Transformations of the Radical Left in Southern Europe

Myrto Tsakatika is Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK. Her main fields of research are European Union governance, South European politics and radical left parties. Her recent publications appear in the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, Europe-Asia Studies and South European Society and Politics.Marco Lisi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Studies, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research and publications have analysed political parties and voting behaviour, especially in Southern Europe. He has published several articles in international journals such as West European Politics, South European Society and Politics and Representation.

• 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