Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism

The "Politics of the Past" in Southern European Democracies
Herausgeber: Costa Pinto, Antonio; Morlino, Leonardo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collective work deals with repressive institutions and human rights abuses as two dimensions of authoritarian legacies in southern European democracies. This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780415587082
• ISBN-10: 0415587085
• Artikelnr.: 34158549

Autorenporträt

António Costa Pinto is a professor of politics and contemporary European history at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. He is presently the President of the Portuguese Political Science Association. He has published extensively on fascism, authoritarianism, democratisation and transitional justice in Southern Europe. Leonardo Morlino is professor of Political Science at Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (Florence, Italy) and President of the International Political Science Association in 2009-12. His main contributions are on change of regimes, consolidation of democracy, qualities of democracies with a special attention to southern and eastern Europe and Latin America.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Authoritarian Past and South European Democracies: An
Introduction António Costa Pinto 2. Transitional Justice and Memory:
Exploring Perspectives Alexandra Barahona de Brito 3. Authoritarian Past
and Democracy in Italy Marco Tarchi 4. Coping with the Double Legacy of
Authoritarianism and Revolution in Portuguese Democracy António Costa Pinto
5. Party Attitudes towards the Authoritarian Past in Spanish Democracy
Carsten Humlebaek 6. Repressive Legacies and the Democratisation of Iberian
Police Systems Diego Palacios Cerezales 7. The Authoritarian Past and
Contemporary Greek Democracy Dimitris A. Sotiropoulos 8. Defending the
Nation? Maintaining Turkey's Narrative of the Armenian Genocide Jennifer M.
Dixon 9. The Politics of the Past: The Southern Cone and Southern Europe in
Comparative Perspective Alexandra Barahona de Brito and Mario Szajder 10.
Authoritarian Legacies, Politics of the Past and the Quality of Democracy
in Southern Europe: Open Conclusions Leonardo Morlino