of Linkage Processes: Evidence from the Spanish Radical Left
   Luis Ramiro and Tània Verge

4. Renewal and Tradition: Comparing Italian Radical Left Parties through Their Middle-Level Elites
   Paola Bordandini

5. The Radical Left’s Turn towards Civil Society in Greece: One Strategy, Two Paths
   Myrto Tsakatika and Costas Eleftheriou

6. A Society within Society: Linkage in the Case of the Cypriot Communist Party
   George Charalambous and Christophoros Christophorou

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