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Southern Europe in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The First Phase. Guest editors: Juan Rodriguez-Teruel, Jose Real-Dato & Susannah Verney
Volume 27, Issue 4, 2022 pages 431-606
Affective Polarisation in Times of Crisis: Electoral, Territorial and Media Dynamics in Spain. Guest Editor: Mariano Torcal
Volume 27, Issue 1, 2022 pages 1-196
A Generational Divide? Age-related Aspects of Political Transformation in Post-crisis Southern Europe. Guest editors: Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Marco Lisi & André Freire
Volume 26, Issue 2, 2021 pages 133-301
The Politics of Polarisation in Southern Europe. Guest Editors: Anna Bosco and Susannah Verney
Volume 25, Issue 3-4, 2020 pages 257-563
The Exceptional Case of Post-Bailout Portugal. Guest Editors: Elisabetta De Giorgi and José Santana-Pereira
Volume 25, Issue 2, 2020 pages 127-255
Policy Reversals in Southern Europe in the aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis. Guest Editors: Catherine Moury and Alexandre Afonso
Volume 24, Issue 2, 2019 pages 155-285
Decoding the Repertoires of Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Turkey. Guest Editor: Cemal Burak Tansel
Volume 23, Issue 2, 2018 pages 197-302
Italy Transformed: Politics, Society and Institutions at the End of the Great Recession. Edited by Martin Bull and Gianfranco Pasquino
Volume 23, Issue 1, 2018 pages 1-196
Breaking the Mould: Crisis Elections, New Contenders and the Travails of Government Formation in Southern Europe. Edited by Anna Bosco and Susannah Verney
Volume 21, Issue 4, 2016 pages 383-ebi
The Presence of the Past: Perceptions of Authoritarianism and Democratic Transition in Contemporary Portugal. Edited by Marina Costa Lobo and António Costa Pinto
Volume 21, Issue 2, 2016 pages 163-280
Is Turkey De-Europeanising? Encounters with Europe in a Candidate Country. Guest Editors: Senem Aydın-Düzgit and Alper Kaliber
Volume 21, Issue 1, 2016 pages 1-161
The 2014 European Parliament Elections in Southern Europe. Guest Editors: Hermann Schmitt and Eftichia Teperoglou
Volume 20, Issue 3, 2015 pages 287-444
Special Issue: Political Representation in Times of Bailout: Evidence from Greece and Portugal. Guest Editors: André Freire, Marco Lisi, Ioannis Andreadis and José Manuel Leite Viegas
Volume 19, Issue 4, 2014 pages 413-ebi
Economic Crisis and Austerity in Southern Europe: Threat or Opportunity for a Sustainable Welfare State? Edited by Maria Petmesidou & Ana M. Guillén
Volume 19, Issue 3, 2014 pages 295-412
Protest Elections and Challenger Parties: Italy and Greece in the Economic Crisis. Edited by Susannah Verney and Anna Bosco
Volume 18, Issue 4, 2013 pages 397-ebi
‘Europeanisation and the southern periphery’ in retrospect: another decade of dynamism, asymmetry, and fragmentation? Guest Editors: Canan Balkir, H. Tolga Bolukbasi and Ebru Ertugal
Volume 18, Issue 2, 2013 pages 121-281
The Radical Left in Southern Europe: Bringing Society Back In? Guest Editors: Myrto Tsakatika and Marco Lisi
Volume 18, Issue 1, 2013 pages 1-119
Voters and Parties in the Spanish Political Space. Guest edited by Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca and Elias Dinas
Volume 17, Issue 3, 2012 pages 365-531
Elections in Hard Times: Southern Europe, 2010–11. Edited by Anna Bosco and Susannah Verney
Volume 17, Issue 2, 2012 pages 129-363
Turkey and the European Union: Accession and Reform
Volume 16, Issue 3, 2011 pages 365-512
Part I. Turkey and the European Union: Accession and Reform. Guest Edited by Gamze Avcı and Ali Çarkoğlu
Volume 16, Issue 2, 2011 pages 209-364
Euroscepticism in Southern Europe: A Diachronic Perspective (Edited by Susannah Verney)
Volume 16, Issue 1, 2011 pages 1-208
The ‘Politics of the Past’ in South European Democracies. Comparative Perspectives (Edited by António Costa Pinto & Leonardo Morlino)
Volume 15, Issue 3, 2010 pages 339-529
European Citizenship in the Eyes of National Elites: a South European View (Edited by Nicolò Conti, Maurizio Cotta & Pedro Tavares de Almeida)
Volume 15, Issue 1, 2010 pages 1-155
Spain's ‘Second Transition’? The Socialist Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Volume 14, Issue 4, 2009 pages 379-536
Southern Europe and the Financial Earthquake: Coping with the First Phase of the International Crisis (Edited by: Susannah Verney, Anna Bosco and Marina Costa Lobo)
Volume 14, Issue 1, 2009 pages 1-127
Law-making in Italy in the Age of Alternation (Guest Editor: Marco Giuliani and Francesco Zucchini)
Volume 13, Issue 1, 2008 pages 1-129
New and Alternative Social Movements in Spain: The Left, Identity and Globalizing Processes (Guest Editor: John Karamichas)
Volume 12, Issue 3, 2007 pages 273-421
Party Change in Southern Europe (Guest Editors: Anna Bosco and Leonardo Morlino)
Volume 11, Issue 3-4, 2006 pages 331-581
When Greeks Think about Turks: The View from Anthropology (Guest Editor: Dimitrios Theodossopoulos)
Volume 11, Issue 1, 2006 pages 1-196

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Special Issue Proposals

South European Society and Politics welcomes proposals for special issues at any time. Proposals should be submitted at least one year before proposed publication. Special issue articles are subject to double blind peer review, with reviewers chosen by the Editors of the Journal. An invitation to prepare a special issue submission does not constitute a guarantee of publication of either the special issue, or of individual articles therein. Decisions on publication are based on peer review.

Special issue proposals must include a working title and the names and affiliations of the guest editors, along with a description of their experience in managing edited/cooperative work and research expertise. Proposals should include a description of the special issue rationale, its contributions to the scientific literature, its innovative nature, and its potential interest to the Journal’s readership.

Additionally, proposals must include the abstracts of all proposed articles, which clearly state how they contribute to the special issue rationale. Provide short biographical notes about the contributors that include affiliations and research expertise.

Finally, all proposals must include a timetable, which specifies milestones (past and future), such as conferences or workshops, and the date by which the special issue would be submitted.

Journal special issues normally contain no fewer than five articles.

SESP values special issue proposals that bring together a diverse set of scholars.

Upon request, the Editors can provide information about the expectations for special issue editors.

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Special Sections

SESP issues may also include special sections on specific topics. Access recent issues that feature special sections via the links below:

Vol. 24, Issue 3: Section on the Turkish Elections of 2018-19
Vol. 24, Issue 1: Section on Post-Austerity Elections on the Island of Cyprus
Vol. 23, Issue 4: Section on Populism in Southern Europe
Vol. 22, Issue 3: Section on Regime Change by Constitutional Amendment: Recent Referendums in Southern Europe