Political Representation in Times of Bailout: Evidence from Greece and Portugal

ISBN-13: 9781138106734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 152 str.

Andre Freire; Marco Lisi; Ioannis Andreadis

Opis

Based on original elite and voter surveys, this book details the changes in the patterns of political representation in Greece and Portugal, two of the bailed-out Eurozone countries. It makes a crucial contribution towards understanding how the crisis has affected the functioning of representative democracies and the link between citizens and the political elite. Chapters cover a broad range of topics that go beyond political representation, such as levels of congruence and responsiveness between voters and political elites, electoral campaign strategies, and changes to party systems and ideological spaces. This book was published as a special issue of South European Society & Politics.

Spis treści

1. Political Representation in Bailed-out Southern Europe: Greece and Portugal Compared  2. Representation and Austerity Politics: Attitudes of Greek Voters and Elites Compared  3. Elites’ and Voters’ Attitudes towards Austerity Policies and their Consequences in Greece and Portugal  4. Awakening the Sleeping Giant in Greece and Portugal? Elites’ and Voters’ Attitudes towards EU Integration in Difficult Economic Times  5. Support for Democracy in Times of Crisis: Diffuse and Specific Regime Support in Portugal and Greece  6. The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Ideological Space in Portugal and Greece: A Comparison of Elites and Voters  7. Campaign Individualisation before and after the Bailout: A Comparison between Greece and Portugal

O autorze

André Freire is Assistant Professor with habilitation and Head of the Bachelor degree programme in Political Science at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute), Portugal. His research interests include electoral behaviour, and political attitudes, institutions, elites and representation.

Marco Lisi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. His main research interests are political parties, party systems, electoral behaviour, political campaigns and democratic theory.

Ioannis Andreadis is an Assistant Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a member of the ECPR steering committee of the standing group on public opinion and voting behaviour in a comparative perspective and the comparative candidate survey, a specialist on political web surveys, and leader of the WebDataNet Task Force: Web Survey Paradata.

José Manuel Leite Viegas is an Associate Professor of Political Sociology at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute), Portugal, where he is currently director of the Department of Political Science and Public Policies. He was founder and president of CIES-ISCTE (Centre for Studies and Research in Sociology), where he is now a senior researcher.