The Paradox between Representation and Integration in Southern European Politics:

YOKOTA Masaaki

doi:10.7218/nenpouseijigaku.66.2_100

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南欧政治における代表と統合の背理
南欧政治における代表と統合の背理 : 欧州債務危機とデモクラシーの縮退
ナンオウセイジニオケルダイヒョウトトウゴウノハイリ : オウシュウサイムキキトデモクラシーノシュクタイ
―欧州債務危機とデモクラシーの縮退―
The European Debt Crisis and the Retrenchment of Democracy

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<p>The European Debt Crisis has apparently brought about profound setbacks of representative democracy in Southern Europe. Specific aspects of the political crises in each country are defined by domestic political structures and external pressures. High level of external adaptation common to the Iberian countries has led to demise of policy alternatives to neoliberal adjustment and therefore deficits of representativeness. In Portugal, however, this trend is counterbalanced by the braking mechanism embedded in the constitutional order, although with serious de-politicization in progress, whereas, in Spain, intensive accumulation of power to the central government is observed in spite of contestations from below and some consensual features of politics seem to be lost. In Greece, the structural adjustment enforced from outside have eroded partycracy and ended up with the accelerated drive to party system polarization. In this context, the excessive majorianism which characterizes Greek politics doesn’t contribute to anything but the fracture of horizontal integration within the governmental organization which accompanies some political chaos in the country.</p>

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The Annuals of Japanese Political Science Association

The Annuals of Japanese Political Science Association 66 (2), 2_100-2_129, 2015

JAPANESE POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

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